A carefree soldier king in the city

Chapter 261 Demon Village

"Oh, Grandpa Locust Tree, his name is... his name is... little brother, what's your name again?"

Chao Bufan smiled wryly, "Chao Bufan."

"Yes, yes, his name is Chao Bufan, he's a person."

"People? Who?"

"He said he's a man. Grandpa Locust Tree, my grandpa wants to see the little boy. I'll come chat with you another day!"

"Hehe, Yao Yao, go ahead and do what you need to do. Grandpa Locust Tree is waiting for you!"

"Okay, I'm off then. Goodbye, Grandpa Locust Tree!"

Goodbye, Yao Yao!

It's clear that Yao Yao has a lot of connections here.

This was the first time Chao Bufan had ever seen such an absurd world, and he was both amused and exasperated.

Back home, Yao Yao exclaimed, "Grandpa, my little brother is here!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

A burst of laughter suddenly rang out from outside, not inside. The laughter was sharp and piercing, like an awl, threatening to pierce one's eardrum at any moment.

His manhood is like a scythe, capable of reaping anyone's life at any moment.

Chao Bufan had never seen anyone like this before. Thin, short, hunchbacked, pigeon-chested, with a distorted face and atrophied limbs, a stalk of straw on his head—grown rather than artificially decorated. His entire being was deformed, lacking any semblance of wholeness. Yet, this very person exuded an incredibly dangerous aggression, carrying an indescribable air of authority, as if he forever held the lives and fates of others in his hands.

This person is, of course, Yao Yao's grandfather. Or rather, this person is not human at all—but a ginseng spirit, a ginseng spirit that is over ten thousand years old.

Due to his long-term practice of alchemy, this person had a strong herbal smell emanating from his entire body.

He is asking.

"Your name is Chao Bufan?"

"Yes, my name is Chao Bufan." Chao Bufan answered respectfully without putting on any airs.

"I heard from Yao Yao that you were found unconscious by the lake at the foot of the mountain, and she carried you up the mountain after she saw you."

"I think so."

The old man glanced at Yao Yao and said, "Yao Yao, go out for a moment. I have something to say to my guest."

"Oh."

When only the old man and Chao Bufan remained in the living room, the old man's expression turned serious, adopting a calm, authoritative, and confident demeanor. If you looked closely, you could also detect an indescribable elegance about his face.

He asked Chao Bufan, "I think you must be very curious about me!"

Chao Bufan made no attempt to hide this, immediately replying, "Yes."

“My name is Ginseng King, I am the village chief here, and my identity is a ten-thousand-year-old ginseng.”

What Chao Bufan was most interested in was, of course, everyone in the village. To be precise, they were all fairies. Unexpectedly, the village chief revealed his identity very quickly.

"I know, I've already figured it out."

"Do you have a lot of questions? Tell me them all! I'll tell you everything."

Chao Bufan was stunned. He had many questions and wanted to ask them, but he didn't know how to ask them.

"Hehe, if you don't ask, then I'll tell you everything!"

King Shen paused for a moment, then continued, "Our village is called Demon Village. The people in the village are either demons or monsters."

Chao Bufan nodded. This was beyond doubt; he had seen it with his own eyes. The people inside, men and women, young and old, were all demons.

"Aren't you surprised?"

Chao Bufan nodded and smiled, saying, "It is quite surprising."

“Initially, I was the only one here, and I had fled here.”

"Escape?"

"Yes, back when I hadn't yet taken human form, I was discovered by an injured pangolin. It was about to eat me, so I ran away. It chased me for ten days and ten nights."

Chao Bufan couldn't help but ask, "And then what happened?"

"Later, I fled all the way to the foot of this mountain and hid in that lake. It turned out that there was an underground passage in the lake that led here. And since then, I have been living here."

Chao Bufan asked again, "Didn't that pangolin chase you anymore?"

The old man shook his head and replied, "No, because pangolins are naturally afraid of water, so he dared not chase after it anymore. A few days later, I went down the mountain along this path, only to find that the pangolin was already dead."

Chao Bufan nodded and then asked, "Senior Ginseng King, what about the other people in the village?"

The king said, "Most of them fled here; only a few have lived here all along."

Chao Bufan truly couldn't understand it. Just like the locust tree spirit he'd encountered before, in his two lifetimes, he had never encountered anything like it. A tree, no matter how ancient or long-lived, couldn't possibly become a spirit. Locust tree spirits, camphor tree spirits, willow tree spirits—they were everywhere. As for fox spirits, snake spirits, rabbit demons, and wild boar spirits, those were even more out of the question. This was a completely different world. If he had to give this world a name, it could only be—the Demon Realm.

"Senior King Ginseng, I have a question: why can all the plants and animals here become spirits?"

King Shen smiled and said, "Because this involves a secret."

"Secret? What secret?"

"This is the entrance to the demon realm."

"The entrance to the demon realm?"

"Indeed, this is the entrance to the demon realm. However, the demon realm no longer exists."

"The demon realm no longer exists?"

"Yes, when I came in, the demon realm no longer existed. It was filled with demonic energy, a complete mess, and there were no living beings left."

Chao Bufan frowned slightly and asked, "Senior, does the demon realm really exist?"

"Whether it really exists or not, why don't you go in and see for yourself, young man?"

Chao Bufan frowned, pondered for a moment, and said, "Senior, this junior does not know where the entrance to the demon realm is. I hope you can tell me."

King Shen nodded, then stood up and said, "Young man, this way please!"

The two arrived in front of the locust tree spirit that Chao Bufan had encountered before. The locust tree spirit spoke, "King Ginseng, what are you doing here...?"

King Shen laughed and said, "Huai Anzi, open the door! I want to take this young man inside."

The locust tree spirit asked in surprise, "King Ginseng, are you going to enter the demon realm?"

King Shen nodded and said, "Yes."

"But what about the overflowing demonic energy? The villagers will suffer again."

"It's alright, I have my own way of controlling it."

The locust tree spirit hesitated for a moment, then said, "Alright then!"

After he finished speaking, the huge locust tree suddenly transformed into a giant green tree-man with a human body, limbs that were tree trunks, and a head that resembled an upside-down tree root.

Chao Bufan was genuinely startled upon seeing this. Such a large green tree-man—he would never have believed it if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes. He finally understood why the people here were either demons or spirits; they had all been infected by demonic energy.