Start slaying demons from the proficiency panel.

Many hypotheses arose in Ning Xiu's mind, but he ultimately decided not to report the matter.

No one knows whether the Demon Subduing Division is related to Marquis Wuyi, or what role they play in secret. If one reports something that touches on the interests of some big shots within the Demon Subduing Division, they will probably disappear without a trace in a few days.

Ning Xiu's strength is still weak at the moment. In this chaotic and dark world, he should keep a low profile and not be the one to stand out for justice.

After bandaging his wounds, Ning Xiu took out the items he had just looted from the three-faced demon from his pocket.

Needless to say, three hundred taels of silver notes are a good thing. Ning Xiu had been penniless for over a year, but today, by killing evil spirits, he finally made his first windfall. It was truly a cause for celebration.

After the two bottles of pills were uncorked, a fragrant aroma immediately wafted out. Ning Xiu felt refreshed and no longer tired after just one sniff.

Although I don't know what effects these pills have, they are probably good things.

The last three skull darts were exquisitely crafted, with extremely sharp edges on both sides of the darthead, easily capable of cutting off the corners of wooden tables.

Ning Xiu figured that the three-faced demon must have realized that his external martial arts skills would render his throwing darts ineffective, which was why he gave up on using this method to attack him.

These darts were made by a demon, so it wasn't advisable to keep them for personal use. Furthermore, since he didn't know how to throw darts, Ning Xiu decided to take them to a pawnshop and sell them when he had some free time. The fact that a demon could carry these darts meant that the materials used to forge them must have been quite valuable.

Early the next morning, Ning Xiu left home with three hundred taels of silver.

Previously, everyone lived in the champion camp, where food, clothing, and lodging were all taken care of, allowing Ning Xiu and the other teenagers to focus entirely on training without having to worry about daily life.

Now that he has been promoted to the Demon Subduing Division, he no longer has these advantages. After last night's battle, the clothes that Lu Hao lent to Ning Xiu were damaged by the three demons, making Ning Xiu realize that fighting evil spirits is indeed a very demanding job that consumes a lot of clothes.

Therefore, he plans to go out today and buy a large quantity of ready-made clothes to prepare for future needs.

As soon as Ning Xiu stepped out of the Demon Subduing Division headquarters, he heard the wandering vendors on the street talking animatedly, excitedly telling each other something.

Ning Xiu was curious, so he deliberately moved closer.

"Have you heard? A sorcerer died on a side street in Tianan last night. His death was horribly gruesome; his face was crushed by someone."

"What are the Demon Subduing Division doing? How could there be demons in the capital? They should be severely punished for dereliction of duty."

"Never make such dangerous remarks, lest someone come knocking on your door and asking after your well-being."

The itinerant peddler profession is probably the most well-informed group in the entire Chaotian Capital. No one can say for sure how many itinerant peddlers there are in Chaotian Capital.

They are mostly seen wearing gray turbans and carrying square wooden boxes on their backs; men, women, young and old can all do this job.

Ning Xiu, the instigator, stood silently among the crowd, listening to the vendors' descriptions of the three-faced demon's death, which was quite interesting.

However, Ning Xiu had his own things to do and it was not appropriate for him to stay there and listen to others gossip. Just as he was about to turn around and leave...

A traveling peddler suddenly said, "Quite a few strange things happened today. The youngest son of the Yun family cloth shop owner in the south of the city got married last night. Who would have thought that a strange scream would come from the bridal chamber in the middle of the night? When the shop owner, along with his servants and maids, broke down the door, they found that the couple had both hanged themselves from the rafters."

"A wedding turning into a funeral, such a tragic thing, it must be really sad for Manager Yun to be a black-haired person sending off an white-haired person."

Ning Xiu shook his head, feeling deep sympathy for Manager Yun, whom he had never met before.

Anyone who encounters this situation will experience a mental breakdown that is beyond the comprehension and imagination of others.

Squeezing through the crowd, Ning Xiu headed straight for a fabric store on the street not far away, intending to buy ready-made clothes that he could wear.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Ning Xiu entered the cloth shop, he immediately spotted a familiar face.

It was his superior, Su Qianqian, the Copper Leopard Demon-Slaying Commander.

Today, Su Qianqian was not wearing the black silver chainmail; instead, she wore an apricot-yellow dress and looked like a young lady from a wealthy family.

"Lord Su," Ning Xiu quickly greeted him.

Su Qianqian turned around: "It's you. You just moved into the Demon Subduing Division. Are you settling in alright?"

