Tiger Roars Through Wind and Thunder, Shaking the Long Street!

Tiger Roars Through Wind and Thunder, Shaking the Long Street! The long wind drifted on, and yellow sand filled the air.

A young girl dressed like an ordinary wanderer rode slowly into view at the end of the official road.

Her skin was smooth and fine as jade, utterly at odds with the dim yellow dust around her.

Jiang Yuechu frowned and urged her horse onward, leisurely entering Jincheng County.

Though she had long been prepared for it, knowing that the cities of this world could never be as prosperous as those in her previous life.

This scene before her, desolate as a ghost city, still exceeded her expectations.

Not a soul could be seen on the street, while the doors and windows of the shops on both sides stood wide open.

If not for the words "Jincheng" outside the county walls, she would truly have thought she had come to the wrong place.

Could the demon have already left?

The thought had barely arisen.

An angry shout, accompanied by the clash of metal, rang out from the depths of the long street.

Jiang Yuechu's pupils shrank. She flipped off her horse and casually tied it to a nearby post.

Keeping one hand on her sword hilt, she silently made her way toward the sound.

Clang—

A blade cried out, clear and cold as a dragon's roar.

Xu Nian said not another word. He leaped from his horse, his Horizontal Blade cutting an arc through the dim yellow light.

His blood and qi surged, pouring into the blade.

At the sight, the Pig Demon actually let out a savage grin. With a flick of its hand, it somehow produced a rusty longsword.

"Courting death!"

The blade arrived.

The sword met it.

Sparks scattered in all directions.

The next instant, that rusty longsword snapped in two.

Half the blade flew away and embedded itself in a distant wall with a thud.

Xu Nian landed, his Horizontal Blade angled downward, his body utterly motionless.

"Excellent!"

"Lord Xu is mighty!"

Several Imperial Guards from the Demon Suppression Bureau, who had rushed over upon hearing the commotion, happened to witness the scene. Their faces changed in shock, and they could not help shouting their praise.

"So this is the might of a Bone Resonance Realm expert... Ordinary demons are no match for him at all!"

Yet there was not the slightest joy on Xu Nian's face.

He raised a hand, stopping the people behind him from advancing.

"None of you come closer!"

Everyone froze, the excitement still not gone from their faces.

"This demon is no ordinary Bone Resonance..."

Xu Nian took a deep breath and gave a stern order.

"Liu Chen, take the men and withdraw at once! Return to Liangzhou Prefecture and report to the General. The demon in Jincheng County is no longer something we can handle!"

"You come when you please, and leave when you please?"

The Pig Demon bared its teeth and let out a grating laugh, its scarlet eyes full of mockery.

"Do you really think I, Zhu Yan, am made of clay?"

As its words fell.

It slowly tossed the hilt of its broken sword to the ground.

The next moment, the fat across its body began to writhe in a bizarre manner. Its already enormous body swelled by another size, bursting apart its ragged clothes.

A thick, foul-smelling blood mist slowly seeped from the pores all over its body and spread outward.

Within the blood mist, the stench was piercing.

Only now did Liu Chen and the others finally understand why Xu Nian, a Bone Resonance Realm expert, had issued the order to retreat without hesitation.

"This... this is..."

When demons cultivated and stepped into Bone Resonance, their sinews and bones resonated together, allowing them to awaken innate divine abilities.

Though the Demon Race was favored by heaven and earth, not every one of them was heaven's chosen.

Those who could obtain divine abilities were one in ten thousand.

Either they carried the bloodline of an ancient Great Demon, noble in heritage.

Or they had encountered a tremendous stroke of fortune.

Even if ordinary demons luckily entered Bone Resonance, they were merely beasts with thicker hides and tougher flesh.

But this Pig Demon before them...

The blood mist spreading from its body was clearly that one-in-ten-thousand sinister divine ability!

Seeing the Demon Suppression Guards before it standing as if facing a great enemy, the Pig Demon actually gave a self-mocking laugh.

"Learning to wield a sword, learning to recite poetry... after so long, I nearly forgot..."

