A dilapidated old house, a burnt courtyard.
The young girl walked elegantly in her blue lotus shoes, with a hint of a smile on her lips, and emotionless yet soul-stirring eyes.
"Demon fox!"
The Demon-slaying Guards were on high alert, all of them experts in the Refining Realm Fourth Transformation. Upon the girl's arrival, they sensed a strong demonic energy, so chilling it made their hearts tremble.
Under the influence of this demonic energy, the Demon Sealing Masters had already turned pale with terror, quivering uncontrollably.
Wang Xiaoyi started rolling his eyes.
Zhao Guangming shook like a sieve, barely able to stand.
...
"Kill!"
At this moment, a Demon-slaying Guard glared menacingly and pulled out the White Tiger Spirit Knife from his waist. He leaped forward, blood energy surging through his body like crimson clouds attached to his blade, slashing towards the young girl.
The young girl stood still, reached out her hand slowly, and caught the blade between two fingers.
The White Tiger Spirit Knife sunk into the mud and couldn't move an inch further.
Simultaneously, there was a "buzz" sound, and the blade trembled. The blood energy wrapped around it was instantly scattered.
"You..." Panic flickered in the eyes of the Demon-slaying Guard.
The blood energy of cultivators was forged from the essence of the sun, moon, and powerful medicines, as pure as molten mercury. It was both pure Yang and lethal to demonic energy and evil spirits.
Yet this girl not only seemed unaffected, she even scattered the blood energy with her bare hands?
"Get back!"
Xiang Ling's cry was too late.
The young girl's jade-like hand swept through the air, as if cutting through tofu, reaching inside the Demon-slaying Guard's chest and tearing out his still-beating heart.
The gruesome scene frightened Wang Xiaoyi into unconsciousness.
"Beast!"
Two gusts of wind whistled, with the light of blades and wrapped blood energy, several times stronger than the previous Demon-slaying Guard.
Fifth Guard Chief Sima Qian and Third Guard Chief Huo Chang'en took action simultaneously.
Their blood energy roared like tidal waves, having already reached the peak of the Refining Realm Fourth Transformation, just one step away from advancing to the Fifth Transformation.
"How ridiculous!" The young girl let out a silver bell-like laughter.
She waved her dress, sending out a hunting demon wind, directly tossing the two Guard Chiefs away.
The White Tiger Spirit Knife fell to the ground, embedding itself deeply.
"Ignorant fools!"
A thunderous roar echoed at this moment.
Xu Qian finally made his move.
He had the highest cultivation among the Demon-slaying Guards present.
The golden talisman shot out like an arrow, with Xu Qian's blood energy attached to it, like a raging soul burning up.
"Expelling Charm of Annihilation!?" The young girl's eyes narrowed, revealing a trace of deeper meaning.
The power of a talisman was far stronger than that of simple blood energy.
Humm...
In a split second, the bright yellow talisman burned away completely, and a ball of fire flew out. The scorching heat of its temperature stirred up a blazing wind, rampaging inside the courtyard.
"Senior brother Xu is powerful!" The crowd shouted.
Demon beasts were afraid of flames. This Lowering Fire Talisman was a one-star talisman that Xu Qian received as a reward after his promotion within the demon control department.
" Acting arrogant in front of me?" Xu Qian sneered.
"With this kind of power, you dare to show off?" The young girl chuckled, waved her hand, and the demon wind went berserk, like a roaring beast. The burnt black willow trees were uprooted, and the raging fireball exploded before it even got close. The fire splattered and surged in all directions.
"Impossible!" Xu Qian's face was as pale as a ghost, and his mind was in disarray.
What kind of demon beast was this, that even the Lowering Fire Talisman wasn't feared?
"This..."
At this moment, the entire courtyard fell into a deathly silence.
Everyone's faces were filled with shock.
The demon beast before them was simply too powerful, stronger than any they had ever seen before. The demonic energy was oppressively powerful, and even the formidable Xu Qian felt a trace of fear.
"Is it possible that even the prestigious Demon-slaying Guard can be afraid?" The young girl's laughter was enchanting.
Boom...
Suddenly, her black hair stood on end, and demonic energy surged like dark clouds, howling as it passed by.
