Sheng Yuan Yao led the crowd to follow the demonic qi straight on, pursuing the heavily injured demon monster. Since the demonic qi was easy to track, it was certain that it couldn’t escape.

She cursed the dead kid in her mouth for cheating her out of two taels of silver, but in her heart, she held no blame. This included the current situation where it seemed A Nuo’s mistake led to the demon monster escaping; Sheng Yuan Yao also didn’t blame her.

Originally, they had a guaranteed kill, but accidents happen. The demon monster’s most severe wound was still caused by A Nuo; that one punch collapsed its chest bones.

It was truly unbelievable how such power could erupt from the small body of A Nuo Ji Ji. It was simply inconceivable.

That dead cripple kept saying it was “entering the realm of Dao cultivation.” Was that entering the realm? Hmm, yes, it was entering the realm.

Sheng Yuan Yao muttered in her stomach while chasing. In any case, chasing and killing demon monsters was the duty of her Town Demon Department. If an injured one to this extent could still escape, the entire Xia State Town Demon Department could collectively hang themselves.

The demon monster, chased into a panic, chose a pathless route towards the mountain forest outside the city and fled randomly. As it fled, it suddenly felt a wave of palpitations.

Demons and monsters were actually two different things, but humans collectively called them demon monsters.

As for monsters, they wouldn’t be discussed for now. The original form of demons was generally some kind of strange beast, or sometimes plants becoming spirits, which were relatively fewer. As strange beasts, their intuition was often much sharper than humans. They could often sense a crisis that ordinary people couldn’t detect, experiencing a warning in their hearts early on.

It was like an extremely terrifying fierce beast in the mountain, like paying respects to a demon emperor from afar once… just one distant glance, and the palpitations and shock were deeply embedded in its bone marrow.

It stopped in terror and looked up.

On the mountain ridge in front, a woman in a purple dress stood quietly at the peak, wearing a Yan Wang ghost mask on her face.

The mountain wind blew, slightly lifting the hem of her skirt, further accentuating her graceful posture and outstanding temperament. Although her facial features were not visible, she always made people feel a sense of exquisite beauty that overshadowed the world.

However, the demon monster had no appreciation for beauty. The sharp killing intent almost permeated its bones. It couldn’t help but lose its voice and shout: “Yan Jun!”

Outsiders only knew Yan Jun. In the world, only a very small number of people knew her name.

Yuan Mu Yu.

Yuan Mu Yu suddenly appeared directly in front of it from the distant mountain ridge. Her phoenix eyes beneath the mask were icy cold, and her voice was as if from the nine underworlds: “It was you who made him lose his state to this extent… It was you who made him lose the medicine he sought for so many years?”

Demon monster: “?”

“How dare you…” Yuan Mu Yu stretched out a slender hand and grabbed its neck: “How dare you!”

The demon monster’s eyeballs bulged out as it was grasped. It let out meaningless “heh heh” sounds, without even the strength to struggle, let alone speak.

Yuan Mu Yu’s other hand pressed down on its chest and abdomen. The demon monster twisted in pain, and the area between its chest and abdomen visibly bulged up. Not long after, a demon core broke out of its abdomen, actually being sucked out of its body alive from the air.

This one hand alone was enough to shock the mundane world.

“Bang!” The demon monster’s corpse was thrown like garbage by the side of the mountain path. Yuan Mu Yu had already vanished, as if she had never existed.

The next moment, Sheng Yuan Yao led the crowd in pursuit and saw the corpse by the roadside at a glance, saying in shock: “Who killed it? There wasn’t even half a fight?”

A catcher went forward to inspect, also very shocked: “The demon core is gone… it seems to have been dug out raw… no, there isn’t even a wound on the abdomen. This is like it was sucked out alive from the inside!”

The Town Demon Department collectively shuddered, and cold sweat broke out.

What kind of cultivation was that? Try sucking out a person’s internal organs from the air!

