One Day, Slay Demons and Eliminate Devils

Jade Pearl Town, Deng Estate.

Deng Chicheng ordered the gates shut, forbidding anyone from leaving.

What happened tonight was simply too terrifying... Even without Deng Chicheng's orders, the servants in the estate wouldn't dare venture out.

Everyone was waiting for Xie Xuanyi to return.

But they waited until dawn without a single word.

"That young man looked only fifteen or sixteen. Can he really exorcise demons on his own?"

"He hasn't returned for so long... Could something have gone wrong?"

"I heard that a celestial master passed through Jade Pearl Town not long ago, provoked Tu Fei and the others, and was skinned and eaten!"

Several servants gathered in a corner, whispering.

"Bang!"

A loud crash suddenly came from outside the gate, startling the servants.

"Anyone who keeps gossiping will be kicked out!"

Deng Baiyi returned, radiating a murderous aura.

The entire estate fell silent, trembling with fear.

There were many trivial matters tonight. Tu Fei was dead, and a pit needed to be dug to dispose of the body.

Deng Baiyi arranged for the servants to get busy, then headed alone toward the main house, pushing the door open without a word.

As expected, her father was packing his bags.

Seeing his daughter return, Deng Chicheng breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said, "Baiyi, you're back? Hurry up and pack your things. We'll leave this place of trouble together in a moment!"

Previously, several great demons guarded the vicinity of Jade Pearl Town.

If he tried to escape, he would surely be discovered and eaten...

But now it was different.

The young man who crawled out of the coffin was exceptionally powerful. Regardless of the outcome of tonight's demon slaying, at least no one would be watching him.

Now was the perfect opportunity to escape Jade Pearl Town.

"I'm not leaving."

Closing the door, Deng Baiyi shook her head and softly spoke three words.

"Not leaving?"

Deng Chicheng paused for a moment.

He said anxiously, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Closing the gates of the Deng Estate was a delaying tactic.

It was a show of attitude, and a way to observe.

If that young man successfully slayed the demons and returned, he wouldn't mind offering gold and silver to avoid disaster...

But his fear was of using a wolf to swallow a tiger!

The young man who slayed the great demons was even harder to provoke, even more violent!

He, Deng Chicheng, couldn't afford to offend either one.

Of the thirty-six stratagems, running away was the best.

"Father..."

Deng Baiyi's expression was calmer than ever before.

She pulled over a wooden chair, sat down in front of Deng Chicheng, and said softly, "I know very well what I'm saying and what I'm doing."

Deng Chicheng stared blankly at his daughter.

It seemed that from half a year ago, he felt... his daughter was somewhat different from before.

He couldn't quite put his finger on what had changed.

Perhaps it was her spirit, perhaps it was her eyes. In short, her entire temperament had undergone a tremendous transformation!

Deng Chicheng began to find his daughter's absurd behavior incomprehensible—

Digging up a coffin from the wilderness!

And then, against his objections, insisting on entering into a ghost marriage with the "dead person" in the coffin!

But the events of tonight made him understand a principle.

Perhaps not everything his daughter had done was wrong.

If it weren't for that young man who crawled out of the coffin, the Deng family estate would have been wiped out tonight!

"That 'dead person' will win."

Deng Baiyi looked into her father's eyes and said calmly, "Choosing to run away is not a wise move."

"He could even kill those demons... killing us would be even easier?"

Deng Chicheng blurted out subconsciously.

The sword that the young man had used to instantly kill Tu Fei earlier was too fast, too clean.

Even now, he felt afraid, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.

This was actually a very normal reaction.

Anyone would feel fear in this situation... an ant would naturally fear an elephant, and the gap between him and Xie Xuanyi was even greater than that.

"If he wanted to kill, he would have done it already."

Deng Baiyi continued calmly, "You're too afraid of death, and that actually makes it easier to die."

Deng Chicheng opened his mouth, realizing he couldn't refute her.

"I know you've always been curious as to why I brought back that coffin, why I wanted to enter into a spirit marriage with a 'dead person'?"

Deng Baiyi smoothed her temples.

Sitting in the dim room, she thought for a long time, and said earnestly, "I met someone. A very strange person, someone whose words became prophecies, and all of them came true. That person said I would survive a great calamity and surely have good fortune afterwards, that person said I would have a great opportunity... I want to take a gamble."

"I want to stay here and wait for him to return."

Night ended and dawn broke, the gloom dissipated.

"Swish, swish."

In Jade Pearl Town, paper money drifted through the long street.

Xie Xuanyi carried Jiang Huang on his back, slowly walking through this dilapidated town.

Because he had been too heavy-handed back then, Jiang Huang's legs were still broken, and even after transforming, she couldn't walk freely.

In addition, the little one's soul was severely injured, and after saying a few words, she fell asleep again... Xie Xuanyi had no choice but to take off his outer robe, wrap her in it, and carry her on his back.

