County seat, North Gate.
"Aah!!!"
"Help!"
"Monsters have stormed the county seat! Where's the Incense Master?!"
The people's screams and cries rang without end, occasionally mixed with angry roars.
Animals with some human traits burst from the night and slaughtered the unarmed civilians.
Foxes, weasels, snakes...
The former Guardian Immortals had all become vicious monsters.
There were so many of them that they easily left a mass of severed limbs in their wake, turning the city gate into a sea of blood.
And this wasn't happening at just one city gate.
The same slaughter was unfolding at all four gates.
Incense Master Shi had only just reached the eastern part of town when he saw the carnage at the gate. In his panic, he pounded his chest and spat several streams of blood.
He barely managed to save a few civilians who were about to die beneath fox claws.
"Bastards!"
As he ran toward them, he lit an incense stick and began performing a ritual.
If he couldn't take on an Altar Immortal, surely he could handle these household immortals?
East of the county seat stood a towering mountain of jagged rocks.
Anyone standing atop it could take in the entire county seat at a glance.
The people's cries couldn't reach this far, and the mountaintop was silent.
A white-haired boy, his hair reaching down to his waist, sat cross-legged on a boulder at the summit, watching what was happening in the county seat.
"It seems something's gone wrong with Huang Yuan and Miss Hu Jiu."
The beautiful young woman standing behind the white-haired boy asked softly, "Should we go check on them?"
The boy gave an almost imperceptible nod. "We should."
The young woman said, "Then I—"
Before she could finish, the boy interrupted her. "Go ahead. Be