Sheng Yuan Yao took a deep breath, silently looked at the demon monster’s corpse, and after a long time said: “Who killed it isn’t important. Unauthorized entry into the human realm and being killed and having the core taken is its own doing. We have no obligation to investigate cases for demon monsters. Take the corpse back, and the case can be closed.”

The crowd silently nodded, all knowing in their hearts that this wasn’t a matter of whether or not to investigate a case for a demon monster, but this act of sucking out a demon core raw was a bit shocking. If it was a terrifying demon cultivator, then Xia State…

Forget it, one thing at a time. Let’s handle this matter first. They still didn’t know the situation on the city lord’s side.

On the mountain ridge, Yuan Mu Yu quietly watched Sheng Yuan Yao and the others leave. Her beautiful eyes focused on Sheng Yuan Yao’s dashing figure for a while, then she let out a cold hmph with an unclear meaning.

Behind her knelt a large group of Yan Luo Hall assassins, their heads not daring to be lifted.

Especially the Xia State branch, they were even more trembling with fear. Before the rumor of the judge officer leaving, everyone didn’t know what was happening, and thought she had turned against Yan Jun. Now it seemed, turned against a fart. It was good that someone went to kill Lu Xing Zhou; Yuan Mu Yu shouldn’t have known about this matter, otherwise everyone here would have been turned into meat paste.

Yuan Mu Yu had indeed just arrived. Before, she didn’t know where Lu Xing Zhou went. Waiting until the news of Xia State transferring strong people from the county reached her ears, Yuan Mu Yu thought that Lu Xing Zhou’s old home was just Xia State, so she came to take a look.

She was just looking to see why Xia State was transferring people, and it had nothing to do with those two white-eyed wolves, one big and one small.

Yuan Mu Yu’s hand faintly emitted purple fire. She sacrificed and refined the demon core she had just obtained. Before long, it had changed form, the demonic qi all gone, resembling a special fruit instead.

After finishing the sacrifice and refinement, Yuan Mu Yu then faintly said: “It’s not your concern. This time, the task was completed quite well. You will all be rewarded.”

The crowd was overjoyed: “Many thanks, Yan Jun.”

Yuan Mu Yu handed the “fruit” to the fifth-rank assassin: “This is called… hmm, call it a blood and flesh restoration fruit. It contains very pure life force and has a very good effect for refining related elixirs. Ordinary people in the world won’t recognize it, and Lu Xing Zhou definitely won’t either.”

The assassin took the fruit with a confused look.

Yuan Mu Yu put her hands behind her back and said: “You go and give it to him. Say you obtained it accidentally. Don’t say you saw this seat.”

The assassin lowered his head: “Yes.”

If Lu Xing Zhou were here and could see the expression hidden beneath the assassin’s head, he would feel like sweating beans.

Yuan Mu Yu was silent for a while again, then whispered to herself: “The Ho family was tricked once. Next time, they will be more cautious, doubling the difficulty. With this thing, at least he doesn’t need to risk his life like this and can be more composed.”

“That kind of lost state… shouldn’t belong to him.”

The words faded, and the person had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a fragrant breeze.

She eventually didn’t enter the nearby Xia State.

On that side, Lu Xing Zhou, on the other hand, didn’t feel at all that the disappearance of the medicine he had been expecting for ten years was a problem. He simply didn’t take it to heart.

As soon as A Nuo recovered, it was as if his whole person was activated. He had already restored his composure and turned to Shen Tang with a smile, saying: “Where is the city lord?”

Shen Tang stared at his leg for a long time, then looked at A Nuo, and finally smiled and shook her head: “He has already been killed by me. Chen Palm Si can verify it. Xu Bing Kun was full of demonic qi and had practiced very deeply.”

Chen Jin Nian bowed his hand and followed the direction Shen Tang pointed.

A moment later, he brought Xu Bing Kun’s corpse back. He didn’t need to say anything. Everyone around with sharp eyes could see that Xu Bing Kun’s corpse still had dense demonic qi remaining. Fur had even grown on his hand…

Chen Jin Nian gave Shen Tang a meaningful look.

