Chapter 300: Deer Boy: You say someone can lift the Golden Cudgel

If one demon cannot handle the Demon-Catching Squad, then ten, a hundred, a thousand will!

The demons, who had originally been driven to a dead end by the Demon-Catching Squad, finally gathered the courage under Tang An's cohesive influence to resist and fight back.

The Demon-Catching Squad, which had rarely tasted defeat on missions, quickly scattered and collapsed.

This time, it was the demons who had captured the immortals of the Demon-Catching Squad.

Bound by the Immortal Binding Rope, Lu Tong had no chance of escape and could only unwillingly accept his defeat.

"Do you know that the Chan Sect is not something a bunch of rabble like you can deal with?"

"Rabble?" Tang An chuckled, holding a small wooden stick and lifting Lu Tong's chin with it.

"Then what about you? What is your true form?"

"Are you human? Or a demon?"

"I am an immortal!" Lu Tong reacted as if his greatest sore spot had been poked.

"But you are a demon; you are a deer demon yourself. You look down on demons, and you say that demons are born inferior."

"Then can I interpret that as you never having looked up to yourself from the very beginning!"

Lu Tong struggled violently and roared at Tang An, "I am an immortal! I told you I am an immortal!!!"

The more he acted this way, the more it showed that Tang An had poked the part of his heart he was most afraid to show others and most afraid to admit.

"An immortal? Can you deceive yourself just by becoming an immortal?"

"Once you become an immortal at Yuxu Palace, will you no longer be maliciously slandered by those disciples who cultivated into immortals from humans?"

"You are an immortal, but do you not know how much innocent blood is on your hands?"

"Compared to those demons who have never taken a human life, where exactly are you noble?"

"You don't understand!" Lu Tong glared at Tang An, "You don't understand the rules of this world, and you don't understand how much I paid to climb to the position I hold today!"

Tang An grabbed him by the throat, locking eyes with him, her aura not weakening in the slightest.

"Then should you use the corpses of your fellow Demon Race to pile up the steps for your ascension to immortality!"

This sentence rang in Lu Tong's ears like a thunderclap.

At the same time, Lu Tong seemed to see the past he was most unwilling to recall.

He saw the cruelty of the rules and the filth behind the bright exterior. He gradually became numb, gradually donned that bright cloak, and complied with the filth behind the rules.

"The rules of this world are that the strong prey on the weak and the fittest survive."

"You haven't experienced everything I have; what right do you have to stand here and judge me with such self-righteousness!"

"Who do you think you are? And by what right do you interfere in the affairs of the Demon Race!"

His shouting was more like anger at why, when he was experiencing that darkness, no one had stood up to protect him the way she was protecting the demons today.

If there had been a choice, who would want to become like this?

"Are you finished?" Tang An did not argue with Lu Tong about anything.

Because she agreed with one point Lu Tong made: do not urge others to be kind if you have not experienced their suffering.

She truly had no right to judge Lu Tong's good or evil.

However... her ultimate goal was not to play the saint or stand on a moral high ground to judge anyone.

"Since you don't like that 'justice versus evil' routine, let's talk in a different way."

"What?" Lu Tong had not yet realized the gravity of the situation.

Tang An released Lu Tong's throat, "Now I have won, and you have lost."

"The winner is the king, and the loser is the bandit. Do you want to die, or do you want to surrender?"

"If you seek death, then pay for your sins with your life. If you seek to live, I can give you another path to take."

Only now did Lu Tong realize that Tang An was not some self-righteous saint; he could not see through her goals at all.

He did not want to comply with Tang An because he was afraid—afraid that the waters on Tang An's side were even deeper than those at Yuxu Palace.

"Do you think you have really won?"

"Do you think that by saving these demons, you can escape the pursuit of Yuxu Palace?"

"And do you think that Chentang Pass, which you spared no effort to protect earlier, is truly safe?"

Mo Wan Nezha caught the key information and flew over, grabbing Lu Tong by the collar. "What happened to Chentang Pass? Speak!"

Lu Tong smiled triumphantly, "Why don't you go back and see for yourself?"

Tang An remained calm, but she gave Nezha a look.

Nezha understood immediately and flew over to pull back Mo Wan Nezha. "The priority is for us to go back first."

Mo Wan Nezha punched Lu Tong, smashing him into the mountain rock, and then stepped on his Wind Fire Wheels to fly back to Chentang Pass.

Nezha followed closely behind to ensure things did not spiral out of their planned control.

Seeing both Nezhas leave together, Lu Tong fell out of the mountain rock.

"Hahahaha~"

"It's too late, everything is too late."

"You have lost, lost completely."

"And you demons, you will be caught and taken back to Yuxu Palace sooner or later. Next time, you won't have..."

"Slap!"

Tang An smashed a brick into Lu Tong's face, knocking out several of his teeth.

"You're still counting on Yuxu Palace?"

Tang An took out her Mobile Phone and played a video for Lu Tong showing how Yuxu Palace was broken by Wukong's sheer strength and smashed to pieces by the Golden Cudgel.

"Impossible!"

"What kind of demonic object is in your hand? It must be a fabricated illusion, it is absolutely impossible!"

"Don't you dare try to swindle me with this demonic object; others might not recognize the Sea-Stabilizing Needle inside, but I certainly do."

"Not to mention that the Sea-Stabilizing Needle is currently suppressing the demonic creatures of the Dragon Palace, how could the weight of the Sea-Stabilizing Needle be easily moved by the strength of one person, let alone be used as a Dharma artifact!"

"When you pull these stunts, can you use your brain a little? Do you really think I'm as easy to fool as a three-year-old child?"

Tang An rubbed her forehead; how was she supposed to explain the story of the future Great Sage Equal to Heaven to Lu Tong, whose cognitive limits were so low?

Forget it, explaining it would be too troublesome and a waste of time.

Hmm, violent methods were more suitable for her.

Tang An breathed onto the golden brick, "Now answer me, will you follow my orders, or will you continue to resist?"

"I..."

"Smack!"

"You..."

"Smack!"

"No..."

"Smack!"

Lu Tong's handsome face had been beaten by Tang An into a bruised, swollen mess.

"Do you submit? Answer me!"

Lu Tong hung his head after being beaten; did he look like he was still in a state to speak?

The most outrageous part was! She started hitting him right away; had she really given him a chance to speak?!

"Smack!"

Lu Tong was on the verge of tears; she was truly bullying him too far!

"I haven't said anything, and you're hitting me for that too?" His face was so swollen that his speech was muffled and unclear.

Tang An blew on the golden brick, "I hit you based entirely on my mood, no excuses needed."

Lu Tong: "..."

"Are you going to talk or not?"

"What exactly do you want me to say?" Lu Tong was helplessly frantic, nearly broken by the torment.

"Do you submit?"

"I..."

"Smack!" Another brick landed.

"Ah!!!" Lu Tong had truly broken down, "You have to let me speak, let me speak, let me speak!"

"Have you ever let me finish a single sentence before hitting me?"

Tang An shrugged, "Didn't you just finish a sentence right now?"

"Besides, this is a Merit Dharma Artifact. Me hitting you is helping you eliminate your sins; you should be thanking me."

"Heh~" Lu Tong actually laughed, "I should thank you?"

"You're welcome."