They had no other choice. The God of Massacre who suddenly appeared in Qing River Town was powerful beyond imagination. Even dozens of experts of the Heavenly Demon Temple were finished off by him easily. Others thought that they were not as powerful as those from the Heavenly Demon Temple, and they would die if they continued to stay.

  Of course, there were a few people who wanted to try their luck. They only backed up a bit, not leaving just like that.

  Ding Hao stood on the steps and saw everything in the darkness in the distance.

  He did not attack the experts of the two clans who had not left.

  Beside him, Wang Xiaoqi, Li Yunqi, Li Ying, and the others were stunned. They looked at him as if he were a monster. Although they were mentally prepared, knowing that his strength would undoubtedly rise to a much higher level when he came back three years later, the strength he had shown just now still shocked them. After all, the cultivation speed of such a genius was incalculable.

  Wang Xiaoqi and Li Ying were not so shocked. After all, they were not in the Primordial Realm and could not see through the subtlety. However, Li Yunqi was a martial arts genius. His strength had been improving rapidly in the past three years in the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect, and he had already reached the peak of the Primordial Grandmaster Realm. The stronger he was, the more he could feel that Ding Hao was as powerful and unfathomable as the sea and the abyss.

  Only Li Yiruo had been quietly looking at Ding Hao with a smile.

  Perhaps for a woman who was head over heels in love, it was reasonable for her love to do anything that would shock the world.

  “Uncle Li, I came here uninvited this time. Please forgive me for my abruptness.” After doing all this, Ding Hao bowed to Li Ying.

  “Hahaha, you’re welcome. If it weren’t for you tonight, Qing River Town would no longer exist.” Li Ying laughed loudly and felt relieved. Then he ordered his men to prepare a feast.

  Ding Hao took out a Life-prolonging Elixir from his storage space and said, “Speaking of which, this is the first time that I have come to Qing River Town. Please don’t refuse such a small gift.”
This Life-prolonging Elixir was as big as a longan fruit. Its outer face was light green, covered with a layer of light mist. There was extremely powerful vitality flowing around it. It was a rare magical elixir, which was definitely a priceless treasure for many old people who did not have many years to live. It could heal the body, stabilize the foundation, and prolong life.

  Although Li Ying’s strength was not high, he was able to tell good from the bad. Shocked, he refused again and again.

  “Uncle Li, don’t decline. Yunqi and I are close friends, so his father is my father. Although this elixir is precious, it cannot compare to Yunqi’s affection for you,” Ding Hao said and smiled.

  Li Ying had no choice but to accept the magical elixir.

  With the help of the elixir, he could extend his life by 50 years, and it would not be a problem for him to enter the Primordial Realm, given his aptitude.

  Li Yunqi was so moved that he thanked Ding Hao again and again.

  Ding Hao’s words made Li Yunqi feel proud in front of his father and his hometown people.

  “Bro, I haven’t seen you for three years. How did you become so distant? Haha, we’re gonna have a good drink later. Don’t return until you are drunk.” Ding Hao laughed and patted Li Yunqi on the shoulder.

  “Yeah, we must have a good drink later. Senior Brother Ding, you, as a boss, have been absent for three years. It’s a pity that I’ve worked so hard to manage Heavenly World. I’ve lost a lot of my hair and lost weight……” Wang Xiaoqi said exaggeratedly.

  After the initial shock, Wang Xiaoqi quickly calmed down.

  Among all the people, in addition to the current Mad Saber Zhang Fan, he was the closest friend of Ding Hao and first struck up a friendship with the latter. Becoming friends with Ding Hao was undoubtedly the greatest pride of this lad, the son of a businessman, who had made no achievements in martial arts but was obsessed with business.

  Although Ding Hao’s strength had reached a realm he could not understand, Wang Xiaoqi stood in front of him without any constraint. He knew very well that even if Ding Hao became the Martial Demigod, he was still his brother.

  Ding Hao laughed.

  “Senior Brother Ding, should we set up an inscription formation around Qing River Town to prevent some malicious people from attacking us in the dark night?” Li Yiruo thought of something and reminded Ding Hao.

  “It doesn’t matter. With me here, no one can take a step into the city wall,” Ding Hao said confidently.

  The current him was absolutely invincible below the Sage Realm.

  That was the confidence he had accumulated after experiencing countless life-and-death battles and seeing experts from all sides. He now had the capital to be confident.

  Soon, the smells of wine and meat wafted out from the brightly lit stone hall.

  After three years, the close friends reunited. Ding Hao, Li Yunqi, and Wang Xiaoqi were all excited, toasting and indulging themselves in the feast.

