"Report—!"
"Reporting to the Commander, ahead lies Mianzhou City. The demons within the city... have all been slain!"
Those words again.
Xu Xiao drew a deep breath, feeling as though his chest were stuffed tight.
He urged his horse into the city.
The sight along the long street was exactly the same as before.
Demon corpses lay strewn across the ground, their deaths gruesome.
The survivors of the calamity gave vent to long-suppressed wails and cheers.
Xu Xiao seized an old man and asked in a low voice, "Who did this?"
The old man trembled with excitement, pointing at the sky as he babbled incoherently, "It... it was an immortal! A streak of golden light swept down from the heavens, and those beasts that ate people... they all died! They all died!"
"..."
An immortal?
Immortal my ass!
That was Her Highness the Eldest Princess!
But...
At such an age, with such methods.
She truly... was no different from an immortal.
He released the old man and raised his head to look south, his expression complicated.
From Baxi Commandery southward, every place they had passed was like this.
The cities were full of demon corpses, without a single survivor.
There had even been several Mountain-Viewing Great Demons with powerful auras, yet now they were no more than piles of cold, rotten flesh.
At the thought, the corner of his mouth could not help but tug into a bitter smile.
Yet the deputy general beside him had his brows tightly furrowed. He suddenly asked, "Commander, Mianzhou is already deep within Jiannan Circuit. Further south... lies Yizhou Prefecture."
"..."
The bitter smile on Xu Xiao's face slowly froze.
"Fuck!"
He leapt onto his horse and roared, "All troops, heed my command! Our destination is Yizhou Prefecture!"
The sky held no sunlight,