Xu Bing Kun’s whole body’s bones were shattered to death, having suffered the impact of an extremely overbearing cultivation method, unlike the flying sword style Shen Tang had shown before. But he didn’t say anything in the end, just sighed: “It seems this matter can be closed. Xu Bing Kun was greedy for demon cultivation methods, raised a demon monster, and harmed the sixth young master of the Ho family. Ten thousand people witnessed it; there is no doubt.”

Sheng Yuan Yao carried the demon monster’s corpse back, saying tiredly: “Correct. I still have the recording. The evidence is irrefutable. Please trouble the Dan Medicine Department to issue a report on the detection of demon cultivation on the city lord’s corpse and submit it to the capital along with my evidence.”

Chen Jin Nian nodded: “That is reasonable.”

Sheng Yuan Yao’s gaze fell on A Nuo’s face and saw that A Nuo didn’t seem to care, which surprised her a little: “You don’t care?”

A Nuo laughed sweetly: “Big sister is really good.”

Sheng Yuan Yao glared at her with ill temper, then looked at Lu Xing Zhou, wanting to say something but stopped: “Forget it, it’s good that you don’t care. We’ll talk in detail again tomorrow.”

This night was destined to be sleepless in Xia State. The onlookers who had watched the shocking changes were filled with various thoughts. They discussed all the way as they left. In the end, only Lu Xing Zhou’s master and disciple and Shen Tang and Du Gu Qing Li remained in the field. The two pairs of people pushed two wheelchairs and slowly walked in the night streets and alleys.

Lu Xing Zhou first gave Du Gu Qing Li a medicine pill, saying apologetically: “Apologies. Earlier, A Nuo’s situation attracted my attention, and I forgot that Miss Qing Li was also injured… This pill has some effect on treating internal injuries.”

Du Gu Qing Li wiped away the bloodstain from the corner of her mouth and shook her head: “Sword cultivators eliminating demons, injuries are common. Although I received some backlash internal injuries, I can meditate and recover myself.”

“But you did it to help me, which is why you chose such an intense method. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have needed to take such a risk.”

Du Gu Qing Li thought for a moment and also felt that this was indeed the case, so she took the medicine pill.

Lu Xing Zhou then turned to Shen Tang: “Did I do something unnecessary?”

Shen Tang laughed: “Not necessarily unnecessary; mutual verification is more accurate.”

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Lu Xing Zhou deliberately let Ho Yu publicly shout that it was Xu Bing Kun who raised the demon, and Shen Tang deliberately forced Xu Bing Kun to use demon cultivation methods and then killed him, leaving the corpse as evidence. Both sides had the same goal. In fact, as long as one of them had done it, the matter could basically achieve its effect. Especially Lu Xing Zhou’s operation was a bit risky and indeed could have been unnecessary.

But Lu Xing Zhou didn’t know that Shen Tang would do this ah… The two of them hadn’t discussed it at all, yet they unintentionally worked together, firmly nailing Xu Bing Kun’s crime and making the aftermath almost disappear. Of course, Lu Xing Zhou’s operation wasn’t without benefits. This cleared the pot of Ho Yu’s death.

Du Gu Qing Li put the pill in her mouth and the evaluation of Sheng Yuan Yao in her heart brushed over again: paramour.

She stayed with Shen Tang every day and couldn’t understand how these two people could be so in sync.

Shen Tang then said: “So if you had laid your cards on the table with us earlier and discussed what to do, this time things would have been much easier, and you wouldn’t have needed to contact Yan Luo Hall… In the future, still think it’s better this way?”

Why did this tone sound completely like training a husband… Lu Xing Zhou coughed dryly: “Xu Bing Kun’s injuries are not like the results caused by sword cultivation. Until now, I still don’t know Miss Shen’s mystery. Can we really discuss everything?”

Shen Tang lightly laughed: “Before probing my secrets, you should first understand the changes in A Nuo’s body. As for my matters… there will be a time when I seek you out.”