Much later, after adapting to the situation in Lihuo Prefecture, many of his notions had been corrected.
For instance, Zhou Nanwang had been restrained by the Azure Demon and failed to capture and kill the Mang Demon blocking his path.
The newly appointed Lihuo Prefecture Governor, Zhou Nanwang, had always regarded this as an unspeakable humiliation and could never let it go.
Yet only after interacting with the local upper echelons did he learn that what he considered a humiliation was instead one of the remarkable feats in everyone's eyes.
The reason so many high-ranking figures from prefectural cities, aristocratic families, and sects had eagerly come to meet him was precisely because of this matter.
Well, viewed through the eyes of Lihuo Prefecture itself—
Zhou Nanwang, having only just entered the Earth Sect realm, had faced the remote threat of the Azure Demon, strongest among the Ten Southern Demons, yet still beaten the Mang Demon senseless and nearly killed it. In the end, the Mang Demon had fled in defeat, utterly bedraggled.
That Dog Demon was vicious and cunning. Though it ranked near the bottom of the Ten Southern Demons, its notoriety was immense.
More than two-digit numbers of grandmasters had been swallowed by its bloody maw, including one unlucky Earth Sect expert.
Zhou Nanwang had only advanced to the Earth Sect realm a few years ago. Being able to defeat the Mang Demon one-on-one was already extraordinarily impressive!
Not to mention that the Mang Demon had the Azure Demon backing it, yet Zhou Nanwang had still beaten it into a miserable flight for its life.
Some had even learned that, in order to save the Mang Demon and transmit two sentences across the distance, the Azure Demon had paid an enormous price.
At the time, the main force of