With half a game of chess, I vanquish all demons!

The lower realm of barren rocks.

It took the Shanyang tribe some time to reach this place, nestled among the mountains.

What they saw:

The mountaintop collapsed, the rocky mountain tilted, and at the foot of the mountain were two large pits trodden out by a giant.

These are all traces left by the gods!

The young man at the head of the group stood there quietly, watching his people search excitedly, his thoughts drifting away.

The black-armored giant that descended from the sky reminded him of someone he had met in his childhood.

Like the black-armored giant, that person also had a halo of the sun mysteriously floating behind his head, and there were also legends of gods and immortals passed down in the tribe, as if the ancestral gods also looked like this.

The jade flower that person gave him helped him through many hardships.

Thinking of this, Wei Hua couldn't help but raise his hand and touch the jade flower pendant hanging around his neck. A surge of emotion welled up in his heart. Could it be that the person he met in his childhood was really the deity his ancestors had worshipped for generations...?

……

In the aquatic void, Zhao Yao, now restored to his normal height of 2.34 meters, gazed up at the light above, dragging Song Angran's corpse as he struggled to swim.

puff~

Beside the Ascension Pool in the middle of the Mountain Demon Village, as Yan Rouyun waited anxiously, Zhao Yao suddenly broke through the water and revealed his head.

He leaned against the edge of the pool, his chest bare, and smoothed his wet hair. He immediately spotted Yan Rouyun, who had reverted to women's clothing, on the other side of the pool.

He smiled and said to her:

"Yun'er, move aside. This Ascension Pool water is corrosive to you. I don't want to have my hand bruised when I touch you later."

"Um."

When Yan Rouyun saw him return, she felt relieved, her cheeks flushed, and she quickly retreated as instructed.

puff~

Once Yan Rouyun had retreated a distance, Zhao Yao crawled naked out of the Ascension Pool, dragged out Song Angran's corpse, which was emitting white smoke, and threw it on the ground.

A flash of jade-colored light passed over his body, and the shattered jade armor quickly surged out of his body and then retracted, directly pushing away the pool water that had gotten on his body, and his skin returned to dryness.

Seeing Zhao Yao completely naked, Yan Rouyun pulled out the clothes that she had just taken off, which originally belonged to Zhao Yao, and quickly stepped forward to hand them to him. However, she saw Zhao Yao smilingly open his arms, not taking the clothes, and just looking at her with ambiguous eyes.

enemy!

Yan Rouyun's face flushed, she bit her lip, and helplessly hugged him.

Zhao Yao held Yan Rouyun tightly, and before she could react, he lowered his head and kissed her mouth.

"Hmm~"

Yan Rouyun was held in his arms, her eyes suddenly widened, and her tongue was captured by him.

After a long while, Zhao Yao released her, looked at her dazed expression, and gave her a light kiss on the lips, smiling:

"Yun'er, weren't you supposed to be helping me find out who put a bounty on my head at the Heavenly Fate Tower? Why are you back?"

"...Phew~ That's how it is..."

Yan Rouyun quickly regained her composure and solemnly recounted what had happened after she left Zhao Yao.

After leaving Zhao Yao that day, she did not leave the place immediately.

The first thing she did was to retrieve the baby from the water buffalo's back before heading to Wangzhou City. Her plan was to hand the baby over to the "Old and Young Officials" in the city and then go about her business.

As a result, she had just handed the doll over to the Old and Young Master and lingered in Wangzhou City for a day when she discovered that all sorts of forces in Wangzhou City had received the same bounty.

The target of the bounty is none other than Zhao Yao!

When she learned of this news, she was extremely anxious and immediately took the weapons she had prepared for Zhao Yao and rushed to Huangyan Mountain. On the way, she also encountered the mountain demon village woman who had not found her child at the foot of the mountain and was on her way to Wangzhou City to seek help from the Old and Young Master.

Yan Rouyun smelled the scent of blood essence on the woman and confirmed that Zhao Yao was in the Mountain Demon Village on the desolate rock mountain. She told the woman where the child was and immediately rushed to the Mountain Demon Village. On the way, she encountered many bounty hunters who came to capture or kill Zhao Yao.

She used her past reputation to mislead many people, causing them to stay away from the desolate rocky mountain.

She sped all the way to the Mountain Demon Village, where she witnessed Huo Xiaotian's resurrection and promptly chopped off his head.

She had intended to follow Zhao Yao's scent in the air and catch up immediately, but suddenly realized that she was still wearing Zhao Yao's men's clothing. She had seen many people in this outfit before without feeling anything, but now that she was about to see Zhao Yao, she felt shy.

Then he found a house and changed into his own clothes.

Unexpectedly, just after changing his clothes, he saw Zhao Yao transform into a 5.5-meter-tall black iron warrior, tracing an arc from the mountain and plunging into the Ascension Pool.

If Yan Rouyun hadn't realized that it was Zhao Yao's own choice and that he hadn't asked her for help, she would have stopped him immediately.

"That woman was corrupted by demons. I saw that the ropes on her body were self-bound, and she looked very much like the dolls bound by ropes on the back of a water buffalo. So I helped her and let her go down the mountain to find her son."

Unexpectedly, she later met you again and indirectly helped you pinpoint my location.

What a coincidence!

Zhao Yao embraced Yan Rouyun, feeling a surge of emotion.

"Someone's coming! Hurry up and put your clothes on!"

Yan Rouyun suddenly caught a whiff of something in the air, forcefully broke free from Zhao Yao's embrace, handed him the clothes, and spoke warily.

Zhao Yao took the clothes, quickly put them on, and, recognizing the five Black Iron Warriors, reassured them:

"Don't be nervous, I am the creditor of these five people."

They probably won't be so tactless as to treat me as an enemy anymore.

He dressed and looked up. On one side of the mountain demon village square, five weak Black Iron Warriors came down from the mountaintop and appeared there with trepidation and caution.

The five of them had appeared here before, but their feelings and thoughts were very different now.

"My benefactor? You killed that monster? That's wonderful!!"

When Li Jia, the Black Iron Warrior, saw Zhao Yao in the middle of the square, his gaze changed, and then he saw Song Angran's corpse behind Zhao Yao, and he was overjoyed.

In Li Jia's eyes, this demon was far more despicable than Huo Xiaotian, and it almost ate all of them!

The older Black Iron Warrior first saw Huo Xiaotian's corpse, his eyelids twitched, and then he glanced at Song Angran's corpse, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. He knew how terrifying the human demon was.

The three Black Iron Warriors, who had just woken up, looked at the frail-looking student in the middle of the square with some unease.

After all, Zhao Yao was their prey before, and they even forced him into the Ascension Pool. But when he opened his eyes, Zhao Yao had become their savior. This change was quite dramatic.

Just how much benefit did the students of this county school actually gain in the lower realm?

They had heard countless stories about martial artists descending to the mortal realm to vanquish demons and rapidly grow powerful since childhood, and having heard so many, they could understand this change.

"My benefactor, this is all the medicine and money we have... Where do you live? We brothers will recuperate for a few days and then visit you with generous gifts."

The eldest Black Iron Warrior handed over all the pills and money that the five brothers had to Zhao Yao, and earnestly wanted to continue to repay their kindness.

Zhao Yao calmly accepted these items and said:

"No need. After you leave, just do me a favor, and we'll be even."

"What is it, my benefactor?"