Baiyun County.
"Hang the heads of his whole family from the flagpole and spread the word.
If he doesn't come back, I'll kill one household a day. Doesn't he like playing the chivalrous hero? I'll grant him his wish!"
At the county shrine, a dog demon with deep yellow fur tossed down Master Zhang's head.
The heads of Master Zhang's entire family also rolled into the shrine.
The villagers of Baiyun County trembled in terror.
One dog demon had died in the shrine.
Yet thirteen dog demons had come all at once.
The dog demon's ancestor was a demon who had lived for more than three hundred years.
He had entrenched himself outside the city, leaving the City Lord within helpless.
Or rather, it was not that the City Lord had no way to deal with him.
It was that the two were in collusion.
He had tacitly approved of these demons' actions.
There was no helping it. Even if he had wanted to intervene,
he lacked the energy to manage the many forces both inside and outside the city.
Old Yellow Dog sat cross-legged atop the shrine, gnawing on a chicken leg.
"Ancestor, will that man really return?" a junior asked.
"Didn't he call himself a Shushan Disciple? If he's a Shushan Disciple, he'll definitely come."
Old Yellow Dog snorted coldly.
"Remnants of Shu Mountain—their heads can be exchanged for quite a few treasures!"
Soon, two days passed.
Several more heads appeared on the flagpole.
Another two households had been wiped out by the dog demons.
More than two thousand residents of Baiyun County trembled in fear, terrified that they would be next.
They could only pray that the culprit who had killed that dog demon a few days ago would appear soon.
Yet that man seemed to have