Downstream along the Qiantang River, near Lin'an's Pingdong District.
Clang!
Sword light spilled in all directions, and everything fell quiet again.
Jiang Jingnian and the two women had dispatched another group of demonized rogue cultivators.
No.
More precisely, there was no longer any telling whether they were rogue cultivators.
Inside and outside Lin'an, ordinary citizens, out-of-town martial artists, local experts, hidden agents of the Demon Sect, and people from every walk of life mingled with plenty of foreigners and people of mixed ancestry. Fish and dragons swam together; there was simply no telling where anyone came from.
On top of that, the Blood Domain's land had previously hung upside down over reality, with demon wraiths everywhere. Who knew how many people had been contaminated, infested, or corrupted by demonic power?
From ordinary people to martial experts, people at every level had succumbed to qi deviation and turned demonic.
In any case, Jiang Jingnian and the two women cut down anyone who exuded demonic qi and slaughtered ordinary citizens.
Liu Qingzhi stood with her sword withdrawn. Flecks of white frost covered the shattered embankment.
The corpses of several demonic fiends lay nearby. Before their blood, teeming with gu worms, could flow from their severed wounds, it froze into crimson icicles. Under the effects of the Exorcising Evil Pure-Snow True Astral Force, those icicles cracked inch by inch, shattered, and vanished without a trace.
"Even after these people die from qi deviation, their blood still carries the Five Poisons Sect's plague poison. This little poison might be nothing to martial experts in the Inner Qi Realm, but for Blood Tempering Stage martial masters who have only just begun, or ordinary people who aren't even martial masters, contact with it could leave them almost impossible to cure."
The Exorcising Evil Pure-Snow True Astral