In an instant, one figure after another fell.
Even the Demon-slaying Guards couldn't resist such a demon beast. As the evil spirits entered their bodies, they fainted.
"Damn it!" Xu Qian gritted his teeth, and finally couldn't hold on. He staggered and fell.
"Human hearts are like demons; it's ridiculous that you can't measure your own strength!" The young girl's soft, reddish lips moved slightly, her tongue licking the corner of her mouth.
The taste of Demon-slaying Guards was much more delicious than that of ordinary people, and even more nourishing for demon beasts.
Thinking of this, the girl's excited body quivered slightly, and her burning eyes scanned the "food" all over the ground.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, the girl's eyes widened, and her gaze inadvertently stopped, whipping back to look.
There was still a figure standing tall in the courtyard!
"Hmm?" The young girl was shocked and uncertain, staring intently at the figure, recognizing from his clothes that he was not a demon-slaying guard.
"How...how are you unharmed?" The girl couldn't help but ask.
Under her demon wind, even Xu Qian, who was at the Refining Realm Fifth Transformation stage, couldn't withstand it. The youth in front of her wasn't even a demon-slaying guard, so how could he?
"Should I be injured?" Zhou Dao shrugged.
In the courtyard, the demonic energy danced wildly, but it couldn't touch him at all.
Zhou Dao strolled slowly as if casually walking through a garden. The terrifying demonic energy seemed to have grown eyes, frantically avoiding him.
"You..."
This scene was shocking, and eye-catching.
For a moment, the girl's whole body broke into a cold sweat, drenched in fragrant perspiration.
She couldn't believe her own eyes as she looked at Zhou Dao.
Seemingly sealed off, unaffected by evil spirits!
Such a realm must at least be the Refining Realm Sixth Transformation.
"Thoughts Turned Into Weapons?" the girl cried out.
She had never dreamed that there would be such a young expert within the Demon Control Department, with such profound cultivation at such a young age.
"Nice fox!" Zhou Dao grinned.
At that moment, the girl's figure vanished, and a white-furred fox emerged from the chilling demonic energy, fleeing towards the entrance of the courtyard.
Highly skilled demon beasts are adept at using demonic energy to transform into human form, and only powerful cultivators can break through their illusions.
The white-furred fox revealed its true form, not daring to look back even once, fleeing frantically.
Just then, a loud rumble echoed within the courtyard, as if thunder were roaring, and the divine power unmatched.
"Refining Realm Seventh Transformation, Chattering Thunder!!!"
The white-furred fox's hair stood on end, and it almost tripped and fell dead.
A young master of the seventh transformation?
At this moment, the white-furred fox was terrified, with its guts nearly shattering. For it, masters of this level were like the Devil King descending.
Great terror lies between life and death!
At that moment, it sensed the tribulation of life and death, its body dominated by terror and its cultivation even started to regress.
Dense blood energy filled the heaven and earth, and violent power pressed in from all directions.
"Don't want..."
With a scream from the white-furred fox, as if struck by lightning, the fiery blood energy swept through like a flash, directly cutting off its life force, and its tyrannical power even dispersed all the demonic energy within its body.
Zhou Dao walked over and lifted the already dead white-furred fox with one hand.
Its body gradually lost its warmth, its hair scorched black, evidently caused by Zhou Dao's blood energy bombardment.
Chattering Thunder, with the power of Pure Yang brewing within, overwhelming like roaring thunder, even a high-level evil-grade monster couldn't withstand it.
Just now, when Zhou Dao made a move, there were five thunderous sounds, and the fox demon had no reason to survive.
"An evil-level high-grade monster!" Zhou Dao looked at the white fur fox demon's corpse, his eyes shining. It was worth more than all those little foxes combined.
During his two years in the Demon Control Department, Zhou Dao had only encountered one high-level evil-grade monster.
"I wonder what kind of reward I can get by offering it to the Ancestral Founder." Zhou Dao was full of expectations.
Suddenly, the sound of footsteps came from his ears, only a hundred feet away.
"Someone's coming!"
Zhou Dao quickly hid the corpse of the white-skin fox demon in the Green Coiling Treasure Bag with a flick of his wrist.