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The next day, early in the morning.

As dawn broke, Mu Yang got up and went out of the house.

After greeting Xue She, he left the city following the address of the Demon Slayer Division branch provided by Dai Wang.

Unlike the constables' offices located within the city, the Demon Slayer Bureau was situated in the suburbs, about ten miles from the county seat.

Mu Yang was riding a BMW.

A vast cluster of black buildings, resembling a military camp, soon came into his view.

This complex does not have overly high city walls; all the buildings, including the surrounding walls, are constructed of solid black iron stone.

There were also dark brown bloodstains on it that couldn't be washed off.

A strong, pungent stench almost assaulted my senses.

Even from a great distance, Mu Yang could smell it clearly.

It wasn't just because of his keen sense of smell, but more so because the place reeked of blood.

As Mu Yang approached the building, a huge plaque with gold lettering on a black background came into view.

Three powerful characters are engraved on it—

The Demon Slayer Division!!

The handwriting is sharp and fierce, carrying an overwhelming aura of killing intent, as if one could see countless demons being subdued beneath the words.

Below the giant plaque was a heavy black iron gate, with two guards from the Demon Slayer Division dressed in black tight-fitting clothes standing on each side of the gate.

Mu Yang took out the letter of recommendation.

One of the guards took it, glanced at it briefly, and then looked Mu Yang up and down before stepping aside to let him pass, saying, "Go in. The assessment location is in the training ground. Just turn left after you go in and you'll see it."

After entering the city gate, Mu Yang quickly arrived outside the martial arts arena.

The training ground was already crowded with people, mostly young martial artists in their twenties and thirties, as well as a few middle-aged men in their thirties and forties.

The Demon Slayer Division recruits members based on strength, not age.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, as long as you are strong enough, you can join the Demon Slayer Division.

"Another one. There are quite a lot of people here for the assessment today."

"Judging from his clothes, he seems to be a constable. He's probably a genius from the county town."

Groups of two or three people gathered together, and some chatted quietly after seeing Mu Yang.

There weren't any ridiculous or idiotic scenes that were considered disrespectful.

After all, this is the Demon Slayer Division. Unless someone is tired of living, no one would dare to be so arrogant.

Mu Yang randomly found a corner to stand in.

A moment later, an elderly man dressed in a gray outfit slowly walked over.

The old man had gray hair and a face full of wrinkles, but what was most noticeable was his left sleeve, which was tightly tied around his waist and completely empty.

That intact right arm wasn't particularly thick or strong.

But his eyes were unusually sharp, like those of a hawk, and when they swept across the entire room, it felt like a thorn in everyone's back, and everyone subconsciously shut their mouths.

"I, Fan Duan, will be in charge of today's assessment."

Fan Duan's voice was hoarse: "The Demon Slayer Division's assessment rules are very simple. Fourth-level Qi Condensation Realm martial artists are exempt from the strength test and can directly enter the final combat assessment. Everyone else must first undergo a strength test. Only those with a single-arm strength of over 10,000 jin can enter the combat assessment."

"As for the practical assessment, it will involve surviving ten moves from me. After that, you can join the Demon Slaying Division as a reserve officer."

That's right. Whether it's the third or fourth rank, after the assessment, they can only be considered as reserve members of the Demon Slayer Division.

Only after reaching the fourth level of cultivation and completing a mission can one be promoted to a full member of the Demon Slayer Division.

"Now, everyone, take your assessment number tags and come forward one by one."

After that, everyone stepped forward in an orderly fashion and received a nameplate from an assessment supervisor.

There were a total of seventeen people, of whom only four had reached the Qi Condensation Realm, namely numbers one to four. They were to wait aside first.

The rest of the people, including Mu Yang, need to undergo strength tests.

The first person to step forward was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties.

He walked to the huge stone lock in the center of the training ground, took a deep breath, and suddenly grabbed the handle of the stone lock in front of him, raising it above his head.

"nineteen,......"

The timer sounded, and after about ten breaths, the middle-aged man's face was already slightly flushed.

Clearly, he was just an ordinary Blood Marrow Realm martial artist.

Ten breaths later, the man put down the stone lock, then switched hands and lifted it up again.

Holding the stone lock above one's head with one hand for ten breaths, or about half a minute, is the most basic strength test.

In other words, without the strength of a perfect Blood Marrow Realm cultivator, one cannot even pass the first level.

After the middle-aged man, a few more people went up.

Most of them behaved much like middle-aged men, while the few young people who looked quite young seemed to be handling things with ease.

One of them even had a smile on his face, as if he were holding up some kind of light pottery instead of a heavy stone lock.

Soon, it was Mu Yang's turn.

He strode forward, and upon hearing the word "start," casually hooked the stone lock with his foot, exerted a little force, and tossed it into the air.

With a stretch of his left hand, he easily grasped it in mid-air.

The whole process was smooth and effortless, and the arm holding the stone lock was as steady as a mountain, not moving an inch.

"Wow, this guy's such a show-off! I should have done that too!"

"What are you doing? That stone lock weighs tens of thousands of pounds! Do you think you're tossing a bridal bouquet? One wrong move and you'll break your bones!"

"I don't know where he came from, he's not very old, but he's quite strong."

Mu Yang's move instantly sparked a murmur of discussion in the previously quiet venue.

Even Fan Duan, who had maintained a calm expression, glanced at Mu Yang and scrutinized him closely.

"There's no internal energy within the body, and the movements show no sign of force redirection. Is it some kind of special martial art?"

Fan Duan secretly analyzed the situation.

As for whether Mu Yang's strength was great enough to ignore the gravity of the falling stone lock?

He didn't even consider it.

To toss a stone lock weighing tens of thousands of pounds into the air and catch it without your arm swaying, requires a single arm strength of tens of thousands of pounds.

Even in the Blood Marrow Realm, the second round of tendon and bone tempering only yields 20,000 jin of strength. It takes at least three rounds of tendon and bone tempering to reach 40,000 jin of strength.

Judging from Mu Yang's clothes, you can tell he's a constable.

The fact that he came to take the exam shows that he is not a constable from the prefectural city, but rather from a small county town.

A young man working as a constable in a county town was obviously from a poor family. He might not even be able to gather enough precious medicines for the second round of tendon and bone strengthening, let alone the third round.

He guessed it must be some kind of force-dissipating technique he had never seen before.

Regardless, this move left a deep impression on him.

Mu Yang: Profound is the key.

Yes, he did it on purpose.

The reason is simple: he killed Su Wanqing and the people from Pingwei Escort Agency. Although there was no major danger in the city, he still needed to go out of the city to kill demons.

Therefore, he urgently needed to find a powerful backer to shield himself from major troubles and give himself some time to develop.

As for whether I will regret it?

Mu Yang can only say that he never regrets what he does!

If you're afraid of this or that, you won't dare to kill this or fight that.

He's probably still in the county right now.

Instead of letting the Wang and Hu families finish their seven-day mourning period.

Pretending to be weak while actually being strong is certainly a good strategy for surviving in chaotic times.

But killing those he disliked was more to Mu Yang's liking.

Before the cheat code came along, I didn't have the strength, so I just had to endure it.

If I still put up with this cheat code, then what's the point of having it?