"Roar!"
Above Demon City,
boundless rosy light spread.
It even obscured the Blood Moon,
illuminating all of Demon City.
The thunderous roar of warhorses broke the silence of Demon City's late night.
Countless ghost soldiers charged out of Ji Min's residence, galloping wildly through the streets.
It was as though an army of the dead were passing through.
Almost simultaneously, Demon City's greatest experts gathered outside Ji Min's villa.
At their head was the former patriarch of the Ji Family.
A little old man at the eight-awakening peak.
"Who's breaking through?"
"Why are there two different eight-awakening auras? Are two people breaking through at once?"
"There aren't any eight-awakening experts in Demon City outside the Ji Family, are there?"
"That terrifying aura must be at the Eight Awakenings Middle level."
Everyone stopped at the entrance, quietly waiting for the unnamed expert inside the villa to finish breaking through.
If they barged in without permission from those inside, they might be mistaken for intruders.
None of them wanted to offend that supreme expert for no reason.
For a time, voices buzzed outside the villa as everyone entertained their own little schemes, hoping to befriend the person inside.
"This is... Little Min's house, isn't it?"
Outside the entrance, an old man with white hair, a youthful face, and extraordinarily keen eyes stood in a Tang suit with his hands behind his back, asking the person beside him.
"Yes, Patriarch."
"Who's staying inside?"
"Chun Prefecture."
The old man's attendant spoke softly.
Those two words were enough to establish the identity of the person inside.
In this world, people above seven awakenings were exceedingly rare.
Chun Prefecture's only eight-awakening expert could only be that notorious bandit.
"He's hidden himself well. Everyone thought he was still at seven awakenings, yet he quietly climbed to Eight