Ning Xiu dared not say that he and his group of newcomers had gone to Chunman Pavilion for a good time last night, and could only nod and say: "It's not much different from when we were in the Champion Camp. Lord Su is too kind."

"I was planning to let you get used to things for a few days before assigning you tasks, but since you've met me now, come with me. It'll be good for you to get familiar with the work of the Demon Slayers as soon as possible." Su Qianqian took a package from the cloth shop owner and then beckoned Ning Xiu to walk out of the shop.

"Ah, this..." Ning Xiu was speechless for a moment. He had only come out to buy clothes, so how did he end up getting to the part about getting familiar with the work in advance?

However, since his superior had already spoken, Ning Xiu naturally had no right to refuse, and the matter of the clothes could only be postponed to the next time.

Ning Xiu strode to catch up with Su Qianqian and walked alongside her, asking curiously, "Lord Su, where are we going now?"

"Yun's Cloth Shop".

Ning Xiu was taken aback: "Is it the Yun family cloth shop where the newlywed couple hanged themselves at night? Could it be that all of this is really the work of evil spirits?"

Su Qianqian turned her head and glanced at Ning Xiu: "I didn't expect you to know about this. You're quite well-informed."

"That's all the information I have for the general public. If Lord Su knows any inside information about the Demon Subduing Division, could you please tell me?"

"It's hard to say right now. You'll know when you get to Yun's Cloth Shop."

Led by Su Qianqian, the two soon arrived at Yun's Cloth Shop in the south of the city. The red silk and double happiness characters at the gate had not yet been removed, but the doorman was already wearing a black cloth armband.

"I am a Demon-Slaying Officer from the Demon-Slaying Division, and I wish to see Manager Yun," Su Qianqian said, taking out a bronze plaque engraved with a leopard's head.

The shop assistant immediately ran into the cloth shop, and soon a middle-aged man with an extremely weathered face came out. His eyes were red, indicating that he had been crying.

"This humble subject, Yun Heng, greets Your Excellency."

“You sent someone to the Demon Subduing Division to report the case last night. I’ll take over this matter. Take me directly to the scene to have a look,” Su Qianqian said.

"My lord, please come with me."

Yun Heng's family lived in the courtyard behind the cloth shop. After passing through the cloth shop, dyeing pool, and warehouse, Ning Xiu and the other two finally arrived at the courtyard where Yun Heng's family lived.

At this moment, the courtyard was full of Yun Heng's family members, who were wailing and crying.

“My lord, that’s the room. My son’s body is still hanging inside. I’m afraid of being reminded of the past, so I won’t go in with you,” Yun Heng said, pointing to a room in the courtyard, his voice choked with emotion.

Su Qianqian nodded and led Ning Xiu over to push open the door and enter.

Seeing the scene before him, Ning Xiu was slightly surprised. It was almost exactly as the traveling peddler had described: on the main beam of the house, a couple in wedding attire had hanged themselves with white ropes.

Their limbs were ramrod straight, their faces were ashen, their eyes bulged out, and their tongues were hanging out of their mouths, limp and stuck to their chins, which was quite frightening.

Fortunately, Ning Xiu had seen even more horrifying scenes in the Demon Suppression Prison before, so he had the mental fortitude to withstand it; otherwise, he would have been truly terrified.

Everything inside the house was normal, and there were no signs of a struggle, ruling out the possibility that someone had murdered someone and staged a suicide by hanging.

The Yun family was wealthy and had a happy life, so there was no reason for them to commit suicide. The fact that the young couple in their family committed suicide at the same time was clearly not their own wish.

Just as Ning Xiu was about to secretly use his spiritual observation technique to examine the scene, Su Qianqian suddenly handed him a package and said, "Take out the cloth inside and use it to line the inside of this room."

Although Ning Xiu did not know what she meant, Su Qianqian, as the Copper Leopard Demon-Subduing Commander, must have her own way of handling things, so Ning Xiu did as she said.

Soon the entire room was surrounded by the fabrics that Su Qianqian had brought.

Under Ning Xiu's puzzled gaze, Su Qianqian took out a small bottle and poured all the contents of the bottle directly onto the cloth.

The cloth was instantly stained red, and the stain spread rapidly.

Ning Xiu sniffed the air and realized that what Su Qianqian had sprinkled was actually blood.

"Be careful," Su Qianqian said, seemingly out of the blue.

Just then, the blood-stained cloth suddenly stirred. The silhouette of an infant slowly appeared in the center of the stained area, licking the bloodstains off the cloth.

