The woman was lovely and refined, her moon-white robes like frost. As she stood still, the gleam of her sword flowed like water. She seemed an immortal descended from the heavens, untouched by the Mortal World.
Yet grief and fury twisted Mu Qinghan's face. She looked at the bodies strewn across the ground, then at the crimson dog demons nearby. At last, her gaze fixed on the villagers of Green Radish Village, whom the Radiant Light Sect had sheltered and defended for decades. In despair, she asked, "We've protected Green Radish Village for so many years. Why would you do this to us?"
"Fairy Qinghan, the Red Dog Demon King is invincible, and his followers are many. The Radiant Light Sect can't guard the village every hour of the day," an elderly villager who looked like the village chief said. "The Demon King promised that if we helped him take you as his concubine, the red dog demons would never attack Green Radish Village again!"
"Fairy Qinghan, how does it feel to have these ants you've protected for so many years turn around and bite you?" A red-haired young man stood before a giant crimson dog, demonic energy surging from him as he smiled. "I told you long ago: the Human Race is a heap of loose sand, hypocritical and despicable. You'll never amount to anything!"
"Demons attacked the village and brazenly appeared in Human Race territory. The Radiant Light Sect came to slay them, only to be plotted against by the villagers and led into an ambush?" Anger seethed in Xiao Chen's eyes.
After weathering so many storms, he was no longer the naïve boy he had once been. He knew how treacherous the human heart could be.
Yet what had happened today
still shocked him.
What the villagers