"On the Path"

Several immortal clerks froze where they stood, their expressions utterly spectacular.

What...

What kind of situation was this?

To curry favor with a demon, not only were they being offered up as blood food, they even had to testify to it themselves?!

An immortal clerk's life might indeed be cheap.

But this was bullying them far too much!

For a moment, all the immortal clerks glared fixedly at the girl, their eyes brimming with resentment.

Several of the younger ones had even begun inching backward, ready to flee for their lives at any moment.

Hearing Jiang Yuechu take everything upon herself like this, Red Erlang felt immensely pleased, finding the girl more and more agreeable to the eye.

"Good, good, good!"

Red Erlang nodded repeatedly, raising its long neck high. "Since you are so sensible, if I continue to refuse, I would seem rather ungrateful."

"Very well. I won't make things difficult for you today. I'll only eat one—just enough to whet my appetite."

As it spoke, Red Erlang spread its legs and strolled leisurely forward.

Before long, its gaze locked onto a young immortal clerk.

The young immortal clerk's legs went weak. He could not even summon the strength to run, and could only close his eyes in despair.

Red Erlang opened its beak, about to swallow him whole in a single bite.

Then, a piercing gust suddenly tore through the air behind its ear.

BOOM—!!!

"Who is it?!"

Red Erlang abruptly halted and whipped around.

The white-robed girl who had been bowing and scraping only moments ago was now wreathed in violent crimson-and-cyan windfire, her figure already flashing before its eyes.

At the same time—

A fair hand tore through the windfire and seized at it with savage force!

"Bold!"

Red Erlang flew into a rage.

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