A Lone Blade at the Gathering! Slaying Demons with a Swing!

Mu Yang left, clean and decisive.

While Chen Bu and the others worried for him, they also felt deep admiration.

Knowing there were tigers in the mountains, yet choosing to walk straight into Tiger Mountain.

With such courage and nerve, given time, he would never remain trapped in a shallow pool!

"Let's go, Chuangzi, fetch the horses! Old Ye, Xiaoqi, you too—hurry and do as the head constable said!" Old Fang reacted first and immediately spoke up.

The others came back to their senses as well and promptly sprang into action.

The Constabulary's rear courtyard.

Wu Cai stood bare-chested, gripping a massive stone lock in each hand. He swung them with such force that the wind howled sharply, bending the branches around him.

The young men watching nearby all wore expressions of shock and admiration.

Wu Cai was off duty today, so he had come to the rear courtyard to train the newcomers alongside Old You.

"Old You! Head Constable Wu!?"

Just then, an urgent cry rang out.

Wu Cai lowered the stone locks and looked toward the newcomer.

"Old Chen? Xiaoqi? What happened? Are you injured?"

The newcomer was none other than Chen Bu, who had just applied some wound medicine and was being supported over by Lin Xiaoqi.

Lin Xiaoqi had originally come to find Old You on Mu Yang's orders, but he had not expected Wu Cai to be here as well.

Chen Bu reacted quickly. Seeing Wu Cai present, he immediately gave him a swift and concise account of what had just happened.

"What!?"

"Five or six Rat Demons, and Brother Mu went alone?"

Wu Cai slammed his hand against a stone lock. His tiger eyes flew wide open, and his voice boomed like thunder.

Old You and the newcomers nearby were likewise shocked, yet filled with admiration.

They were shocked by the horror of Rat Demons attacking a village, and admired Mu Yang's righteousness, courage, and chivalry.

"That brat really is a newborn calf unafraid of tigers! No, I need to call for help right away! Brother Mu's talent is extraordinary—nothing can happen to him!"

As he spoke, Wu Cai no longer cared about anything else. He casually grabbed the shirt he had taken off, greeted Old You, and immediately left the rear courtyard.

The injured Chen Bu was left behind for Old You to tend to.

At the same time.

Inside the County Office courtyard, at the County Commandant's workplace.

Zhou Heng was not bent over his desk as usual, frowning as he handled official matters.

Instead, his brows were unusually relaxed as he drank tea with the middle-aged man before him.

The man wore a fitted black outfit and carried a four-foot treasured sword at his waist. He stood straight as a pine, with eyes as sharp as an eagle's.

He was Qingxi County Office's foremost expert, the head constable of the Constable Office—Xue She.

He was also Zhou Heng's brother-in-law, the Zhou Family's son-in-law.

"Brother-in-law, how did it go?"

"I've already delivered the letter you sent to the Demon Slayer Bureau. But the Demon Slayer Bureau has been busy with the Blessed Land lately. Unless I personally lead people to Prefecture City, the recruitment matter will likely have to wait a while," Xue She said.

"Then we can only wait."

His original intention had been to bring people from the Demon Slayer Bureau to the county town, then see whether he could ask them to investigate the Three Great Families while they were here.

If he sent Mu Yang over, would all his efforts not have been in vain?

Xue She clearly understood his brother-in-law's calculations, so he said nothing more and simply sat in his chair, drinking tea by himself.

"Lord Zhou, something terrible has happened!"

At that moment, Clerk Liu pushed the door open and rushed in.

Old Ye stood beside him, panting heavily.

"What is it? Why are you making such a fuss!"

Zhou Heng set down his teacup, his brows knitting slightly.

Old Liu was normally a steady man. Why was he being so flustered today?

Could he not be more like Zhou Heng, with some composure—keeping his expression unchanged even if Mount Tai collapsed before him, and not blinking even if a herd of elk rose up at his left?

But the very next second, he could no longer keep it together.

"Lord Zhou, it's Head Constable Mu! Head Constable Mu went to Li Village alone, armed with nothing but himself, to fight a whole pack of demons!" Clerk Liu immediately recounted everything Old Ye had just reported to him.

"What!!"

Zhou Heng's expression changed abruptly. He shot to his feet, completely unaware that the tea in his hand had spilled.

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"Nonsense! How can he deal with five or six Rat Demons alone? Why didn't you stop him?!"

Mu Yang was his only hope for drawing the Demon Slayer Bureau over. If anything happened to him, it would be disastrous!

"No, Brother-in-law, please make a trip there at once. It doesn't matter whether the Rat Demons live or die—at the very least, Mu Yang must not come to harm!" Zhou Heng immediately looked toward Xue She.

Xue She was the county's head constable and the Constable Office's only Third Rank martial artist. He had long since nurtured the bones and Blood Marrow throughout all four limbs and his torso, making him a genuine late-stage Blood-Marrow Realm martial artist.

