Breakthrough to Major Refinement of the Golden Immortal! They're the Ones Who Should Leave!

Hearing the old physician's words, Jiang Bei's expression grew heavy as well.

After taking one last look at the tightly shut wooden door, he silently turned and walked out of the City Lord's Mansion.

Outside the City Lord's Mansion lay the same scene of desolation. Low, shabby shelters lined the bases of the walls on both sides.

The refugees huddled on straw mats, their hollow eyes staring at the gray, murky sky.

Watching this scene, Jiang Bei's heart grew even heavier.

Though the Northnight Wolf King and the others had now been eliminated, his eldest martial brother had died, and his master had been injured as well.

Moreover, just as the Northnight Wolf King had said before his death, the Devil Master had awakened, and every one of his subordinates was a regional titan of the Demon Realm.

Take the most familiar examples—the Bone-Corroding Demonic Sect and the Ten Thousand Souls Heresy Cult. The leaders of these two great forces had yet to show themselves even now.

They were existences no weaker than the Northnight Wolf King, and who knew how many such beings there were throughout the Demon Realm.

As for that Devil Master who had made even his master, Qin Tianhong, tremble in fear, no one knew what kind of existence he was.

Strength... in the end, it all came down to strength!

Jiang Bei clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white.

"Big brother?"

At that moment, a faint, childish call suddenly rang out.

Jiang Bei lowered his head.

At some point, a tiny figure had appeared by his feet.

He looked to be five or six years old. He was wrapped in a ragged coat so patched and faded that its original color could no longer be seen, and his bare little feet, caked in black