Chapter 36: The Bear Tribe of Chapter 4
After Xu Zhenfeng arrived in the royal city, he was valued by several elders and lived alone in a courtyard, without any help from the elders on how to accommodate and clean the place.
Let’s talk about Big Bear first. After saying goodbye to Xu Zhenfeng, he took a few of his close followers and ran all the way on the street outside the palace, heading straight for the Xihua Gate of the Bear Clan’s main hall.
Fortunately, this is the innermost street of the royal city, and there are no shops on both sides of the street.
Only the main halls of the eight major families surrounded the palace. There were few demons walking on the streets, so no demons were knocked down.
When they arrived at the main gate of the bear tribe, Xiong Da got off his mount and threw away the reins. He could not wait for the bear demon guards to open the gate for him.
He ran to the door, which was only half open. He didn't push it, but squeezed in with his body.
The layout of the bear clan's main hall was exactly the same as that of the wolf clan's main hall. Big Bear ran across two bluestone squares and continued running back until he came to a large courtyard.
Without waiting for the report from Xiong Bing who was guarding outside the gate, he rushed into the yard in a hurry.
After entering the yard, he looked around, walked quickly towards the main hall, and shouted loudly.
"Old man, are you in the house? Old man, where are you? I'm back, didn't you say you would stop me? Now that I'm back, let's see if you can stop me..."
As he kept shouting loudly with his broken voice like a gong.
A huge monster with a tall and burly figure, whose muscles were so knotted and bulging that even clothes could not cover them, walked out of the main house in the yard.
When this giant monster transformed into a human, it was more than two meters tall and as strong as a mountain.
Compared with Big Bear, his stature is so huge that even the two Big Bears combined are not as big as him.
Seeing this big monster walk out of the main house and look at him with an unhappy frown, Xiong Da's voice instantly lowered.
However, he still had that irresponsible tone, "Old man, I'm back, what do you want to do to me?"
After saying this, Big Bear raised his head with an expression of being wronged and unwilling to accept it.
"Why should I stop you? Get down on your knees first. I have to go to the palace to take my turn. When I come back, I'll stop you slowly. Just wait for me and get down."
Xiong Zhenwei, the internal affairs manager of Yaoshan King City, spoke in Sichuan dialect.
Xiong Da snorted coldly, but his expression was still full of arrogance.
But his body was very honest. He lowered his head, knelt on the ground, and knelt in front of Xiong Zhenwei with a plop.
At this time, a female bear demon who looked no more than 30 years old walked out of the main room. This female bear demon was not much smaller than Xiong Zhenwei.
She was wearing a colorful double-breasted dress and holding a suit of armor in her hand. Without even looking at Xiong Da, she and a few of her personal soldiers who came over helped Xiong Zhenwei put on the armor.
After Xiong Zhenwei put on his armor, he strode away with heavy steps.
The middle-aged female bear demon walked up to the kneeling Big Bear and kicked him with her leg.
"There are no monsters to control you in Sifang City, so you are getting more and more daring, aren't you?
Huh? I told your youngest son not to provoke the tiger monsters, but you refused to listen and even arrested Hu Jingjiang's kid and beat him to death in the jail. Hu Jingjiang even came to our head monk and asked your old man to give him an explanation.
The kick made Big Bear tilt his body to the side, then he knelt upright again. After hearing what the female bear demon said, he snorted coldly again.
"An explanation? What the hell do you want him to explain? That bastard of his ate more than a dozen monsters from the Ox Tribe. I didn't kill him, which was already a face for him. You still dare to ask for an explanation?"
After saying this, Xiong Da turned his head and glanced at the gate, making sure that Xiong Zhenwei would not come back. He immediately stood up and approached the female bear demon with a smile.
"Mom, I'm so hungry. You have nothing to eat. Bring it out quickly so that I can fill my stomach first. When the old man comes back, I will definitely be punished. I have to eat more now, otherwise I won't be able to withstand him."
Xiong Da's mother gave him a sidelong glance, raised her hand and slapped him on the forehead with a big slap.
"Eat your mother's head, eat, eat, eat, you don't even know what to eat. I don't know what evil thing I did to give birth to a pig like you who only knows how to eat and doesn't know how to grow."
Xiong Da grinned, chuckled a few times, and pushed his mother towards the main house.
But he was shorter than his mother. After pushing him a few steps, his mother came over, grabbed his arm, and threw him into the main room with a bang.
"I roasted the Sky-Roaring Beast for you. Eat it yourself. After you're done, come back and kneel down."
"I see. Eh? Where's the wine? Why is there only meat but no wine?"
"I'm going to make you two ears full of shit, wait till you get up."
Aunt Xiong cursed at the same time but turned around to get some wine for her son.
On this side, Xiong Zhenwei came out of the Bear Clan's main hall, and with a dozen personal soldiers of his own clan who were not much smaller than him, he walked across the street and went straight into the Xihua Gate opposite.
The demon soldiers on duty outside Xihua Gate are the dragon demon soldiers of the Demon King. Although they are sub-dragons, they can still be considered dragons.
As usual, the guarding demon soldier took the verification card from Xiong Zhenwei and let them into the palace.
