Demon Weapon

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

The little demons outside stared at the blood and flesh on the ground, each one instantly struck dumb.

"Ah!"

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

"My lord, should we chase them?"

Lu Ling knew Lin Jun's temperament. Lin Jun was quite interested in raiding households and silencing witnesses.

"No. There are too many."

Aside from the Fox Demon, who was somewhat stronger, the rest of these demons could only be called little demons. If the Fox Demon had not gathered them together, they would never have had the nerve to openly eat people.

Of course, the main reason was that Lin Jun simply could not chase down so many demons by himself. Would he otherwise let all that experience go to waste?

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

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

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

The demons filled the mountains, yet they had remained hidden for so long.

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

This was no longer something Lin Jun could handle. Only by dispatching a large number of Demon Exorcism Bureau personnel to purge the place could it be resolved.

After Lin Jun's group had finished freeing 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 we never expected the demons to seize him. Had Little Friend Lin not rescued us, we would likely have long since become piles of white bones."

The burly man wore a deeply ingratiating expression, lowering himself as much as possible.

"Little Senior, please do not take offense. I'm just a rough mountain savage and did not know of your abilities. Hehe, many thanks."

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. My Hongyan Sect may not be some famous grand sect, but we can still be considered second-rate. Both our eldest and second disciples have 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 First Elder here, he could wipe them out!"

The burly man was quite proud, and he had the strength to be proud.

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

Especially eldest disciples—they were practically the face of a sect.

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

"I'm afraid we won't be able to leave Green Forest County. Someone does not want us to get out."

He Jing pointed at the fox on the ground.

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

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

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

The fact that Green Forest County had not leaked the slightest information about demons for so many years showed that someone had been suppressing it with an iron grip. Having kept it down for so many years, that person's ambitions must be far from small.

They certainly would not allow years of planning to fall apart because of an accident involving a few of them.

As for the source of all the demons in Green Forest County, there could be no one other than Zhang Ju.

A demon had actually become the magistrate of an entire county. His aims were anything but small.

Now all of Green Forest County had become an invisible prison, and no news could get out.

Naturally, Lin Jun's plan to leave in a dozen or so days and report to the Demon Exorcism Bureau had come to nothing as well.

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

Lin Jun took out the little 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 suggests, is a demon's weapon. Of course, not every weapon can be called a Demon Weapon. Demon Weapons are forged by Great Demons among demons. At the very least, a Great Demon at the Boundary Breach realm is capable of forging one."

"I've also heard that the success rate is extremely low. But Demon Weapons differ from human weapons—Demon Weapons often possess miraculous effects, and those effects are related to the demon that forged them."

"Little Senior, what did it look like when that Fox Demon used 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, then released at a critical moment. That truly is a Fox Demon's specialty—Soul-Seizing and Spirit-Snatching."

Then Song Hun shook his head regretfully.

"What a pity. To remove the Demon Mark on a Demon Weapon, at least a Boundary Breach powerhouse is needed to remove it perfectly. Little Senior, you won't be able to use it for the time being."

Song Hun's face was filled with 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 probably was not very powerful. To him, it was as useless as chicken ribs.

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

He Jing and Song Hun exchanged a glance and 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... For the past three years, he prohibited demons from eating people, but these past few days, he has lifted the restrictions again... He must have achieved some purpose."

"In any case, be careful."

Seeing each of them worrying 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 as bitterly as an enemy and would charge straight in without regard for his life whenever he saw a demon.

"By the way, Senior He, your sword shattered."

He Jing: ...

"Forget it. What's broken is broken. Better that than losing my life."

Song Hun suddenly seemed to notice something and hurriedly interrupted.

"Wait, Little Senior, you call He Jing 'Senior'? What virtue or ability does he have to deserve you calling him 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?

The generations were all in complete disarray!

He Jing slapped Song Hun across his bald head.

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

Song Hun glared furiously, then conceded defeat.

"By the way, Little Friend Lin, my junior brother happens to be skilled in certain forging methods. Though I see you have no use for that, perhaps you could let him tinker with it. He might be able to remove the Demon Mark."

He Jing pointed at Song Hun.

"Unfortunately, my junior brother is only an Origin Transformation martial artist and has not reached Boundary Breach. If he truly tinkers with 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 little flag directly to Song Hun.

"Then I'll leave it to you."

Song Hun had not expected Lin Jun to give it to him outright. This was a Demon Weapon; even handing it over to the Demon Exorcism Bureau could earn quite a bit of merit. Was Lin Jun not afraid that he would ruin it?

"I will give it everything I have."

Song Hun felt the trust placed in him.