Chapter 572 - 533: Killing a Demon, Is There a Problem?
Chapter 572: Chapter 533: Killing a Demon, Is There a Problem?
Wen Tingyu and Song Ciwan walked side by side.
The two strolled slowly along the wide rampart path as a cool night wind blew. Wen Tingyu turned to Song Ciwan and asked a question, her voice tense.
She asked Song Ciwan, "Fairy, is what you said just now about the great calamity... is it true?"
Song Ciwan replied bluntly, "Of course it’s true. How could I possibly make up something so important?"
Wen Tingyu froze. The surge of emotions she had felt while watching the battle, followed by the shock and worry after it ended, all melted away into a single, bitter smile.
’I have a million things I want to say,’ Wen Tingyu thought, ’but right now, I don’t even know where to begin or what to ask.’
After a long moment, they had crossed the wide rampart path and were approaching the stairs of the gatehouse. Wen Tingyu finally found her voice. "In that case, Xing Lan Fairy, would you like to meet with the Grand General again to inform him of this matter?"
Song Ciwan said, "We can speak in person."
As they spoke, the two descended the gatehouse together.
While they walked, Wen Tingyu was trying to compose herself, while Song Ciwan was organizing her Heaven and Earth Scale.
This time, her harvest was substantial. General Wen beside her had also provided a good number of emotional energy clumps—though not as many as the young dragon, Ao Feng, of course.
The largest clump among them reached "Qi Over Five Jin": [Human Desires, the shock, ecstasy, and worry of a Celestial Pride Level Innate Fourth Transformation Acupoint Fusion Realm Martial Artist. Five jin and one tael. Exchangeable.]
This clump of Qi likely came from the moment Song Ciwan used her Star Cross Skill to knock Ao Feng out of the sky.
At that moment, the surge of emotional energy clumps had reached its peak among all the spectators.
Among the emotional energy clumps that were "Qi Over Five Jin," besides the three provided by Ao Feng and the one from Wen Tingyu, the other distant spectators of the battle had provided a total of sixteen clumps!
Of these sixteen clumps of human desires, six came from those at Qi Cultivation Great Perfection, five from Innate Second Transformation Martial Artists, three from Innate Third Transformation Martial Artists, and two from the Divinity Transformation Stage.
Indeed, if you were to ask what Cultivation level was most common in Demon Suppression Pass, aside from Innate Second Transformation Martial Artists, it would probably be Cultivators at Qi Cultivation Great Perfection.
Why specifically Qi Cultivation Great Perfection?
Because unless they reached Great Perfection and had long suffered the pain of being unable to break through, Qi Cultivation Stage Cultivators rarely came to Demon Suppression Pass to endure hardship for a chance at a better future.
Even if they wanted to temper themselves on the brink of life and death and obtain more Cultivation resources, they could choose Demon Suppression City instead of the more forward frontline of Demon Suppression Pass.
With such a huge harvest of human desires, Song Ciwan’s tone was exceptionally gentle and amicable as she spoke with Wen Tingyu.
This, in turn, made Wen Tingyu even more worried about Xing Lan Fairy’s "gentle and benevolent" nature.
Song Ciwan was still calculating the human desires under five jin. There were over two thousand clumps in total, a huge number that was, of course, mainly thanks to the large number of West Wind Army officers and soldiers watching the battle.
The number of Demon Hunters wasn’t small either. Even now, as Song Ciwan spoke with Wen Tingyu, various clumps of human desires were still trickling in one after another.
Huh—
There were even some emotional energy clumps from Demons mixed in!
[Demon Heart, the shock, distress, and anxiety of a Spirit Communication Stage Fire Ant Demon. Three jin and six taels. Exchangeable.]
[Demon Heart, the anger, contempt, and shame of a Demon Core Stage Great Demon, the Golden Ring Snake. Two jin and seven taels. Exchangeable.]
...
[Demon Heart, the shock, doubt, and murderous intent of a Demon King Stage Great Demon refining its Golden Core, the Canglang Demon. One jin and nine taels. Exchangeable.]
...