The architectural layout of this palace is surprisingly the same as that of the royal city, with several palace walls in a circular shape, surrounding the dozen or so palaces, squares, terraces and pavilions inside the palace.
Xiong Zhenwei led his personal soldiers through the six palace walls and came to the outside of a hall in the middle, where he saw the wolf clan's chief elder who had also arrived with his personal soldiers.
The two big demons nodded to each other, and after the guards outside the hall reported, they left their personal soldiers outside the hall, and the two demons walked into the hall together.
The furnishings in this hall are extremely simple, and you can see everything at a glance.
In the center is a spring surrounded by white jade bricks. More than a dozen dragon-shaped pillars, which are neither stone nor wooden, are arranged in an orderly manner, surrounding the spring pool in the center.
The spring water with white mist kept bubbling out of the spring pool.
There are no water diversion channels around the spring. Although spring water keeps gushing out, it never flows out of the white jade pool.
About ten steps in front of the spring pool is a platform with nine steps.
At this time, sitting on the steps was a huge demon wearing golden soft armor and with a dragon-like appearance, but it was hard to tell what level of cultivation he had.
This is His Majesty the Demon King of Demon Mountain.
The demon king had a rectangular face, with brow bones and cheekbones as high as each other, thick and drooping eyebrows, a nose that was slightly turned upwards, and a big mouth with the corners of his mouth almost reaching the base of his ears.
When the demon king saw Xiong Zhenwei and the wolf clan's chief elder Lang Qingtian coming in, his mouth, which was already unusually large, opened wide, looking extremely terrifying.
"Now that you are here, Elder Qingtian, you are not allowed to drink anymore."
Lang Qingtian and Xiong Zhenwei bowed to the Demon King together. The demons were not like humans who had to kneel when they saw their king. It was not a large ceremonial occasion. In normal occasions, they only needed to bow to the Demon King.
After Lang Qingtian finished his greeting, he raised his head, smiled at the demon king, and said, "Your Majesty, it was Shi Mingfei who forced me to drink last time. It was not me who wanted to drink. It is none of my business."
The demon king sneered, "It's true that Shi Ming loves wine, but you, Lang Qingtian, are not a good guy either. You don't like wine? Luckily nothing happened last time, otherwise you two would have been killed."
When the Demon King said this last sentence, his tone had turned cold.
Lang Qingtian's heart tightened, and he quickly bowed again and admitted his mistake honestly, "Yes, Your Majesty, Qingtian has realized his mistake. I will never dare to drink while on duty again."
When the demon king saw that Lang Qingtian admitted his mistake, he stopped scolding him. He looked at Xiong Zhenwei again and his tone softened a lot.
"Zhenwei, I already know about your Xiong Da's matter. It's not his fault, and you shouldn't punish him. It was the boy from the Hu family who disobeyed the rules of the Monster Mountain first. According to the rules, he should have been put into the Monster Refining Furnace, but your Xiong Da blew up his inner elixir, which was considered a light punishment for him. However, considering that Hu Jingjiang has lost four sons in three years, I think we should just let it go. No one on either side should pursue the matter."
Xiong Zhenwei quickly saluted, "Yes, Your Majesty, but my boy is really too unreasonable. There were some misunderstandings between our bear tribe and the tiger tribe. This time, after being caused by that brat, this misunderstanding, hey, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to resolve."
The demon king shook his head nonchalantly and said, "The various tribes in Demon Mountain are originally one. There is no misunderstanding that cannot be resolved. You don't have to take it to heart."
After finishing speaking, the demon king hesitated for a moment, looked at the two great demons and spoke again, "From now on, no matter who of you takes the shift, Long Ming will take the shift with you."
After hearing what the Demon King said, Xiong Zhenwei and Lang Qingtian looked at each other. Lang Qingtian didn't intend to say anything, but Xiong Zhenwei bowed to the Demon King.
"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince's affairs have not been fully investigated yet. If you let His Highness Long Ming take turns with us now, I am afraid that it will cause suspicion and uneasiness in Demon Mountain. Those with uncertain minds may think that Your Majesty wants to change the crown prince."
As Xiong Zhenwei was the chief steward of the royal city's internal affairs, he dared to say a few words about the Demon King's decision.
The demon king said without question, "The crown prince must be replaced. No matter what the final result of the crown prince's case is, he is no longer suitable to be the crown prince. Long Ming has always been resolute and courageous, and his mind is quite smart. His demon skills are not inferior to the crown prince. Let's see how he performs first."
Xiong Zhenwei wanted to say something else, but the demon king waved his hand and said, "Okay, it's settled. No need to say more. Long Ming will be here soon. Just take care of him and teach him the rules."
After saying this, the demon king stood up, walked down the steps, and came to the spring pool. Looking at the gushing spring water, his face was a little gloomy, and no one knew what he was thinking.
After looking at the spring water silently for a while, the demon king turned and walked towards the back hall, disappearing from the eyes of Xiong Zhenwei and Lang Qingtian.
Seeing the Demon King leave, Lang Qingtian and Xiong Zhenwei also came to the Yongquan pool, one demon on each side, with their backs against the Panlong pillar behind them, and sat cross-legged on the ground facing each other across the Yongquan pool.
The two big monsters just guarded the spring pool, watching the boiling water in the pool, and no one said a word.