Old Master Gao finally returned from his son-in-law's home after several days. After all, the Gao family's estate was all in Gao Family Village, and such a large household required enormous expenses to sustain. Master Gao had no choice but to return.
Master Gao had already hired an expert to eliminate the demon, which was also why he dared to come back.
After Master Gao returned, Old Master Gao and Old Madam Gao worried for their daughter's safety and tried to open the rear courtyard to rescue her. They picked locks, climbed walls, dug holes, and even tried to knock down the walls, yet none of their countless methods allowed them inside. The people of Gao Family Village became even more terrified of the rear courtyard, fearing it as if it were a tiger, and no one dared approach it in the slightest.
Especially at night, when Zhu Ganglie returned to the rear courtyard and deliberately stirred up howling black winds, rolling sand, and darkened skies, the Gao family was so frightened that they did not even dare stick their heads out. During the day, they did not even dare glance toward the rear courtyard.
During the day, Zhu Ganglie returned to Cloud Stack Cave on Fuling Mountain to cultivate. In a few years, the scripture-seeking party would pass through Gao Family Village in the Wusizang Kingdom, and his mission would arrive. As Marshal Tianpeng, who had commanded the Ten Thousand Heavenly River Sailors in the Heavenly Court, he had been banished to the mortal realm by the Jade Emperor for drunkenly flirting with Chang'e. Yet because he had mistakenly entered a pig's womb, he could only recultivate in the form of a pig demon. Several centuries had now passed, and his cultivation had returned to the Late Taiyi Golden