The long wind blew leisurely, yellow sand filling the air.
A young girl, dressed in the attire of an ordinary Jianghu traveler, rode a horse and slowly appeared at the end of the official road.
Her skin, delicate as jade, was completely out of place with the surrounding dim yellow dust.
Jiang Yuechu frowned, urged her horse, and leisurely entered Jincheng County.Although she had been prepared in her heart, knowing that the cities in this world would certainly not be as prosperous as those in her past life.
Yet, the scene before her, dead and silent like a ghost town, still exceeded her expectations.The street was deserted, and the doors and windows of the shops on both sides were wide open.
If it weren't for the two characters "Jincheng" outside the county town, she would have truly thought she had found the wrong place.
Could it be that the Demon has already left?
As soon as this thought arose.An angry shout, accompanied by the sound of metal clashing, came from the depths of the long street.
Jiang Yuechu's pupils constricted; she flipped off her horse and tied it casually to a pillar nearby.
She then pressed her hand against her saber hilt and silently crept toward the sound....
~Clang~
A saber hummed, clear and cold like a Dragon. Xu Nian did not say another word. He leapt from his horse, his horizontal saber carving an arc in the dim twilight.
His Qi and blood surged, pouring into the saber blade.
The Pig Demon saw this and gave a sinister laugh, reaching back to pull out a rusty longsword from somewhere unknown."Seeking death!"
The saber arrived.
The sword met it.
~Clang!~
Sparks flew everywhere.The next instant, that rusty longsword snapped upon contact.
Half of the sword blade flew out, embedding itself into a distant wall with a thud.
Xu Nian landed, his horizontal saber pointing diagonally, his figure motionless.
"Good!""Lord Xu is mighty!" At the street corner, several Imperial Guards from the Demon Suppression Division who had arrived upon hearing the news happened to see this scene.
Their expressions were greatly shocked, and they couldn't help but cheer aloud."Is this the might of a Minggu Realm expert... Ordinary Demons are simply no match for a single blow!" But there was no joy on Xu Nian's face.
He raised a hand, stopping the others behind him who wanted to rush forward.
"Don't come over!" The crowd was stunned, the excitement on their faces not yet faded.
"This Demon is not an ordinary Bone Resonance Realm Demon..." Xu Nian took a deep breath and sternly ordered.
"Liu Chen, take the men and retreat immediately! Return to Liangzhou Prefecture and report to the Great General; the Demon in Jincheng County is no longer something we can handle!"
"You think you can come and go as you please?" The Pig Demon grinned, emitting an unpleasant laugh, its scarlet eyes full of mockery.
"Do you really take me, the Mythical Ape, for something made of mud?" As the words fell.It slowly threw the hilt of the broken sword to the ground.
The next moment, the fat all over its body began to surge in a strange way. Its already massive body expanded another circle, tearing apart the ragged clothes it wore.
A thick, foul-smelling blood mist slowly seeped out from its pores, permeating the air. Within the blood mist, the stench was pungent.
Only now did Liu Chen and the others finally understand why Xu Nian, an expert of the Bone Resonance Realm, had issued the order to retreat without hesitation.
"This... This is..."When a Demon cultivates and steps into the Bone Resonance Realm, its muscles and bones resonate together, allowing it to awaken an innate Divine Ability.
Although the Yao Race is favored by heaven and earth, not all of them are heaven's favored children.
Those who can obtain a Divine Ability are one in ten thousand.
Either they possess the legacy of an ancient Great Demon and have a noble Bloodline.Or, they have obtained a tremendous Opportunity.
Ordinary Demons, even if they luckily enter the Bone Resonance Realm, are merely Beasts with thicker skin and flesh but this Pig Demon before them...The blood mist permeating from its body was clearly that one-in-ten-thousand strange Divine Ability!
The Pig Demon looked at the group of Demon Suppression Guards, who were facing a formidable enemy, and let out a self-deprecating laugh.
"Learning to hold a sword, learning to recite poems—after a long time, I actually forgot...My Pig Demon clan was born to tear flesh with claws and teeth, to chew bones with fangs." Its scarlet eyes swept over the crowd.
