Hengyang Commandery

Hengyang Commandery.

Sinister winds howled.

Hengshan rose to its north, the Five Ridges bordered its south, and the Xiang River flowed through the city.

In days past, it should have been a splendid land where the sands before Wild Goose Return Peak gleamed like snow, and the moon above the Xiaoxiang River curved like a hook.

Now.

Great banners fluttered atop the walls, yet looked rather helpless amid the demonic miasma filling the sky.

Whoosh—!

A strange wind suddenly swept up from the ground.

It blew with a shrill, savage fury.

Dense gloom blotted out the sun and sky; murky darkness veiled the moon and swallowed its light.

"Demon attack! Demon attack—!!!"

Before the cries of the Demon-Suppression Guards atop the walls had fully faded.

The black wind had already swept over the battlements as though no one stood in its way, heading straight for the long street within.

"Ah—!!!"

"The demons are here! Run!"

"Help! Mother! Save me—"

Countless civilians were swept into the air like straw in a gale.

"Vile beast! Enough of your rampage!"

Dozens of Demon-Suppression Guards in black uniforms patterned with crimson drew their blades and charged with furious shouts.

Though they knew they were outmatched, not one backed down.

But.

All that emerged from the black wind was an enormous palm covered in black hair.

Smack—!

The dozens of Demon-Suppression Guards spat blood and flew backward.

"Whew..."

The black wind dispersed.

It revealed a burly figure over ten feet tall.

He had a bull's head and a human body, with two curved horns pointing skyward like iron halberds.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, an intoxicated look spreading across his face.

"Wonderful! Wonderful!"

"We should have done this long ago!"

"We of the Demon Race were born of heaven and