Demon Weapon

The stone door opened, and Lin Jun tossed the fox's corpse outside.

The little demons outside stared at the bloody flesh on the ground, each of them instantly dumbfounded.

"Ah!"

As though they had received some signal, the surrounding Demons scattered in all directions.

"My lord, should we pursue them?"

Lu Ling knew Lin Jun's temperament. He knew that Lin Jun had a particular interest in looting homes and silencing witnesses.

"No. There are too many."

Aside from the Fox Demon being somewhat stronger, the rest of these Demons could only be called minor Demons. If the Fox Demon had not gathered them together, they would never have had the nerve to openly feast on humans.

Of course, the main reason was that Lin Jun simply could not chase down so many Demons alone. Otherwise, would he really leave so much experience on the table?

Now that the tree had fallen, the monkeys scattered. With the Fox Demon dead, the Demon Market that had been preparing to reopen naturally ceased to exist as well.

Lin Jun gazed from afar in the direction of Azure Forest City and could not help sighing.

Rather than calling Green Forest County a human city, it would be more accurate to call it a paradise for Demons.

The mountains were full of Demons, yet they had hidden themselves for so long.

If those demons wished it, they were fully capable of turning Green Forest County into a city of death within a single day.

This was no longer something Lin Jun could handle alone. Only by dispatching a large number of people from the Demon Exorcism Bureau could they be exterminated.

After Lin Jun's group had finished releasing all the imprisoned civilians, He Jing brought the burly man before Lin Jun.

"Little Friend Lin, this is my Hongyan Sect's second disciple, Song Hun. He had originally come to Green Forest County to fetch me, but he never expected to be abducted by Demons. Had Little Friend Lin not saved us, we would likely have long since become white bones."

The burly man wore a thoroughly ingratiating expression, lowering his stance as much as possible.

"Little senior, please do not take offense. I'm just a crude man from the wilds and did not know of your abilities. Hehe, thank you."

The burly man rubbed his smooth head and bowed repeatedly.

"What do you plan to do next?"

Faced with Lin Jun's question, the burly man answered without a moment's thought.

"Of course we'll go home and call for reinforcements. Though my Hongyan Sect is no famous great sect, we can still be considered second-rate. Both the eldest and second disciples suffered at the hands of Demons in Green Forest County. No matter what, we have to win back our face!"

"No matter how formidable these Demons are, they only dare curl up in a tiny county. Forget Master—even if I brought the Grand Elder here, he could wipe them out!"

The burly man was quite proud, and he had the strength to support that pride.

Sect disciples had lived in their sects since childhood. Calling them one family would not be an exaggeration; all of them were fiercely protective of their own.

Especially a chief disciple, who was practically the face of an entire sect.

Yet He Jing shook his head. He had considered more.

"We may not be able to leave Green Forest County. Someone does not want us getting out."

He Jing pointed at the fox on the ground.

"At the very least, that person absolutely will not allow anyone to take news of this place out now. That much is certain."

There were so many Demons here. If they carried this news back to Brocade City, he did not even dare imagine how frenzied the Demon Exorcism Bureau would become.

This was plainly a slap across the Demon Exorcism Bureau's face.

Green Forest County had not leaked any information about Demons for so many years. That meant someone had kept it tightly suppressed all this time, and after suppressing it for so many years, that person's scheme was surely no small one.

That person would never let years of planning come to nothing because of an accident involving the few of them.

The source of all the Demons in Green Forest County could be none other than Zhang Ju.

For a Demon to have actually become the magistrate of an entire county, his aims could not be small.

Now, all of Green Forest County had become an invisible cage. No news could get out.

Naturally, Lin Jun's plan to leave in a dozen days and report to the Demon Exorcism Bureau had also fallen through.

"Let's not talk about that for now. Take a look at this."

Lin Jun took out the small flag. He Jing rubbed his eyes, while Song Hun reached out and touched it directly.

"Good heavens, isn't this a Demon Weapon? That Fox Demon had quite the background."

As Song Hun stroked it, he explained.

"A Demon Weapon, as the name implies, is a weapon of Demons. Of course, not every weapon can be called a Demon Weapon. Demon Weapons are forged by great Demons among Demonkind. At the very least, only a great Demon at the Boundary Breach realm has the ability to forge one."

"And I heard the success rate is extremely low. But Demon Weapons differ from human weapons; they often possess miraculous effects, and those effects are related to the Demon that forged them."

"Little senior, what did that Fox Demon look like when using this Demon Weapon?"

Lin Jun roughly described the scene of the Fox Demon using the flag. Song Hun pondered for a while, then nodded.

"It should be a Soul-Seizing Demon Weapon. Those souls were most likely contained inside it and released at a critical moment. That really is characteristic of Fox Demons—seizing souls and stealing spirits."

Then Song Hun shook his head regretfully.

"Unfortunately, to remove the Demon Mark on a Demon Weapon perfectly, one needs at least a Boundary Breach powerhouse. Little senior, you won't be able to use it for now."

Song Hun's face was full of regret. Demon Weapons were rare, after all. Only Demons could create such things; humans did not possess that capability.

Lin Jun did not find it particularly regrettable. Judging from the Fox Demon's performance just now, this flag did not seem very powerful. To him, it was little more than a tasteless morsel.

"What do you plan to do next? Are you coming to Azure Forest City?"

He Jing and Song Hun exchanged a glance, then both shook their heads.

"We'll find somewhere outside to rest and recover. Little senior, be careful when you return to the city."

Lu Ling came before Lin Jun and said worriedly,

"Zhang Ju, that Fox Demon, suddenly appeared in Green Forest County ten years ago and has served as county magistrate ever since... In the past three years, he forbade demons from eating humans, but these past few days, he lifted the restrictions again... He should have achieved some purpose."

"In any case, be careful."

Seeing them all worry as though he were about to march to his death, Lin Jun could not help laughing.

In their eyes, he seemed to have truly become an extreme demon exorcist who hated evil like an enemy, someone who would charge in without regard for his life the moment he saw a Demon.

"Oh, right, Senior He. Your sword shattered."

He Jing: ...

"Forget it. Shattered is shattered. Better that than losing my life."

Song Hun suddenly seemed to realize something and hurriedly interrupted.

"Wait, little senior. You call He Jing Senior? What virtue or ability does he have to make you address him as senior? Doesn't that throw everything into chaos?"

He called Lin Jun little senior, while Lin Jun called He Jing senior—then what was he supposed to call He Jing?

All the generations were in complete disarray!

He Jing slapped Song Hun's bald head.

"If you can't speak, then don't!"

Song Hun glared furiously, then admitted defeat.

"By the way, Little Friend Lin, my junior brother is rather skilled in tempering techniques. Though I see you have no use for that, why not let him tinker with it? Perhaps he can remove the Demon Mark."

He Jing pointed at Song Hun.

"But unfortunately, my junior brother is only an Origin Transformation martial artist and has not reached Boundary Breach. If we truly let him work on it, some of the Demon Weapon's original abilities may be lost. What do you think, Little Friend?"

Without another word, Lin Jun handed the small flag directly to Song Hun.

"Then I'll leave it to you."

Song Hun had not expected Lin Jun to hand it over so readily. This was a Demon Weapon—he could trade it to the Demon Exorcism Bureau for quite a bit of merit. Was Lin Jun not afraid Song Hun would ruin it?

"I will give it my all."

Song Hun felt the trust placed in him.