"You, as running dogs of the Demon Suppression Division, helping the evildoer, this is the first crime. Killing my children for no reason, severing my Bloodline, this is the second crime.Both crimes shall be punished together. Today, all of you shall die!" As the words fell.The blood mist filling the long street suddenly recoiled.It condensed into countless thick, blood-colored tentacles, covering the sky and earth, sweeping toward the crowd!
"Ah—" An Imperial Guard of the Demon Suppression Division failed to dodge in time and was entangled by several blood-colored tentacles, hoisted into the air.
He struggled desperately, his horizontal saber slipping from his hand and falling to the ground with a clang.
"Save..." Before he could even shout the word. The Pig Demon opened its bloody maw and bit down.
~Snap.~
The head was severed from the body, blood gushing out.
Liu Chen's eyes were bloodshot; he roared and slashed with his horizontal saber, severing several incoming tentacles but the tentacles grew back as soon as they were cut, endless and infinite.
"Damn it!"Xu Nian cursed silently. The Qi and blood in his body surged violently, and his bones emitted a buzzing sound like clashing metal and stone.
He took a step forward, and a faint layer of golden Qi flames ignited on the horizontal saber in his hand."Saber of Suppressing Prison!"
With a violent shout, the saber light, like a streak of white silk, swept out.
This saber technique was a secret technique of the Demon Suppression Division of Longyou Circuit, created specifically for slaying Demons and eliminating evil. Its Saber Intent was fierce and domineering, breaking through evil and cleansing filth.
The golden saber light flashed by, and dozens of blood-colored tentacles snapped upon contact.
At the severed ends, a sizzling sound emitted.
It was as if boiling oil had been poured onto ice and snow, rising in bursts of black smoke, unable to heal for a long time.But even so, against the blood-colored tentacles sweeping across the sky, it was still like a drop in the bucket.
Xu Nian was already struggling this much.
The Demon Suppression Guards behind him, who were only at the Mortal Realm or Hearing The String Realm, were even less able to resist.In the blink of an eye, two more Imperial Guards were snatched up by the tentacles.
The Mythical Ape grinned viciously, repeating the same trick, biting off the heads of the two men, chewing them with a crunching sound, its mouth covered in blood and filth."When you killed my children, did you ever think of today?"
Xu Nian's face was livid.
He said nothing, only frantically driving the Qi and blood in his body, the saber light becoming increasingly blazing, protecting the few remaining subordinates.
But after all, he was only one man with one saber.The blood mist was endless.
A Demon's Divine Ability is just this unreasonable but It is precisely because it is so unreasonable that it shows just how rare Demons with Divine Abilities truly are.
Liu Chen tried his best, slashing open the blood-colored tentacles with his saber, but three or five others took advantage of the gap and bound him tightly.
A huge force came, and his whole body was dragged off the ground.The bloody maw was right before his eyes.The foul-smelling saliva dripped onto his face, mixed with someone's blood.
Only despair remained in his eyes.
It's over.
The Pig Demon's movements suddenly stalled.The blood-colored tentacles binding Liu Chen also loosened accordingly.
~Bang~
Liu Chen fell heavily to the ground, dazed and disoriented, coughing up a mouthful of blood.
He didn't care about the pain and instinctively looked up. He saw that the Pig Demon was no longer paying attention to them; its pair of scarlet Beast pupils were staring fixedly behind the crowd.
Xu Nian also sensed the anomaly and forced himself to turn his head.
-----------------------------------At the end of the long street----------------------------------
On the street, at some unknown time, an extra person had appeared.
The wind blew her long hair, revealing her full face.
Pretty as a peach blossom in late spring, pure and elegant as a chrysanthemum in late autumn.
How could such a young girl appear here?
The doubt in everyone's hearts had not yet dissipated.
Saber light rose.
A blood-colored tiger shadow soared into the sky from behind her.
~Roar~
—Tiger roar, wind and thunder, shaking the long street!