Chapter 443: Strategic Hair Pulling Stage Game
Chapter 443: Strategic Hair Pulling Stage Game
Demon King Peng and King Yu Monkey are both top figures in the demon clan. In this corner where no one pays attention, the two of them fought a peak battle among the demon clan.
I wonder how this battle will be exaggerated in future myths and legends, with the sky and earth changing color and the wind and clouds surging, but the truth is that it was a very ugly fight from beginning to end.
At the beginning, they swung their weapons at each other, which looked nice, but they could not break each other's defense. No matter how fancy it was, there was no essential difference between them standing face to face and tickling each other with a stick.
After that, they set traps and used tactical fraud to cheat and launch sneak attacks. The young people had no moral principles and bullied the tens of thousands of years old monster.
The current situation of the war has progressed to the stage of cold war confrontation with people strangling each other, pulling hair, spitting and cursing at each other.
The key to victory at this stage is no longer which side is stronger, but psychological warfare and strategic bluffing are the top priorities.
Demon King Peng has already taken the lead in attacking, targeting King Yu's weak spot. In terms of lifespan, the monkey clan and the ancient alien species, the golden-winged Roc, are not on the same level at all. Before Sun Wukong altered the Book of Life and Death, the lifespan of ordinary monkeys was not even as long as that of humans.
Take the golden snub-nosed monkey for example. The lifespan of wild golden snub-nosed monkeys is at most 30 years, and the average lifespan is only 16 to 18 years, which is less than half of that of ordinary people.
Even if a demon monkey has achieved great success in his cultivation and his realm has been raised, his life span is still far less than that of a human who has practiced Taoism.
Take Sun Wukong for example. Even though he acquired the magical power of seventy-two transformations from Patriarch Bodhi and his physical cultivation level was equivalent to that of a true immortal, his life span ended in just over a dozen years, as his soul was taken away by the soul-collecting messenger from the underworld.
If he had not used his extraordinary abilities to change his fate and caused a big disturbance in the underworld, erasing the Book of Life and Death, by the time the Journey to the West catastrophe officially began five hundred years later, the grass on his grave would have grown into a primeval forest.
Therefore, the obsession with prolonging his life shown by King Yuxi is very consistent with his identity as a monkey demon. For this reason, even if he does something disgusting, King Peng will not be suspicious.
In terms of lifespan, Demon King Peng has an absolute psychological advantage and simply does not believe the opponent's threat of pestering him until the end of time.
What's more, Demon King Peng has brothers. The Lingya Fairy and the Qiushou Fairy are not yet permanently stationed in the Lion Camel Kingdom, but they always take advantage of the Bodhisattvas' unpreparedness and sneak to the Lion Camel Ridge every few years to give themselves a vacation.
When the two powerful brothers arrive, they will always find a way to violently dismantle the monkey pendant on him.
"Monkey, your persistence and tantrums are meaningless. At most, they will only annoy me for a few years. I advise you to recognize the situation, stop resisting, and return the fairy. I can consider sparing your life, putting a golden hoop on your head and restricting you to obey my orders."
The Demon King Peng threatened confidently: "If you do not, when my two elder brothers come back, they will grind you to dust and send your soul to hell. Not only that, they will also rush to your lair and kill all your monkeys and descendants until they are extinct!"
“Eh hehehe~~Oh hehe~~”
A monkey-like weird laugh came out from the tortoise shell: "How terrible! They want to kill all my monkeys and descendants! You reminded me that my loser wife, my good-for-nothing bastard son, and my loyal old slave are still in your demon country's palace, right?"
When Demon King Peng heard him talking about the three monkeys who came with him, he was startled and thought that something was wrong.
"I have never seen your two elder brothers, so I don't know how capable they are. Your younger brothers are all useless, not even as good as my useless son with a small nose!"
The monkey said proudly, "I don't know when your two elder brothers will be back. The monkey wives and cubs I brought with me have already made an agreement with me. If I can't come back for a day and a night, they will cause a big disturbance in the Lion Country and kill all the tens of thousands of demon soldiers you have worked so hard to gather! Can your useless subordinates stop them?"
"Ah this..."
