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"In that case, Mu Yang, you take Lei Sai and Zhou Yao to the east end of the village. Ma Xuan, you come with me to Wu Dehou's house."

After listening to Mu Yang's explanation, Qin Yuan made a decision without hesitation.

Mu Yang, Lei Sai, and Zhou Yao were sent to investigate Yue Miao's situation.

He then took Ma Xuan away to keep an eye on Wu Dehou and see if there were any unexpected gains.

"Yes, Captain Qin!"

..................

The night was as dark as ink, and the moon was hidden behind the clouds.

At the eastern end of Wujia Village, several large lanterns gleam in a secluded courtyard.

In the courtyard, a simply dressed but refined-looking man with a short beard sat in front of the earthen stove, gently fanning the flames with a palm-leaf fan.

Inside the earthen stove and clay pot, dark brown medicinal liquid was bubbling, and the air was filled with a bitter herbal smell.

Not far from the man, a woman dressed in plain clothes was lying lazily on a bamboo recliner.

It was none other than Yue Miao.

At this moment, she was completely different from the pitiful and delicate woman she had been in front of Mu Yang and the others.

Her eyebrows relaxed, the corners of her mouth slightly upturned, and her almond-shaped eyes were full of smug satisfaction after her scheme had succeeded.

"Wu Yang, how's the plan going?"

Yue Miao rocked back and forth in the recliner, asking slowly, "I've already lured all the people here for you. If something goes wrong, we'll both be spending our next lives in the Demon Slayer Bureau's prison."

She spoke words of concern, but there was not a trace of nervousness in her tone.

After two days of interaction, she felt that the people from the Demon Slayer Division were not as terrifying as she had heard.

They all have two eyes and one mouth, and they also have emotions and desires; the only difference is that they are stronger.

With a casual remark and a performance, she distanced herself from the matter, leaving them to focus their attention on the Wu family father and son.

Wu Yang didn't turn around, but stirred the medicine with a wooden spoon and said confidently, "Don't worry, I've already scouted out the spider demon's lair, and the bloodthirsty powder has been administered."

"If nothing unexpected happens, it will wake up and go berserk in half an hour."

"With its fourth-order perfect realm, plus the berserk effect brought by the Bloodlust Powder, even if those few people from the Demon Slayer Division win, it will definitely be a brutal victory."

He paused, glanced up at the moon obscured by dark clouds on the horizon, and a smile curved his lips: "At that time, both the spider demon's blood essence and the relics of those Demon Slayers will belong to you and me!"

"With this harvest and my secret technique, I have a good chance of reaching the fifth rank in the future!"

Seeing Wu Yang's confident demeanor, Yue Miao's eyes sparkled and her cheeks flushed slightly.

That's exactly the kind of man Yue Miao should be looking for: confident, strong, intelligent, courageous and resourceful, unafraid even by the Demon Slayer Division, which strikes fear into the hearts of demons.

Unlike Wu You, who is ordinary, arrogant, short, childish, and boring, only knowing how to call his father "father this, father that," he is simply a good-for-nothing.

But is that secret method really reliable...?

Yue Miao recalled the black book that Wu Yang had pulled out of his sleeve after their instant connection.

The book gave her a creepy feeling, more frightening than a forest where monsters roam at night.

"Wu Yang, are you sure that demon blood external technique is really okay?"

Yue Miao's tone held a hint of hesitation: "Why don't we wait until the Wu family father and son and the people from the Demon Slaying Division are all dead, then just take our wealth and run away? Wouldn't that be better than cultivating some evil or crooked path?"

"What do you know!"

Wu Yang turned around and glanced at Yue Miao: "Gold and silver are just external things; once they're gone, they're gone."

"Only strength truly belongs to you."

He placed his hand on his chest.

That's where the dantian is located.

But upon internal inspection, his dantian was full of cracks and on the verge of collapse.

He was once a genius, breaking through to the Qi Condensation Realm at the age of thirty. However, when he tried to ambush a member of the Demon Slayer Division who was seriously injured from killing a demon, he was attacked by the opponent in his dying moments, which damaged his dantian.

If it weren't for the special martial arts he learned, which allowed him to firmly lock his true energy while concealing his breath, preventing his dantian from dissipating, his cultivation level would probably have already fallen back to the Blood Marrow Realm.

