Cui Xuecheng's demon-slaying squad was the same one that had met Ning Xiaoxiao and the others in Northern Tour City.
Yongjie was gone, replaced by a square-faced disciple of the Buddhist Order.
He was burly and bare-chested. With both fists pointed downward, he slammed them into the gray stone road in Nan Shier's direction!
Boom-
The paving stones heaved upward as his earth spirit root activated. Earthen walls rose on all sides, enclosing the Great Demon!
Zhuang Yusheng and Ning Xiaoxiao seized the opening to fly down and carry Zhuang Haiming away.
Ning Xiaoxiao scanned their surroundings. Seeing the bodies of so many civilians, her heart sank.
Cui Xuecheng noticed her concern and said, "Our squad was near Nantong City when the Great Demon appeared, so only a hundred people died. Everyone else was evacuated under the protection of the City Lord's Wife and the City Guards. The City Lord had reached Integration, so he stayed here to fight the Great Demon alongside us."
Ning Xiaoxiao felt a little better, but the thought of a hundred deaths still made her heart tremble.
"This Great Demon's cultivation has reached the Tribulation Stage. With our strength, it'll be difficult to kill him," Cui Xuecheng said. "Junior Sister Ning, you and Fellow Daoist Zhuang should take City Lord Zhuang and our severely wounded members away first. The rest of us will cover your retreat."
Cui Xuecheng and his companions had remained here to buy time, allowing the civilians to get farther away.
Now that they saw the reinforcements, Ning Xiaoxiao and Zhuang Yusheng, had relatively low cultivation, they intended to have the two take the severely wounded away.
But Ning Xiaoxiao shook her head. "Senior Brother Cui, don't forget that Zhuang Yusheng and I both know how to use Demon-Sealing Talismans."
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