[Lu Wu’s expression is calm, and He does not hide it at all as He says, those Heavenly Demons have all been cut down by the drunkard. Not one remains.]

[However, there are countless Heavenly Demons in this world, impossible to kill and impossible to exterminate. Even if the drunkard has divine arts as great as the heavens, he can only sweep the snow before his own gate and remain trapped in his own residence…]

[Seeing that Lu Wu has already spoken frankly, you also reply openly, so the drunkard sits here withered, waiting for a fated one to come to his door?]

[Lu Wu shakes His head and sighs, the matter is far from that simple…]

[As He speaks, He leads you into a hidden room. With a wave of His hand, the table is filled with fine wine and delicacies.]

[After inviting you to sit, Lu Wu drinks a large bowl of wine before continuing, the drunkard was originally the steward of a landlord’s family, the landlord’s trusted confidant, assisting the landlord in managing farm affairs and fertile fields, guarding vast farmland.]

[One day, a powerful bandit arrived in the village and, without any explanation, began seizing the landlord’s fields.]

[The landlord naturally was unwilling, so he gathered household servants and guards to fight against that bandit.]

[Unexpectedly, the bandit had powerful martial arts. Let alone the household servants and guards, even the landlord, who had a martial background, was no match for the bandit.]

[The landlord could only watch helplessly as his fertile fields were seized mu by mu by the bandit, without any solution.]

[Fortunately, the bandit only sought wealth, not lives. He did not wipe out the landlord, servants, and guards.]

[Perhaps because the servants and guards also saw that the landlord’s family’s situation was hopeless, they all defected to the bandit one after another. The bandit also did not refuse, instead accepting these servants and guards, becoming another great landlord in the village.]

[The landlord knew that continuing like this was not a solution, so he sent out the drunkard steward he trusted most, ordering him to pretend to defect to the bandit while secretly investigating the bandit’s vital weakness.]

[The reason the bandit entered this village was to seek wealth. As for the drunkard steward, who could manage fertile fields and sell the five grains from the fields into wealth, the bandit naturally had no reason to refuse his defection.]

[Just like that, the drunkard steward successfully hid within the bandit’s household, deceived the bandit’s trust, and secretly investigated the bandit’s origins and vital weakness.]

[The drunkard steward had some ability. After hiding for many years, he not only gained the bandit’s deep trust and became the steward guarding the bandit’s treasure vault, but also investigated the bandit’s origins clearly.]

[It was just that this bandit’s background was truly frighteningly great…]

[The bandit was not a martial artist with powerful martial arts, but a qi cultivator with great spells. Wanting to find his vital weakness according to the paths of mortal martial arts was nearly impossible.]

[The reason the bandit did not harm the landlord’s life, but slowly seized the landlord family’s fertile fields, was because the cultivation method the bandit cultivated did not allow killing.]

[More accurately, his cultivation method did not allow doing evil. That was why the bandit stayed in the village for a long time and slowly plotted.]

[After the drunkard steward informed the landlord of this news, the landlord also had no way forward, so he thought of moving out of the village and searching for another piece of farmland…]

[Perhaps it was karmic retribution. The bandit had committed evil under the banner of doing good for many years, and finally, one day while cultivating Qi, he carelessly suffered qi deviation.]

[Seeing that a great opportunity had fallen from the heavens, the landlord no longer thought of leaving his homeland. After all, fertile fields were hard to find, the road outside the village was rugged, and he did not know how far away those fertile fields would be…]

[Taking advantage of the bandit’s qi deviation, the landlord gathered the family resources he had accumulated over many years and once again fought against the bandit.]

[Unfortunately, the landlord did not realize that great terror was hidden within that qi deviation!]

[Perhaps if the landlord had moved away earlier back then, even if he had preferred to die of thirst or starvation on the road searching for fertile fields, it would have been better than continuing to stay in the village.]

[Because the bandit’s inner demon secretly corrupted every villager, turning them into Heavenly Demons.]

[By the time the landlord realized something was very wrong, the situation could no longer be reversed. Let alone the villagers, even the landlord himself had suffered the corruption of the inner demon.]

[That bandit was also not well off. The Heavenly Demons were born from the inner demon of the bandit when he suffered qi deviation. The bandit bore the brunt of the inner demon’s corruption, and it was extremely rare for him to have even half a quarter-hour of clarity in a day.]

[Moreover, the time during which he was clear-headed was still gradually shortening as the inner demon grew increasingly rampant, until in the end, he would completely fall and become the most powerful one among the many Heavenly Demons.]

[Now that matters had reached this point, the bandit and the landlord could only set down their past grievances and join hands to deal with the inner demon together in order to protect themselves.]

[Unfortunately, it was already too late!]

[Now, let us return to the drunkard steward…]

[Every Heavenly Demon in the village was the eyes and ears of that terrifying inner demon. It could use the Heavenly Demons to peer at every villager hiding and taking refuge in the village.]

[The bandit’s treasure vault was a small thousand world independent of the village. The treasure vault was separated from the village. As long as all the Heavenly Demons within the treasure vault were cut down, the drunkard did not need to worry that the walls had ears, nor did he need to worry about being trapped among Heavenly Demons and suffering demonic qi corruption.]

[But this was not a long-term method. Because even if there were no Heavenly Demons beside him, as long as he carelessly drew that inner demon’s attention, he ultimately could not escape the fate of being transformed into a Heavenly Demon.]

[The reason the drunkard can still exist in the world is because the treasure vault is located in a remote place and is not easy for the inner demon to notice, and also because the inner demon’s gaze is focused elsewhere.]

[But if the drunkard dares to leave the treasure vault and go to the village’s great thousand world, he will most likely immediately draw the inner demon’s attention…]

[At first, the drunkard also thought as you did and went to the outside world to search for villagers who were still clear-headed.]

[At that time, the drunkard still had servants and guards he could command. The drunkard kept an eye out, so he sent the servants and guards out to search for people on the same path, to resist the Heavenly Demons together and seek survival in the chaotic world.]

[The servants and guards also found people on the same path as he wished and brought them back to the treasure vault…]

[But the good times did not last long. After those villagers were clear-headed for only a few days, they showed signs of transforming into invisible Heavenly Demons.]

[Not only did the villagers show signs of transforming into Heavenly Demons, even the servants and guards who went out searching for villagers were corrupted by the inner demon one after another.]

[The drunkard could only pick up a weapon and, before these people had completely transformed into Heavenly Demons, kill them all to avoid being discovered by the inner demon.]

[From then on, the drunkard no longer dared leave the treasure vault, because the drunkard knew that he had already drawn the inner demon’s attention.]

[The reason the inner demon had not yet gone to the treasure vault to deal with him was because the inner demon had more important things to do at this time and temporarily had no spare time to bother with him.]

[But as long as he dared to step even half a step out of the treasure vault, the inner demon would not mind conveniently disposing of him.]

[The drunkard was like someone trapped in prison, imprisoned in the treasure vault by the inner demon, not daring to go anywhere…]

[At this point, Lu Wu slaps away the mud seal on a wine jar, lifts the jar, and drinks heavily. Wine flows down His neck and soaks His collar, but He does not notice at all. Only after drinking all the wine in the jar does He put down the empty wine jar and stare at you with burning eyes.]

[With a slight drunkenness, He asks, hey, are you afraid of that inner demon?]

[Do you want to know what important matter that inner demon is handling?]