"Liang Prefecture?"
When the waiter heard Li Hao's question, he showed no impatience. Instead, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he smiled.
"Sir, did you come from Liang Prefecture? Then you must have met Young General Haotian, right?"
"Hmm?"
Li Hao was surprised. "You know about him too?"
"Come now, sir! Who wouldn't?"
The waiter couldn't help laughing. "You Province isn't far from Liang Prefecture. The unrest a few months ago, when those damned demons surrounded and attacked it, has long since become common knowledge across all the prefectures. I heard the old master of our You Province's Xia Family Divine General Residence even went to reinforce them."
As he spoke, he looked at Li Hao with curiosity and anticipation written all over his face.
"I heard the demons poured out in full force during that catastrophe. Countless demons swept through, and Demon Kings filled the skies. They were so thick you couldn't see the color of the sky or a patch of green on the ground. It was like a swarm of locusts passing through, leaving not a blade of grass behind. Liang Prefecture was about to fall, but then Young General Haotian appeared out of nowhere and suppressed all those demons. By the end of the slaughter, a single battle flag could strike fear into countless demons. Is all that true?"
"..."
Li Hao hadn't expected word of Liang Prefecture's events to have spread this far. Even a waiter in a small town in You Province knew about them.
Still, that seemed natural enough. Several months had passed, after all. Even the slowest news would have spread by now.
"More or less."
Li Hao asked, "What's the situation in Liang Prefecture now? Have all the demons withdrawn? Is there still fighting?"
"It's been peaceful for ages now. What