"I have a premonition," Feng Heyue said, looking steadily at Li Hai, her voice solemn. "The moment you step out of this pavilion, there's a ninety-nine percent chance you'll kill Ming Yingjie and the other two on the spot, isn't that right?"
"Yes," Li Hai said with great candor, "but it's not ninety-nine percent, it's one hundred percent."
"Alas~" Feng Heyue sighed, "Then may I ask you to spare them this once? After this, if Xiao Yingzi and his brothers offend you again, whether in words or actions, I, this old woman, will no longer stop you."
"Feng Nainai (Grandma Feng), I don't understand," Li Hai frowned. "I am only a Grandmaster at High Realm, yet you are a Grandmaster at Perfection. If you wanted to restrain me or even kill me, it would be as easy as turning your hand. But why must you act this way?"
"Because in my opinion, if the Demon Slayer Division is not handed over to you, if you are not allowed to be this Commander of the Army of the Demon Slayer Division, then it would be a loss for the entire Demon Slayer Division."
Feng Heyue said faintly, "And for me, the future of the Demon Slayer Division is more important than the lives of Xiao Yingzi and his brothers."
Speaking of this, Feng Heyue looked at Li Hai again and asked, "So, what is your answer? Can you—can you—let the three of them off?"
"This—" Li Hai immediately fell silent, his thick eyebrows tightly knitted together.
Those two fellows, Meng Su and Luo Qianqiu, were half-familiar with him, and there hadn't even been any verbal disputes.
But who could blame Li Hai's perception being too strong?
Although those two hadn't even uttered half a fart, their hint of killing intent, which they thought was deeply hidden, was still caught by Li Hai.
So they had to die.
Otherwise, Li Hai would feel an itch, and even his heart would feel uncomfortable, as if grass were growing on it.
As for that fellow Ming Yingjie—he was sly and deceptive; one look and you knew he was full of bad intentions.
So Ming Yingjie also had to die, and no one's plea would be useful.
"Sorry, Feng Nainai (Grandma Feng), I cannot fulfill your request."
Li Hai took out the Commandant token from his Arms and placed it on the table, looking at Feng Heyue and saying solemnly, "From today onwards, I will withdraw from the Demon Slayer Division, and after I leave this pavilion, I will immediately kill Ming Yingjie and the other two. If anyone obstructs me, I will kill them."
"Hmph~" Feng Heyue lowered her gaze and sighed sadly, "Child, don't talk about withdrawing or not. Keep the token. Go out—and kill them."
After saying that, she gently waved her hand, and the token on the table floated up, lightly flying into Li Hai's embrace.
Then, Feng Heyue slowly reclined in the wide chair, no longer saying a word.
Li Hai stood up straight, cupped his hands in a salute to the old woman, then turned and walked out of the pavilion.
And after he stepped out of the doorway, the sorrow on Feng Heyue's face instantly vanished, replaced by a satisfied smile.
"Have you thought of the candidates?" Ming Yingjie thought to himself, "They'd better be powerful enough, fierce enough, ruthless enough, insidious enough, and poisonous enough. And it can't just be one Devil Head; it has to be a large group of demons, ghosts, and monsters attacking together. That way, it's safer."
"Don't worry," Meng Su replied, "I've already thought of the candidates. Once things are done here, I'll go back and start this plan."
"Me too," Luo Qianqiu said sinisterly. "That kid surnamed Li shouldn't expect to come back unscathed. Even if he doesn't die, he'll at least lose a layer of skin."
"?" Ming Yingjie asked in surprise, "It sounds like you've come up with some really insidious ideas."
"I won't tell you yet," Luo Qianqiu said mysteriously. "You'll know when the time comes."
"Hahaha," Ming Yingjie chuckled sinisterly, "Then I'll wait and see."
As they chatted, these few people chuckled mischievously in their 'mind chat room'.
But just as the three of them were chatting excitedly, Li Hai slowly walked out of the pavilion.
"Oh, Lieutenant Li is out."
In an instant, the dozens of Thousand Army Grade Long Rank Commandants who had been standing silently in various corners of the spacious courtyard all looked up at him.
As for Ming Yingjie and the other two, they merely glanced at Li Hai casually and did not look at him again, continuing their expressionless mental communication with each other.
Li Hai, however, paid no attention to their scrutinizing gazes. He simply stood with his hands behind his back on the pavilion steps, leisurely scanning the entire courtyard before slowly saying:
"Ming Yingjie, Meng Su, Luo Qianqiu, do the three of you have any last words? I am a kind-hearted person; I'll allow you to say a few more useless words before you die."
Shock!
As soon as Li Hai uttered these words, the Long Rank Commandants in the entire courtyard burst into an uproar, then their eyes widened as they stared at each other, utterly disbelieving what they had heard.
"Ah! What did Lieutenant Li say?"
"I couldn't have misheard, could I?!"
"Does Lieutenant Li's words mean—he wants to kill Lieutenant Ming, Lieutenant Meng, and Lieutenant Luo?!"
"Impossible, this, what kind of situation is this?"
Upon truly realizing what Li Hai had said, all the Long Rank Commandants were completely dumbfounded.
Good gracious, Li Hai, you are too formidable! Your name truly wasn't given in error.
The old Commander of the Army is still sitting inside the pavilion, so how can you speak such nonsense?
Not only do you want to kill your own people, but you also want to kill the old Commander of the Army's three adopted sons?
This, this—are you crazy?
As for Ming Yingjie and the other two, they were even more stunned, thinking they were hallucinating.
But they were Martial Dao Grandmasters! How could they hallucinate anything!
"Hahaha, heaven is truly helping me!"
Ming Yingjie was the first to react. He forcibly suppressed the explosive joy in his heart, immediately furrowed his brows, and shouted sternly at Li Hai from a distance:
"Li Hai! What's wrong with you?! You are a Heavenly Rank Commandant of the Demon Slayer Division, don't speak such wild words and make a fool of yourself!"
"Lieutenant Li, why are you acting so crazy there?!" Meng Su also frowned and shouted sternly, "Speaking such words for no reason, it seems the old Commander of the Army made a mistake promoting you. You should have stayed in a place like Dragon Mountain and never come back."
Luo Qianqiu, on the other hand, sneered, "Li Hai, you speak with such arrogance! You want to go on a killing spree here. I just have one question: Do you even have the Commander of the Army, that old lady, in your eyes?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Hai smiled indifferently:
"Is that all? Are those your last words? Hmm~ If so—""
As soon as the word 'so' left his mouth, Li Hai activated all the Cultivation Techniques, Spells, and Divine Abilities he had learned from Feng Heyue, pushing them all to their Peak Perfection.
In an instant, his Realm, cultivation, and physical strength surged dramatically. His overall Qi power exploded from two billion catties to twenty billion catties, and his range of force projection through the air rapidly increased from four thousand zhang to a full eight thousand zhang. At the same time, his mind and perception suddenly expanded to cover an area of tens to hundreds of miles. Subsequently, the terrifying might unique to a Void-Reality Grandmaster at Perfection roared and swept outwards from Li Hai, covering the heavens, the earth, and all directions, overwhelming everything in its path.