"My Pig Demon clan was born to tear flesh with claws and fangs, to crush sinews and bones between our tusks."

Its scarlet eyes swept over the crowd.

"You, as lackeys of the Demon Suppression Bureau, aid tyranny and abet evil. That is your first crime."

"You killed my children without cause and severed my bloodline. That is your second crime."

"Two crimes, punished together."

"Today, every last one of you will die!"

As its words fell.

The blood mist that filled the long street suddenly rolled back.

It condensed into countless thick blood-colored tentacles, sweeping toward the crowd like a canopy swallowing the sky!

"Ah—"

One Imperial Guard of the Demon Suppression Bureau failed to evade in time and was ensnared by several blood-colored tentacles, his limbs bound as he was hoisted into the air.

He struggled desperately, and his Horizontal Blade slipped from his hand, clanging onto the ground.

"Save—"

Before he could even finish the word.

The Pig Demon opened its gaping, bloodstained maw and bit down.

Crack.

His head separated from his body, and blood spurted forth.

Liu Chen's eyes turned bloodshot. With an angry roar, he slashed out with his Horizontal Blade, severing several incoming tentacles.

But the tentacles regrew as soon as they were cut, endless and inexhaustible.

"Damn it!"

Xu Nian cursed under his breath. The blood and qi within him began to churn violently, while his bones rang with a hum like clashing gold and stone.

The Bone Resonance Realm, unleashed in full!

He stepped forward, and a faint golden aura ignited over his Horizontal Blade.

Prison-Suppressing Blade!

With a thunderous shout, his blade light swept out like a streak of silk.

This blade technique was the Demon Suppression Bureau of Longyou Circuit's secret art, never passed beyond its ranks. It had been created specifically to slay demons and exterminate evil, its blade intent fierce and tyrannical, shattering wickedness and cleansing filth.

The golden blade light flashed past, and dozens of blood-colored tentacles were severed at once.

A sizzling sound rose from the wounds.

It was like boiling oil splashed upon ice and snow, black smoke rising in waves as the cuts refused to heal for a long while.

Yet even so, against the blood-colored tentacles flooding in from all directions, it was still a drop in the bucket.

Even Xu Nian was struggling so greatly.

The Demon Suppression Guards behind him, who were only in the Mortal Realm and String-Hearing Realm, found it even harder to resist.

In the blink of an eye, two more Imperial Guards were swept up by the tentacles.

Zhu Yan grinned savagely and repeated the same method, biting off their heads alive and chewing with loud crunches, its mouth smeared with blood.

"When you killed my children, did you ever think there would be a day like this?"

Xu Nian's face was ashen, and he said nothing. He only frantically drove his blood and qi, his blade light growing ever fiercer as he shielded his few remaining subordinates.

But in the end, he was only one man, with one blade.

The blood mist was endless.

A demon's divine ability was simply this unreasonable.

And it was precisely because it was so unreasonable.

That demons possessing divine abilities were so exceedingly rare.

Liu Chen gave everything he had to split open a blood-colored tentacle with one slash, only for three or five others to seize the opening and bind him tight.

An immense force dragged him off the ground.

A gaping, bloodstained maw loomed before his eyes.

Foul saliva dripped onto his face, mixed with someone's blood.

Nothing remained in his eyes but despair.

It was over.

But just then.

The Pig Demon's movement abruptly froze.

The blood-colored tentacles binding Liu Chen loosened as well.

Bang—

Liu Chen crashed heavily onto the ground, seeing stars as he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Ignoring the pain, he instinctively looked up.

The Pig Demon was no longer paying them any attention. Its pair of scarlet beast eyes stared fixedly past the crowd.

Xu Nian also sensed that something was wrong and forced himself to turn around.

At the end of the long street.

At some unknown moment, another person had appeared.

The wind lifted her long hair, revealing her full face.

Lovely as peach blossoms in the third spring, pure as chrysanthemums in the ninth autumn.

How could such a young girl appear here?

The doubt in everyone's hearts had yet to fade.

Blade light rose.

A Blood-Colored Tiger Shadow shot skyward from behind her.

Roar—