"This..." Adrian was solidly splashed with a basin of cold water, instantly feeling somewhat dejected and guilty.

"What the Saint Lord says is correct. This subordinate will strictly remember the Saint Lord’s teachings..."

Seeing Adrian acting like this, the corners of Alex’s mouth curled up slightly, and his solemn expression turned back into a smile.

"Of course, you don’t need to be too tense and disappointed. As long as I am still in the mortal realm for a single day, the Hale family will absolutely never lose power!"

"Yes!" Adrian nodded heavily, a fresh gleam of light flowing through his eyes. Fortunately, the Saint Lord was still the same Saint Lord.

That Saint Lord whose domineering aura leaked out, unparalleled in the world, in the heavens and on earth, uniquely supreme.

After Adrian left, Alex drank his wine while silently pondering the various situations that might occur at the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony.

After about half an hour, a knock came from outside the door. Alex thought it was Aya returning and casually waved his hand to open the door.

However, the person outside was not Aya, but Sylra.

Sylra gripped his crutch, his old face as black as charcoal.

Alex asked with a puzzled smile. "Senior, what’s wrong? Who provoked you this time?"

"Cut the crap!" Sylra had a dark face and gritted his teeth.

"Brat, did you tell that girl that you wanted to eat deer meat?"

"Uh, yes. What’s wrong, is that not allowed?"

Sylra pointed a finger at Alex, seeming so angry he didn’t know what to say. He had no choice but to wave his hand in annoyance, cursing and swearing.

"It’s not like you don’t know how much that girl dotes on you. I beg you, next time don’t mention what you want to eat to her, alright? Spare those little animals in my forest!"

With that said, Sylra left huffing and puffing with anger.

Alex scratched his head, completely dumbfounded.

He merely wanted to send Aya away, so he casually mentioned wanting to eat braised deer meat.

He and Sylra used to frequently go into the forest to hunt when they had nothing to do.

Why was he throwing such a massive temper over Aya hunting a single spirit deer? Wasn’t this old guy discriminating against Aya a bit too much?

Harboring a heart full of suspicion, Alex walked out of the cave dwelling. However, just as he exited, he smelled a thick, pungent scent of blood and instantly became doubtful.

Does killing a single spirit deer need to be this bloody?

Following the scent, Alex arrived at the back of the Hidden Broken Sword Cave. Seeing the scene before him, he was instantly dumbfounded.

Behind the cave was an open clearing.

In the past, both Alex and Sylra were too lazy to cook, so this area had always been abandoned. After Aya moved to Broken Sword Peak, she built a stove here and normally cooked in this spot.

At this very moment, Aya was standing in front of the stove, placing marinated meat into a clay pot and meticulously simmering it.

And directly behind her, there were shockingly over five hundred hunted spirit deer piled up into a small mountain, looking both cruel and spectacular.

These spirit deer had all been slain by a strong sword qi, leaving only a faint bloodstain on their bodies.

But the fresh blood seeping from hundreds of dead deer had dyed the ground in patches of scarlet.

Among them were even newly born fawns that hadn’t reached a full month of age.

Even Alex, a dignified villainous Great Saint Lord used to seeing great winds and massive waves, was quite shocked by this scene.

Didn’t Aya just say she was going to hunt a spirit deer? This was slaughtering the entire deer herd in the forest to the last one, wasn’t it? She didn’t even spare the newborn fawns.

This was practically identical to his own handiwork when he slaughtered the Noir family back then.

Alex was stunned for a long while before snapping back to his senses. With a complicated expression, he stepped forward.

"Senior Sister Aya, what is this..."

"Junior Brother Taryn, why are you here?" Aya smiled.

"I know you’re craving it, but don’t be too impatient. Hurry back and wait. In about ten more minutes, this braised deer meat will be ready!"

"No..." Alex said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"With just the two of us, how much can we eat in one meal? You hunted so many. By what lifetime will we finish eating all this?"

"Mhm, I heard you say you love eating my braised deer meat, so I thought I’d hunt a bit more." Aya smiled.

"There’s no rush, we can save it and eat it slowly!"

"The problem is, if we leave all this meat here, it will rot and spoil." Alex said with a bitter face. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

"If you let these spirit deer live in the forest, not only could they fatten up, but they could also reproduce and give birth to more fawns. But instead, you slaughtered their entire herd and hauled them all back."

"This way, not only will we definitely not be able to eat deer meat when we want to in the future, but how are we supposed to clean up all this leftover meat when it rots? Once it starts stinking, our Hidden Broken Sword Cave will become uninhabitable..."

Hearing Alex’s words, Aya finally realized she had done something wrong and lowered her head aggrievedly.

"Junior Brother Taryn, I was wrong. I’m sorry..."

"Forget it, let’s think of a solution together." Although Alex was both angry and amused, he was still somewhat moved.

Because he casually mentioned wanting to eat braised deer meat, she directly slaughtered all the deer in the entire forest.

There were quite a few people who would curry favor with Alex like this.

But to be this good to Taryn Lark, there was probably only this one person in the entire world.

Alex couldn’t help but secretly let his imagination run wild in his heart.