Chapter 48: The Human Heart Is Hard to Fathom

“Young Hero Li, then hold on tight.” The tiger demon looked deeply at Li Si and said seriously.

“Don’t worry about that. I still have some strength.” Li Si smiled and said this, tied the rope once around the large tree behind him, then gripped the rope and looked at the tiger demon.

The tiger demon’s eyes narrowed slightly. It had originally been thinking that if this person pulled the rope, it would directly drag him down later. It had not expected this person to tie the rope to the tree first before pulling it.

“Then I’m going down.” The tiger demon said this coldly, then slowly descended from the cliff. It was preparing to seize a chance later and drag this bastard down in one pull.

So what if there was a tree? When the time came, it would drag him down all the same.

From Li Si’s angle, he saw in the Eight Trigrams Mirror that this tiger demon was holding the rope in its mouth, then using its claws to climb down the rock wall.

This tiger demon definitely did not dare put all of its weight on this rope. After all, if it did that, Li Si would discover something abnormal.

So it could only choose the more strenuous method of climbing.

After the tiger demon went down, it brought several dozen jin of gold and prepared to come back up. At this time, Li Si walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down, cursing, “Are you an idiot? You took that much. How am I supposed to pull it up?”

When the tiger demon heard Li Si curse it from below, it immediately felt its breath catch, and anger burned in its heart. It cursed inwardly, Even if I don’t need you to pull, I can still carry this gold up.

But it could not expose its true identity. If it exposed itself now, all its previous plans would come to nothing.

So it smiled apologetically and said, “Young Hero Li is right. I’ll put some down right away.”

As it spoke, it put down some of the gold, carrying roughly 10 kg (~22 lb), then let Li Si pull it up.

Only, although it was said that Li Si was pulling it, most of it was actually climbing up with its own claws.

After just one trip, it felt somewhat unwell. After all, it had drunk that poisonous soup yesterday and had not yet recovered, and now it had to do something so physically exhausting.

“Hurry up. Don’t you want your brothers to live?” Seeing it motionless, Li Si immediately started cursing again.

The tiger demon truly became somewhat angry, and even its breathing grew rapid. However, it immediately calmed down and quickly smiled apologetically. “I’ll go down right away.”

As it spoke, it continued going down to pick up gold.

Having constantly merged with ghost servant memories, it was extremely intelligent and knew there was no way to kill Li Si by relying on martial force.

After all, it had seen Li Si kill the original owner clearly.

This person definitely had something that restrained evil beings.

So it would be better to gain this person’s trust, then take advantage of the moment when this person relaxed and push him off the cliff, making him fall to his death.

After all, seeing that this person had now exposed his greedy nature, as long as it used this point afterward, it believed it would be very easy to push this person off the cliff.

So it relied on this conviction and climbed again and again. Each time it prepared to add force and drag Li Si down, Li Si would curse at it, asking whether it had taken too much gold again.

This made it completely unable to find an opportunity to pull Li Si down. By the time it had climbed for the fourteenth time, its body was already somewhat unable to endure it. It could no longer use brute force to pull down that tree.

But Li Si still cursed, “Hurry up. There’s still some gold below. Hurry and bring it up for me, or I won’t save your brothers.”

The tiger demon looked deeply at him and continued downward. Earlier, it had deliberately placed that gold at the edge of the cliff as a trap.

When Li Si went to take it later, it would seize the opportunity to push him down.

So after it went down and took the gold, it gritted its teeth and climbed upward. It knew this was the last time. As long as it succeeded this time, it could push this damned bastard off the cliff, so it worked especially hard.

However, when it climbed to the edge of the cliff, what greeted it was a flash of sword light.

Clang.

When Li Si’s Black Sword struck the tiger demon’s neck, it produced the sound of metal clashing against metal.

The tiger was unharmed.

Roar! Shocked and furious, the tiger demon roared, no longer caring, and exposed its enormous tiger body.

Just as this tiger demon was preparing to exert force and charge up, a deathly green tongue descended from the sky and wrapped directly around the tiger’s head.

Afterward, only an ear-piercing sound of metal being cut rang out. Creak. The deathly green tongue suddenly pulled back, immediately dragging a deep bloody mark across the tiger demon’s neck.

Yet before Xiaoduan could pull his tongue back, the tiger demon completely disregarded whether that tongue was sharp or not. It suddenly turned its head and bit down on the deathly green tongue.

Another piercing creak sounded. Xiaoduan’s tongue was directly bitten off by the tiger demon, and at the same time, Xiaoduan’s tongue also brought away a small piece of the tiger demon’s tongue.

Roar!

The water vat-sized tiger head suddenly roared. Its four limbs exerted force, and the tiger body suddenly charged upward.

However, this was merely the final burst of a spent force. Its strength had already been almost exhausted earlier. With this burst of force, it could at most reach the cliff edge and could not, as usual, easily leap dozens of metres away.

And as this tiger charged up, Li Si directly rushed in front of this enormous creature’s momentum.

Roar. Terror appeared in the tiger demon’s eyes. In midair, it only saw its own claws pressing down toward Li Si, but at this moment, it had no way to shift its momentum.

The tiger demon knew that Li Si had something on him that warded off evil. It immediately panicked and flailed wildly in midair. However, this could not change anything. It could only cause its two enormous claws to strike Li Si’s body with even greater force.

After these two claws struck Li Si, their flesh collapsed and directly burst into pieces. Its body was directly blasted down the cliff by an unknowable force.

Roar! The tiger demon let out a shrieking roar, its enormous body falling down the cliff and landing on that platform.

“Young Hero Li, save us!” At this moment, a cry for help came from the side. Li Si looked over and saw a white-eyed child casually kneading two adults in his hands.

This white-eyed child was precisely Xiaoyu. Earlier, Li Si had been afraid that these two ghost servants would cause some sort of trouble, so he had Xiaoyu go and restrain these two ghost servants.

Now, it seemed Xiaoyu had done rather well.

“Kill them,” Li Si said lightly.

These people had harboured ill intentions toward him from the beginning. Killing them now was fine too, lest they become ghosts and harm people after death.

When Xiaoyu heard Li Si say this, he looked somewhat disappointedly at the two ghost servants in his hands who had been ravaged beyond human shape, as if he were about to lose his toys.

He opened his mouth, grabbed Tu Feng’s head, and was about to stuff it inside himself.

Seeing this situation, Li Si was immediately stunned. Then he laughed and cursed, “I told you to kill them, not to eat them.”

When the two ghost servants, who were screaming in terror, heard Li Si say this, they immediately had no attention to spare for their former grudges. As they looked at Li Si, gratitude appeared in their eyes.

Xiaoyu was somewhat dissatisfied, but he could not disobey Li Si’s order, so he began tearing apart these two ghost servants. From time to time, he also bit them with his mouth. Before long, these two ghost servants had become a pile of shattered limbs and vanished without a trace.

At this moment, Li Si also received information.

“Low-level ghost creature killed, Ghost Servant. Obtained 1 soul point.”

“Low-level ghost creature killed, Ghost Servant. Obtained 1 soul point.”