  Especially for Ding Hao, in the Towering Buddha Pagoda, he had always been nervous and had faced life-and-death battles all the time. Today, he could finally relax to his heart’s content. It was an intoxicating feeling.

  Large buckets of fine wine were being continuously moved into the stone hall.

  Li Yiruo sat quietly beside Ding Hao with a smile all the time. Her delicate hands were like jade, quietly pouring wine for Ding Hao. She had been completely devoted to Ding Hao, and she never persuaded him to drink less.

  The once hot-tempered woman was as quiet and gentle as a jade beauty at this moment.

  The whole Qing River Town was brightly lit and lively at this moment. Some of the elite guards and warriors in the town had begun to clean up the city wall that had been knocked down by the Demon Royal of the Heavenly Demon Temple. The light of fire could be seen from the windows of each house. In the dark snowy night, it was extremely soft and peaceful.

  In a distant place twenty miles away from Qing River Town:

  On a snow hill, more than a dozen figures stood quietly in the vast night. They restrained their Demon Auras and stood quietly in the snow like ghosts.

  “Sect Master, what should we do? Should we wait here just like this?” someone asked.

  Standing in the middle was a slim woman in a gauze dress. On such a cold, snowy night, she didn’t feel cold at all. Her white and smooth skin was exposed in the wind, and there was a strange charm about her.

  She looked at the flickering light in the divine temple in Qing River Town in the distance and couldn’t help recalling the scene when the expert of the Heavenly Demon Temple was killed not long ago. She gritted her teeth and said, “Do any of you know who that person is? Who on earth could kill an expert in the Demon Royal Realm in an instant?”
“Sect Master, the man in cyan seems to be a master of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect,” answered an expert of the Demon Clan beside her.

  “The Swordsmanship-seeking Sect is just a small Human Clan sect in Snow Province. It is as small as a grain of sand. How could there be such a powerful man? Even the Jade-faced Asura, the head of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect, can’t be so powerful, can he?” The slender woman frowned.

  Someone next to her said, “Sect Master, the top master in the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect is not the Jade-faced Asura, but a young swordsman named Zhang Fan, who is also known as the Mad Saber. It’s just that he seldom fights, so he is not well known. If he fights, it should not be a problem for him to kill a Demon Royal Realm expert.”
“Oh, really?” The thin clad slim woman nodded. “I heard the whereabouts of the Sky-fleeing Stone Key, so I came here in a hurry. I thought it was extremely secret. How come not only the Heavenly Demon Temple but also other forces and Human Clan sects have received the news?”
The dozens of experts around her looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.

  The slender woman did not pursue the matter. After a pause, she asked, “So, the man in cyan who attacked just now is Zhang Fan, the Mad Saber of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect?”
The person who had answered before hurriedly said, “Well…… Judging from his body movements, I’m afraid that this person is not Zhang Fan.”
“Then who is it?” The slim woman frowned.

  “Well……” The man’s expression changed as he replied, “Sorry, I don’t know.”
The slender woman nodded, and the corners of her mouth curved upward in the dark night. She said, “So, are you making fun of me by saying all this?”
The man knelt down and said with a pale face, “Sect Master, I didn’t……”
Before his voice died away, the beautiful woman suddenly roared and her head turned into a huge, ferocious, black fox head. Her Demon Aura was surging, and her eyes were like an abyss of flowing blood in the dark night. With a crack, she swallowed the subordinate kneeling on the ground directly.

  Immediately, the huge and weird fox head rapidly shrank and turned into the face of the charming woman before. She licked the corners of her mouth with her red tongue and said softly, “Well, do you know who the man in cyan is?”
The other eight or nine Royal Realm masters of the Demon Clan beside her were already shivering.

  This woman was capricious. The Demon Royal she had swallowed earlier was actually her favorite recently. He was also her male companion. By relying on her favor, he usually acted arrogantly and looked down on others. The other Demon Royals had long disliked him; however, due to her favor, they didn’t dare to voice their anger.

  Nonetheless, such a Demon Royal was swallowed up mercilessly by the woman just because he said something wrong. The other Demon Royals were afraid that they would meet the same fate as he did.

  “What? Nobody knows?” The slim woman faintly asked.

  Although her tone was indifferent, it sounded like a clap of thunder in the ears of the subordinates beside her.

  Suddenly, a light bulb went on in the head of one of her subordinates. He thought of something and summoned up his courage to say, “It’s said that three years ago, the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect once had a genius named Ding Hao. He was not only famous in Snow Province but also in the entire Northern Region. He had the best relationship with Bai Quanshui, the Extermination Swordsmanship Sect’s Monster, and Song Que, the Mean Devil King. He was behind the destruction of the Heaven-splitting Swordsmanship Sect three years ago.”
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