Hissing Is Normal

Based on Lu Su and the others’ deductions, the Master Grade Demon in Goryeo most likely still did not know it had been exposed. Therefore, he and Fang Wenlong naturally could not march over with Great Ming Card Masters in a grand display to subjugate it.

At most, they would bring a few Diamond Grades to assist in wiping out the Diamond Grade Demons under its command.

And the sooner this was done, the better.

For this reason, Lu Su and Fang Wenlong summoned five Diamond Grade Card Masters after finishing their discussion.

For a simple surprise assault, this lineup was more than sufficient.

Among the five Diamond Grade Card Masters was someone Lu Su knew: his Senior Disciple Brother, Zhang Jingxing.

"Senior Disciple Brother, it’s been a while since we last met, hasn’t it?"

For a moment, Lu Su felt somewhat wistful. Ever since advancing to Diamond Grade, he had been constantly busy. Not to mention his Senior Disciple Brother, he had not even spent much time with his Senior Disciple Sister Kurumi.

The last time he and Petrovna had dealt with the Demon Army’s attack, he had only exchanged a few brief words with Zhang Jingxing.

But although they were carrying out a mission together this time, they would likely have little time to chat afterward.

Zhang Jingxing naturally understood this as well. He merely patted Lu Su’s shoulder and shook his head with a smile. "Junior Disciple Brother, you’re a busy man now. You need to shoulder some of Great Ming’s burdens too."

Hearing that, Lu Su casually quipped, "I’m not a weightlifting champion like Yan Shifan."

Zhang Jingxing froze for a moment, but quickly understood what his Junior Disciple Brother meant. As a Great Ming native, he naturally knew who Yan Shifan was.

Faced with Lu Su’s teasing, he immediately laughed. "The Demon Army has been wiped out. Once this mission is over, Great Ming’s situation should—"

Before Zhang Jingxing could finish, Lu Su stopped him.

The youth coughed and said with feigned solemnity, "Senior Disciple Brother, let’s save those words until everything is over."

Planting flags on the battlefield was a great taboo. Although Zhang Jingxing’s words were nowhere near the level of "Once this battle is over, I’ll return home and get married," it was still better to say less.

At that moment, Fang Wenlong walked over to the two of them. After nodding to Zhang Jingxing, he said to Lu Su, "Xiao Luo, it’s about time to depart."

Lu Su nodded slightly at that, then summoned Spider-girl. "We’ll use my card for transportation this time."

A surprise assault naturally could not have everyone traveling separately. In such circumstances, Little Spider’s Space Magic was extremely useful.

Fang Wenlong had already witnessed Spider-girl’s mobility in his earlier battle with the Army Lord, so he had no objections.

Of the five Diamond Grade Card Masters present, aside from combat powerhouses like Zhang Jingxing, there were naturally Card Masters responsible for concealing their tracks.

After all, Great Ming only knew that a Master Grade Demon was entrenched in Goryeo. They did not know its precise location. The Card Masters sent to investigate earlier only knew that it was likely near Gyeonggi Province. There was no more specific information.

At this moment, the Great Ming Card Masters led by Lu Su and Fang Wenlong stood beside Spider-girl’s enormous body, silently waiting for her to activate Space Magic.

The next moment, a Magic Array radiating spatial fluctuations suddenly emerged, and everyone vanished.

Since she had been to Goryeo before, Spider-girl’s destination this time was the forest where Lu Su had asked Jin Yubin for directions last time.

Little Spider’s Space Magic was truly absurdly overpowered. Otherwise, the several Master Grade beings who had fought Lu Su would not have been led around by the nose by her. The Great Ming Card Masters only felt their vision blur before their surroundings had completely changed.

Seeing that they had reached their destination, Lu Su let out a light breath and looked beyond the woods. "If I remember correctly…"

"There should have been a city here."

Yet all he could see now was a desolate stretch of ruins.

Seeing this, Fang Wenlong could not help frowning slightly. "There isn’t even a single Demon?"

"But never mind. We’ll head straight to Hancheng."

Under the scan of the refined middle-aged man’s immense Master Grade Spiritual Power, the only people nearby were the Diamond Grade Card Masters present.

There were no other intelligent lifeforms.

As the capital of Gyeonggi Province, Hancheng was naturally their first target.

Lu Su had no additional thoughts regarding Fang Wenlong’s arrangement. This had been their plan from the start.

