Monarch Night

Chapter 1333: Chapter 59: No Leads, but the Trouble Must Flow East! [2-in-1!]

"And if, on top of that, there was also the Wei Wo Zheng Sect as an external enemy... what kind of panic would sweep the entire Continent?"

Zhao Shanhe let out a sigh and said, "The Shen You Sect is unwilling to expose itself, and we also can’t afford that kind of upheaval."

"I understand."

"But the Shen You Sect does have one advantage... Though they’re mysterious, though they’re brutal, though they don’t do anything decent... they’re not on the same side as the Wei Wo Zheng Sect."

Zhao Shanhe said, "That can be considered extremely rare, something barely worth finding comfort in."

"But the Shen You Sect has slaughtered quite a lot of civilians too. And they always do things so sneaky and underhanded, which makes them even harder to deal with," Fang Che said.

"For now we can only guard against them. As for this mysterious sect, we truly don’t have any method."

An Ruoxing let out a helpless sigh. "So this matter, in our Southeast Headquarters, is top secret!"

"Because the Shen You Sect’s existence, at the moment, only exists in the Southeast! Nowhere else has it been discovered yet."

Fang Che pondered for a moment and asked, "In what way is it shown that the Shen You Sect is an enemy of the Wei Wo Zheng Sect?"

"Back then, at the Weiwo Orthodox Southeast Headquarters, three hundred years ago, there were two powerful Demons, disciples of the Shadow Demon. These two had a particular fetish: they liked to eat freshly living hearts."

"Human hearts?" Fang Che’s gaze tightened.

"No. Usually beast hearts. As long as it was the heart of a beast, they liked it. So for a period of time, these two went out hunting every day, specifically targeting those Spiritual Beasts or Demon Beasts that had already developed spiritual awareness."

"But eventually, if you walk the night road too often, you’re bound to run into a Ghost. During one hunt, they ran into our Southeast Headquarters’ experts, and the two sides fought a fierce battle. We were no match for them and were on the verge of being killed, when suddenly a man in black appeared."

"That man in black, with just one move, crippled those two Demons, and then... right in front of our people, he said, ’These two bastards dig out hearts and eat them every day. Today, I’m gonna have a taste of their hearts and see what it’s like.’"

"Then he directly dug out the hearts of those two Demons and ate them on the spot."

"Afterwards, our people wanted to thank him for saving their lives, but That Man ignored them and just said, ’We and the Wei Wo Zheng Sect are enemies to begin with. Even without you, we’d have killed them.’"

"When they asked for his Name, That Man only answered impatiently, ’I’m from the Shen You Sect,’ and then vanished without a trace."

Zhao Shanhe said, "But when our people came back, they were heavily wounded, and somehow their memories of the scene at that time had already gone blurry; they couldn’t recall it clearly. Their injuries were severe, Spirit Pills had no effect, and when they were on the brink of death, they suddenly had a moment of clarity and remembered what happened back then. At that time, Vice Chief Officer An and I were keeping watch at their bedside, and only then did they finally tell us this story. That was the original incident."

An Ruoxing said, "Yes. And they also mentioned one more point, which is... when that man in black reached out to dig out the hearts, they clearly noticed that his hands were covered in black fur."

"Black fur?"

Fang Che’s pupils suddenly contracted. "His hands were covered in black fur? Not just body hair?"

"Definitely not!"

An Ruoxing’s expression had sunk to its heaviest as he said, "So we immediately sealed this information, then reported it to the Ninth lord. The Ninth lord gave a clear order: matters concerning the Shen You Sect must not be spread!"

"But whether that man really had black fur on his hands, or just extremely long body hair, none of us who are still alive have seen it, because after that, no one has ever seen anyone from the Shen You Sect again!"

"However, General Zhao and I once searched the entire Southeast for people with unusually abundant body hair, but even at the most extreme level... those whose arm hair was indeed very long and very black, when they stretch out their hands... other people still wouldn’t call it fur, they’d still say it’s body hair. So, you get it."

An Ruoxing said this to Fang Che.

All of a sudden, Fang Che had a thought, and in that instant, because of this thought, he felt a chill run down his spine.

Staring wide-eyed, he said, "You two Chiefs, I have a question."

"Speak."

"Could it be that in this world... there really are... Demons?"

Fang Che asked with extreme seriousness.

At this question, the two Chiefs both remained silent.

And their expressions carried a kind of uncertain hesitation.

"Before we knew about the Shen You Sect, we believed there weren’t."

Zhao Shanhe said with difficulty.

"And after the Shen You Sect?" Fang Che pressed.

"...We’re still not sure there are!" Zhao Shanhe’s answer was still very strained.

"We know Demon Beasts exist, and Spiritual Beasts also exist; for Demon Beasts’ ranks, we usually classify them up to Demon Emperor."

"And a Demon Emperor is still a beast! Not a Human!"

"At what we call the Demon Emperor Level, their Combat Power is pretty much only around the Saint Level."

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Fang Che asked a question he himself hadn’t understood in either past or present life: "Then the ranks of Demon Beasts, the so‑called First grade, second level, all the way up to Demon Emperor... those are set by humans, right?"

"Yes!"

"The King of a race, we call a Demon King; and the common King of an entire region of the same race... we call a Demon Emperor."

"Got it."

"Then above the Demon Emperor, there should still be something, right?"

"Yes, but those are rarely seen. Or maybe it’s just that our level isn’t high enough to see them."

"Then could the Shen You Sect be a bunch of skunks that gained sentience?"

Fang Che’s question was like a thunderclap out of a clear sky.

Zhao Shanhe and An Ruoxing both felt an unspeakable sense of absurdity.

"That’s impossible, isn’t it?"

"I suspect they’re not specifically enemies of the Wei Wo Zheng Sect; it’s just that those two guys captured too many skunks and ate too many of their hearts..."

Fang Che said with a frown.

"Ridiculous!"

Zhao Shanhe said displeased, "That’s far too ridiculous. If you start investigating along that line, where do you think you’re going to end up? Isn’t that completely going off the rails? Don’t talk about now, even in ancient legends, have you ever heard of something like that?"