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In the 28th day of the ninth month of the autumn of the 996th year of the Dajing calendar, which was the 11th year of the Ming Xuan reign.

First-class demon-hunting captain Mu Yang, after a long ten-day journey slaying demons, finally returned to the city of Qinghe County.

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The front hall of the Demon Slayer Division, the office of the deputy head of the division.

As always, Mr. Liang leaned back in his mahogany chair, a pair of bronze glasses perched on his nose, sipping fragrant tea while leisurely flipping through the book in his hands.

Every now and then, he would twist his body and adjust his sitting posture.

until......

"Knock knock knock~~~"

"Enter!"

Old Liang calmly put down his book and looked towards the door.

A figure dressed in a dark black uniform pushed open the door and entered; it was none other than Mu Yang, who had just returned.

"Old Liang!"

"Oh, it's Muyang. How's it going? Have you resolved the issues in Sancha County?" Old Liang took off his glasses and asked with a smile.

"It's all resolved."

"That's good. You're here to turn in your quest, right? I happen to be free, so take it all out. Speaking of which, I don't know whether to say you're lucky or unlucky. It's your first time going out on a quest alone, and you've already run into so many problems..."

As he spoke, Old Liang took the Demon-Detecting Mirror out of the drawer.

"By the way, how many missions did you take on this time?"

"Three."

"As expected of you!" Old Liang exclaimed, holding the demon-detecting mirror.

He had worked in the Demon Slayer Division for decades and had seen countless people.

They either do very few missions for cultivation purposes, only maintaining the most basic workload, or they have reached a bottleneck in their cultivation and frantically do missions to accumulate merits to exchange for resources.

He had never seen anyone like Mu Yang who could complete so many tasks quickly and efficiently without interfering with his cultivation.

"Same as always, first identify the mission target, then bring out any monsters you killed along the way, and I'll report them for you too," said Old Liang.

Mu Yang nodded and thanked him, then took out the mission tokens for the fourth-tier turtle demon, the fourth-tier tiger demon, and the fourth-tier fish demon.

The turtle demon's part is a fragment of turtle shell in its chest, the tiger demon's part is an ear, and the fish demon's part is an eyeball.

Master Liang skillfully picked up the Demon Appraisal Mirror and compared it one by one. After confirming that it was indeed a fourth-tier demon, he opened the Mirror of Insight and marked the three tasks as completed.

"Let's continue."

Old Liang looked at Mu Yang.

He knew that Mu Yang had encountered a fifth-tier green-shelled crab demon and a fifth-tier "River Goddess" in Sancha County.

He managed to get two minor merits at the prefectural level in just one trip; this kid is really efficient.

As Old Liang was thinking, everything suddenly went black.

It wasn't that it was getting dark; rather, a huge object appeared in the room, blocking the glowstone light from above the roof beams.

It was a thick, long horn, taller than the average adult male.

It has concentric rings of pale gold spirals on it, which shimmer and glow under the light of the fluorite.

"???"

Old Liang was stunned when he saw the unicorn in front of him.

No, do crab demons grow horns now?

Also, this unicorn horn looks quite valuable; it resembles the horns of a dragon he had seen in his youth...

Wait, dragon horns!

Old Liang seemed to realize what was happening, staring at the unicorn in front of him, and rubbed his eyes hard.

"Mu Yang, this...this can't really be a dragon's horn, can it?" Old Liang looked at Mu Yang, swallowing hard as he spoke.

"Mr. Liang has a good eye!"

"I encountered this at the Three-Forked River as well. When I was killing the crab demon that was pretending to be the river god, I saw it was there and killed it without thinking." Mu Yang said succinctly.

These were simple and calm words, yet they stirred up a storm in Old Liang's heart.

What do you mean by "seeing it there, I just killed it without hesitation"?

That's a dragon, a legendary dragon, a dragon whose strength far surpasses that of ordinary monsters!

