Run, run!!!

"My father is... Ah!"

Before he could finish speaking, a piercing scream tore through the air and echoed throughout the Heaven Character-type room.

They were used to invoking their fathers to scare people. That usually worked, but their opponent was a demon.

"Stop..."

Liu Wei's expression changed drastically. His pupils contracted, and beads of sweat the size of beans instantly covered his forehead as a powerful sense of foreboding rose in his heart.

He knew full well that if these two died here, Wanbao County would be plunged into a tremendous upheaval.

But... demons kept their word, too.

"Crack!"

With a sharp snap, the Demon Claws mercilessly reaped their lives.

The necks of everyone in the Heaven Character-type room were twisted into knots in an instant. Their chests were pierced by sharp claws, their hearts and livers brutally ripped out, and blood gushed forth, staining the entire room red.

Not a single person inside was left alive.

"Kill them!"

This was no longer a simple threat. It had become a brutal massacre.

"Hiss..."

Jun Lan and Hong Mei let out furious, resentful roars at the same time. Their cries shook the heavens.

In an instant, the situation spiraled completely out of control.

Both sides in the room immediately fell into a brawl, the shouts of battle mingling with the clashing of weapons.

"Hold the line!" Li Kun shouted, his voice full of urgency and resolve. "The General Banner is on the way with reinforcements!"

As he shouted, he swung his weapon, doing his utmost to fend off the Fox Demons' wave after wave of ferocious attacks.

Liu Wei's long saber swept in broad arcs as he fought with all his strength, veins bulging on his forehead and beads of sweat rolling down incessantly.

Relying on his tenacious fighting spirit, he managed to hold one breach in an instant.

However, the Captains were far too weak before the Qi Gathering Realm great demons. They couldn't withstand even a single blow from the monsters.

A Qi Gathering Realm demon was about as strong as a Qi Gathering Realm human, and its attack methods weren't particularly complicated.

Humans used "energy" to strengthen their bodies and the weapons connected to them.

Demons did the same. Their fur and hide, reinforced by demonic energy, were as hard as iron.

Ordinary blades and swords couldn't hurt them in the slightest without the aid of "energy."

It was simply that, at this stage, a human's energy was called Internal Energy.

But just as the battle below ended, the battle above stopped as well.

Du Juan's scream rang throughout the entire Jiaofang Si.

She was dead.

The few demons above were stunned.

"Quick, go!" Jun Lan ordered anxiously.

Du Juan was dead. Five members of the West Mountain Fox Clan at the Qi Gathering Realm had perished here tonight.

A trace of despair and helplessness flashed through her eyes. She knew they had to break out now; the more of their people who survived, the better.

At her command, the Fox Demons in the room were about to scatter and flee.

Just then, Chen Bin had already stepped onto the windowsill.

His steps were steady and forceful. He suddenly planted a foot against the window frame, and with a rumble, the wooden frame snapped and collapsed, sending splinters flying everywhere.

Chen Bin's gaze swept across the room like lightning. A trace of regret flashed in his eyes.

What a pity. Those rich young masters had four or five points of Merit flickering above their heads.

Even a mosquito's leg was meat.

"Go?" Chen Bin looked coldly at the demons, the corner of his mouth curling into a chilly smile. "Where do you think you can run?"

His voice was low, yet oppressive, as if it came from the Nine Nether Hell.

The demons halted at once, terror written across their faces.

"Sister, we can't get out."

Several little demons looked at Jun Lan, their eyes filled with fear and despair.

"Then avenge Sister Du Juan!" Jun Lan turned to Chen Bin, her eyes brimming with hatred and murderous intent, two raging flames burning in them. "Kill him!"

With a furious roar, she charged alongside Hong Mei and the other Fox Demons.

Six Fox Demons transformed into streaks of black lightning and rushed toward Chen Bin as one.

Their figures were as swift as ghosts, their claws gleaming coldly as they sliced through the air with sharp whistles.

In that very instant, the Demon Suppression Blade in Chen Bin's hand flashed with cold light and struck.

He stepped in a Seven-Star pattern, charging into the demon horde in an instant. His body turned, forming the shape of the Eight Trigrams.

It was the Eight Trigrams Circling Step from the Ten Perfect Steps.

Chen Bin darted rapidly among the demons, his figure shifting like a ghost, impossible to pin down.

Golden light shimmered along the pitch-black blade. With the howl of wind and the rumble of thunder, it swept toward the Fox Demons.

Before this fierce wind-and-thunder assault, the fur and hide strengthened by fox power snapped apart like rotten wooden stakes.

"Pfft..."

"Pfft..."

A series of muffled sounds rang out. Liu Wei and the others witnessed the most shocking, unforgettable sight of their lives.

A streak of black lightning-like saber light flashed past. Four heads shot into the sky like launched rockets, and blood burst in every direction like fireworks.

[You killed four Body Tempering Realm Fox Demons..., gained Merit +36, remaining Merit: 604]

Chen Bin's blade did not slow.

Jun Lan and Hong Mei reacted quickly, raising their claws together to block the oncoming Demon Suppression Blade.

The Demon Suppression Blade was razor-sharp. It cut a wound deep enough to expose bone into their claws, and bright red blood seeped from the gashes before gushing out.

In the next instant, pale yellow demonic energy rapidly spread across the two demons' bodies.

In the blink of an eye, their wounds had healed as if they had never been there.

They lowered their bodies as their demonic energy grew denser. No longer standing upright in human form, they dropped to all fours, their beastly forms on full display as instinct gradually overwhelmed reason.

Their eyes were red as blood. Low growls rumbled from their throats as they lunged at Chen Bin again.

But this time, they leaped at empty air. Chen Bin's figure vanished from where he had been.

"Where is he?" The two demons had yet to recover when an iron-claw-like hand shot out and seized Jun Lan's outstretched claw.

Before Jun Lan could steady herself, an enormous force flung her backward.

As her vision spun, a Demon Suppression Blade suffused with pale golden light flashed before her eyes.

Whoosh... Rain poured down from the heavens, and darkness and cold instantly enveloped Jun Lan's consciousness.

[You killed the Qi Gathering Realm Fox Demon Jun Lan, gained Merit +19, remaining Merit: 623]

"No!" Hong Mei crashed through the side-room door and looked back. Her sister's blood shot skyward like a fountain.

The two halves of her body fell to either side behind that demon.

Run. She had to run.

Chen Bin held his blade, his gaze cold as he fixed it on Hong Mei's neck.

An invisible chill spread through Hong Mei's entire body. Every hair on her stood on end.

Now on all fours and crouched low, she no longer thought about revenge. All she wanted was to escape.

As far as she could. As fast as she could.

The moment the thought crossed her mind, Hong Mei acted.

She turned and bolted through the hole in the shattered wall.

But a dark figure was faster, more ferocious, and more precise.

The moment the shadow flashed past, Hong Mei's head slammed hard against the floor.

"Bang!" A deafening crash sounded as a huge hole burst open in the wooden floor of the second story.

A foot stamped down hard on Hong Mei's head, driving her beneath the floorboards.

When had Hong Mei ever suffered such humiliation?

She braced herself against the floor with all four limbs. The demonic energy within her instantly went berserk, and the surrounding floorboards were blasted into the air by the powerful force.

Chen Bin frowned. Internal Energy flooded the pitch-black blade, once again coating its surface in golden light. Without hesitation, he swung it down.

Hong Mei, thrashing violently, suddenly tore her body free of the floorboards.

But by then, she no longer had a head.