Chapter 65

Song Yueyao watched, stunned.

She had already assumed it was the work of a passing powerhouse or a Xia family general; she had not expected it to be the Demon-Suppressing Division.

And, it was just the most ordinary Demon-Suppressing Envoy? Suddenly, she noticed the young man's face, which was unexpectedly very familiar.

It seemed she had seen it somewhere before.

... This morning? Song Yueyao was somewhat face-blind; she never paid attention to how others looked on ordinary days, viewing them like grass and trees.

But her memory was not bad, and she soon remembered that this young man was precisely one of the five newcomers who had come to report to the Demon-Suppressing Division this morning.

He was also a disciple of the Tan Palace.

Thinking of the other party's identity, Song Yueyao suddenly recalled that when she went to the Jia Academy to identify them earlier, there was a young man carrying a wild rabbit; it was the person before her.

It was just that after changing into the black uniform, she felt he was somewhat unfamiliar.

At the same time, Li Hao also noticed the woman chasing from behind; he tilted his head slightly to glance over, and their gazes met in an instant.

Li Hao didn't pay much attention, nodded slightly, and continued forward while carrying the Demon-Slaying Blade.

As for Song Yueyao, she was struck as if by lightning, suddenly stunned on the tree.

That side profile from just now... so familiar!

The scene in that mountain cave suddenly surfaced in her mind, that side profile that had flashed by.

"It's him?!"

Song Yueyao was astonished; the disciple who had secretly cleared the Mo River was the person before her?!

She found it hard to believe in her heart, but seeing the ape demon corpses covering the ground around her, she suddenly realized and was convinced that she had not seen wrong this time.

Among the outer court disciples, besides the person before her, who else could clear the Mo River?

Her figure flickered; she soared down from the treetops, hurried to catch up with Li Hao, and called out: "Wait."

Li Hao stopped and turned slightly to look at the other party: "Jiang Shijie?"

This "Jiang Shijie" made Song Yueyao inexplicably feel a sense of security, and her inner tension, which had been tight all along the way, seemed to relax a little.

She hurriedly asked: "Did you kill all these ape demons?"

Although she had the answer in her heart, she still couldn't help but ask.

"..."

Li Hao was slightly silent; was this Jiang Shijie's eyesight not very good? Could it be that there was someone else here?

In this kind of death scene, one wouldn't need Conan; even Genta could have solved it, right?

Seeing the strange look that flashed across Li Hao's eyes, Song Yueyao's cheeks turned slightly red; it seemed she also knew she had asked a somewhat redundant question.

She looked at the Demon-Slaying Blade in Li Hao's hand; with its blood-stained blade and curled, cracked edge, it was not hard to imagine how many battles it had gone through.

"The Great Demons on that mountaintop, did you kill them too?" She stared at Li Hao and asked.

Li Hao nodded slightly; it was just a group of Shenyou Realm monsters plus one Fifteen-Li Realm monster, not a big deal.

Seeing Li Hao nod, Song Yueyao's heart trembled violently; she couldn't help but say: "How, how old are you this year?"

"... Asking a boy's age is a very impolite thing," Li Hao said.

"..."

Song Yueyao was almost choked; in this mountain of corpses and sea of blood, the other party actually still had the leisure to joke.

However, even if Li Hao didn't say it, she could see that Li Hao was at most fourteen or fifteen years old; the maximum age for new recruits of the Tan Palace could not exceed sixteen.

A fourteen or fifteen-year-old in the Fifteen-Li Realm?

She suddenly felt as if she had been heavily struck, shocked to the point of being unable to believe it.

She herself was still one step... two steps, three steps away from this realm.

And she was the top genius of the Tan Palace, a Ninth-Grade Battle Body!

Before the Grandmaster Realm, the talent of a Ninth-Grade Battle Body provided great assistance to cultivation; even so, how could she be left behind by such a large gap by someone else? The last time she heard of such a monstrous genius was that Li family's Ninth Young Master that her grandfather had mentioned.

