The Inspector

The halberd hummed, like a dragon's cry and a tiger's roar.

Guan Youlong narrowed his eyes, sizing up the girl before him.

Ninety-four years had passed since he joined the Demon Suppression Office in his twenties. He had fought far more than a thousand battles, great and small. Through a lifetime of warfare, he had met countless people, including more than his share of arrogant fools and men unafraid of death.

Yet he had never imagined that a girl who looked barely seventeen or eighteen could remain so composed under the crushing weight of his presence.

The Demon-Suppression Guards around them held their breath, their palms slick with sweat.

They had guarded this place under Guan Youlong for years and knew the temper of Langjiang Guan all too well.

His word was final, and he never hesitated to kill.

But in the next instant.

Under everyone's astonished gazes, the girl actually raised her foot.

One step brought her within inches of the great halberd, which was still humming.

"You've got some nerve!"

Guan Youlong laughed in fury, murderous intent naked in his eyes.

With a roar, he shot forward like an arrow loosed from its string!

As he ran, he turned sideways, his right hand closing around the halberd's shaft where it stood embedded deep in the ground.

Boom—

He ripped the entire halberd free with one hand, sending clods of earth and shattered stones flying!

With a twist of his wrist, the eighteen-foot halberd became weightless in his grasp. He swung it back and brought it crashing down toward the girl's head!

Of course.

He would not actually strike to kill.

They both belonged to the Demon Suppression Office, after all... Had she been an ordinary Demon-Suppression Guard, that would have been one thing, but her standing was hardly