20. aren't we compatible?

"I don't want to admit that you're becoming no other than those corrupted demons, Wang Yi..."

"One day you will go crazy and lose control just like them."

While Xiao Xiao thought about resting her eyes, she smells  a wicked evil presence near, almost like wanting to attack them.

Holy crap, comepletely forgot we are their meal!!!

For the time being Xiao Xiao kept herself still, pretending to be knocked out with her fake husband. If she makes noise now, it will be too soon. Need to catch them red handed in the most unexpected time-, reminded she, while preparing her divine sword inside.

"Hey, hey, look at this!"

"I'll go with this female first, got it?! She looks so delicious, damn those bunnies..."

Once the demon reached out his claws to supposedly maybe slice her neck, Xiao Xiao took that as a cue to defend.

Recognizing him as one of the predatory bird species, the woman, catching him off guard, aimed her ultimate punch at his chin, making his head fly back.

!!!!

"-Arghh!!"

"Huh-?!??? How is she able to move!? Hey! Didn't she swallow the drugs!?? You should have-"

Watching the bird fall on the floor with blood, almost unable to stand back up, another corrupted demon comments.

After jumping off the bed, Xiao Xiao wipes her knuckles covered in bird's blood. She pulls out from her hair her divine shape shiftable headcrown,  turning it into a weapon sword.

Looking up, she gives a savage look at the demons, looking intimidating.

Even more so that her disguise came off, scars, that were all over face, returning as well as her jet black hair.

"You...T-that rabbit...!!! How??? Who let the grandmaster jade rabbit  Xiao Xiao in here!??  Are you all seeking for death!!!????"

Screams angrily the officant at his staff, who were frozen on spot.

"What are you all waiting for!!?? Did you forget who she is!?? She's our enemy for heaven's sake!! Move! Go, go eat her alive as your big meal!!"

Seeing how demons were running up to her, Xiao Xiao looks behind her back at the sleeping teenager, clicking her teeth.

"You just have to be asleep right now, little brat!! Such a burden!"

She then turns to the corrupted, looking calm.

Before they could attack the rabbit, she managed to jump off to another side, beginning to raise her divine weapon at anyone that comes near her.

"The real wicked devil here is you!!"

Bearing grudge, the corrupted recalls,

"We will never forgive you for how many of us you've slayed, wicked cultivators!"

"Yeah, well..."

Paying no mind, Xiao Xiao released sun energy from her sword Guan, burning few of the weak predators to ashes.

Noticing from the corner of her eyes that one tired to come at her knocked out disciple, Xiao Xiao panics for a second.

Before Xiao Xiao  could jump off to stop them, she accidentally steps on her long skirt, forcing her to stumble.

Expecting to meet the ground, the rabbit feels a man's physical body on her back, then there comes a voice,

"

Oops,"

Realizing that she fell on top of someone, Xiao Xiao hisses like a cat in disgust from seeing the blushing look on the corrupted demon's face.

"

What a disgraceful sight!"

She didn't hesitate to point her sword at the demon, who didn't even have time to retort, getting himself killed quiet easily by the lady.

While she was at it, the demons started surrounding the merman.

"Are you seeing this? This kid, isn't he one of us??"

"How the-!? Why is our people with a ruthless cultivator like that lady!!!"

Just when one angered demon tried to raise his arm at the teen, the other stops him.

"Hey, wait-"

"Huh!?"

"He reminds me of someone... don't you see it? Moreover he's a merman! Do you know how skilled they are!? They regenerate!"

"I suppose... Look, he looks drained out."

"Since he's one of us why don't we feed him more of the drugs? Make use out of him and kill that female cultivator and we'll have a big feast!"

They began sipping serum into his mouth.

Xiao Xiao turns back to look at her now distressed disciple surrounded by wicked demons.

She was late!

Dammit, Wang Yi!!! When i got distracted those demons must have done something to him!

With all her might she throws her two sided Guan divine sword at the intruder like it was a boomerang. When it lands on his chest, it gets him burned down before returning to its owner.

"Wang Yi!!"

She calls, while running.

"Arghhh....!!!"

"Aren't we one team!?? How can she marry a wicked predator!!!???"

Angrily meeting the gaze of the dying one, she roars,

"WHAT DID YOU FEED HIM!!???WHAT WAS IN THE DRUGS!!!???"

Not giving time for them to respond, she began ruthlessly slicing them with her Guan sword, standing beside the teen who was suffering side effects.

  Now keeping him completely under check, protecting him.

In the room filled of darkness only one corrupted demon left.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DISCIPLE??!!!!!!"

Xiao Xiao didn't hesitate to choke him, with her claws digging in to his skin as her eyes turned fierce red.  There was no sign of him wanting to speak.

"Huk-...y-you, l-let go-"

The legs of the stubborn, corrupted demon of tiger species, began to kick here and there, claws trying to somehow, anyhow make himself escape through her death grip.

"SPEAK!!!"