With a series of concealment abilities in effect, the seven Card Masters immediately headed toward Hancheng.

As for why they did not let Little Spider continue using Space Magic, Lu Su was naturally worried that the unknown Master Grade Demon might sense the fluctuations generated by it.

They raced all the way, and before long, Lu Su and the others caught sight of Hancheng.

However, most of the walls of this Goryeo imperial city had already collapsed, and the remaining sections were covered in dark red, dried bloodstains.

But they had no mood to pay attention to such trivial details now.

"They’re all Demons."

Through the cautious tendrils of Spiritual Power extended by the Card Masters, they had not detected a single human.

The entire Hancheng was filled with Demons, just like the Demon Army’s former base.

No, the Demon Army had at least included some Card Masters from the Guiyi Cult.

After some brief consideration, Lu Su spoke. "Let’s capture a higher-level Demon and question it first."

Since this was a Decapitation Strike, their top priority was to locate the unknown Master Grade Demon.

As for whether the disappearance of a high-level Demon would alert it—

By then, they would probably already be fighting.

Very soon, a Jade Grade Demon was beaten to its knees in its own home by Fang Wenlong.

Looking at the cat-headed Demon before him, its legs twisted at unnatural angles and its body bound by all sorts of control Skills, Lu Su could not help twitching the corner of his mouth.

He had to admit, he was still unaccustomed to the contrast between Fang Wenlong’s gentlemanly appearance and his vicious methods.

"Mmgh, mmgh."

The cat-headed Demon’s fur stood on end, and both ears had flattened into airplane ears. It had clearly been frightened by the sudden appearance of the Card Masters in its home.

At Lu Su and Fang Wenlong’s signal, the Diamond Grade Card Master responsible for restraining the Demon loosened the restrictions slightly.

"You ants dare treat Lord Cat like this? Aren’t you afraid—"

Before the cat-headed Demon could finish, Fang Wenlong had already gripped its head tightly.

The refined middle-aged man wore a kindly smile as he slowly lifted it before his face. "I ask. You answer."

"Otherwise, today will be your day of death."

"Understand?"

After speaking, Fang Wenlong released his hand.

Yet despite his threat, the cat-headed Demon still said viciously, "Release Lord Cat immediately, otherwise—"

Bang—

Fang Wenlong looked somewhat helplessly at the headless corpse before him. He casually flung the blood from his hand aside, then turned toward Lu Su and the others. "Looks like we found a brainless Demon. Let’s pick another one."

Lu Su agreed.

There was no helping it. Cat-headed Demons only needed to hiss, while Card Masters had much more to think about.

Just as the Great Ming Card Masters were preparing to choose their next unlucky victim, they all halted.

They had sensed a Jade Grade Demon preparing to open the door.

At that moment, outside the door, a dog-headed Demon carried a plastic bag full of human limbs in one hand while deftly turning a key with the other.

When it pushed open the door, it saw seven unfamiliar humans standing in the living room, along with a headless corpse lying in a pool of blood.

In an instant, confusion and terror spread across the dog-headed Demon’s face.

But before it could sound the alarm, Fang Wenlong appeared at its side and tightly gripped its face.

"Another one delivered right to our door."

A whisper as though from hell lingered beside the Demon’s ear, and yellowish-brown urine slowly flowed down its thigh onto the floor.

Seeing this, Lu Su and Fang Wenlong could not help exchanging a glance.

Without question, they had caught an easy target this time.

The questions they had asked the cat-headed Demon rang through the living room again, but this time, the dog-headed Demon wished it could pour out everything in its stomach.

"I-I-I-I’m just a tiny Jade Grade grunt. Please spare me, my lords. I don’t know the place you’re asking about either. I’m new here too."

Seeing disappointment appear on Lu Su and the others’ faces, the dog-headed Demon panicked and quickly added, "But the lord you mentioned should be near the imperial city."

"I smelled a strange scent there before."

Hearing that, Lu Su and Fang Wenlong subconsciously glanced at its dog nose, then immediately asked, "You’re only Jade Grade, yet you can smell a Master Grade’s scent?"

To the two of them, the credibility of this information was lower than Lu Su being Qin Shi Huang.

Facing their doubts, the dog-headed Demon used its long tongue to moisten its nose and explained, "I smelled that lord’s scent when he was incorporating us into his forces."

"I could never forget that scent for the rest of my life. You must believe me, my lords."