But she was still young at that time and hadn't seen it with her own eyes, as if listening to a mythological story; yet the young man before her was truly standing right in front of her, like a myth stepping into reality, making people feel it was unreal.

"Are you alone? How did you come here?" Song Yueyao couldn't help but ask.

Looking at the black uniform the other party was wearing, it hadn't been stained with much blood, only that Demon-Slaying Blade had been ravaged by time.

It looked as if he had been handling it with ease while slaying monsters. "Jiang Shijie, are you interrogating a prisoner?" Li Hao said helplessly.

Song Yueyao was speechless; it was rare for her to be so curious about someone else, only to be disliked.

"There are monsters here, and since I had some free time, I just came over."

Li Hao saw the awkward and uncomfortable look on the other party's face and still softened his heart to explain, then turned around with his blade and continued walking.

Chatting is chatting, but don't stop working.

He lightly leaped, stood on a treetop, summoned his primordial spirit, and wrapped it around the Demon-Slaying Blade to patrol forward.

Seeing this scene, Song Yueyao's pupils contracted slightly; a thousand words could not compare to seeing it with her own eyes.

Her complexion was slightly pale; in the past, she had felt that what her grandfather said was somewhat exaggerated, that it was excessive praise from the world, but now it seemed that there truly was such a monster in the world! But how on earth was this done? A Ninth-Grade Battle Body was already top-tier; as a prodigy, she could only catch a glimpse of this young man's back? Not long after, the black blade flew back and fell into Li Hao's hand.

Shaking off the fresh blood on it, Li Hao saw that the tail of this mountain range had been cleared, so he immediately turned around, preparing to wipe out those monsters on the way he had come as well.

"You, wait for me." Song Yueyao reacted, hurriedly called out, and chased after Li Hao.

Once she followed behind Li Hao, she looked at the other party's side profile and asked: "Earlier at the Tan Palace, it was you who cleared that Mo River, right?"

Li Hao couldn't help but glance at her; although the Tan Palace said there were rewards for those who cleared it, for some reason, he still felt a trace of inexplicable guilt.

After all, those were the exam papers of other newcomers...

"It was me, that's right."

"How did you clear it? The Palace Master even issued a reward order; why didn't you claim it?" Song Yueyao asked curiously.

How did he clear it?

Li Hao couldn't say clearly either; it seemed that he had cleared it while painting.

Thinking about it carefully later, perhaps that black-robed scholar felt ashamed of his own inferiority and fled in a panic because his skills were not as good as others...

Seeing Li Hao silent, Song Yueyao spoke up: "Hmm?"

Li Hao came back to his senses and said: "Is it to claim the Chixiao Precious Sword?"

"Yes."

"As you can see, I am in the Fifteen-Li Realm," Li Hao said.

"..."

Song Yueyao felt as if she had been struck in the face by a heavy hammer, feeling a suffocating and burning sensation.

Fifteen-Li, was it because he thought the Chixiao was too poor?

Damn it!

She gritted her teeth slightly, feeling both curious and angry at this young man.

Suddenly, a plume of wolf smoke soared into the sky in the distance and then bloomed.

Song Yueyao took a look, her pupils contracting violently, and she said in horror: "Purple smoke? How is that possible? This is an important signal that is only released when monsters attack the city!"

Li Hao was slightly stunned; as a family of generals, he was naturally clear about these signals.

Unless the situation was extremely dire, purple smoke would generally not be released.

Once released, the city gates would be closed and sealed, and the entire city would be on high alert!

Monsters attacking the city?

He suddenly thought of what the bear demon had said: there are monsters in the north.

"I'm going back first."

Li Hao said immediately, then his figure flickered, and he stepped up and soared into the air, turning into a black back figure and disappearing from Song Yueyao's sight.

Traveling by controlling his body!

Song Yueyao took a look and was somewhat astonished, feeling that Li Hao's speed of traveling by controlling his body seemed faster than any other Fifteen-Li Realm cultivator she had seen.

But.

Why didn't you take me along the way?!

Song Yueyao stomped her feet in anger, gritted her teeth, quickly crossed the jungle, and hurried toward the city.

(End of chapter)