Extreme Almightiest Young Master

Chapter 1220 - 1218: Waiting

"Village chief, settle the villagers down and go rest. With us here, nothing will go wrong." After a brief thought, Lin Feng did not plan to reveal everything to the village chief. After all, the mention of demon beasts would certainly frighten the villagers. He decided to wait for nightfall to act. As long as the demon beasts appeared, there would be no problems.

"Can... can this really work..." Upon hearing Lin Feng’s words, the village chief wanted to say something more. The villagers were truly afraid, having never encountered such strange events before. And now, they only had two young people and a group of children; they were very doubtful that they could help handle the situation.

Xia Lalan, seeing that the village chief was still worried, smiled and said: "Village chief, you don’t need to have any concerns. With us here, there definitely won’t be any more problems. You just need to take good care of the villagers." Xia Lalan had long been accustomed to Lin Feng’s way of handling things and knew that since Lin Feng had said so, he certainly had a plan. However, the villagers didn’t know this, so she understood what the village chief was thinking and comforted him.

When the village chief heard the reassurances from both Lin Feng and Xia Lalan, and seeing their confidence, he finally believed their words, nodded, and then said to Lin Feng and Xia Lalan: "Then I’ll trouble you two, thank you for helping our whole village. I will go arrange for the villagers now."

After saying that, the village chief bowed to Lin Feng and Xia Lalan with his son, and then left to take care of the villagers. The village was basically ruined, but fortunately, the threshing area on the mid-mountain side was still intact. There were several large tents there which could temporarily accommodate the panicked villagers.

After the village chief left, Xia Lalan and the children all looked towards Lin Feng. Of course, Lin Feng saw the expressions on Xia Lalan and the children’s faces, but he didn’t want to say too much right now, lest the villagers overhear and panic.

"Lanlan, take the kids and widen the river channel so that the water in the village can recede faster. We will deal with other matters tonight." After glancing at the nearly flooded village, Lin Feng instructed Xia Lalan and the children. They should first drain the water away. As for the demon beast that had just been injured, it probably wouldn’t reappear so soon. The time was almost up and he estimated that the demon beast would likely cause trouble again tonight.

"Okay!" Xia Lalan, hearing Lin Feng’s arrangement and also finding it sensible, simply responded and then led the children to widen the river channel.

The so-called river channel of Hehai Village was just a small ditch. There was a mountain spring here which flowed all year round naturally, forming a small channel about two meters wide. Normally, it was uneventful, but the recent torrential rain had destroyed the mountains on both sides of the channel, and the small gully had disappeared, which was why the village had flooded so badly.

With the strength of Xia Lalan and the children, opening up the river channel was naturally very easy, and it didn’t take long for them to make the channel smooth. Immediately, the accumulated water in the valley poured out towards the exit, and as they watched, the water level in the village kept decreasing. By the time the sun set, the water in the village had basically all receded.

The villagers of Hehai Village saw the water retreat and were overjoyed. They returned to their homes to clean up, and soon smoke from cooking fires rose up, and the small mountain village once again returned to its former tranquility.

At this time, Lin Feng, Xia Lalan, and the children were resting near a pool not far from the village. Watching Hehai Village return to its former state, smiles bloomed on the faces of Xia Lalan and the children. They had not expected to encounter such an event and were very happy to have been able to help the villagers.

While Lin Feng and the others were resting, two shadows suddenly materialized in front of them. It was the Thunder Devouring Sky-Swallowing Flood Dragon and the Dark Flame Sky-Burning Tiger that Lin Feng had tasked with catching wild boars. After dropping two wild boars on the ground, they instantly shrank their bodies and ran over to where the children were.

"Let’s roast these two wild boars for dinner, we have work to do tonight." Seeing the wild boars had been brought back, Lin Feng gestured for the children to roast and eat them, as they had been busy all day and needed to replenish their strength.

As soon as the children heard Lin Feng’s words, they all got excited. They were really good at roasting meat, and their skills had improved over time. Now that they were hungry, the arrival of the wild boars was perfect. They eagerly started to butcher the wild boars, while other children fetched many dry branches from afar, lighting a fire to begin roasting the meat.

The two Demon Kings watched from the side, initially feeling nothing special, but as the enticing aroma of the roasted meat began to waft through the air, their noses twitched incessantly, and their eyes widened, staring greedily at the roast meat in the children’s hands. They thought to themselves, "Is this what roast meat is? Why does it smell so delicious!"

Yet they were too embarrassed to ask the children for some; it would be disgraceful, given their several hundred years of existence, to beg children for food. So, feeling helpless, they could only watch the kids roast the meat while they drooled with envy.

