Tiger's Roar Shook the Wind and Thunder, Reverberating Through the Long Street!

The long wind drifted on, yellow sand filling the air.

A young woman dressed like an ordinary wanderer rode slowly into view at the end of the official road.

Her skin was as delicate as jade, utterly out of place amid the dull yellow dust around her.

Jiang Yuechu frowned and urged her horse onward, leisurely entering Jincheng County.

Though she had long been prepared for it, knowing that the cities of this world could never be as prosperous as those in her previous life.

The deathly silence before her, like that of a ghost town, still exceeded her expectations.

Not a soul could be seen on the streets, and the doors and windows of the shops on either side stood wide open.

If not for the words "Jincheng" outside the county town, she would truly have thought she had come to the wrong place.

Could the demons already have left?

The thought had barely surfaced.

A furious shout, accompanied by the clash of metal, rang out from deep within the long street.

Jiang Yuechu's pupils contracted. She dismounted, casually tied her horse to a pillar nearby.

Then, one hand on her sword hilt, she silently made her way toward the sound.

Clang—

A blade rang out, clear and sharp as a dragon's cry.

Xu Nian did not say another word. He leaped down from horseback, his saber carving an arc through the dim yellow light.

His blood and qi surged, pouring into the blade.

At the sight, the pig demon actually let out a savage grin and flicked its hand, somehow producing a rusty longsword.

"You're courting death!"

The saber arrived.

The sword met it.

Clang!

Sparks scattered in every direction.

The next instant, the rusty longsword snapped apart with a sound.

Half the blade flew away and embedded itself in a distant wall with a thud.

Xu Nian landed, his saber held diagonally downward, his body utterly still.

"Excellent!"

"Lord Xu is mighty!"

Several Demon Suppression Office riders who had rushed over upon hearing the commotion happened to witness the scene. Their expressions changed drastically, and they could not help shouting in praise.

"Is this the might of a Bone-Chiming Realm expert... Ordinary demons are no match at all!"

Yet there was not the slightest hint of joy on Xu Nian's face.

He raised one hand, stopping those behind him from advancing.

"None of you come over!"

Everyone froze, the excitement still not faded from their faces.

"This demon is no ordinary Bone-Chiming Realm creature..."

Xu Nian took a deep breath and issued a stern command.

"Liu Chen, immediately lead the others away! Return to Liangzhou Prefecture and report to the general. The demon in Jincheng County is no longer something we can handle!"

"You come when you please, and leave when you please?"

The pig demon bared its teeth in an unpleasant laugh, its scarlet eyes brimming with mockery.

"Do you truly think I, Zhu Yan, am made of clay?"

As the words fell.

It slowly tossed the hilt of its broken sword to the ground.

The next moment, the fat all over its body began to writhe in an eerie fashion. Its already enormous body swelled another size, bursting apart the tattered clothes on it.

A thick, foul-smelling blood mist slowly seeped from the pores across its body and spread outward.

Within the blood mist, the stench was overpowering.

Only now did Liu Chen and the others finally understand why Xu Nian, a Bone-Chiming Realm expert, had given the order to retreat without hesitation.

"This... this is..."

When demons cultivated to the Bone-Chiming Realm, their sinews and bones resonated together, allowing them to awaken their innate supernatural abilities.

Yet though the Demon Race was favored by heaven and earth, not every one of them was a heaven-blessed prodigy.

Those able to gain supernatural abilities were one in ten thousand.

Either they carried the bloodline of ancient great demons, noble by birth.

Or they had encountered an immense stroke of fortune.

Even if ordinary demons happened to reach the Bone-Chiming Realm, they were merely beasts with tougher hides and thicker flesh.

But this pig demon before them...

The blood mist spreading from its body was clearly that one-in-ten-thousand bizarre supernatural ability!

The pig demon looked at the Demon Suppression Office guards before it, who faced it as if confronting a great enemy, and gave a self-mocking laugh.

"Learning to wield a sword like humans, learning to recite poetry like humans... After so long, I had nearly forgotten..."

