"Young Master Fang, you're back?"
"Did everything go smoothly?"
Before long, Fang Qianyuan returned with the other two to the hillside where they had been earlier.
Lin Ziguan and Xie Fei had been sitting idly on the hilltop, while Da Niu looked around anxiously. When they finally saw Fang Qianyuan and the others return, delight spread across their faces, and they came over.
"It's settled. That demon beast has been slain." Fang Qianyuan tossed something down.
"Is that the monster's nose?" Da Niu froze in surprise.
After the Thunder Civet revealed his true form, his body had grown much larger, but his nose was shaped like a cat demon's and was easy to recognize.
The demon had left a deep impression on Da Niu, and he recognized it at a glance.
"The monster's true form was bigger than a tiger. I couldn't be bothered to carry it back, so I cut off its nose to give the villagers proof," Fang Qianyuan said.
In truth, Fang Qianyuan had cut it off to complete his Heavenly Dao Alliance assignment. Still, he had both fulfilled the alliance's task and slain a demon for the villagers, so there was nothing wrong with putting it that way.
Tears instantly streamed from Da Niu's eyes. Suddenly, he dropped to his knees with a thud. "Young Master Fang, thank you! Thank you all!"
"Da Niu, get up. There's no need for this." Fang Qianyuan sighed inwardly and shook his head.
"All right, Da Niu, get up." Lin Ziguan and the others thought little of it, but since Fang Qianyuan had said so, they helped him to his feet.
"If it weren't for Young Master Fang, we'd never have been able to avenge them," Da Niu said haltingly.
He was a country boy and not much of a