Hearing this, the Great Ming Card Masters remained noncommittal.

Just as the dog-headed Demon thought it might survive, it saw the middle-aged man standing before it glance at the human limbs scattered across the floor.

It instantly realized what was about to happen.

Bang—

Looking at the freshly made headless corpse on the ground, everyone remained calm and indifferent. They had never promised to spare it.

"Let’s go check the imperial city first," Lu Su said. "Hopefully, there’ll be clues there."

As soon as his words fell, the group vanished from the room, leaving only two headless corpses lying silently on the floor.

Beside the imperial city, inside an unremarkable villa.

A humanoid figure whose true appearance could not be seen sat quietly across from a man with an alluringly sinister face.

"I didn’t expect Jin Ping and the others to have kept a trump card like you hidden away."

After looking the humanoid figure up and down for a while, the sinister man could not help sneering.

The figure remained silent for a long time and did not respond to the mockery.

Seeing that, the sinister man curled his lips in boredom. "A test subject is still just a test subject. You don’t even have the most basic consciousness."

At that moment, the figure suddenly spoke. "Your injury, healed?"

The sinister man froze upon hearing that, unable to understand the other’s words for a moment.

But soon, following the figure’s gaze, he looked behind himself.

The sinister man’s face darkened, and he said with some embarrassment and anger, "That was merely carelessness!"

"If I see that brat again, I definitely won’t let him off!"

In truth, he lacked confidence even saying that. According to the information from Jin Ping, the brat he spoke of had recently defeated Tempest head-on.

As a fellow Master Grade, he did not think he was stronger than the Demon Army’s Army Lord.

Thinking of this, the sinister man immediately changed the subject. "Besides, my injury healed long ago."

As his words fell, with a poof, nine snowy-white fluffy tails burst out behind him.

The sinister man grabbed one of the tails behind his butt and said to the figure, "Look, look!"

"Are there nine of them or not?"

Yet the figure showed no reaction to the scene before it.

Just as the atmosphere was beginning to turn strange, it suddenly said, "I have consciousness."

"Haha."

A relieved smile appeared on the sinister man’s face as he gave up arguing with the figure.

At that moment, the figure suddenly raised its head and said calmly, "Master Grade presence."

"?"

The sinister man froze at first, then his expression turned serious.

With a fierce look in his eyes, he asked, "People from Great Ming?"

"Don’t know."

The figure shook its head slightly. It had never seen Great Ming Card Masters, so naturally, it did not know whether the little insects it had just detected were people from Great Ming.

At that moment, the sinister man suddenly realized something. His face turned as black as charcoal as he looked at the figure opposite him. "Wait! You can follow what I’m saying!"

The figure did not answer. But judging by the slight turn of its head, it was clearly feeling guilty.

"Fine, fine. Looks like I underestimated Jin Ping’s technical prowess." The sinister man was so angry that he laughed, but clearly this was not the time to pursue the matter. "Forget it. Take me there directly. We’ll strike together and catch them off guard."

"Okay."

Meanwhile, Lu Su and the others were concealing their auras as they moved through the not-so-large imperial city.

After a while, Lu Su stopped and turned to Fang Wenlong. "I think we were fooled. I still haven’t detected any trace of a Master Grade Demon."

"There’s no helping it. That Demon was only Jade Grade, after all." Fang Wenlong sighed helplessly. "Let’s capture another Demon and ask."

There was actually another good option: launch a direct attack. With Master Grade strength, they could easily cover all of Hancheng.

But that depended on the Demon actually being here. After all, there were quite a few cities in Gyeonggi Province.

Otherwise, it would only expose Lu Su and the others’ presence.

Just as the Great Ming Card Masters were about to capture another Demon for interrogation, an incomparably intense sense of danger suddenly rose in Lu Su and Fang Wenlong’s hearts.

Within a single breath, the two realized that their group had been exposed.

Lu Su glanced at the five Diamond Grade Card Masters beside him, who had noticed nothing, and immediately used False Karakura Town to pull them inside before summoning his cards.

At the same time, a roar suddenly rang out.

"You stinking brat, I never thought you’d dare come knocking on my door yourself!"

"Heaven truly favors me!"

As the words fell, an incomparably massive tail crashed down from the sky toward Lu Su’s position.

Boom—!

Amid the dull thunderous sound, the imperial city instantly turned to ruins.