DNDAS

Chapter 18: Waiting For His Return

"Humans are weak, base creatures from birth. Eating them is just that – eating." In the eyes of the Zhuyan, only those species stronger than him had any sense of existence. The rest could be slaughtered or eaten at will. Human lives were brief and frail; if not for the increasingly weakening spiritual qi in recent years, as well as the appearance of some management bureau, there would be no need for him to resist his innate tendencies. "You're yao, yet you rush about for the humans. Truly a disgrace to my yao world."

The Heavenly Book morphed into a beam of light and entered Zhuang Qing's body. He was silent upon hearing the Zhuyan's scoldings.

"What, you have nothing to say now?"

"Did no one tell you that I was born to a human mother and have human blood running through my veins despite having the shell of a dragon?" Zhuang Qing's expression was serene. "Not only do I protect humans, I also protect the entire yao race. Do you think the situation now is like that of several thousand years ago?"

"Humans possess formidable weapons and ubiquitous monitoring devices. Unless human cultivators don't ever appear in the human world, there will come a day when they are discovered by humans," Zhuang Qing smiled coldly. "You're an ancient yao. Perhaps you don't fear human weapons, but what about the yao cultivators whose cultivation aren't high enough?"

"Survival of the fittest – if they can't overcome human weapons, then death is what they deserve." The Zhuyan's vicious, large mouth opened, letting out a roar, "There is no need for you to talk so much. A sordid creature like you who is tainted with human blood isn't fit to talk to this king."

After uttering these words, the Zhuyan was struck by a beam of blue light, immediately rendering his entire body painful and numb. Without any other choice, he could only lie at the bottom of the ocean and wail in pain.

"I'm not fit to talk to you, but I can hit you."

"Kill me if you have the ability!"

"You must be joking," Zhuang Qing raised a hand and yet another bolt of blue light landed on the Zhuyan. The expression on his face was exceedingly solemn. "You are savage and brutal; the number of human and yao cultivators who have died at your hands cannot be counted. Death will not be able to eliminate your crimes. Heavenly law dictates that I cannot kill you."

"But..."

"I can hit you."

The Zhuyan was beaten till he broke out into loud wails. Afterwards, he no longer talked back, and his temper was also no longer that explosive. He lay on the ground curled in a ball.

"Laozi has long wanted to beat you up," Zhuang Qing composed his expression, as if he wasn't the one who had just spouted profanities. "Reflect on yourself here, got it?"

The Zhuyan's massive body trembled. He didn't dare to speak.

At this moment, he was somewhat glad that there weren't other yaoguai present at the bottom of the ocean to witness his miserable appearance, otherwise he wouldn't be left with any face. He looked up and borrowed the golden radiance of virtue from Zhuang Qing's body to look around stealthily. What were those incomparably hideous creatures, why were they forming a huge circle in the distance?

Those fish whose eyes grew on their stomachs, why were their mouths split open?

Their tummies were so huge, and they had such ugly looks. Could they still be looked upon if their mouths were split open?

Only at this instance did the Zhuyan realize that being shut inside the bureau's spirit lock formation wasn't anything scary. What was truly scary was being imprisoned within the deep sea without any knowledge of the year and month he would be able to leave.