Amid the ruins, Nine Infants spewed water, fire, poison, and smoke. With the force of heaven and earth upon it, it looked like a moving natural disaster, its presence utterly terrifying.
The onlookers scattered like birds and beasts. Before long, Shattered Star City had become empty of demons, leaving only a group of wounded and battered survivors who gradually came to pay their respects to the new Great Sage.
Xiang Yuan dug up the Yaksha King's corpse from the ruins and checked it repeatedly. There was no demon core; some masked man had taken it without anyone knowing.
"They really struck hard. They didn't even leave the demon core..."
Xiang Yuan more or less understood why the Yaksha King had been so grief-stricken and furious. Those masked burly men could clearly have killed him outright, yet instead they had sent a group of younger Demon Race members to come steal the kill.
They killed the demon—and stabbed him in the heart besides!
None of this had much to do with Xiang Yuan. Xiang Yuan accepted Shattered Star City's inheritance rights, swept away the Yaksha King's corpse, had the lesser demons clear the imperial city ruins, and moved the new Great Sage's residence to another palace within the city.
This palace stood in the south of the city. Its scale and grandeur could not compare to Shattered Star Imperial City, but it had an elegant charm to it. The garden layout was delicate and beautiful, perfectly suited to Xiang's refined tastes.
Shattered Star Imperial City and the like looked like a great demon king's palace at first glance. It did not fit his healer's aura of saving lives and healing the wounded.
More importantly, his glabella had turned black—there was a Disaster of Bloodlight ahead. Inauspicious!
"Damn it, I forgot