"We pig demons were born to tear flesh with claws and fangs, to crush sinews and bones beneath our tusks."

Its scarlet gaze swept over the crowd.

"You lot are lackeys of the Demon Suppression Office, aiding tyranny and abetting evil. That is your first crime."

"You killed my children without cause and severed my bloodline. That is your second crime."

"Two crimes, punished together."

"Today, every last one of you will die!"

As its words ended.

The blood mist blanketing the long street suddenly surged back.

It condensed into countless thick, blood-red tentacles that swept toward the crowd from every direction!

"Aah—"

One Demon Suppression Office rider failed to dodge in time and was bound hand and foot by several blood-red tentacles, hoisted into the air.

He struggled desperately, his saber slipping from his grasp and clattering to the ground.

"Save..."

Before he could even finish one word.

The pig demon opened its bloody maw and bit down.

Crack.

His head separated from his body, blood spraying forth.

Liu Chen's eyes turned bloodshot. With a furious roar, he swung his saber and severed several incoming tentacles.

But the tentacles regrew as soon as they were cut, endless and inexhaustible.

"Damn it!"

Xu Nian cursed under his breath. The blood and qi within him began to churn violently, while his bones hummed like clashing gold and stone.

The Bone-Chiming Realm, unleashed at full strength!

He stepped forward, and a faint golden aura ignited across the saber in his hand.

"Hell-Suppressing Blade!"

With a thunderous shout, saber light swept out like a gleaming ribbon.

This saber art was an unrevealed secret of the Longyou Circuit Demon Suppression Office, created specifically to slay demons and exorcise evil. Its intent was fierce and domineering, shattering wickedness and cleansing filth.

The golden saber light flashed past, and dozens of blood-red tentacles snapped apart.

A sizzling sound came from their severed ends.

As though boiling oil had been poured over ice and snow, black smoke rose in wisps, and the wounds could not heal for a long while.

Even so, against the blood-red tentacles sweeping down from the sky, it was still no more than a drop in the ocean.

Even Xu Nian was struggling so greatly.

The Demon Suppression Office guards behind him, who were merely in the Mortal Realm or String Hearing Realm, found it even harder to resist.

In the blink of an eye, two more riders were snatched up by the tentacles.

Zhu Yan grinned savagely and repeated the same act, biting off both their heads alive. It chewed with loud crunches, its mouth smeared with blood.

"When you killed my children, did you ever think this day would come?"

Xu Nian's face was ashen, but he said nothing. He only frantically drove his blood and qi, his saber light growing ever fiercer as he shielded his few remaining subordinates.

But in the end, he was only one man with one saber.

The blood mist was endless.

A demon's supernatural abilities were simply this unreasonable.

And precisely because they were so unreasonable.

Demons possessing supernatural abilities were all the rarer.

Liu Chen gave it everything he had and cleaved apart a blood-red tentacle with one swing, only for three or five others to seize the opening and bind him tightly.

A tremendous force yanked him upward.

His whole body was pulled from the ground.

The bloody maw was right before him.

Foul saliva dripped onto his face, mixed with someone's blood.

Nothing remained in his eyes but despair.

It was over.

But just then.

The pig demon's movement suddenly halted.

The blood-red tentacles binding Liu Chen loosened as well.

Bang—

Liu Chen slammed heavily to the ground, his vision swimming as he violently coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Ignoring the pain, he instinctively looked up.

The pig demon had actually stopped paying attention to them. Its scarlet beast eyes were fixed intently behind the crowd.

Xu Nian also sensed something strange and forced himself to turn around.

At the end of the long street.

At some unknown moment, another person had appeared.

The wind lifted her long hair, revealing her full face.

As lovely as peach blossoms in early spring, as pure as chrysanthemums in late autumn.

How could such a young woman appear here?

The doubt in everyone's hearts had yet to fade.

Saber light rose.

A blood-colored tiger phantom shot into the sky behind her.

Roar—

The tiger's roar shook the wind and thunder, reverberating through the long street!