There were sixteen or seventeen clumps of Demon Hearts in total. One could imagine that when Ao Feng had flown across the vast sky, he must have alarmed quite a few Demons along the way.
Although it was a challenge in front of Demon Suppression Pass, it wasn’t strange for Demons to be lurking nearby, spying on the battle.
What was interesting, however, was that among so many Demons, not a single one showed any "hatred" toward Song Ciwan when Ao Feng was defeated.
In other words, none of the watching Demons "shared a common enemy" with Ao Feng.
As for the Golden Ring Snake’s contempt, Song Ciwan had no idea what the Snake Demon was scornful of. She didn’t get it and couldn’t be bothered to investigate further.
She and Wen Tingyu were walking down the rampart steps. As they were about to descend from the wall, Song Ciwan suddenly said, "General Wen, I have something to attend to. I need to leave the city for a moment. Could you wait for me?"
Wen Tingyu turned her head in surprise. She had just managed to say, "What?"
...when the white-robed figure beside her stepped on empty air and instantly rose with the wind.
Like a fleeting shadow, she flew over the city wall and vanished from Wen Tingyu’s sight in an instant.
Wen Tingyu quickly turned and gave chase. Just as she returned to the top of the wall, she saw the white-robed figure fly into the shadows of a sand dune three hundred zhang outside the city.
Wen Tingyu focused her vision and saw a sudden flurry of movement. A silver-gray figure leaped from the darkness, seemingly trying to escape into the distance.
It was... a massive, silver-gray wolf, a full two zhang in length!
The giant wolf’s speed was nothing short of incredible. It was so fast that it split into dozens of afterimages in an instant.
But it was all meaningless. The white-robed figure simply pointed a finger, and all dozens of afterimages were simultaneously frozen in mid-air.
This was Song Ciwan’s "Forbidden" Character Technique!
Immediately after, the other thirty-five figures all vanished into thin air, leaving only a single wolf’s body, which was clearly the Wolf Demon’s true form.
The Wolf Demon let out a blood-curdling howl. "AWOOOO—"
But halfway through the howl, the sound stopped abruptly.
The white-robed figure raised a hand and flicked her finger. It was unclear what kind of Attack she had launched, but the Wolf Demon’s mouth was left hanging open, its head drooping, completely silent.
Yes, the Wolf Demon was dead.
It had died just like that—bafflingly, inexplicably. Watching from a distance, Wen Tingyu was still completely stunned. As a dignified Innate Fourth Transformation Martial Artist, she hadn’t been able to see how the Wolf Demon died at all.
She only saw the white-robed figure pick up the wolf’s corpse and fly back to the top of the Demon Suppression Pass wall as if it were nothing.
Flying was forbidden in Demon Suppression Pass. However, after leaving the pass earlier, Song Ciwan had taken her Identity Token to the Gale Camp. She now once again held the title of the Tenth Celestial Pride, and with this status, she had flight privileges in the vast majority of the Great Zhou’s cities.
Here at Demon Suppression Pass, a Military Officer from the Gale Camp had personally granted flight permissions to her Identity Token.
Song Ciwan flew back to the top of the wall carrying the wolf’s corpse and tossed it nonchalantly onto the ramparts.
THUD! That was the sound of Wen Tingyu’s heart trembling.
She thought about how she had been repeatedly worrying that Xing Lan Fairy was too kind-hearted and would be taken advantage of. But now, seeing this...
’No, no, no, that’s not right!’
’Xing Lan Fairy *is* kind-hearted, gentle, and good! She must have killed this Wolf Demon because it had to be killed. This isn’t Xing Lan Fairy’s fault; it must be the Wolf Demon’s fault.’
’Besides, who in Demon Suppression Pass *doesn’t* kill Demons?’
’Not killing Demons is what would really be a problem!’
’The Dragon Race is different. They are a race enfeoffed by the Court and can’t be compared to other Demon Races. It was right for Xing Lan Fairy not to kill the young dragon. With the great calamity looming, the Human Race might need to ally with the Dragon Race again.’
As Wen Tingyu considered all this, she grew worried once again and blurted out, "Xing Lan Fairy, this Wolf Demon... it didn’t hurt you, did it?"