After a fierce battle against demons tonight, the martial artists were exhilarated, but they still had to face reality afterward. The fervent atmosphere of having defeated the demons quickly cooled, and the city was instead shrouded in grief.
No matter how glorious the victory, no matter how significant this night's desperate battle had been for ordinary people, many demons had entered the city tonight. The number of citizens harmed had yet to be counted. They only knew that after the demons had been declared completely driven out or slain, cries began to rise throughout the city one after another.
Yan Fei, Lu Chengfeng, and Zuo Wuji did not choose to rest afterward. Instead, they joined the city's martial artists, soldiers, and some of the bolder civilians in clearing away the demons' remains.
Beside the corpse of a burly black bear essence demon, a flatbed ox cart was already in place. Zuo Wuji and Lu Chengfeng stood on either side, each gripping a thick bamboo pole with both hands, ropes beneath them tied around the demonic corpse.
"One, two, lift!"
"Heave-ho!"
The coarse hemp ropes tightened under the corpse's downward weight, and the two bamboo poles bent into a considerable arc. Then, with Lu Chengfeng and Zuo Wuji exerting their strength together, the demonic corpse rose lightly from the ground before they carried the bear demon's body, which weighed at least a thousand jin, onto the ox cart.
"Bang..."
The whole ox cart jolted. The old coachman stared blankly at the bear demon's gaping mouth; its longest fangs were longer than his forearm.
"Ah, this demon is terrifying..."
Shaking his head and swallowing hard, the old man slowly drove the ox cart away. These corpses were all to be hauled to Temple Quarter, where the Earth God and the Underworld Bureau's