Seeing her prey take the bait, Su Qianqian pinched a finger mark, and the cloth in the room moved without wind, quickly wrapping up into a ball, completely imprisoning the unseen baby.

"Wow! Wow! Wow!"

Suddenly, the cries of a baby erupted from within the cloth bundle. The sound was extremely shrill and unpleasant to hear, as if something inside was about to crawl out of the mouth.

Ning Xiu quickly activated the Great Sun Profound Scripture, and the strange sensations on his body dissipated considerably.

【011】Miracles happen with great effort

The baby, wrapped in a cloth, struggled incessantly, trying to break free, but all its efforts were in vain in the face of Su Qianqian's magic.

Ning Xiu walked to Su Qianqian's side and asked curiously, "My lord, what kind of evil spirit is this? Why have I never read about it in the 'Complete History of Demons and Evils'?"

Su Qianqian replied, "A vengeful fetus is a fetus that takes human form within a woman's body but is not fully formed. The conditions for its birth are that the mother must die and be abandoned in a place with yin energy for a vengeful fetus to appear, but the probability is very small. It belongs to a low-level evil spirit."

Hearing Su Qianqian say this, Ning Xiu was puzzled: "My lord, could it be that evil spirits have some kind of class?"

"Of course, demons and evil spirits are also divided into nine ranks. This kind of formless and bodyless vengeful spirit is not even in the top rank. Most of the evil spirits in the Yellow Zone that you used to execute in the Demon Suppression Prison were ninth or eighth rank that had completed their formation."

"What about the evil spirits in the Xuan District?" Ning Xiu asked.

"That place mostly imprisons those of the seventh and sixth ranks. Those above the fifth rank have to be sent to the regional authorities, otherwise they can't be controlled."

Ning Xiu was speechless. Only then did he realize how much of a bargain he had gotten by being able to go to the Demon Suppression Prison as an executioner.

Sixth and seventh grade evil spirits can be slaughtered at will like chickens and ducks, which is absolutely impossible outside of the Demon Suppression Prison.

Unfortunately, those days are gone forever; the good old days of getting free general proficiency points are over.

Looking at the constantly rolling mass of cloth, Ning Xiu said, "My lord, what do you plan to do with this vengeful spirit fetus? Should I handle it?"

Although the vengeful spirits were low-level evil spirits, they could still bring him general proficiency, so Ning Xiu didn't want to let them go, no matter how few there were.

But Su Qianqian stopped him: "No rush, the real danger hasn't appeared yet. Be prepared to take action."

Seeing Su Qianqian's serious expression, Ning Xiu dared not be negligent. Could it be that besides this vengeful spirit fetus, there are other evil spirits?

"Wow! Wow! Wow!"

The vengeful fetus struggled incessantly inside the cloth bundle, its cries clearly audible even outside. Yun Heng and his family stared at each other in bewilderment, their expressions full of confusion.

Where did this baby's crying come from?

Suddenly, a cold wind swept through the courtyard, and the door to Ning Xiu's room was pushed open from the outside. The wind rushed in, causing the entire room to howl loudly.

Candlesticks, fruit plates, and tea sets fell off the table with a clatter.

With his arms shielding his face, Ning Xiu's gaze fell upon the female corpse that had long since hanged from the beam. Suddenly, a woman in a white dress, her feet three feet off the ground, silently emerged from within.

Her long hair reached her waist, completely obscuring her face and making it impossible to see her true features, but the sharp claws on her ten fingers were enough to show that this woman was no ordinary person.

"There really is another evil spirit!" Ning Xiu thought to himself in surprise.

“I didn’t explain in detail earlier. The chances of a vengeful fetus being born are very small, but once it does appear, it means that the mother who couldn’t give birth to it will also become a vengeful ghost. This is called a ‘vengeful woman.’ Vengeful fetuses and vengeful women usually act together. If you see one of them, then the other must be nearby.”

The moment the door was blown open by the wind, Su Qianqian took three steps back and stood directly behind Ning Xiu, saying, "I'll leave this evil spirit to you. Let me see your true strength."

It coalesced into a form that was visible to the naked eye, and it turned out to be the ninth-grade evil spirit that Su Qianqian had mentioned.

Ning Xiu instantly became serious. At the same time, the vengeful woman leaped up and slapped down on Ning Xiu's crown.

The vengeful woman's long hair swayed in the wind, and at that moment, Ning Xiu finally saw her face hidden beneath it.