From a thousand meters away.
Xiao Chen sensed an extremely terrifying demonic aura.
"Hmm? So early in the morning, and demons are already running rampant in Lijia Village?" Xiao Chen narrowed his eyes slightly. His steps grew ever lighter, like a ghost treading the night sea, as he drifted toward Lijia Village like a phantom.
Outside the village.
Vast fields of spiritual crops shimmered with spiritual light. Golden wheat ears swayed in the wind as though cast from gold, dazzling with radiance, yet faintly entwined by a wisp of black demonic smoke that lent them several shades of ferocity.
Farther away stood a deep mountain.
Faint firelight surged upon it.
This mountain was Orange Fire Mountain, occupied by the Demon Hound General.
Legend had it that within grew a Spiritual Fire that had existed for a hundred thousand years.
It was precisely because the Demon Hound General had been nourished by that Spiritual Fire.
That its cultivation had soared.
And it had become the overlord of all Orange Fire Mountain.
Making the myriad demons within a thousand miles bow their heads.
The outskirts of Worry-Free City were ringed by mountains.
Nearly every village now had forests and mountains nearby.
For this very reason.
The villagers suffered endlessly from demons.
The sky had only just brightened.
The tranquility of the morning.
Was shattered to pieces.
By an incomparably powerful demonic aura.
A group of villagers knelt in terror at the village entrance.
Trembling all over.
Lijia Village was not small.
It had a population of a thousand.
At this moment.
Almost everyone had gathered beneath the old locust tree at the village entrance.
They huddled there, shivering as they watched a towering Dog Demon eat.
The Dog Demon was huge, built like an iron tower, and stood at least two meters