Chapter 269: Such Ugly Characters

Wanli Plain, Fragrant City.

After changing her disguise and appearance, Yuan Yao planned to go out and see what was happening outside.

Soon, she slipped into a patrol unit of demon soldiers and headed toward the site of the earlier incident.

During that time, she also heard the demon soldiers' discussion.

"Did the Grand Prince really die?"

"Did the demon clan really betray us demons?"

"Look!"

Before long, they had patrolled to the scene; from a distance they saw tiger demons' corpses strewn haphazardly on the ground, a blood‑soaked sight so gruesome it made one retch, like a terrifying painting.

Many demon soldiers had also been killed.

The current chaotic situation made the face of one demon king who had arrived turn darker than a pot's bottom; his eyes were so gloomy they seemed able to drip water, and he glared fiercely at the surviving low‑ranking demon soldiers, whose blood‑thirsty excitement made him instantly think of them as utterly foolish waste!

"What exactly happened?!" the demon king thundered angrily.

Though the low‑ranking demon soldiers opened their mouths to answer, their replies were fragmented and could not piece together the true truth.

The demon king's patience had reached its limit; he reached out, sucked the nearest demon soldier toward him, and immediately applied the Soul Search Technique on him.

"Aaaah…!" the demon soldier shrieked harshly.

That sound instantly snapped the other still‑excited demon soldiers back to their senses; their gazes toward the demon king showed a hint of fear.

Through the Soul Search Technique, the demon king "saw" the whole chain of events.

His complexion grew even more grim.

His eyes immediately scanned the corpses spread everywhere, as if trying to locate in the demon soldier's memory the instigating demon soldier.

Among all the corpses, there was no sign of that person.

Moreover, the bruised‑faced demon soldier was nowhere to be seen.

Clearly, the two have fled!

His identity is certainly neither demon nor demon clan, but must be that scheming human!

The demon king's gaze swept over the tiger demons scattered on the ground; steadying himself, he inhaled deeply and said, "Transport all tiger demons to the city inn."

After a pause, he coldly scanned the low‑ranking demon soldiers who had been used as cannon fodder by the human schemer, frightening them into kneeling and begging for mercy.

The demon king raised his voice, addressing all demon soldiers in the city: "If you dare covet these tiger demon corpses, I will cut off your heads and string them into a garland!"

Immediately, he raised his hand and waved.

In an instant, a squad of demon spirits swiftly appeared.

"Throw all these waste into the dungeon!"

As soon as the demon king's voice finished, the demon spirits, with overwhelming force, seized all surviving low‑ranking demon soldiers.

The low‑ranking demon soldiers still tried to plead for mercy.

The demon king sneered, "Anyone who still dares to speak will be slaughtered directly!"

With those words, the low‑ranking demons all fell silent.

The demon king's fury had not abated; if it weren't for keeping these waste to prove that their demon tribe was incited by the humans, he would have smashed their heads right now.

He quickly wrapped up the matter and prepared to return to the City Lord's Residence to report to Kui Shi Demon Lord.

Meanwhile, far away, Yuan Yao, mingling with the patrol soldiers, witnessed the scene and felt a slight stir in her heart.

It seemed this incitement had clearly failed.

Yuan Yao was lost in thought.

For the next two hours, Yuan Yao stayed with the patrol, scouting the area and gradually mapping its routes.

The area contained a tea house with five floors; the top floor resembled a watchtower, offering a clear view of the City Lord's Residence.

The sky grew increasingly dim.

Soon, another patrol team arrived for a shift change.

Yuan Yao seized the shift change to slip into an empty tea house; after cautiously looking around, she took out paper and pen and wrote a few lines.

She then folded the note, tied it to a sharp arrow.

She retrieved a bow from storage, took the arrow with the note, nocked it, and aimed at the City Lord's Residence outside the window.

Although the distance wasn't great, hitting the center of the hall was still challenging.

She half‑squinted, focusing on the distant City Lord's Residence.

To ensure the arrow would hit the hall, she covertly infused a strand of her spirit energy onto it.

By then, night had fallen and stars glittered in the sky.

She took a deep breath and released the arrow.

Swoosh—

The arrow sliced through the void, heading straight toward the City Lord's Residence.

When Yuan Yao saw the arrow strike the hall of the City Lord's Residence dead on, she quickly shut the window, packed away her bow and arrow, and hurried away.

Meanwhile.

Inside the City Lord's Residence, an arrow suddenly lodged itself in a column of the front hall, causing the surrounding demon Guards' faces to turn pale.

They instantly scanned the surroundings warily, drawing their weapons.

"The arrow carries a message!"

One demon Guard, with sharp eyes, quickly sensed something odd about the arrow embedded in the column.

He cautiously stepped a few paces toward the arrow, then pulled it out forcefully, retrieving the note tied to its shaft.

The note's surface bore five large characters in a bizarre, twisted script: "Kui Shi Demon Lord Collect."

Seeing this, the demon Guard dared not unfold the note lightly.

He at once sent the note to where Demon Lord Kui Shi was.

When Demon Lord Kui Shi received the note, his brows furrowed slightly.

Demon Lord Kui Shi unfolded the note, which read:

——I wish to surrender to the Great Demon Lord.

——If the Great Demon Lord is willing to accept, please come alone to the Guest Fragrant Tea House in the city at noon tomorrow; I will hold nothing back.

The more Demon Lord Kui Shi looked, the tighter his brows furrowed.

If he had not specially studied human script, he probably could not even tell what the other side was writing.

This handwriting is terribly ugly!

It looks like a dog's crawl.

Demon Lord Kui Shi casually handed the note to the Demon Clan Second Elder beside him.

The Demon Clan Second Elder glanced down, his brows suddenly tightening: "What kind of script is this? I've never seen anything like it."

Demon Lord Kui Shi's mouth twitched slightly: "It's human script."

Demon Clan Second Elder: "……" Is the cultural level of the human who wrote this note really that poor?

After Demon Lord Kui Shi's translation, the Demon Clan Second Elder also learned the note's content; his expression shifted slightly as he said, "My lord, this may be a human ploy—we cannot trust it completely."

"Naturally I understand," Demon Lord Kui Shi snorted coldly, "Before, many human cultivators have sought to surrender to me, but each of them either lacked strength or was utterly foolish, still dreaming of telling me what to do…"

Demon Clan Second Elder: "My lord, these human cultivators are rather arrogant and have strange identities. Earlier we used the Soul Search Technique on them, yet we found no memories at all."

However, after being subjected to harsh torture, those human cultivators loosened their tongues.

Several secrets were exposed.

First, the human faction sent two hundred young human cultivators to infiltrate the Ten Thousand Li Plains.

Second, among those two hundred young cultivators, many realized the human faction was at a disadvantage and simply defected to the monster and demon clans.

Third, the various disturbances that have occurred recently were basically stirred up by those young human cultivators, intending to sow discord between the demon and monster clans.

Whether it was the Snake Emperor or the Moon Charm Demon Emperor, both were poisoned by the toxin administered by human cultivators.