Outside the Demon Capital Guard, the area was packed with people, all of them here to watch the spectacle.
Sect Master Tongtian and Demon Ancestor Luohu arrived atop a large tree and looked down over the incomparably tranquil marsh.
Bubbles kept rising from the marsh.
Glug, glug.
No one knew what these bubbles meant.
The entire marsh had been surrounded by the Demon Capital Guard, with layer upon layer of people packed so tightly that not even water could pass through.
There were countless onlookers!
Watching a spectacle seemed to be a common failing of all humans.
The Devil Race was, in truth, nothing more than humans with greater strength. In essence, there was no difference between them.
At that moment, the onlookers were discussing the matter animatedly. Every topic revolved around the Nine-Headed Demon Snake.
"What exactly happened last night? Why are there so many people here?"
"I heard a Nine-Headed Demon Snake appeared here and ate over ten thousand people. The Demon Capital Guard sealed this place off because they're worried someone might enter the marsh for fun. By then, they'd all become food in the Nine-Headed Demon Snake's mouth and a feast in its belly."
"How could over ten thousand people have been eaten? Could people actually be living in this marsh?"
"This place is called Yunmeng Marsh. Every year, around the Lantern Festival, it's a Holy Land for sightseeing. Plenty of people especially like bathing in the marsh."
"They say it can drive away bad luck and bring good fortune. Ten thousand people isn't even that many for such a vast body of water. At its peak, there were probably ten times that number."
"The Nine-Headed Demon Snake was always just a legend. It had never truly appeared before. Why did it suddenly show itself? Something