Chapter 119: The Demon-Protecting Gu

The scholar monster burst into the kitchen.

At this moment, he was swelling with pride. He had already absorbed the spiritual energy of so many little monsters...

If he just exerted his power...

Everything would end. The shackles binding the monsters in this world would be broken...

He enjoyed the feeling of being the savior...

Though most monsters wouldn’t understand his radical actions...

Truth always lies in the hands of a few monsters...

A few monsters with power.

However...

He swung his fan several times toward the stove in the kitchen...

But it didn’t explode as he had imagined...

It didn’t instantly shatter, didn’t turn to ash under his attack...

Instead, each time he used his power on the stove, the flames inside only blazed fiercer...

He must have underestimated the stove and hadn’t used his full strength...

So, the scholar monster Kong Jia gathered all his strength, wielded his paper fan, and unleashed a powerful burst of spiritual energy like a missile towards the stove...

The entire kitchen whirled and shook violently for a moment...

“Did you see that? Kong Jia is trying to destroy the stove—it’s terrifying...”

“Boss, I saw it...”

“Then you better run, escape quickly! I’ll hold him off...”

“...”

The monster who had just fainted and was helped up by White Lotus was brought back into the kitchen and miraculously regained consciousness, witnessing the whole desperate attempt by the scholar monster to destroy the stove...

He wept tears of gratitude to the boss and dashed out the door, fleeing for his life.

As he ran, he shouted loudly, “Kong Jia has gone mad! Kong Jia is rebelling...”

Kong Jia: ...

Kong Jia: ........

“Boss, you forgot...”

“Hm? What?”

“We’re live streaming now. This is pointless...”

“I’m just worried about accidents.”

Also following into the kitchen was Lin Dandan, who pushed up his glasses and awkwardly reminded the chuunibyou boss.

White Lotus saw the little monster escape the kitchen, then slowly extended a finger...

She then drew a circle in the air above the kitchen...

“What are you doing? Casting a curse on me?”

Kong Jia looked at White Lotus’s strange gesture with confusion...

“Don’t mind me, mind your own business...”

White Lotus said apologetically to the scholar monster.

Then she continued waving her finger.

Kong Jia felt like he was being toyed with...

Here he was, working himself to death robbing...

And she wasn’t afraid, even started a finger dance?

“All right, all right, the kitchen is now shielded—no signal. They outside can’t see what’s happening in here, and no one can come in to disturb us...”

“You can do your dirty work to your heart’s content.”

“Failure isn’t scary; keep trying, you can do it...”

White Lotus smiled gently, comforting the scholar monster trying to destroy the stove like an older sister soothing a little brother who fell down...

“Are you so desperate you’ve lost your mind?”

Kong Jia laughed. The pure and beautiful woman before him must be out of her mind—encouraging him to destroy her things?

“Speaking of fire...”

White Lotus stretched lazily, took out a long-handled pipe from a pouch at her waist, placed some tobacco in it, and slowly lit it at the stove’s fire hole...

She took a deep drag, found a stool, crossed her legs, blew smoke rings, and then looked at Kong Jia, making a gesture inviting him to begin.

“Go on, show your act...”

“Start smashing everything...”

“Come on, cutie...”

Kong Jia was stunned to see the pure and clean boss smoking...

It was as if she had suddenly become a different person.

“I’ll deal with you after I destroy the stove.”

Though surprised, Kong Jia didn’t forget his mission.

He gathered all his strength for a final assault...

Yet...

It seemed...

It was useless...

Earlier, the kitchen trembled violently under his attack...

Now, it felt like a thick quilt wrapped around him; his attacks caused no harm, let alone to the stove.

Kong Jia was baffled and reached out a hand, unable to believe it.

“What’s wrong? Surprised that after absorbing so much spiritual energy, you still can’t break a stove?”

White Lotus spoke like a caring older sister, voicing Kong Jia’s inner confusion.

“Dandan, show him...”

White Lotus took another deep drag, closed her eyes, savoring the clouds of smoke...

The kitchen was now sealed in a barrier, letting her act freely.

Lin Dandan cautiously took out a white bug from his bosom, its body covered with strange runes, wriggling incessantly in his hand...

Somewhat repulsive.

“What is that?”

Kong Jia’s eyes widened as he looked at the little bug.

“This is a Guardian Demon Gu. Once bitten, it prevents loss of spiritual power...”

“So, you actually never absorbed the little monsters’ spiritual power in the tavern. You fell into the boss’s trap...”

Lin Dandan adjusted his glasses and earnestly explained to Kong Jia.

“You...”

Kong Jia finally stopped attacking the stove and burst into laughter, pointing at White Lotus leaning in her chair and laughing without restraint.

He realized he had been outplayed by the pure and enchanting boss.

“So, from the start of the little chicken’s betrayal, after you came back, you had planned all this?”

“Why didn’t you just strike me directly? Why go through all this trouble?”

“Setting up the trial deliberately, live streaming to trap me?”

“And the divine stove—why?”

Seeing the bug, Kong Jia finally understood: this seemingly pure and innocent boss was like a dark abyss...

Unfathomable.

“Wasn’t it to let you have your little show and bring honor to your clan?”

“In the flock of sheep, we always hear how terrifying and ruthless wolves are, but only when the sheep really encounter the wolf and die do they wake up.”

“Do you think I went through all this trouble just for you to act?”

“I’m showing the flock how terrifying the wolf really is.”

White Lotus exhaled smoke; her pure face blurred in the drifting smoke, somewhat ethereal, somewhat unreal.

She didn’t reveal the secret of the divine cauldron to Kong Jia, as it was a top secret only the boss knew. As for the little monster who helped her light the fire...

Hehe, he would never get out.

“True monsters are wolves, and the reckless ones who came to this world are sheep?”

Kong Jia chuckled, feeling this woman had played him in a grand farce.

“No, the true monsters are the sheep.”

White Lotus smiled, correcting Kong Jia.

“...”

Kong Jia finally realized just how terrifying this woman was...

Her ambition was vast, and to achieve her goals, she was willing to use the lives of the little monsters in the tavern as bait.

“I have one last question for you.”