Even if we disregard his current crippled state, in his prime, escaping from the jaws of a dragon would be an amazing feat he could boast about for a lifetime!

Even his son, who had cultivated superior true qi, could only flee in defeat when facing the dragon alone.

At most, his retreat was a bit more elegant than when he was at his peak.

So why do you describe such an impressive feat as killing a lowly rat demon as nothing special?

Rat Demon: ?

"No, did you really kill this dragon? I mean, did you kill it all by yourself? There wasn't any legendary experience like in the storybooks, like some old man passing by?" Old Liang was afraid that Mu Yang would misunderstand him, so he specially picked up the book he had just been reading and pointed to it.

No wonder Elder Liang was shocked; in the entire Liangzhou region, only the deep waters of the Qingshui River near Anling Prefecture harbored dragons.

In just ten days, Mu Yang traveled this far?

Mu Yang subconsciously glanced at the book with not many words in Old Liang's hand.

So white, oh no, so round, no, it should be so big.

Unexpectedly, Old Man Liang is still young at heart and enjoys bringing people together.

"Ahem!"

Seemingly sensing Mu Yang's approving gaze, Old Man Liang blushed and quickly closed the book.

Seeing this, Mu Yang regretfully withdrew his gaze, thought for a moment, and said, "I did kill this dragon by myself, and the people of the entire Sancha County should be considered witnesses."

"Um."

After the unexpected incident, Old Liang didn't press the matter further. Instead, he picked up the demon-detecting mirror and aimed it at the enormous unicorn in front of him.

A faint ripple appeared on the surface of the bronze mirror.

Soon, two large characters slowly appeared in the mirror.

Fifth order.

"A fifth-tier demon is worth one low-grade Earth-level merit. However, the Flood Dragon clan is special; killing one yields even more merit."

As he spoke, Old Liang wrote down a number in the booklet—Five!

"One is worth five?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Mu Yang's eyes.

As expected of a dragon, it has real prestige; even its price is different from other monsters.

"By the way, what other monsters did you encounter? Tell me about them all." After recording the little dragon's achievements, Elder Liang looked at Mu Yang.

His original intention was to get Mu Yang to finish registering the merits of the two fifth-tier crab demons and leave as soon as possible, so as not to continue to agitate his old heart.

Then, in the next second...

Old Liang's hand, holding the vermilion pen, froze in mid-air as he stared blankly at Mu Yang, who kept pulling out demon tokens.

"One, two, three..."

Old Man Liang was dumbfounded when he saw the demon tokens that filled half the room.

"No, in just ten days, you've encountered so many monsters?" Old Liang looked at Mu Yang with suspicion.

You little brat, you're not secretly buying up demon tokens to scam this old man, are you?

"We were lucky enough to retrieve a map documenting the monsters from the Pingwei Escort Agency's inventory."

Mu Yang grinned, his snow-white teeth gleaming under the light.

Mr. Liang:.......

"No wonder the locations for your three missions are so far apart. You're quite clever." Old Liang smiled, relieved.

As long as it's a genuine slaughter of demons, and not a charade, then a little more or less doesn't matter.

Old Liang picked up the demon-detecting mirror and examined them one by one.

Finally, with a flourish of his pen, he recorded each monster and its merits in the register.

"Four low-grade Xuan-level merits, nine high-grade Xuan-level merits, and seven low-grade Di-level merits. Is that alright?"

Mu Yang nodded: "Thank you, Elder Liang!"

The four low-grade Xuan-level merits all came from third-tier demons.

Nine Xuan-level superior merits were awarded, six of which came from fourth-tier demons: a turtle demon, a snake demon, a beautiful snake demon, a tiger demon, a fish demon, and a pangolin demon. The other three came from spoils of war handed over by various families in Sancha County.

Of the seven lower-level merits at the Earth level, two came from the Green-Shelled Crab Demon and its offspring, and the remaining five were contributed by the Little Flood Dragon Demon.

This is a great achievement!

We have to go on a big spending spree later!