Bang! Bang! Bang! A succession of soft impacts rang out. A phantom-like figure flickered through the city, and with every collision, a demon turned to ashes and scattered.
In but a short while, this city nestled within the Crescent Swamp of the southwest had fallen into utter silence. Ash filled the sky, whirling on the wind and drifting down across every corner of the city.
At the city's center, upon the square, heavy footsteps sounded. A man over a zhang tall, his muscles knotted like the roots of ancient trees and his bearing akin to a demon god's, strode forward before finally stopping beneath the altar.
The man looked up. The next instant, he threw a savage punch.
Boom! His fist collided with the altar. Crimson flames, carrying a terrifying sharpness like countless needles, surged into it. In an instant, a vast section of the altar's jade stone was reduced to powder.
Terrifying force erupted, sweeping up clouds of ash. The towering altar collapsed like a crumbling iceberg, visibly disintegrating from the bottom up.
The strange, towering statue atop the altar fell with it. With a bang, it landed amid the altar's ruins, its head rolling to a stop directly before the man's feet.
Bang! The man brought his foot down. The indistinguishably real Demon Statue head burst apart, shattering into countless fragments.
"Roar, roar, roar..."
Blood light streaked through the air. Faint, innumerable murmurs and roars echoed through heaven and earth like inner demons. The once-still, murky sky churned visibly beneath those sounds, while waves of indescribable heavenly might emerged.
"Hmph!"
Chu Mu snorted coldly and reached out. The streaking blood light abruptly froze, then, in the next instant, fell completely out of control and into Chu Mu's palm.
The blood light twisted and shifted, revealing thousands of demon