At the far end of their vision, the scene was warped by rising heat.
The expressions on everyone's faces could not have been stranger.
Their gazes kept shifting between the young girl standing with her saber planted in the ground and the mangled demon corpse on the sand.
General of the Guard Shi was desperately scanning the surroundings.
It was as if he wanted to find the shadow of another peerless expert somewhere on this empty Gobi wasteland.
Otherwise, all of this was simply too inconceivable!
This was a Core Formation Realm Great Demon!
Even if the Grand General himself had come, he would likely have needed to put in some effort.
How could it have died here so silently?
And at the hands of a little girl who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen?
Could it be...
This creature had already been gravely wounded, and the girl had simply taken advantage of it?
That was very possible!
At that thought, he finally let out a breath of relief.
As for Jiang Yuechu being in the Core Formation Realm...
What a joke.
If this girl truly was in the Core Formation Realm, he, Shi, would kneel on the spot and call her mother.
Wei He silently dismounted, then walked without a word to the broken corpse of the ape demon.
He crouched, stretched out two fingers to examine the fatal wound at the corpse's throat, then picked up a pinch of bloodstained sand and gently sniffed it.
Very fresh.
It had clearly died only moments ago...
He slowly rose to his feet, turned, and let his gaze fall upon Jiang Yuechu's face.
"You killed it?"
Jiang Yuechu cupped her fists. "By luck."
"..."
By luck?
Those two words plunged the area into silence.
Wei He said nothing. He merely