As the golden rooster heralds the dawn, the first ray of morning light shines upon Black Mountain.
On the bustling 'Fulu Street' of the Outer City District, a case that shocked both the Inner and Outer Cities occurred.
It began with Zhong Xu, the Outer City Constable responsible for guarding this area, brandishing a Governnt Saber, and pushing through the crowd from afar...
Only to see the corpse of Wei Zhang, the eldest son of Wei Mansion, with his skull shattered, hanging on the stone steps before his own door, his death grueso.
Seeing this, Zhong Xu's heart skipped a beat.
His drowsy mind instantly tensed.
Following this, with a slight chill in his brows, he knew sothing serious had happened.
As he stepped through the sparse early morning crowd, he entered the Wei Mansion.
While pondering how Wei Zhang's father, as well as the entire clan of Martial Artists within the mansion, could allow Wei Zhang to die at the doorstep...
He was more shocked by an even more unbelievable scene that unfolded.
Within the Wei Mansion, which had one of the few 'Great Innate' level beings in the Outer City!
Wei Zongchang!
This master of the Wei Family almost monopolized half the Outer City's 'salt and iron' affairs, maintaining his 'Vajra Imperable' cultivation by crazily consuming precious pills and Great Pills.
As he stepped inside.
He was shockingly struck so that half his body was embedded into his garden's earth upon dying, his eyes wide open, staring toward his ho's threshold, unable to die at peace!
"Wei... Wei Zongchang is dead?!"
"Who could have done this?"
Zhong Xu's eyes tightened at this sight, gripping his sheathed saber, a chill racing up his spine.
Not daring to think too much, he turned around almost without delay and hurriedly headed towards the Outer City Governnt Office to find Departnt Head Chen Zhenwu.
To say sothing unpleasant.
This case involved the Wei Mansion, he just felt vaguely wrong from the start.
But now...
Not to ntion the Squad Leader.
Even if it's the Ninth-Grade Departnt Head, facing such a sudden disastrous case!
Chen Zhenwu, might not be able to handle it!
The Wei Family Master had always paid huge taxes to the Governnt Office, the prominent Black Mountain aristocrats with 'official positions' and 'Martial Dao', who hadn't benefited from his resources?
The Demon Hunting Departnt, Guardian Mansion... He had connections all through, even whisperings of relations with the Prefecture City.
Showing respect to the influential figures.
So Wei Zongchang's death is no small matter.
More crucially.
Soone dared to commit murder in the most bustling Outer City street by night, killing even a Great Innate like Wei Zongchang, practically writing "boldly reckless" on their forehead.
If not thoroughly investigated.
Will it be Inner City's Great Innate next?
Which Martial Artist can tolerate such brazen 'threat' above their head?
Soon,
Hastily, Black Mountain Constables arrived and completely sealed off the once highly prosperous Wei Mansion.
Then, the Ninth-Grade Departnt Head of the Black Mountain Governnt Office, Chen Zhenwu.
Along with the Copper Seal Patrol from the Demon Hunting Departnt stationed in the Outer City, Xie Wutong, who is only a step away from Great Innate.
The two represented the Guardian Mansion and Demon Hunting Departnt arrived together.
Outer City Wei Mansion, before the mansion gate.
"Not caused by demons, there's not a trace of demonic aura sensed here."
Xie Wutong, in her Demon Hunting Robe, flipped her jade-like petite hands, lifting a jade stone that senses demonic aura.
Seeing its color remains unchanged, she looked up towards the expansive mansion and decisively spoke to Chen Zhenwu, whose face was displeased.
"..." Chen Zhenwu sank deeper in his heart, having already inford the Guardian Mansion of such a major case.
Upon hearing Xie Wutong negating 'demonic disorder',
The Outer City Departnt Head began secretly speculating, his mind involuntarily started thinking complex thoughts:
"Although Wei Zongchang's Great Innate is diluted, it's still truly Vajra Imperable."
"Slaying him, then his son, is not the act of demons plundering Martial Artists' 'Qi of Cultivation' for Dao nourishnt, so who could it be?"
"Even if it's , facing off against Wei Zongchang, I only have a seventy percent chance of victory."
"Across the entire Outer City, only two or three other families or gangs' Innates could barely achieve this level."
"How could they manage to force Wei Zongchang to death?"
"Did a cunning character on the 'City Demon Hunting List', an Overseas Dragon, arrive suddenly in this remote Black Mountain region, not wanting excessive risk or attention but seeking to pillage resources?"
"Thus targeting Wei Zongchang, this Outer City Great Innate?"
As Chen Zhenwu thought of this, his heart skipped a beat.
The Demon Hunting Departnt, suppressing 'hordes of demons' worldwide, not only eradicates demonic calamities but has also established a Demon Hunting List specifically targeting 'Martial Artists'.
The Demon Hunting List is divided into three levels.
Great Zhao Demon Hunting List, State Demon Hunting List, City Demon Hunting List!
Even to be listed in the City Demon Hunting List, at the very least, one must be 'Great Innate'!
After Great Zhao's establishnt, the Great Demon Hunter Master specifically set the Demon Hunting List to suppress those rebellious and uncontrollable beings.
It emphasizes that 'heaven's net is vast, yet not losing a sh'.
Year-round, Upper-Rank Patrols, Absolute Experts of the Demon Hunting Departnt, rely on clues and trajectories, traversing the world only to capture these entities.
Among them are sect-born, unruly Absolute Martial Artists, 'Sinful Blood Disciples' from various veins of Divine Blood Sect, and those colluding with demons to establish bandit dominance...
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