My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit

"Oh, you mean the one who forged a dagger from the claws of the Shabu Insect Race, coated it with their poison, and finally stabbed your youngest son in the back?" Xue Dili asked.

The old demon nodded.

Xue Dili suddenly understood; so that’s what it was all about. I thought it was the old demon’s mistress, which is why I refrained from acting, lest I ruin their elderly love story before it even starts.

Xue Dili even imagined a whole melodramatic story between the two just a moment ago.

Turns out she was just a daughter-in-law who hadn’t married in yet. Disappointing.

"Lord Demon King, this is your Empire under your tyrannical rule, these are your people burdened with labor. Your second generation’s demise might just be the cycle of fate! Look at them now, they’ve found eternal peace after death!"

"Your Empire, all of it, has become our sustenance, all turned into our bridal gowns! The way you treated our race, now we will return it to you a hundredfold, a thousandfold, a millionfold! Inflicted upon you and your people!"

She laughed, hysterically, speaking such sharp and spiteful words.

The old Demon Emperor’s face instantly turned dark.

"Do you see? Your people have become our dogs! Your Empire is our paradise, everything you’ve done is useless! You’re a waste, a worthless waste who can’t accomplish anything!" she continued to shout.

But it’s the same old words over and over, so much that it’s numbing Xue Dili’s ears—lacking impact, like she’s whining rather than insulting, almost less effective than simply shouting "pervert, pervert."

"Can we go?" Xue Dili asked directly.

The old Demon Emperor didn’t speak, but merely nodded.

"Hah, can’t speak anymore? Lord Demon King? You pathetic waste, tyrant, butcher... and..." But before she could finish, suddenly a beam of light turned into a beheading blade and struck.

She froze for a moment, and the next instant, her entire head was severed. The Holy Light Beheading Blade melted her body upon contact, corroding the brain, leaving only the head with its sickly smile falling to the ground, seemingly still retaining its rosy hue.

"Turns out vampires have bodies like frozen meat? Same category as zombies? I actually thought it was similar to living people." Xue Dili commented on the sensation of the beheading blade.

Zero-frame initiation, instant kill.

So much rambling, ultimately just trying to mess with the old Demon Emperor’s state of mind, but the insults like whining were so ineffective that Xue Dili didn’t want to listen anymore.

And when this vampire died, the well-organized undead army instantly rioted, but these patched-together undead were utterly harmless to Xue Dili, who now possessed metric tons of magma.

...

Minutes later, Xue Dili walked away with the burnt-empty head.

"Your daughter-in-law’s head, for you." Xue Dili picked up the vampire’s head and examined it, puzzled by how this person maintained human semblance even after the undead transformation.

But upon examining with the cursed blood, it’s clear that despite looking exactly like the living, it was essentially a giant piece of frozen meat, devoid of blood, bodily fluids, or any functioning organs.

Like a collage of non-rotting meat forming this "vampire young lady," fundamentally akin to the large specimens preserved in formalin in his school.

After losing interest, Xue Dili handed the head to the old Demon Emperor.

The old Demon Emperor didn’t say anything, just tossed it on the ground, letting it roll like a ball, unsure of how far it went.

"Perhaps you were right, I was too lenient on those old aristocrats..." the old Demon Emperor said, his face as dark as one from Africa.

Xue Dili silently kept the head, unsure if it would be useful later.

The two left there, continuing toward the Great Tomb.

"I never completely purged all the other race aristocrats, only scattered them, imprisoning their wives and children in my Royal Capital... Except for those particularly rebellious ones that I’ve completely cleared out, I’ve been very lenient with the rest..." the old Demon Emperor said, as the Blood Dragon gradually gathered, once again soaring into the sky.

"And her family was part of this group; I killed all the adults in her family, leaving only the younger members, then brought them to the Royal Capital, later she became the fiancée of my youngest son. I didn’t care much at the time..."

The old Demon Emperor asked, "Was I wrong to do so?"

Xue Dili: "..."

Isn’t that a no-brainer?

He directly covered his face, unsure how to mock the old Demon Emperor’s past actions. So you killed her entire family, then raised her and even let her become your youngest’s fiancée?

Bro, how can you be so carefree?

Could it be that the backstabbing of your youngest son had something to do with her whispering in his ear?

You should either kill them all or not kill them at all, perhaps incapacitate her entire family and separate them—then you could say "Miss, you wouldn’t want your family..."

That way, you could fully control her, make her do anything, she would reluctantly comply because her whole family would be in your hands.

If poorly said, if Xue Dili were in the old Demon Emperor’s position, he could manipulate her into a Harlequin.

How did you manage to kill the whole family without attachment, yet dare let her become the daughter-in-law?

Are you insane?

Xue Dili was too exhausted to mock him for his indecisiveness, dithering, and hesitating, wanting to be ruthless yet sparing other races, not wanting those minor races to go extinct... Where in the world are such beneficial things?

Even too tired to criticize, he spoke after a long silence: "You were too indecisive in the past..."

"Yes, too indecisive..." the old Demon Emperor echoed, looking toward the gray skies, seeing the sickly yet rosy vampire’s head, his spine seeming to bend further.

"You know my world’s First Emperor, right?"

The Blood Dragon soared into the sky again, this time the speed wasn’t so fast to avoid further crashes, while the two began chatting inside the shield.

"I know..."

"The First Emperor’s Empire died from various aspects, but mainly because the First Emperor was too kind." Xue Dili said.

His view differed from others; he thought Ying Zheng was overly indecisive.

Not settling accounts with the noblemen of the Six Kingdoms?

Not settling accounts with the traitors?

He could understand not settling accounts at the beginning of the conquest, but as death approached, not settling accounts?

If Xue Dili were in charge, before falling ill, he would try everything to eradicate all the noblemen of the Six Kingdoms, leaving none, dissolve them in water—isn’t it possible? Even the Ming Dynasty’s emperor could dissolve them in water, can’t you dissolve all those noblemen of the Six Kingdoms?

Indecisive, hesitant, wanting to kill but not daring to, even allowing Six Kingdoms nobles to remain on their original lands...

The old Demon Emperor committed the same mistake.

Xue Dili could understand his previous strategy; for instance, the blood race, if the old Demon Emperor eradicated her entire family, the blood race would be erased from existence, equivalent to the disappearance of a race.

Perhaps the old Demon Emperor didn’t want to directly enact genocide, hence leaving a few survivors.

But his approach was excessively indecisive and abstract...

"So, might we chance upon your youngest son again this time?" Xue Dili asked.

The old Demon Emperor didn’t speak, but the clenched fist already indicated he also considered this possibility.

Since his daughter-in-law could become a vampire, part of the undead calamity, then what about his youngest son, those subordinates who betrayed him, and his other sons?

The old Demon Emperor didn’t know, but he understood now, regardless of who became undead...

He felt no regret in killing his children!