Song Yueyao stared, stunned.
She had assumed it was the work of a passing expert or a general from the Xia Family. She had never expected it to be someone from the Demon Suppression Division.
And just an ordinary Demon Suppression Envoy at that?
Suddenly, she noticed that the youth's face looked remarkably familiar.
She seemed to have seen him somewhere before.
...This morning?
Song Yueyao was a little face-blind. She rarely paid attention to other people, regarding them as no different from grass and trees.
But her memory was not bad. She soon recalled that this youth was one of the five newcomers who had reported to the Demon Suppression Division that morning.
He was also a disciple of Sandalwood Palace.
Thinking of his identity, Song Yueyao suddenly remembered the youth carrying a wild rabbit when she had gone to Class A Institute to identify someone. He was the very person standing before her.
He had merely changed into a black uniform, yet she had found him somewhat unfamiliar.
At the same time, Li Hao noticed the woman pursuing him from behind. He turned his head slightly to glance at her, and their eyes met for an instant.
Li Hao paid her little mind. He gave a slight nod, then continued forward with the Demon Slayer Blade in hand.
Song Yueyao, however, froze on the tree as though struck by lightning.
That profile when he turned his head... so familiar!
The scene in that cave abruptly surfaced in her mind, along with the fleeting glimpse of that face in profile.
"Was it him?!"
Song Yueyao was dumbfounded. The disciple who had secretly cleared the Mo River was the person before her?!
She found it hard to believe, but the Ape Demon corpses littering the ground around her brought sudden