Ao Guang's words caused the faces of many demon kings to turn ashen, yet they found themselves at a loss for how to retort.
Seeing their expressions, Ao Guang was inwardly delighted.
In fact, at the very beginning, he, like many other demon kings, had come to question Ao Yuan.
Although he had received an explanation, he had also been severely scolded by Ao Yuan.
Now that he could find solace in this, why wouldn't he be happy?
All he needed now was to imprint "Look, this world isn't just filled with fools, there are even stupider ones than me" onto his face.
"Fools, fools!"
"Truly beyond saving!"
Ao Guang, seeing their defiant looks, delivered several more hard knocks to their heads.
Never had the demon kings been so humiliated.
Their faces turned ashen, and they were about to argue with Ao Guang.
Naturally, their "argument" was a desire to fight Ao Guang and see who was truly more powerful.
"Don't you want to know where your stupidity lies?" Ao Guang, clearly understanding their intentions, dangled another lure.
It wasn't that Ao Guang feared them, but that these demon kings had, to varying degrees, received gifts from Ao Yuan in recent days.
Their strength was no longer comparable to what it was before.
And he was merely acting for the peace and tranquility of the Dragon Palace.
"Ao Guang, if you have something to say, just say it."
"Stop toying with us."
"Exactly, I feel like this is how it should be!"
"Isn't it obvious that Great Xia is looking down on us?"
As the demon kings spoke one by one, Ao Guang no longer played coy.
He got straight to the point: "The matters online are being controlled by the official channels of Great Xia, aren't they?"
"One could say that whatever message the Great Xia officials want to spread, that's the message that will spread, right?"
Hearing this, the demon kings all nodded instinctively.
"Then shouldn't you think carefully, since the Great Xia officials control the information online, why are these messages able to spread?"
At these words, the demon kings' eyes widened, and they exchanged glances.
In that moment, they seemed to grasp something.
"You mean... all this information is actually fake?"
The Golden-Haired Monkey, whose mind worked the fastest, replied first, "It's just someone trying to deceive us?"
"It seems you're not entirely foolish!" Ao Guang put on an air of a teacher who found his students teachable.
This made the demon kings furious, yet they dared not act.
Because they truly hadn't considered the angle Ao Guang had presented.
"Great Xia is known as one of the strongest nations on Blue Star. Even if its strength can't match that of the United States, it's not far off," said Dai Xiao Mei at this moment, her bright eyes sparkling. "Since Great Xia is so powerful..."
"If they truly treated demon beasts poorly as the online information suggests."
"If they dropped a few missiles on Mount Taibai, besides Dai Dai, can any of you honestly say you would survive?"
Boom!
A single stone stirred a thousand ripples!
This statement caused many demon kings to fall into deep thought.
Before long, they all shook their heads involuntarily.
While their strength was formidable, they were not arrogant enough to believe they could withstand missiles.
"Then who wants to frame us?" the Banlan Tiger King, known for his fiery temper, roared with his mouth agape.
"Who else could it be?" Mo Zi rolled her eyes and glanced at Ao Yuan.
"The United States?"
The Sparrow King and the Python King shivered, immediately recalling a crucial party.
The Dragon Palace and its affiliated demon beasts were all within Great Xia or allied with Great Xia.
They had no enmity with Great Xia, naturally.
If there was any, it would only be between Ao Yuan, who had caused trouble in the United States not long ago, and the United States itself.
"It seems you're not irredeemably stupid," Ao Guang said from above the beasts, looking composed.
"Damn the United States, I'm going to settle the score with them now!" the Banlan Tiger King roared in anger and turned to leave furiously.
To him, this was no less than a profound humiliation.
"I'll go too!" the Python King, swaying its thick body, immediately echoed.
"Wait."
Ao Guang shook his head. "You don't even know where the United States is."
"And even if you went, do you think you could defeat the United States?"
"Then let them deceive us?" the Sparrow King flapped its wings, its face filled with indignation.
"That's certainly not the case."
At this moment, Ao Yuan slightly closed his phone and looked at them calmly. "We will definitely seek justice from them for this matter."
"But not now!"
"What you should do now is properly appease your subordinates."
Upon hearing this, all the demon kings nodded with enlightened expressions.
Indeed.
From the current perspective, the immediate priority was the most important.
The demon kings said no more and withdrew from the Dragon Palace.
Not long after.
From the territories of the demon kings, sounds of curses and reprimands could be heard from time to time.
Although they were scolding, if one looked closely, one would see that most of the demon kings' faces wore an expression of having avenged a great wrong. It was unclear who they had provoked.
This was evidently the demon kings educating their subordinate demon beasts.
Meanwhile.
Ao Yuan slowly turned his head, his gaze fixed far in the direction of the United States.
His eyes were clear and cold, radiating killing intent.
This scheme of using a borrowed knife to kill was not particularly ingenious.
However, for the many demon kings who did not excel at critical thinking, it was clearly sufficient.
Of course, it was also their oversight for not accounting for the variable that was Ao Yuan.
Otherwise, they might have truly succeeded in inciting rebellion.
But!
The United States, you are truly restless!
Ao Yuan murmured softly.
Shaking his head, Ao Yuan patted his stomach and suddenly shouted, "I'm hungry!"
Dai Xiao Mei and Mo Zi's expressions froze.
This was the last thing they wanted to hear.
Because during this period, whenever Ao Yuan was hungry, he always troubled them.
He euphemistically called it "training their physical endurance."
And the method of training their physical endurance was for the two of them to transport food from the small world to the Dragon Palace.
Then, Dai Xiao Mei would roast it, and Mo Zi would add her specially made seasonings before serving it to Ao Yuan.
If it were ordinary, it would be manageable.
But Ao Yuan's appetite was well-known. Every meal he had could exhaust Dai Xiao Mei and Mo Zi to the point of near death.
However, regarding this.
They had no good solution.
After all, they were the ones who had forbidden Ao Yuan from entering the small world.
And as Ao Yuan's maids, could they possibly neglect him when he was hungry?
Clearly, the answer was no.
"Mo Zi, let's go!"
In a fit of pique, Dai Xiao Mei gritted her teeth and pulled Mo Zi. "You wait, we'll go prepare it for you right now!"
An hour later.
As the demon kings had successfully pacified their demon beasts and returned to the vicinity of Mount Taibai,
The Secretary-General of Great Xia, leading a group of soldiers, arrived at the foot of Mount Taibai in armed helicopters.
Their purpose was simple: to appeal to Ao Yuan and the others with reason and emotion, exposing that this was not the intention of Great Xia.
It was merely a conspiracy by the United States.