Female lead: No, it's me again??

Zhu Liu felt a chill run down his spine for no apparent reason.

Why is that old man's gaze so eerie?

He took a step back. "Okay, we'll wait for you over there."

The three sat at the table.

Fu Xiang watched the old man's busy figure, thought for a moment, and hesitated before saying, "I feel like something's not quite right?"

Zhu Liu nodded slightly. "I also felt that his gaze was chilly."

Fu Xiang said, "Be careful."

"Ah."

Feng Siyue, who had followed a wisp of demonic energy, stood on the rooftop. She looked around and frowned.

Disappeared?

Feng Siyue's gaze suddenly stopped at the lower right corner.

There, three people were chatting and laughing.

Zhu Liu?

What are those three doing here?

Forget it, let’s get down to business.

As Feng Siyue turned to leave, she suddenly smelled a faint scent of blood from her left rear.

There......

She turned around and saw an old man in a black shirt carrying three plates walking towards them.

Feng Siyue's pupils suddenly contracted!

not good! !

Lin Shan looked somewhat uneasy. Since she was facing the old man directly, she could naturally sense more clearly that something was wrong with him.

After they sat down, the old man would occasionally tilt his head and look at them with an extremely strange expression!

That gaze was as if it were looking at some kind of food!

She didn't even know if it was the lighting, but she saw an extremely cold, fleeting red light in the other person's eyes!

Even the most foolish person should understand this by now.

Something's off about this person!!

Recalling the rumors circulating in the city over the past two days, she had a bad feeling.

They... shouldn't be that unlucky, right? Zhu Liu just happened to guess correctly, didn't he?

"Your...steamed buns..."

As the old man approached, his voice became like a broken windmill, unpleasant and eerie.

Lin Shan swallowed hard, his right hand unconsciously gripping the hilt of his sword.

As the 'old man' approached them, he smelled the strange fragrance emanating from them, a fragrance that was so captivating!

It smells so good!

A faint black power spread between the three of them.

Lin Shan's face turned pale; she couldn't move!

Zhu Liu and Fu Xiangye sensed something was wrong, and their eyes slowly revealed their anxiety and panic.

what happened! ?

I can't move my body!?

No matter how confident Zhu Liu was, at this moment he realized that they had encountered an extremely difficult opponent!

"I'm warning you! We are from the Flamefire Sect. If you lay a hand on us, you'll be in big trouble!!"

Fu Xiang also shouted loudly,

"We have no grudge against each other, you'd better think this through!!"

But what they got in return was Lin Shan's increasingly terrified gaze and rapid breathing!

A third hand!?

That's not a human hand at all!!

It's not a limb that a human being should have!

monster! !

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Liu noticed that someone was slowly standing behind him.

Zhu Liu's heart began to pound wildly.

"you......"

The next second, a flash of cyan sword light appeared, the pressure on the three people vanished, and a piercing scream rang out, making their hair stand on end!

The cold liquid splashed onto Zhu Liu's neck, and a foul stench made him want to vomit!

"Hiss!!!!"

The strange, piercing hiss sent chills down Zhu Liu's spine!

That's not a human voice at all!!!

Zhu Liu looked over instinctively and saw a woman in black with a cold expression, her long sword, wreathed in blue flames, piercing the old man's heart!

The flames attached to the longsword burned all over the old man's body!

In an instant, the human skin was burned to ashes, revealing a blackish-red, orange-skinned monster underneath!

It was bloody and disgusting to look at!

"this......"

His face turned even paler!

On the deserted streets, the monster's heart-wrenching roars became the source of their nightmares!

Until,

Two breaths later, the monster vanished into thin air.

Feng Siyue flicked her right wrist slightly, and Xing Li disappeared. Only then did she look at Lin Shan and the others, and said with displeasure.

“Go back. This is not a place for you.”

Zhu Liu snapped out of his shock, noticing her slightly angry expression and feeling somewhat resentful. "That's because Miss Ming arrived too quickly. If she had been later, we could have easily broken free and killed her..."

Feng Siyue curled her lips into a smile devoid of any genuine mirth. "Someone who can't even defeat a Spirit King Realm expert wants to turn the tables and kill a demon comparable to a Spirit Emperor Realm expert??"

Fantastic idea.

The boy's face froze instantly. "The Spirit Emperor???"

What the hell! ?

This monster is so powerful!?

The woman's eyes seemed to be mocking. Lin Shan pursed his lips and said, "Miss Ming, we underestimated you this time, but you don't have to scare us with demons, do you?"

The boy then realized what was happening and stubbornly argued, "That's right! Everyone on the continent knows that the demons are isolated in the Thorn Demon Forest and can't get out at all..."

Fu Xiang nodded.

Monster?

How could they possibly appear in Jiangchuan City?

Zhu Liu simply didn't believe it.

Feng Siyue didn't want to explain and turned to leave. "Think what you want. If there's a next time, I'll tell your father to collect your bodies."

She didn't want to get involved in their affairs, but she couldn't help herself.

Feng Siyue lowered her eyes.

After the person left, the three stood there looking at each other.

Fu Xiang asked, "Shall we...continue?"

Zhu Liu's expression wasn't good. He pondered for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Continue!"

"Since we're already here, we need to find out what's really going on in Jiangchuan. We can't let everyone who comes here look down on us!"

After saying that, he immediately lifted his leg and walked forward.

Zhu Liu simply couldn't believe that the monster he'd just seen was a demon comparable to a Spirit Emperor. If it were, wouldn't that mean...?

Lin Shan and Fu Xiang exchanged a glance and followed.

An hour later, Feng Siyue returned to the inn after finding no more demonic energy.

As soon as they reached the second floor, Gongzi Qi also stepped into the inn.

When Feng Siyue saw him, she was waiting at the top of the stairs with a food box in her hand. "Senior brother, how was the harvest?"

"Seven of them, and you?"

"Four."

"how do you feel?"

Feng Siyue recalled the scene from last night, "They are indeed much stronger than human cultivators or spirit beasts of the same level."

Recalling the one from that morning, she added, "But there was one that was a little off."

Something's wrong?

Gongzi Qi pushed open the door. "Let's go inside and talk."

"it is good."

At the round table, Feng Siyue opened the food box and took out a bowl of soup.

"You mean, the last demon you encountered could devour a person until they were just an empty shell, then burrow into them and take their place?"

"Won't they find out yet?"

Feng Siyue nodded, "Yes, if he hadn't attacked Zhu Liu and the other two, I wouldn't have been able to sense it."

Gongzi Qi seemed to be deep in thought.

"What you encountered was probably a human-faced demon. This type of demon has a body similar to a human, but the body does not have a distinct skin layer. Only the face is exactly the same as a human's."

Feng Siyue asked, "A human-faced demon?"

The young man nodded.

"These demons like to pretend to be human and eat people; their weakness is the back of their neck. They are a little higher level than the Mind Eaters."

After saying that, he looked at the food on the table and asked,

"This is……"

Feng Siyue digested the information her senior brother had given her and replied, "The shopkeeper said this is a mixed soup, with three kinds of ingredients in addition to noodles: chopped vegetables, chopped meat, and seasonings. It tastes very delicious."