Having asked everything he wanted to ask, Zhang Yuan stopped talking with Wei Jianxing and the others. He found another spot to sit, a little closer to their campfire, then mentally worked through what would come next.
Wei Jianxing and the others had called that Fish-Head Man a Mountain Patrol Envoy. He was one of the demons and ghost deities directly subordinate to the Six Heavens Demon King Palace, tasked with patrolling the Demon King's territory. Put plainly, he was just a mountain patrolman, one of the lowest-ranking ghost deities directly serving the Demon King Palace.
For that reason, the Fish-Head Man had been very weak, only a little stronger than some wild spirit monsters and lonely ghosts. In terms of the sha ingestion gang devoration path and the qi refining to immortality path, he had been equivalent to a fourth- or fifth-turn Qi Refining Perfected Person, or an outer dao foundation establishment late stage cultivator. He really could not be considered particularly strong.
However, while most Mountain Patrol Envoys were not strong, they could summon other, stronger ghost deities. That was why Wei Jianxing and the others' expressions had changed so sharply upon seeing him, and why they had been so desperate to dispose of him.
If they failed to deal with the Mountain Patrol Envoy quickly, once he summoned other ghost deities, their journey really would come crashing to a halt halfway through.
Yet even this Mountain Patrol Envoy, among the weakest in the Demon King Palace, had routed Wei Jianxing and the others. In the end, only after Wei Liu prepared her killing move had they managed to dispose of him. That showed just how weak this group's combat strength was.
Still, in Zhang Yuan's judgment, Wei Liu's killing move had actually possessed far more power than