It was later that Xia Jianping noticed the greedy looks of the two Great Demons, covered his mouth to chuckle, then took two pieces of roasted meat and walked over to the Great Demons, handing it to them.

"Have a bite; it tastes pretty good," Xia Jianping said with a smile to the Great Demons. After interacting with them for a few days, he didn’t find them as dreadful as the legends described and had accepted them as one of their own. Since the demons were too shy to ask, he decided to bring the meat to them.

"This... maybe... maybe I shouldn’t..." The Dark Flame Sky-Burning Tiger heard Xia Jianping’s offering and, despite wanting to eat and its nose twitching non-stop, it still couldn’t swallow its pride to accept, even if its eyes fixed on the meat in Xia Jianping’s hands betrayed its reluctance.

"We... we’re not eating." The Thunder Devouring Sky-Swallowing Flood Dragon actually wanted to eat, but after hearing the Dark Flame Sky-Burning Tiger’s remark, it felt awkward to say anything else, so it also reluctantly declined. It was internally furious at the Dark Flame Sky-Burning Tiger; they were clearly meat eaters, and if it wanted to eat, it should just eat. But with the Dark Flame Sky-Burning Tiger having said that, it was hard for the Flood Dragon to speak up.

Xia Jianping was taken aback that the two Great Demons would refuse, pausing momentarily, wondering why they would decline meat especially when they were obviously salivating. He didn’t understand the demons’ psychology, but Lin Feng did. Seeing them like this, Lin Feng chuckled and said to the Great Demons, "We’re all family here, there’s no need to be so distant. If you want to eat, then eat."

The Great Demons, already drooling with anticipation, brightened up at Lin Feng’s words, and before Xia Jianping could react, the roasted meat in his hands had already made its way into the mouths of the Great Demons. Following that, sounds of the Great Demons eating and talking at the same time could be heard.

"Delicious, truly delicious!"

"Old Black, isn’t that a silly question? What the heck were you used to barbecuing with that Dark Flame of yours!"

"Isn’t that obvious? I used Dark Flame, not an open fire!"

"Why does it smell so amazing? Never thought barbecue could be this fragrant!"

...

The two Demon Kings savored the barbecue as they ate, sincerely finding it tasty. Compared to the children’s barbecue, the barbecue they’d previously prepared themselves was simply too awful to eat.

Seeing the two Demon Kings enjoying the meal, the other kids eagerly brought over more of the cooked meat. The Demon Kings were overjoyed, gobbling piece after piece and thanking the children in between bites. But how much meat could two wild boars possibly have? Surely not enough for two Demon Kings. Inadvertently, the two of them ended up eating all the barbecue, turning their old faces as red as cloth.

Without a word from anyone else, the Demon Kings vanished in an instant and, in less than two minutes, they returned with four wild boars, dropping them before the children with pleading eyes.

The kids all laughed at the scene, promptly starting to butcher the wild boars and barbecue the meat, chatting with the Demon Kings as they cooked.

"What did you guys use to eat?"

"We hardly ate anything, and when we did, it was mostly Demon Beasts with medicinal properties."

"You never had barbecue before?"

"Old Black and I saw other cultivators do it, and once on a whim, Old Black used Dark Flame and charred the meat to a crisp. We haven’t touched it since."

"Weren’t you guys bored then?"

"Not really, we got used to it. Besides, we mostly spent our time sleeping."

"Sleeping?"

"Yeah, the way we Demon Beasts cultivate is different from Humans. For us, sleeping is also a form of cultivation."

"It’s better to be a Demon Beast! Even sleeping counts as cultivation!"

"You can’t really say that. Humans cultivate much faster. You should know that for us Demon Beasts with good talent, it takes over a hundred years to reach the Transcendent Realm. Only those with different bloodlines like me and Old Black can become Demon Kings in a few hundred years. For other Demon Beasts, reaching the Transcendent Realm in their lifetime is already quite an achievement."

...

Once the conversation started, the two Demon Kings had a wonderful time chatting with the kids. Whatever the children asked, the Demon Kings would answer, and the kids also learned a lot about Demon Beasts. Time flew by this way.

Seeing how well the two Demon Kings and the children got along, Xia Lalan smiled. She sat next to Lin Feng, smiling as she asked, "How did you tame the two Demon Kings? You’re always with us, and I haven’t seen you interact with them. Was it during the fight they had last time?"

Hearing Xia Lalan’s question, Lin Feng also smiled faintly and casually replied: "It was then. As for taming them, that was even easier. Demon Beasts respect the strong, so beating them into submission did the job."