Boom!
The explosion echoed throughout Jinling, throwing the entire city into turmoil.
Inside an inn.
"Master... I'm scared!"
Mo Gu was jolted awake from her dreams and curled into Cen Hongyue's arms, her eyes brimming with tears.
"Don't be afraid. It's safe here. There aren't any bad people anymore."
Cen Hongyue comforted her gently while waving a hand.
Invisible force opened the door, revealing the pitch-black night and a patch of crimson. Judging by its direction, it was unmistakably where the Imperial City stood!
"There are actually demons daring to attack the imperial palace?"
Cen Hongyue's eyes widened, her face filled with disbelief.
"Master, what should we do?"
Yingzi bit her lip and looked toward her master.
"It's all right..." Cen Hongyue forced a smile, seemingly comforting her disciple, yet perhaps also comforting herself. "The thieves' target is the Imperial City. It has nothing to do with ordinary civilians like us... Nothing to do with us..."
Before she had finished speaking, a scream came from nearby.
"D-Demon... a demon!"
"The demon is killing people!"
"There's a demon!"
Cen Hongyue's expression suddenly turned ugly. When she stepped out of the inn, she saw lights burning in every household, with clamors rising from time to time.
It seemed that beneath the veil of night, countless demons were lurking and attacking house after house!
"What's going on? Follow me!"
Cen Hongyue led her two disciples into a household from which screams had come, only to discover a mass of starlight sprawled over several corpses, seemingly drawing something from them.
Within the starlight was a dark-black demonic core, while the radiance around it formed its body.
"So it's a [Starlight Demon]!"
Cen Hongyue looked up, only now realizing that the starry sky tonight seemed unusually bright. "But Jinling has formations and experts guarding