Chapter 22: Before the War

  This is exactly when someone sends a pillow, Lei Hao, who has just obtained a divine battle knife, hasn't had time to explore and find a weakness in the demon king. Suddenly, a newly promoted demon king's grandson comes to his territory to stir up trouble and dares to rob him. Can Uncle tolerate it? Auntie can't tolerate it. Since this grandson came to provoke him, Lei Hao naturally doesn't need to be polite either.

  "The other side has a strong demon king, you can't handle it alone, send your subordinates to explore the 'Bat Demon Cave' and try to get a sense of the 'Purple Bat King's strength. Once I understand, I'll take care of it myself, kill the 'Purple Bat King' and seize the Demon King realm's technique. From then on, we brothers won't have to worry about this technique anymore." Lei Hao said to Lei Da Niu with a relaxed tone, his words showing no doubt that he would definitely be able to defeat the 'Purple Bat King'.

  The mouse-type monsters are born with a natural disadvantage, compared to the tiger demons, lion demons and cow demons. This is actually a very simple truth: monster tribes rely on their physical bodies to dominate, a two-meter-long mouse demon and a several-dozen-meters-long tiger demon that transform into the same height of two meters, but who has stronger physical strength and whose internal magical power can be stronger is obviously something that can be seen at a glance.

  Lei Hao was very confident in his strength and physical intensity, a confidence that had been accumulated over the past hundred years of battle. Now with a new sword technique to unleash his full power and a divine war knife, he felt even more at ease, but Lei Hao, who had never fought against the Demon King before, would obviously be at a disadvantage this time.

  Lei Da Niu led the brothers to leave quickly after receiving the order, and when he left, he was only secretly rejoicing that he had escaped a disaster, and didn't put Lei Hao's entrustment in his heart. In his heart, Lei Hao was the strong one, if he could defeat the "Purple Bat King" once, he could defeat him again, what he needed to do was just go and investigate the situation around the "Bat Demon Cave", so as not to be taken advantage of during the battle.

  Lei Da Niu left, and Bao Er also bid farewell, taking his subordinates back to the Water Cavern. With a great mood, Lei Hao waved goodbye and said that there would be heavy rewards later, letting them leave. The cave was now left with only Lei Hao and Xiao Hu Li. Lei Hao smiled at Xiao Hu Li with a flattering face, but ended up getting two rolled eyes from her.

  "Head, are you really ready to attack the 'Bat Cave'? That 'Purple Bat King' is a demon king-level big demon, can you beat him?" Half a sound, a slightly worried little fox lightly said to Lei Hao.

  "Hey, we'll know after the fight... Don't worry, even the Demon King of the Mortal World wouldn't dare to move against us. What can a little mouse who just broke through to the Demon King level do to us?" Lei Hao raised his hand and rubbed the little fox's head, comforting it with a carefree expression.

  After listening to Le Hao's words, the little fox looked at him with some worry, feeling that something was not right. In her memory, every time Le Hao mentioned the Demon King-level demon, his face would reveal a solemn expression, not a careless one. But she had always admired Le Hao and was used to following his lead, so she didn't know how to advise him.

  The little fox is indeed the one who knows Lei Hao best in this world. Lei Hao has some problems. His sudden surge in power killed the tiger leader who was causing him trouble, and he also dispelled the dark cloud that had been hanging over his head for over a hundred years, the Mixing World Demon King. He's become somewhat arrogant, to put it mildly, or rather, slightly possessed. This has led him to overestimate his own strength and underestimate his opponent's, completely forgetting the terrifying casualties caused by the energy leak during the battle between the Mixing World Demon King and the Green Snake King in the Snake Demon Cave a hundred years ago... Lei Hao himself doesn't understand this, and the little fox who does understand doesn't know how to tell him, so it's destined that this Bat Demon Cave battle won't be as easy as he thinks.

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  "Head, I've investigated clearly. The Purple Bat King's son was indeed the one who, after being injured by you last time, went to the country of Ao to take advantage of a human strongman, but ended up being killed by that son instead. Afterwards, he obtained the Demon King realm technique from the corpse of that human. I heard that when he advanced to the Demon King and crossed the Heavenly Tribulation, he suffered heavy injuries and urgently needed a large amount of high-quality human blood to heal his wounds. That's why the small demons under him recklessly came to our territory."

  "Damn it, how did that Sun Wukong get so lucky? He was injured by me and yet he met someone who taught him the art of cultivating Qi. Is he really a pig's foot? I've lived for so long and have never seen a human cultivator, but this kid's good luck has finally come to an end. The art he obtained is just being kept for us, and when I go, he'll have to hand it over to my brothers obediently." Lei Hao said with a swagger, sitting on Sun Wukong's throne.

  "That's right, even if that grandson of ours has good luck, he's still a dead man." Lei Daniu, who had long been fanatically worshiping Lei Hao, didn't doubt his words at all.