Demon King Peng broke out in a cold sweat. He had fought with orangutans and pygmy marmosets before and knew how powerful those two monkeys were. Although they were not his opponents, they were no ordinary ones either. They were more than capable of taking care of the tens of thousands of little monsters in Lion Camel Ridge.
The demon race's population has been declining year by year, and the demons are scarce. Most of the demons have joined the demon alliance and lived a stable life. The tens of thousands of demons collected by the Lion Country really took a lot of effort from the Demon King Peng, and it took many years to accumulate them. These demons are the foundation for the establishment of the demon dynasty in the mortal world in the future. If they are killed, the Demon King Peng will be left alone. How can he unify the world?
No matter how strong a person's physical strength is, it is useless. A cruel and tyrannical tyrant cannot rule the world legitimately.
Wouldn’t his dream of becoming the Demon King be shattered?
With no demons at his disposal, the Demon King Peng can only follow the example of the Demon Queen Daji and transform himself into a beautiful woman to sneak into the mortal palace, seduce and control the mortal emperor, and use a substitute.
But, is it worth doing this?
He was an extremely evil demon of his generation, a fighting demon among demons, and Tathagata's uncle. He actually usurped the throne of the world by pretending to be a woman. Even if he sat on the supreme throne in the world, he was destined to be infamous for thousands of years and become the biggest laughing stock in the Three Realms.
In just a short moment, countless thoughts swirled in Demon King Peng's mind, and the more he thought, the more his head hurt.
"They are just a bunch of trash. What's the harm in killing them all?"
Although he was panicking in his heart, Demon King Peng refused to give in. He said cruelly and resolutely: "You can't kill all the monsters. When one dies, a new one will grow up soon. As long as an invincible monster like me raises the banner, I can recruit another batch very quickly!"
"As for you, you can retreat for a while, but you can't retreat forever. I just lost a bunch of trash, but you will end up with a fate of never being able to be reborn! I can definitely bear such a loss, but what about you?"
The Demon King Peng said the last sentence with gritted teeth, as if he had really made up his mind to exchange the lives of tens of thousands of little demons for his monkey's life.
"Well, well, well, you are indeed a great hero of the demon race. You abandon your subordinates like discarding a worn-out shoe."
The monkey's resolute and fierce words came out of the tortoise shell: "You don't care because you haven't felt the pain, right? I want you to know that wearing this ointment monkey pendant of mine is not just inconvenient for you to move!"
As soon as he finished threatening, Demon King Peng felt unbearable pain all over his body. The pain came from his soul, and no matter how strong his body was, he could not endure it. The pain was so severe that he just wanted to roll on the ground.
There was a silver mass weighing who knows how many tons hanging on his chest. He couldn't roll over, so the Demon King Peng could only swing back and forth like a tumbler.
He was very familiar with this kind of pain. It was the same feeling as before when he tried to lay his claws on the two fairies and was pricked by the invisible soul stings on their robes, which was worse than death.
"Feel the pain! Think about the pain! Accept the pain! Understand the pain! How many floors can a bag of rice be carried? How many years can you bear this level of soul pain?"
The monkey in the tortoise shell declared loudly in a strange tone, as if he was a god high above, spreading endless pain to mortals.
After fighting with the Demon King Peng for so long, the two fairies in the secret realm had already entered the bath naked, and Jarvis successfully stole the red and yellow clothes they took off.
In order to break the deadlock, Wen Rui didn't care about his image. He took out the two original Xia clothes from the secret realm and put them on the human-pig body curled up in the tortoise shell.
This behavior may seem a bit abnormal, but in fact it is a famous scene of crazy battle of wits between top strategists.
As long as victory can be achieved, a true strategist would not care whether to wear women's clothes or not. For example, when Sima Yi received women's clothes from Zhuge Liang, who mocked him for being cowardly, he put them on and showed off in public.
One piece of Xiayi is enough to deter the most lustful demon in the world. The severe pain in the soul caused by two pieces together is really not a torture that ordinary demons can endure.
Demon King Peng has lived for tens of thousands of years, and never has he felt as miserable as he does now. He just wants to die.
(End of this chapter)