I defeated the saint with a parry.

Li Xuance stood on the water, his body floating with the water's movement.

The smile on his face had vanished, replaced by a tense expression with furrowed brows.

Not only him, but the entire group of onlookers remained silent.

The underwater scene was so "freehand" and exaggerated that they wouldn't even dare to dream of such a carefree scene.

So this is how you can kill demons with such elegance.

As demon slayers, the more than one hundred people standing here have all grown from mediocre to gold and silver medal demon slayers and Concentration Realm cultivators. Which one of them hasn't killed more than a hundred demons and evil spirits?

They learned many methods of killing demons, including various straightforward methods, slow torture, and even insidious and vicious ones.

But... every demon-slaying experience is difficult and torturous, sometimes even causing mental problems.

This Junior Brother Xu in front of me is treating the water monkeys like wooden stakes to be chopped down... Oh no, calling them wooden stakes would be too kind of them.

"I am not as good as him."

Someone spoke first, muttering these words to themselves.

Everyone who heard this nodded instinctively, but their eyes never left the scene in the water.

Li Xuance was stunned, but Xu Ling was not.

He swam slowly over, taking advantage of the water monkey's illness, and used the most basic slashing, stabbing, picking, and chopping techniques.

A water monkey at the Concentration Realm can be dealt with in just two or three strikes. A creature at the Spirit Platform Realm, however, has thicker skin and requires more blows.

When the surrounding water monkeys swarmed forward, Xu Ling was no match for them. He couldn't keep up with the attacks of one or two of the water monkeys, so he had to roll to dodge.

At his level of proficiency, quantity is no longer an issue.

After he chopped down the last water monkey, a repulsive force came from the water, and he was thrown out of the underwater world.

"Li Xuance! Again!"

Xu Ling shook the water off his sword, and the water on his clothes was dried by his breath. Amidst the rising steam, he could feel the astonishment in the eyes of those around him.

"You should still be able to draw the eldest son of the Li family, your brother Li You, and even the garrison commander."

"Come on! I'll try anything to help you strengthen your cultivation. Of course, I have to try everything."

What does that mean?

Those around them exchanged bewildered glances. It seemed as if Xu Ling knew everything Li Xuance was capable of, based on his words.

Li Xuance had already reverted to his original form and was about to imitate the actions of others, but he froze in place because of Xu Ling's words: "You..."

He wanted to ask Xu Ling how he knew, even who he wanted to imitate, but this was a trump card, and he couldn't admit it, so he could only pretend to be stupid.

Li Xuance used a fan as a brush, but this time he didn't smear the ink on himself. Instead, he wielded the brush and ink, creating a painting on the spot.

"I almost forgot," Xu Ling said with a smile, looking at the scene, "there's also a stampede of ten thousand horses!"

Upon hearing this, Li Xuance stopped painting again, his face darkening as he used his left sleeve to retrieve the ink and brush, then continued painting by waving the fan handle with his right hand.

But as soon as he picked up his brush, Xu Ling said, "Or are you planning to paint a tiger emerging from the mountain?"

"..." Li Xuance remained silent, quietly waving his sleeve to collect the ink.

This process repeated itself...

"If the tiger coming down from the mountain doesn't work, then what about the golden eagle playing with insects, or Kuafu chasing the sun?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xuance's right hand began to tremble, and he didn't know how to begin writing with his right hand that was holding the fan.

"He knows everything, he knows everything... even what I'm going to draw."

Li Xuance's murmurs reached the ears of those around him, making the entire courtyard even quieter.

Everyone's expressions became very strange, looking at Xu Ling without knowing how to evaluate or judge the fight before them.

Is Xu Ling impressive?

The answer is definitely yes, but Xu Ling could have easily defeated Li Xuance, yet he chose to kill him by destroying his spirit.

He didn't even bother to fight; he just rattled off all the moves his opponent would use, like reciting a menu.

What's the point of fighting? This is the ultimate way to destroy someone's spirit...

If they remembered correctly, it was Li Xuance who provoked them first, and even deliberately forced Xu Ling to help him "consolidate his cultivation".

So Xu Ling used such psychological tactics because she held a grudge.

"Don't ever offend this ancestor again."

The highest cultivation level of the demon slayers present was only at the peak of the Condensation Realm. Even someone as strong as Zhang Li was not as good as Li Xuance.

Even Li Xuance is being played like this now, how could they dare to even think about offending him?

Let us observe a moment of silence for Li Xuance!