In his condition, ordinary martial arts techniques simply cannot repair his dantian.

Therefore, he had no choice but to risk switching to the "Demon Blood Outer Law" that he had unexpectedly acquired.

He didn't even bother with the essence and blood of ordinary demons.

So he set his sights on the "guardian deity" of his own village!

Since it is willing to protect them, then please let it protect its own dantian as well!

"Alright."

Seeing Wu Yang's persistence, Yue Miao, who didn't quite understand, lay back down in her chair.

..................

at the same time.

Outside the Wu Yang courtyard.

On a tree with lush branches and leaves.

Three figures were hidden in the dense canopy of trees, their black attire almost blending into the night.

It was Mu Yang and his two companions who had been chasing after Yue Miao.

Despite being far apart, all three were Qi Condensation Realm martial artists, and with their true qi flowing behind their ears, they naturally heard Wu Yang and Yue Miao's words clearly.

"That woman is such a pretentious bitch!" Zhou Yao muttered angrily in a low voice.

She was unfaithful, had an affair, and even cheated the Demon Slayer Bureau; she was truly audacious and reckless.

Lei Sai's expression also changed from solemn to angry.

He was furious at Yue Miao's despicable behavior, furious at Wu Yang's ruthlessness, and even more furious that he had come that afternoon but had come up empty-handed.

If it weren't for Brother Mu's recklessness—no, I mean Brother Mu's alertness and awareness—we would have truly fallen into their trap.

"Brother Mu, you guys stay here and watch over things. I'll go inform Captain Qin. A fourth-order perfected demon is not easy to deal with. We must..." Lei Sai said in a low voice, explaining the plan.

But before he could finish speaking, Mu Yang interrupted, "No need, we can go together."

Before Lei Sai could react, Mu Yang flew past like a gust of wind, stirring up fallen leaves.

By the time he came to his senses, Mu Yang had already leaped over the high wall and flown into the courtyard.

"who!"

In the courtyard, Wu Yang reacted extremely quickly. Almost the instant Mu Yang appeared, he turned around abruptly, reached his right hand to his waist, and four short knives shot out from between his fingers.

Under the moonlight, a cold glint appeared.

However, he was fast, but Mu Yang was even faster.

Mu Yang didn't even draw the black gold four-sided mace from his waist. He simply stretched his palm forward, and the four short swords were grasped in his palm as if they were iron filings encountering a magnet.

The sharp blade felt like paper to his fingertips, unable to pierce his skin at all.

Then, Mu Yang used the Hundred Shadows Flying Needle technique without mobilizing any Qi or blood or true Qi.

Simply by throwing them with brute force, the four short swords shot away at an even faster speed than when they came.

He pierced through Wu Yang's wrists and ankles.

The short knife continued its trajectory without slowing down, embedding itself firmly in the ground and disappearing from sight.

"ah!!!"

Only after the dagger disappeared did Wu Yang belatedly cry out in pain and collapse to the ground.

He tried to unleash the true energy within his dantian, but Mu Yang, who had appeared out of nowhere, struck him in the chest with a palm strike.

With a snap, the already cracked dantian shattered.

No sooner said than done.

From the moment Mu Yang landed until Wu Yang's limbs were pierced and blood flowed everywhere, it was only a matter of a breath.

It wasn't until Wu Yang's dantian was shattered by Mu Yang's palm strike that Yue Miao, who was standing to the side, finally reacted.

Instead of attacking, she immediately burst into tears, sobbing like a pear blossom in the rain, and cried to Mu Yang, "My lord, you've finally come! I don't know how, but when I woke up, he had kidnapped me! Waaaaah~~~"

Yue Miao didn't know when Mu Yang arrived, but seeing his strength, she knew she couldn't fight him head-on and had to take a gamble.

Hopefully, that idiot surnamed Ma is here too, and can stop it.

Unfortunately, Ma Xuan wasn't there, and Mu Yang wasn't a newcomer either.

Mu Yang stepped forward and placed his large hand directly on Yue Miao's shoulder.

Dislocating tendons and bones technique!

A powerful force surged through Yue Miao's body like a raging bull.

"Click—click—"

The crisp sound of bones dislocating was particularly jarring in the quiet night.

In an instant, her bones were dislocated, and she lost all ability to move.