The people who came to the River Patrol Office to report the case were a group of river-worker Rogue Cultivators. Most of them made their living and cultivated by earning resources from rivers and lakes in various places.
According to their report, in the lower reaches of the Long Wharf River, near where it was about to merge into Three Rivers Mouth, a demonic beast had appeared. It had occupied the river, stirred up wind and waves, not only blocking river traffic but also attacking passing cultivators.
These river-worker Rogue Cultivators had come to request that the River Patrol Office subdue the demonic beast and clear the waterway.
This was one of the river patrol's duties to begin with.
Yet after hearing their report, Liang Zhaohuang's first reaction was:
"What a coincidence?"
He had not come to the River Patrol Office to hand over his post for more than two months. Today was his first day back, and this happened?
It was almost as if it had been waiting specifically for him.
Moreover, Luyang Commandery and Ludong County lay in the inland territory of the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty, a place where the Human Way flourished. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was suppressed and refined by the power of the Human Way, making it gentler and more suitable for human cultivators to cultivate with.
For demonic beasts, however, such spiritual energy was extremely difficult to absorb and refine—perhaps even "poisonous"!
Under such circumstances, why would a demonic beast seek death by occupying this place and even causing trouble?
If it were some remote wilderness between provinces, where people rarely ventured and the power of the Human Way was thin, leaving the spiritual energy of heaven and earth insufficiently suppressed and refined, then it would be possible for demonic