His strength was such that even the patriarchs of the Three Great Families treated him with courtesy.

"Ah, what a toilsome fate I have. I only just got off my horse and haven't even had more than a few sips of tea. Fine, fine. Who asked me to be your brother-in-law? But once I bring him back, remember to teach him properly. Otherwise, he'll keep acting so rashly. Next time, I may not be at his side."

Xue She rose as he gave Zhou Heng a few words of reproach. Then his figure flashed, and he vanished through the doorway.

"Ah, I hope Brother-in-law can make it in time..."

Zhou Heng paid no attention to Xue She's nagging and could only pray silently in his heart.

Mu Yang, nothing must happen to you!

Meanwhile.

On Mu Yang's side.

After leaving the Constabulary, he had not waited for Old Fang and the others to bring horses. With his early Golden Blood-Marrow Realm strength and physique enhanced by multiple entries, he far surpassed ordinary horses in both speed and endurance.

And once Three-Breath Lightness was activated, his body became even lighter, and his speed became astonishing.

In less than half an hour, he saw the outline of Li Village.

In merely two days, this village that had once been fairly tranquil and peaceful had already become a living hell.

Broken walls and ruined buildings lay everywhere. The once-clear river ran stained with blood, while shattered farm tools and bloodied clothing were scattered across the muddy dirt road.

Several mutilated corpses lay strewn haphazardly by the roadside, their faces frozen in despair and terror.

"No, please, don't eat my child!!"

"Mom, I'm so scared—!!"

Desperate wails and agonized cries echoed through every corner of the village.

The one kneeling on the ground and crying out was a middle-aged woman missing one leg. She left a long trail of blood behind her, yet still struggled desperately to crawl forward.

A few meters away from her stood a towering Rat Demon with a broad back and yellow fur covering its entire body.

It was about as tall as Hui Wu, the Rat Demon Mu Yang had slain before. It was clearly a Second Rank Rat Demon.

"Tut, tut, tut. Humans really are weak, useless, and sentimental creatures!"

Hui Si held a tiny child no longer than his arm and mockingly taunted the woman crawling toward him.

It had not experienced the joy of slaughtering and toying with humans to its heart's content for a very long time.

Usually, to avoid letting word get out, it could only end battles quickly. There was no fun in that at all.

But now, there was food, drink, and even something to play with!

"Oh? There's actually another one."

As though it had discovered something, Hui Si suddenly looked up.

What entered its sight was a young man dressed in a fitted black constable uniform, with a broad blade hanging at his waist.

That immature face made him look like the sort of weakling who barely had any hair on his body.

"Honestly, where did this fish that slipped through the net come from? How did I not notice him earlier?"

Hui Si looked at Mu Yang's constable uniform and muttered to himself. Then a savage grin split his face, and his green eyes brimmed with mockery. "But it doesn't matter. I already let one go earlier to deliver the news. This one, I'll eat!"

As he spoke, his lower body suddenly exerted force. His mid-stage Second Rank body erupted with astonishing speed.

He charged forward with the child in one hand and stabbed toward Mu Yang with the other.

His sharp claws gleamed with biting cold beneath the sunlight, radiating murderous Sha Qi.

Facing the charging Hui Si, Mu Yang remained calm, his breathing steady. Without saying a word, he raised his right hand and gripped the hilt of his blade.

There was no earthshaking shout, nor any unnecessary movement. Mu Yang stepped forward and lowered his waist, slashing upward diagonally with the immense force of a thousand jun.

Dragon-Subduing Tiger-Subduing Blade Technique—Tiger-Subduing Dragon-Subduing!

Swish!!

The blade light streamed like a bolt of white silk, more dazzling than the sun itself.

The broad blade of the Feather-Command Broadblade swept across Hui Si's arm like a hot knife slicing through tofu. The thick arm gripping the child slid straight off from the shoulder.

Before the Rat Demon could cry out in pain, Mu Yang extended his left hand and steadily caught the child. His right wrist then turned, his blade shifting with it as he slashed horizontally—like a startling thunderclap, like a swimming dragon—across the Rat Demon's neck.

With a thud, the Rat Demon's head rolled away, its green eyes filled with bewilderment and unwillingness.

The headless corpse swayed beneath the sunlight reflected by the blade, then fell straight to the ground with a dull crash. Thick demon blood spurted out, joining the blood already on the ground until no boundary could be seen between them.

Until its death, Hui Si never understood how it had died.

At that moment, a fierce gust blew past, making Mu Yang's fitted black constable uniform snap loudly in the wind.

Mu Yang held the child in one arm, his dark eyes gazing into the distance. He stood with his blade lowered, blood droplets rolling from its tip.

Five Rat Demons remained!

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