Noticing him tapping on her hands in defeat, the respected teacher shortens her bloody claws and lets go of him to meet the ground.

"Cough, cough-"

"Huk-, huff...huff..."

The tiger demon presses on his injured neck to stop the blood from flowing, before laughing.

"It-it makes me...s-sick in the gut.

S-seeing how, how much you care f-for that little p..predator of y-yours, when you've killed all of us...!!"

He barely yells as he looks up at her,

"You've stepped too low this time...what a shame!! The predator you care about will be the one to eat you-"

"WHAT DID YOU-  !?? WHAT DID YOU PUT INSIDE THE DRUGS!!!!??!"

Xiao Xiao picks him up again in fury,

"Cough...he,- his inner beast will come out so you better run or else-"

"Or else what?"

Came a sudden boyish voice, gaining the rabbit's and the held by her one's attention.

The demon despite being at the brick of death, couldn't help smirking, thinking that he will be saved by the teen.

But to his surprise, Wang Yi brought out his daggers, while moistining his lips with his long tongue.

"Could it be...or else I'll eat you up?"

"Wang Yi !! What are you-, ??"

Noticing the unusual wicked predatory look on the teen's face, Xiao Xiao almost got angry.

"You know, the first person I've ever tried eating was a predator...not a prey. I guess I prefer it the obscure way, don't ya think?"

He stepped closer to the tiger, who's smile faded, realizing that he wasn't gonna be saved but eaten.

"The likes of you get to eat others...whether alive or dead."

"W-we...we didn't!!! It's not us, it's not-!!"

Wang Yi interrupts, with his wicked grin on full of spiky tooth,

"Haven't you wondered about meeting the same fate and know how it felt like for those you've eaten, huh? You know, i'd like to do that."

The tiger felt his insides twist from gazing at the now towering teen. Despite him being physically smaller, the merman was overpoweringly terrifying.

"I s-swear, it's not our choice! We-"

Not letting the corrupted to speak any further, Wang Yi easily pierces his talons through his insides, living him drop dead with blood splashing all over.

Witnessing the scene, the rabbit teacher gulped,

"So far Wang Yi has never killed, nor has he ever been in a hunting mission before. He...It seems like I don't now him anymore. And that tiger seemed like he was about to say something!"

Wang Yi licked off the place he could reach, where blood stains of the predator were left on his face. He then studies himself, looking at his pointy talons,

"I feel like more of my species."

Xiao Xiao, who went back to her teacher mode, was about to scold for killing off the tiger without letting him speak, starts,

"Wang Yi, you-"

Then there comes a loud sound of multiple footsteps, which silences her, followed by a door being kicked open,

"THERE, EVERYONE!!! GO GET THAT DEVIL RABBIT!!! FIGHT TO DEATH FOR YOUR HONOR!!"

The younger, now alert, steps in front of the older woman in a way to protect, swinging his daggers with his two hands.

"Sorry, teacher, seems like we gotta save the talk for later!"

to which in response, she rolls her eyes in annoyance.

"I'm the teacher here-!!"

"Hey, where'd this predator demon come from?? What happened here-"

the demons gasped.

Judging by the blood filled on the boy's teeth then the corrupted who was dead on the floor, it wasn't hard to believe what this merman had just comitted.

"You!! Outrageous!!! How can you eat one of your own kind!??"

"Wanna be the next? Come. "

The merman smirks, licking his spiky tooth.

"You. Come at me..."

When the boy saw men were running up to him, one by one he starts stabbing them on the heart with his daggers in swift motion, body flexible.

"Gah-- Arrghh!!!"

Not letting the younger work on his own, the impressed Xiao Xiao decided to join hands, causing the disciple to smile.

"You look so cool, teacher Xiao. We should do this more often-"

"Shut up!!"

But instead of stabbing, like her disciple, the teacher uses sun energy through her palms and sword to burn them all down to ashes, with Wang Yi commenting here and there things he feels of the corrupted predators.

"This one's weakness is here!"

"Teacher, here!"

"This- right here!"

While she was about to kill that one off, she again steps on her dress accidentally due to her erratic move, resulting in her almost tripping on the teen, who was in front of her. If she couldn't hold her balance, she would have crashed her disciple into a pulp.

Unable to handle anymore from attacking with this complicated attire, Xiao Xiao snaps angrily,

"Ugh! This stupid skirt!"

Before she rips, agressively, off the long garment, making the crimpson wedding dress now shorter with her knees exposed to the air.

Distracted from the older woman's sudden bare view, Wang Yi got astonished, shouting with anger mixed embarrassment,

"AAAHH!! WHY'D YOU RIP THEM!??? WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING!!!??"

"Who's planning!?? Stop acting like you've never seen a female before!!! Or are you seriously??"

The forgotten demons took this as a cue to make a move while they were distracted in their argument.

"B-but why would you-, Ah!! Teacher! Behind you!!"

Xiao Xiao turns behind, but before she could dodge the blade of the corrupted demon, Wang Yi unexpectedly appeared right in front of her.