"..."
Several immortal clerks froze where they stood, their expressions becoming as colorful as could be.
What the...
What kind of nonsense was this?
To curry favor with a demon, not only were they to be offered up as blood food, they even had to testify themselves?!
Immortal clerks' lives truly were worthless.
But this was bullying them far too much!
For a moment, all the immortal clerks stared hard at the girl, their eyes brimming with indignation.
Several of the younger ones even quietly edged backward, ready to flee for their lives at any moment.
Hearing Jiang Yuechu take everything upon herself so readily, Red Erlang felt immensely gratified and found the girl increasingly pleasing to the eye.
"Good, good, good!"
Red Erlang nodded repeatedly, raising its long neck high. "Since you are so sensible, if I keep refusing, I'll seem rather ungrateful."
"Fine, then. I won't make things difficult for you today. I'll eat just one, enough to whet my appetite."
As it spoke, Red Erlang spread its legs and strolled leisurely forward.
Very soon, its gaze locked onto a young immortal clerk.
The young immortal clerk's legs went limp. He could not even summon the strength to run, and could only close his eyes in despair.
Red Erlang opened its birdlike beak, about to swallow him whole.
Then, a sharp gust of wind tore through the air behind it.
Boom—!!!
"Who is it?!"
Red Erlang abruptly halted, whipping around to look behind it.
The white-robed girl who had been bowing and scraping moments ago was now wreathed in violent crimson and azure windfire, her figure already flashing before its eyes.
At the same time.
A fair hand tore through the windfire and seized toward it with savage force!
"Bold!"
Red Erlang flew into a rage.
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