  "Alright, go and get the brothers ready, prepare to take down that son. Also, have our demonic troops practice their battle formations more, this time we'll directly annihilate the Bat Demon Cave." Lei Hao said with a wave of his hand to Lei Da Niu in a relaxed tone, as if what he was about to launch wasn't war but just taking them out for a hunt.

  "I'm going right now." Without another word, Lei Da Niu turned around and left.

  Lei Hao sat alone on the throne after Lei Da Niu left, the empty stone room was quiet except for the occasional 'sizzling' sound from the fire basins in the corners. The calm Lei Hao couldn't stop scratching his cow horns with his hands, now he also felt that something was off, "Why do I always feel like something is wrong? Am I going to get struck by lightning again? That's not it either... Although I'm on the verge of a breakthrough, without a Demon King-level cultivation method, I don't even know what a Demon King is." Lei Hao's muttering echoed in the stone room.

  "Yao Wang, Yao Wang, Yao Wang can ride the clouds and fog. If at that time the purple bat king sees the situation is not in his favor and flies into the air, I'll be powerless against him." Lei Hao secretly calculated the strength of the Yao Wang. "The speed of the Mixed World Demon King is still something I couldn't keep up with until now, and although the purple bat king's speed is slower, it's also at the level of a Yao Wang, so I probably won't be able to catch up either."

  As soon as he thought of this, Lei Hao felt a bit annoyed. He wasn't afraid to fight against the Violet Bat King, but what he feared was that the Violet Bat King wouldn't fight him back. If the Violet Bat King decided to flee or use guerrilla tactics, Lei Hao really had no way to deal with it. Speed had always been a weakness in Lei Hao's abilities, and as a cow demon, he truly didn't have any natural talent for speed. After practicing many times but still making almost no progress, Lei Hao decisively gave up.

  "What to do? Hmm, how did we deal with bombers in the previous war? Patriot missiles? Long-range, this move's attack range is tens of meters, but the speed of the Demon King is too fast, I'm likely to be dodged, and even a strong knife aura would be useless. Let me think...” Lei Hao grasped his thick cow horns, muttering to himself in distress, after a moment, Lei Hao suddenly slapped his thigh, "I've got it! The best way to deal with bombers is to blow them up on the ground, and it's the same for that Purple Bat King brat, can't he fly? I'll just trap him in the Bat Demon Cave, in the narrow cave, I can still...” Lei Hao was convinced by his own idea. "Damn, even though I've become a cow demon, my IQ is still intact!" Lei Hao's face was filled with self-admiration.

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  Yinshi Mountain, Bat Monster Cave.

  In the dim, foul-smelling stone chamber where water dripped everywhere, a chilling "squeak" sound of suction came, and after a moment, a desiccated corpse-like human body flew out from the entrance of the stone chamber and fell onto a small mountain of overlapping human corpses outside.

  A gloomy and indifferent voice came from the next stone chamber.

  Several small monsters with mouse-like features or directly sporting mouse heads cautiously approached the stone chamber door and knelt down. "G-great... great king, this is already the very last one." A small monster whose face was constantly sweating said in a trembling voice.

  "Trash, I gave you all this time and you only caught me a few blood food?" Along with the furious voice came a strong black magic power. The small demon's miserable cry was sucked into the stone room, followed by a chilling "squeak" sound. The few small demons who were already afraid trembled even more violently.

  "Trash is trash, after living for hundreds of years, the blood and energy in his body are still so murky... Ugh, it's really tainted my two fangs." A voice full of disgust came from inside the stone room.

  "Tell this king why? If you can't satisfy me, all of you go down and accompany him!" Along with the sound, a dry corpse flew out from inside the stone room. From its clothes, it was the little demon that had just been sucked in earlier.

  A small, trembling demon mustered up the courage to speak: "Our several great leaders of the Bat Demon Cave were killed by that human last time. Your Majesty has been in seclusion and our strength is too weak to go near the Arrogant Country, so we can only go to Kan Yuan Mountain to capture humans from the Water Cavern. As a result, we were discovered by the Water Cavern's demon army and several hundred of our brothers died before we managed to seize these humans." After finishing speaking, he quickly lowered his head again.

  "It's Water Cave again! It's Lei Hao!" An even more furious voice came from inside the stone room, a wave of invisible sound waves swept past the several small monsters at the door, and the several small monsters that were trembling with fear just now suddenly stiffened, their flesh falling off piece by piece. Within a few seconds, they didn't even let out a scream before turning into a pile of minced meat.

  "The king's injury is so severe, yet you dare to stop the king from healing? Lei Hao, the king and you will not live under the same sky. Once the king's injuries are healed, I will personally suck out all your blood." Another roar filled with resentment and anger echoed within the stone chamber.