Sifumo’s strength is in the Upper Sequence, and although there are many monsters before him, few have even reached Disaster Level, let alone compare to Sifumo.
Moreover, this spider is large in size, and its visual impact is much stronger than this ragtag group.
It’s no wonder Sifumo is so angry. The others were far away and weren’t affected by the heat bomb, but that heat bomb exploded right in front of Sifumo’s face. Although he blocked most of it, some still got onto his body.
The compound eyes on his head rapidly scanned all the monsters, analyzing everyone’s expressions and movements, then quickly identified four or five small monsters about one meter tall based on scent and traces.
These small monsters were quite young and hadn’t fully transformed into humanoid forms, with some having snake scales and others with large hairy faces.
They hid behind the adults persistently, looking flustered and carrying a stench of feces.
"Is it you... I don’t want to hurt the innocent, come out!"
Several threads shot out from Sifumo’s abdomen, attempting to drag out the children hiding behind, but were blocked by several adults working together.
"Stop, monster, this is not a place for your rampage, our meat isn’t tasty."
"Ah, pfft, who wants to eat your meat, these brats threw... Anyway, I just want to teach them a lesson, they throw one at me, and I’ll smear it all over them."
A blonde Fat Auntie said, "You’re such a big spider, why bother with kids, when we get back, we’ll educate them properly."
"If you could educate them, why would they attack me for no reason? Better let me teach them a lesson myself." Sifumo’s massive body moved towards the people, making them visibly tense up.
Sifumo is actually a very calm detective; even when a butcher knife was near his abdomen, he could think calmly to find a breakthrough.
But besides being directionally challenged, he has another problem, which is his dislike for brats.
Since elementary school, Sifumo had an intelligence far exceeding his peers, and since that time, he began to dislike brats.
So this time, being hit with a heat bomb directly ignited his temper, demanding an explanation at all costs.
The villagers babbled criticisms at Sifumo, but he continued to advance step by step.
He would not be morally manipulated by these people; he insisted on settling scores with the children, and if the adults were biased, he would beat them too, but just as he was about to charge into the crowd, he suddenly stopped.
Five elders of various appearances came from the village, and all the villagers made way for them.
One of the elders went to the village edge and erected a sign.
The sign had six large characters ’Wuxian Village Autonomous Region’, and below them was a line of smaller characters, imbued with rich Sword Intent, which everyone could sense was Xun Ying’s handiwork.
With the sign’s erection, a distinct sword mark appeared at the village’s edge, encircling the entire village. This sword mark had no power of its own but represented the will of Xun Ying, the sole Judicator of Capital District!
Moreover, these five new elders were not on the same level as the small monsters; they were the handsome Great Elder Hu, yellow-haired Second Elder Huang, fair-skinned Third Aunt Bai, the cold-eyed tall and thin Fourth Elder Liu, and lastly, the rodent-featured Fifth Elder Hui.
Among them, Great Elder Hu and Second Elder Huang both had Upper Sequence strength; Great Elder Hu was much stronger than Sifumo, while Second Elder Huang’s aura resembled his. The other three were of Middle Sequence strength.
Great Elder Hu stepped forward and said, "This is Wuxian Village. Twelve years ago, our village helped the Hunter Association greatly, so Immortal Xun wrote this sign for us."
"He said as long as we stay in Wuxian Village and don’t commit any crimes, the Hunter Association won’t disturb us and will let us live our own lives."
"You must all be from the Hunter Association, and we have always respected the Association. So, let’s talk things over and not damage the harmony over small matters."
Sifumo glanced at the five elders and then at the sign, and his attitude softened a bit.
The existence of Wuxian Village is not considered a secret within the Capital Hunter Association.
In the former White Horse Mountain Province, there was a custom of worshiping ’Home-keeping Immortal’, which actually referred to the five monster races residing in White Horse Mountain Province.
The five monster races were the Fox Demon Yao Race, Yellow Demon Yao Race, White Demon Yao Race, Snake Demon Yao Race, and Rat Demon Yao Race.
These five Demon Yao races gradually grew in strength due to local people’s worship, and consequently started to expand, becoming large clans.
Some of them rather than protecting and supporting the humans who revered them, even began to wreak havoc.
First, they stole and ate chickens, ducks, and geese, then they began to harm people, and eventually built Yao cities treating humans as livestock kept in pens.
Such behavior naturally drew the attention of the Hunter Association, as these monsters were far too numerous, so Xun Ying personally took action.
He slew all the overtly criminal monsters, but some went underground, and even with Xun Ying’s formidable strength, he couldn’t capture them all within a whole province.
At this point, Great Elder Hu stood up and helped Xun Ying find the monsters’ bases, ultimately solving the ’Home-keeping Immortal’ issue.
Great Elder Hu led the friendly to human factions of the five demon races into ’Five Immortal Ponds’ for seclusion.
This is why Xun Ying crafted a sign, ensuring these individuals would not be disturbed by the Hunter Association.
Because of such a history, Sifumo’s attitude calmed down; otherwise, even if he couldn’t deal with those brats, he would find a way to make them pay.
Great Elder Hu breathed a sigh of relief. Even though they had something akin to an ’immunity token’, they didn’t want any conflict with anyone from the Hunter Association.
After all, this protective place was granted by the Hunter Association, and the Hunter Association could take it back at any time.
So he glanced at the brats, preparing to order them to apologize to Sifumo, but Sifumo held out his hand to Great Elder Hu, indicating not to force them.
While Sifumo’s attitude had softened, he didn’t want to hear a forced apology, wanting the brats to genuinely apologize.
"You probably heard it too, just apologize and this ends."
But children are brats entirely because of bratty parents.
Now those little kids were almost scared out of their wits, if their parents just wanted them to apologize, it would be just one word.
But a fat aunt fiercely protected her child, cursing at Sifumo.