Chapter 1858: It hasn't discovered us, has it?

Watching this Demon ingredient looking left and right, Venerable Hong and Qingshi were both dumbfounded.

Is this really a Demon? It's become so wretched.

But for now, the two didn't dare act rashly. After all, only this one skinny monkey had come; catching it wouldn't be very interesting.

It didn't even have a few pounds of meat on its entire body.

Just as the two were puzzled, the Demon ingredient suddenly looked over in their direction.

"Holy crap... Old Drunkard, it hasn't discovered us, has it?"

"How is that possible..."

Upon hearing this, Venerable Hong's instinctive reaction was that it was impossible. What are Demons? They are just a bunch of brutes.

At the beginning, they were brutes who didn't even know how to arrange guards. You're saying it could discover something?

But before Venerable Hong could finish speaking, the Demon suddenly let out a sharp cry.

"Ou ou ou..."

The roar was also different from other Demons—much sharper, just... just like a monkey's cry.

Seeing this, Venerable Hong and Qingshi were even more confused. What did this mean?

But before the two could react, they saw the Demon turn around and run straight back into the Demon Cave, without a hint of hesitation.

"Have we been discovered?"

Seeing this, Qingshi muttered to himself with a complex expression.

This clearly meant they had been discovered. But why were they discovered? And, is this still a Demon?

As the Demon scurried away, the Demon Cave returned to calm, with no further movement.

Not long after, when the main force led by Yun Xian-tai arrived, they looked at the quiet surroundings and the motionless Demon Cave, and said angrily.

"Where's the ingredient? Didn't you say an ingredient was coming?"

"It did come, but it ran away."

"Ran away?"

Immediately, the two told Yun Xian-tai and the others exactly what had happened.

After hearing Venerable Hong and Qingshi's words, Yun Xian-tai and the other Great Emperor ancestors were also stunned. This didn't sound like a Demon at all.

But what the two said was the truth; the Demon had indeed run away.

All their efforts wasted; they had made the trip for nothing.

Everyone was incredibly depressed. They had thought this might be a coincidence, that the skinny monkey had just accidentally stumbled into the Demon Cave and it wasn't a Demon offensive plan.

But what surprised everyone was that in the following days, Demons appeared at all five Demon Caves every single day.

Yet every time, there were only one or two of them, and they were all incredibly skinny.

Moreover, they were sneaky and cunning; at the slightest sign of trouble, they would slip away.

The Human race had absolutely no opportunity.

Furthermore, time and again, Demons would appear, and the Great Emperor ancestors would lead the main force to rush over, but every time they ended up empty-handed, their excitement turning to disappointment.

After this happened several times, the Great Emperor ancestors were completely enraged.

"What the hell are these Demons trying to do?"

"I'll kill them sooner or later."

There was a feeling of being inexplicably toyed with, which was extremely unpleasant.

But there was no other way; the Human race couldn't enter the Demon Caves.

That was one thing, but after a month without harvesting any ingredients, Demon ingredients were now in short supply.

One day after dinner, the three leaders of the Spirit Chef Alliance found Ye Changqing, looking troubled.

"Ancestor of Rice."

"What's wrong? Why do you look so grim?"

"We're running out of ingredients."

"Hmm??? Haven't we been getting ingredients lately?"

"No, there haven't been any ingredients delivered for a month."

Ye Changqing usually didn't pay much attention to ingredient matters, as they were managed by the three leaders. Hearing that the ingredients were gone, Ye Changqing was also stunned.

Given everyone's personalities, their various methods, and their craving for ingredients, they shouldn't have gone a month without getting any.

After thinking about it, Ye Changqing went to find Yun Xian-tai and the other ancestors.

It was estimated that only Ye Changqing had this privilege; he could see the Great Emperor ancestors anytime, anywhere, without needing to report.

He told the ancestors about the ingredient situation and asked.

"Have the Demons not been appearing lately?"

At the mention of Demons, the ancestors were furious. They were being treated like monkeys.

Every time, they only sent one or two skinny monkeys, and they were so cautious—damn it, are you not playing fair?

The ancestors were completely speechless.

Hearing about the changes in the Demons over the past month, Ye Changqing's mouth twitched.

"These Demons have become smart? They even know to send scouts first?"

Anyone with eyes could see that those skinny monkeys were clearly scouts sent by the Demons, with the purpose of determining if there were ambushes around the Demon Caves.

Otherwise, they would be surrounded the moment they stepped out of the Demon Cave, just like before.

"Those bastards, I'll wipe them all out sooner or later."

Shi Qingfeng gritted his teeth and cursed. But just then, Saint Lord Yun Luo's projection array disk suddenly lit up. After connecting, sounds of fighting and desperate cries for help came from the other side, along with the urgent voice of a Great Saint Elder.

"Holy Lord, the Demon race has launched a sudden sneak attack, we cannot hold them off..............."

Human cultivators were monitoring every Demon Cave, but under normal circumstances, there weren't many people.

After all, it had been a month, and the Demons hadn't made a move; the Human side couldn't arrange for everyone to hide around the Demon Caves every day.

But no one expected the Demons to take this opportunity to launch a sudden sneak attack.

And it looked like they had been prepared for a long time; otherwise, they wouldn't have even had time to call for help beforehand.

Hearing this, Saint Lord Yun Luo's expression darkened, and the Great Emperor ancestors also rushed toward the Demon Cave.

The situation was urgent, and even though the Great Emperor ancestors rushed to rescue them as quickly as possible, by the time they arrived, the battle was already over.

Apart from some bloodstains left on the ground, not even a corpse was found; it was estimated that they had been devoured by the Demons.

As for the Demons, not a single one was seen.

They had likely already retreated back into the Demon Cave.

Looking at the Demon Cave, which remained as calm as an ancient well, as if nothing had happened, the Great Emperor ancestors were grinding their teeth in anger.

"It was intentional; these ingredients were definitely intentional."

"They had planned this long ago, wanting to use this to deal with us."

The change in the Demons caught the Great Emperor ancestors off guard.

On the other hand, those skinny Demon scouts might be even better at scouting than they had imagined.

It was very likely that they hadn't retreated before out of caution or suspicion.

But because they had truly discovered the Human hiding spots.

They just hadn't made a scene, but instead quietly returned to the Demon Realm, formulated a counterattack plan, and launched a sudden sneak attack while the main Human force was away.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have even had time to call for reinforcements; it could only be said that the Demons had already determined the Human hiding positions before they made their move.

So they chose to strike the moment they rushed out of the Demon Cave, leaving people with no time to react.

The ancestors' teeth were chattering; were these ingredients trying to turn the world upside down? ===== CHAPTER 1859 =====