"Captain Xu! We should be going!"
Just then, Lin Yuyan's voice rang out from outside the door.
Xu Ye pushed the door open and walked out.
After resting for the night, Zhao Heng and Lin Yuyan had both recovered much of their vigor.
"Captain Xu, did you cultivate all night?" Seeing Xu Ye's condition, Lin Yuyan did not need to think twice to know that he had cultivated through the night.
The aura around him had clearly grown stronger.
Xu Ye smiled. "My strength is still too weak. If I don't work hard at cultivation, I'm afraid I'll be eliminated sooner or later."
At those words, Zhao Heng's mouth twitched fiercely.
You're already at the Qi-Controlling Realm. Do you know that's what countless people spend their entire lives chasing?
And you call yourself weak?
Then what did that make me?
Thinking of how Xu Ye was already so strong yet still worked so hard, Zhao Heng felt like the saying was true—comparing oneself to others could make a person die of rage.
Lin Yuyan also fell silent at once.
She should not have asked that question.
With that thought, Lin Yuyan said, "We just received word that the Demon-Suppression Bureau has already sent people to handle the aftermath. We only need to return to the county seat and report back now."
"Alright! Then let's head back first," Xu Ye said.
They had been away for so long, and with his younger sister home alone, he truly was somewhat worried.
Before long, Xu Ye and the others checked out and left the inn.
They prepared to mount their swift horses and return to the county seat.
Yet the moment Xu Ye and the others stepped out of the inn, they saw a shocking sight.
The street, which had previously been steeped