Alone Against Two Lotus-Seeding Demon Kings

When had the children at the village entrance ever seen anything like this?

Their legs had gone weak with fear. They had even forgotten to cry.

Only the slightly older child seemed to realize something. He grabbed the little girl beside him and stumbled backward, trembling.

"Run... run!"

"Run?"

Jiao Li gave a savage grin.

"You two-legged sheep think you can run from me?"

He slowly raised his hand.

A terrifying suction erupted in an instant.

The children felt their bodies go light.

They flew helplessly through the air toward him.

"Mother! Help!"

Their cries rang out across the village entrance.

Hearing the commotion, the villagers rushed out with hoes and sickles.

But when they saw the two figures

and their uncanny powers,

their faces turned ashen.

They were no fools.

What mortal could snatch people through the air like that?

Some threw down their hoes, dropped to their knees, and knocked their heads against the ground again and again.

Others rolled their eyes back and fainted on the spot.

The children kicked wildly in midair.

They were about to fall into the fiend's clutches.

Then, suddenly,

both Demons frowned and stopped what they were doing. They looked toward the end of the village road.

The children slammed to the ground, wailing in pain.

Ignoring his own agony, the older child scrambled to shield the younger ones behind him.

The villagers noticed something was wrong, too.

Why had the two Demons stopped?

Could it be...

They followed the Demons' gaze toward the road.

They fully expected to see a great company of people.

Instead, they saw only a young woman who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen.

Behind her,

the winding official road lay deathly still.

Windblown sand swept across it, and withered grass bowed low.

They craned their