Perhaps sensing the growing sympathetic glances from the crowd, Li Xuance finally couldn't hold back.

He snorted coldly, put away the Mountain and River Fan, and ink was still dripping from the sleeve of his left hand as he waved it.

Before leaving, he tossed out a letter from Li Tao and left the Demon Suppression Division without looking back. Having been defeated with such a simple move, he couldn't even find a reason to console himself; he simply had no face to stay any longer.

Being beheaded is the end of it all; if you're killed by the police, you can only hide.

The way he left in such a panic didn't seem like that of a master of the Spirit Platform Realm at all.

The crowd quickly made way for him, clearing a path for him to leave, not daring to provoke him.

This scene is quite similar to when he made way for Xu Ling earlier.

Sheathing his sword, Xu Ling stretched, and Zhang Li was the first to greet him.

"Are you alright?"

"The hem of my clothes was slightly dirty."

At this point, keeping a low profile is pointless.

Zhang Li was surprised to hear such lines for the first time and thought they were incredibly impressive. He silently wrote them down in his mind: "How can you even defeat someone from the Guanhai Realm? You're too strong."

Xu Ling shook his head: "You misunderstood. Li Xuance only imitated the form; his cultivation level was only at the peak of the Spirit Platform Realm, not the true Observation Sea Realm."

It was completely different from the shadow he had seen.

"That's not right either." Zhang Li swallowed hard, thinking of Xu Ling's brilliance just now: "You've really offended the Li family to death. If I were Li Xuance, I'd probably pack my things tonight and leave this heartbreaking place, Fancheng, while there's no more demonic calamity."

"If I remember correctly, Li Xuance is only twenty years old, yet he has already entered the extraordinary realm. No matter where you are, he would be considered a genius. No wonder he wanted to use you to consolidate his cultivation after hearing about you. This is clearly his genius mentality at work, trying to dampen your arrogance."

"It's just a pity..." Zhang Li shook his head. He didn't say what he meant, but those who understood would understand.

After what just happened, this person will probably never be able to hold his head high in front of Xu Ling again.

"It's all his own fault. I didn't provoke him at all." Xu Ling shrugged, having already put the ink-black blade into his storage bag. "This guy isn't a good person either. He probably calculated that he has a cultivation level close to the Sea-Gazing Realm, so he's very confident. If I lose, believe it or not, he might accidentally kill me."

"It can't be that bad, this is the Demon Suppression Division."

Not that bad?

Was Xu Ling going to tell Zhang Li about the trial space? That kid was ruthless; if he didn't rely on the system, he would have died thousands of times over.

Furthermore, don't forget the conditions for activating the trial space. Without killing intent and hatred, the trial space cannot be activated.

Xu Ling didn't explain either.

Zhang Li, however, pulled Xu Ling to the stone tablet and wouldn't let him leave.

This time, no one said a word.

Xu Ling is currently flush with cash and his mind is completely focused on the Li family's case, leaving him no energy to search for medicinal herbs. Zhang Li then pulled him along to look, saying that looking wouldn't hurt.

After a while, Xu Ling simply tossed the storage bag to Zhang Li and closed his eyes to rest.

He had already put away his waist tag during the fight. Since Zhang Li is going to help him look for it, he can find it himself.

Little did he know, Zhang Li was acting on orders.

What Zhang Li pulled out of his storage bag was not Xu Ling's waist token, but Xu Huaixu's garrison order.

Zhang Li's eyes darted around, and he shakily withdrew the item, not quickly, and deliberately reminded her, "Oops, I took the wrong one, I'm so sorry."

As soon as the order was issued, those watching nearby recognized it. They were all cultivators; if their eyes couldn't see it, could their divine sense not have seen it?

Garrison Command!

Although Zhang Li "quickly" took back the garrison order, he quickly produced Xu Ling's waist token, as if nothing had happened.

But Wang Dachui and his group could see very clearly that it was Xu Huaixu's garrison commander of Fancheng.

Seeing this, the happiest person was Xu Huaixu in the lakeside pavilion in the backyard: "Good, good, good! Zhang Li did a great job. It was worth it for me to send a message in advance."

"With these hundred-plus mouths here, once today is over, the entire Demon Suppression Bureau of the Great Chu will know that Xu Ling is the person I have chosen. By the time they realize Xu Ling's extraordinary talent and try to seize him, they will find that Xu Ling is already under my command."

Just imagining the expressions on those old guys' faces makes me happy, hahaha!

"How wonderful! Let's drink a big toast!"