The Lihu Tiger Clan’s patriarch completely lost it.

Put yourself in his shoes: whose child dies, and then their corpse even gets eaten in front of them, and they wouldn’t be furious?

Even if that sort of thing is relatively common in the Demon Realm.

But this old father had come here to demand an explanation for his child’s death.

He hadn’t even gotten that explanation yet, and now he couldn’t even keep hold of his child’s corpse.

Most outrageous of all, she’d actually eaten his kid right in front of him and used it to break through.

An enraged tiger’s roar shook the air.

Eyes bloodshot and killing intent surging, the Lihu Tiger Clan’s patriarch lunged straight at Qu Ruyan.

Kun Hao stepped forward first, blocking the Lihu Tiger Clan’s patriarch.

“Huxuan, this is my territory. To strike at my honored guest here—aren’t you taking me a bit too lightly?”

The Lihu Tiger Clan’s patriarch, Huxuan, had his whiskers trembling with rage as he roared, “I’m taking you lightly?”

“I brought my son here, and for the sake of us both being guardian clans of the Four Divine Beasts, I patiently waited in your clan’s main hall, just to get an explanation for my dead son. That’s not giving you enough face?”

Huxuan jabbed a finger at Qu Ruyan, who was still gnawing on meat. “Look at her. Does anything about that look like she’s giving me even the slightest bit of face?”

“How am I supposed to hold myself back and not make a move?”

“If it were your son, could you endure it?”

Kun Hao instinctively glanced at Kun Peng, who was watching the spectacle from the side. Even if her own silly son really wasn’t the brightest, putting herself in Huxuan’s place, she wouldn’t be able to take it either.

This really couldn’t be blamed on the Lihu Tiger Clan’s patriarch. The main problem was that her little lord’s junior sister was just too outrageous. Seeing things getting this out of hand, Lin Mo really did need to step in.

Seeing that Qu Ruyan’s new realm had more or less stabilized, Lin Mo hurriedly dragged her away from that pile of tiger meat.

“Senior Brother, Senior Brother, I’m still not done eating.”

Qu Ruyan’s mouth was slick with grease as Lin Mo hauled her back. Her eyes were full of reluctance as she stared at the still-uneaten tiger meat, her hands and feet flailing like a child’s as she struggled.

Black lines all but appeared on Lin Mo’s forehead. “That’s enough.”

If he let Qu Ruyan keep eating like this, there might not even be bones left of Huxuan’s son.

He glanced at the scene on the ground.

Fortunately, Qu Ruyan had eaten with some semblance of order.

She’d only eaten the tiger’s legs and chest.

Seeing Lin Mo restrain Qu Ruyan, Huxuan managed to press down his rage a little.

The next moment, he saw Lin Mo wave his hand and separate flesh from bone on his son’s corpse.

Lin Mo tossed the stripped meat back to Qu Ruyan.

He also took out the hand bones Qu Ruyan had left over from two days ago and fitted them together with the remaining bones, then said to Huxuan, “Patriarch Huxuan, my apologies. I’ll return your foolish son’s corpse to you intact.”

The Yao present were all thunderstruck by Lin Mo’s operation.

How in the hell was this “returning it intact”?

Qu Ruyan, however, was very grateful that her senior brother had given the remaining meat back to her.

Lin Mo smiled lightly and explained, “This world is survival of the fittest by nature. Sooner or later, your foolish son’s flesh would have rotted away into bare white bones anyway.”

“Besides, what lies beneath the skin and flesh is what truly matters.”

“In ancient times there was a Buddha who flayed his own flesh to feed an eagle. Today, your good son is roasting his flesh to feed my junior sister. How is that not a beautiful thing in its own right?”

Huxuan’s head went a bit fuzzy; for a moment, he actually felt that what Lin Mo said made a lot of sense. But he still wanted to ask, “Who’s this Buddha?”

Lin Mo felt a bit awkward. He’d forgotten there was no such thing as Buddhism in this world.

“Anyway, he was an extremely virtuous being.”

“By comparing your child to him, I’m actually saying your child was extremely virtuous too.”

Huxuan nodded. “So that’s how it is…”

Lin Mo had completely talked him in circles.

The Yao clan and the human clan really did have somewhat different worldviews.

After Lin Mo put it that way, Huxuan temporarily set aside the matter of Qu Ruyan eating his son’s meat. However, his expression quickly darkened again.

“You say you didn’t do anything to my child, but then how do you explain having my child’s hand bones?”

Lin Mo said, “That really is your child’s fault.”

“He lusted after my junior sister’s beauty, so I gave him a small lesson.”

“I only crippled his hands,” Qu Ruyan added between mouthfuls of meat.

“Senior Brother, he also lusted after your beauty, that’s the main thing.”

Lin Mo was speechless. Sometimes he really didn’t know if Qu Ruyan was truly stupid or just pretending.

She couldn’t sense the Lihu Tiger Clan’s young clan leader harboring improper thoughts toward her.

But she could sense him harboring improper thoughts toward Lin Mo?

Absolutely ridiculous.

“You’re talking nonsense.”

The maid Xiao Yu at Huxuan’s side said, “The young master’s engagement with your junior sister was arranged long ago, and the betrothal gifts were all delivered. It was clearly you, vicious woman, who struck too hard.”

She continued, “And I see you and your junior sister being all lovey-dovey. Maybe that’s why you killed the young master.”

All the Yao present turned their gazes to Lin Mo.

Lin Mo was truly at a loss. What kind of crap was this?

Calling him a lily?

Besides, he and his junior sister were still perfectly innocent.

Qu Ruyan grew curious again. “Senior Brother, what do those things she said mean?”

Kun Peng explained, “She’s saying you two are the real pair, and that the young master liked you.”

Qu Ruyan nodded. “I know. Senior Brother is so good to me, and I super love him too.”

Hearing this, the Yao present all looked like they’d seen through everything.

“So it really was a crime of passion.”

Lin Mo’s face grew even darker.

With Qu Ruyan, this pig teammate, there was no way he could explain this clearly.

He really didn’t want to stir up so much trouble in the Demon Realm.

He hadn’t even finished dealing with matters in the human world yet; if a huge mess broke out in the Demon Realm too, that would be really bad.

Lin Mo thought for a moment, then looked at Xiao Yu and Xiao Li. “You two really personally saw your young master burned to death by my flames?”

Xiao Yu and Xiao Li both sneered. “Of course. Who else could have killed him but you?”

The other maids who had come along chimed in, “That’s right, we all saw the young master burned to death by your residual flames.”

Then Xiao Li pointed at Qu Ruyan. “And I strongly suspect she’s a spy sent by humans into the Demon Realm.”

“She has a master-servant contract with a human.”

Huxuan said, “Kun Hao, we have both witnesses and evidence. Are you still not going to hand the two of them over?”

Kun Hao still stood protectively in front of Lin Mo, her expression utterly unmoved.

Lin Mo’s identity wasn’t just about revitalizing the Kun Kun Clan, but the entire Demon Realm.

There was no way she would hand Lin Mo over to Huxuan.

Seeing this, Huxuan said coldly, “In that case, I can only invite the Demon Lord here to uphold justice.”

Lin Mo stopped him. “Wait!”

“I can prove my own innocence.”

“As for your child’s cause of death, I can find it for you right here and now.”

Some time ago, he had completely buried the ability of Yellow Millet Dream to extract memories.

Now was the perfect time to use it.

Huxuan had just opened his mouth to speak when—

The sky suddenly filled with dark clouds.

An incomparably powerful demonic aura shrouded the entire Kun Kun Clan.

All the Yao present looked up.

“The Demon Lord has arrived.”