After several hours, he returned to his "old haunt."

Only then did Xie Xuanyi realize that Jade Pearl Town was indeed a town with very heavy Yin energy.

This town was no different from a dead town, the long street was covered with fallen leaves and paper money, and even with the sunrise, it still looked gloomy.

No one went out at all.

Most of the houses and mansions were dilapidated and desolate.

But strangely, every household had large red lanterns hanging at their doors, and several households had large paper figures leaning against their doors.

The scene that met the eye was a bleak, greyish-white one, making people not want to stay long.

"..."

Xie Xuanyi sighed softly, feeling only pity.

Perhaps it was due to the depletion of vital energy, making cultivation impossible.

Since Great Chu had chosen to recall the garrison commander, it was equivalent to abandoning this territory.

Since the royal family had chosen to abandon it, there was no reason for the people to hold on to it.

"I'm back."

Xie Xuanyi returned to the front of the Deng Estate, reached out and pressed on the bronze door, while speaking.

This call, of course, was not to ask someone to open the door.

With a dull thud, the bronze door bolt was knocked off, Xie Xuanyi stepped into the mansion with a calm expression, looking at the mansion scene that quickly turned from lively to extremely quiet, as he had expected, and the dozen or so fearful gazes cast on him.

First, he reached out and dusted off the dust on his clothes, then picked up the teacup on the stone table, took a gentle sip, and finally unloaded the little girl from his back, handing her to a pale-faced nanny, instructing the latter to go to the guest room to change Jiang Huang into a suitable outfit.

After doing all this.

Xie Xuanyi sat down at the stone table, twirling the teacup in his hand, held it over his head, while examining it, and quietly waited.

The main room at the end of the mansion.

Hearing the movement outside, Deng Baiyi leaned against the wooden door, taking three deep breaths.

Having calmed her heart, Deng Baiyi took the initiative to push open the door, sat opposite Xie Xuanyi, and said with a smile, "You're back?"

Xie Xuanyi put down the teacup, didn't say anything, smiled in the same way, and looked at the woman.

Deng Baiyi raised her chin, her gaze looking outside the mansion, and asked again, "Did you kill them all?"

"Of course."

Xie Xuanyi said lightly, "What about you, have you thought about your answer?"

Deng Baiyi didn't directly answer the question.

"I've thought about it a long time ago."

She looked directly into Xie Xuanyi's eyes and asked seriously, "I just have one question, if I give you my answer, will you take me with you on your journey?"

"You should be clear, you have no bargaining power."

Xie Xuanyi took another sip of tea.

Although they had only spent half a night together, he already knew what Deng Baiyi was planning.

Born in a chaotic world and stuck in the desolate Northern Prefecture, such a beautiful face was more of a curse than a blessing.

Without someone to rely on, she would only become someone else's plaything.

Tu Fei was dead, but there would be another.

This woman was no ordinary person; she dared to risk her life and marry a dead man, gambling that an absurd prophecy would come true.

Now, the first step had already paid off.

Deng Baiyi, of course, knew that she had no bargaining power.

However, this might be the only chance she had in this life... before getting what she wanted, she needed to be brave.

"I want to leave here."

Deng Baiyi stared straight into Xie Xuanyi's eyes and said, word by word, "I don't want anything else, I just want 'freedom'. Not to be trapped in the Northern Prefecture, not to be at the mercy of others, not to become someone else's plaything."

Her voice trembled slightly when she said this.

But as she continued, her voice became calmer.

"There is no true freedom, and there are few in this world who can truly achieve the 'freedom' you speak of."

Xie Xuanyi glanced at the woman and said calmly, "If you just want to leave Jade Pearl Town, you don't have to follow me. I can arrange a geomantically auspicious place for the Deng Estate, ensuring that it won't be disturbed by demonic threats for the next twenty years."

Hearing this, Deng Chicheng's eyes lit up.

Leaving the Northern Prefecture was something many people dreamed of.

The border checkpoints were heavily guarded, and for ordinary people to enter the pass to the south "legally and legitimately," they needed to go through layers of review. The current pass alone was something the Deng family could not afford even if they exhausted their wealth.

This was definitely a great opportunity!

But facing the conditions proposed by Xie Xuanyi, Deng Baiyi's expression did not change at all.

She simply shook her head gently and uttered a sentence: "This... is not what I want."

That one sentence wiped the smile off Deng Chicheng's face, his expression more unsightly than crying.

"Then what do you want? What is this so-called freedom you speak of?"

Xie Xuanyi smiled faintly.

In fact, he understood perfectly, but he was deliberately not pointing out the final layer.

"Cultivation!"

Deng Baiyi said in a deep voice, each word resounding, "I want to follow you in cultivation. If there is a chance one day, I also want to control a flying sword and slay demons!"

Thanks to my good brother Zhi Han for the alliance leader, strongly recommend Martial Artist.