The sun sets, and the twilight falls.

In Zhongzhou, beyond the Spirit Beast Mountain Range, a courtyard that is incompatible with the town is located in the northern part of Nanzhen.

Two guards of the Demon Suppression Division stood guard outside the courtyard gate.

The girl's footsteps came in a hurry, and the two guards saw that the faces of the comers were familiar, and responded with a "young envoy", and quickly opened the courtyard door without any superfluous movements.

Ye Bing entered the courtyard, and the door behind him closed.

"How is the demon slayer named Huang Xuan?" She didn't hesitate, and when she saw the demon guard wearing the alchemist's robe, she asked.

"He's dead."

Behind the demon guard, a white cloth covered the young man's body.

The girl frowned.

The demon guard wearing the alchemist's robe whispered, "Died from the wolf king's surprise attack, seriously injured, and lost too much blood. ”

"Excessive blood loss?" Ye Bing's eyes were confused, first glanced at the demon guards who were inspecting, and then walked to the body and lifted the white cloth.

After confirming that the boy's vitality was indeed completely cut off, she covered it with a white cloth, and her eyes suddenly became extremely fierce.

The girl turned around and asked, "There is obviously a rune array in the mountain range, why didn't you send someone to save him in the first place?" ”

"Not enough time to ......"

"Short of time?" Ye Bing's eyes changed, and he pointed to the girl lying next to the young man's body, "Then why is she okay?" ”

"It was the young man from the Qi Induction Realm who saved her."

Before the demon guard in charge of the investigation could answer, Ning Zhengshan appeared in the attic of the courtyard at some point.

He walked down the stairs slowly, with a solemn expression, and said as he walked: "This time the bounty is already dangerous, and it is inevitable that there will be demon slaying people, Bing'er, it's useless for you to blame them......

"The whereabouts of the second-order wolf demon leader have always been weird, and the Demon Town Division rushed over as soon as he received the signal that it appeared, and it was not easy to save Miss Yaolan." Ning Zhengshan walked over to the body covered with a white cloth and just glanced at it.

"For demon slayers, they will eventually die in the Spirit Beast Mountain Range, either today or tomorrow. Bing'er, you have to understand this. ”

"Bing'er, I don't understand."

The girl took off the saber from her waist and held it in her hand.

"Bing'er has never encountered those mutated demon beasts head-on since she entered the Demon Suppression Division, and I don't know what the meaning of the existence of the Demon Suppression Division is!"

"Zhenjiang Division and Yulin Division protect the royal family, and our Demon Division never seems to have really come forward to suppress demon beasts!" The girl's voice was crisp, "Is it possible, we take the resources of the empire just to see others in this courtyard to contribute to the empire with their lives......"

"Bing'er!"

As the girl was talking, Ning Zhengshan suddenly let out a soft snort, stopped Ye Bing, who was getting more and more excited the more he spoke, and said in a low voice: "They are not unilaterally contributing to the empire. ”

"The empire gave them the resources to survive, and it was they who took the initiative to come to Demon Slaying Town and voluntarily entered the Spirit Beast Mountain Range."

Ning Zhengshan's eyes began to become weird, he looked at Yaolan who had fainted due to excessive sadness and physical exhaustion, and his face gradually became solemn, "The empire and the Demon Slayer have never taken the lives of these demon slayers lightly, they just tried their best. ”

"Bing'er, did you see the painting hanging on the attic wall?" Ning Zhengshan was talking, and suddenly the conversation changed.

The girl raised her eyebrows and looked at where he had spoken.

On the attic wall, there is indeed something hanging,

But it's not a painting, it's a snow-white cloth.

In the center of this cloth is embroidered a pattern that resembles a bright star in the night sky.

Although it is only a line outline, the moment the girl's eyes fall on it, she always feels deeply attracted by some external force, and the pattern she sees in her eyes seems to be dancing, like a flame.

"Is this the Origin Spark mentioned in the Heavenly Peak Order?" The girl frowned and muttered, "But it's obviously just a legend." ”

"Legends? No one ever said it was legendary. Ning Zhengshan pointed to the "painting".

In the courtyard, the eyes of all the demon guards also fell on the cloth.

The old man was full of spirit, and said with a radiant spirit: "It is real!" The Origin Starfire, from the Holy Land Star Domain, descended on the Shencang Continent a hundred years ago, and in this Spirit Beast Mountain Range, someone saw it! ”

"It is also because of the existence of this Origin Spark, in the past hundred years, countless spirit beasts have been affected by it and mutated into demons, so the empire has set up the Demon Suppression Division, and its fundamental purpose is to find this self-aware Origin Spark."

"But what does this have to do with the Demon Suppression Division's recruitment of demon slayers?" After hearing this, the girl paused and asked.

Ning Zhengshan's eyes were deep, and his thoughts suddenly drifted away.

After a moment, he replied: "When you see the Origin Starfire, the spirit beast will mutate into a demon, and so will the human. ”

"It's the same with people?!" The girl frowned, "So, isn't the Demon Slayer not taking the lives of these demon slayers?" Use them to explore the origin of the spark and satisfy ......"

"Do you want the descendants of the Tianfeng Great Family to sacrifice? Do you look up to second-grade high-grade elixirs, or do you look up to Xuan-rank mortal weapons? Ning Zhengshan interrupted the girl again, the short-term anger in his eyes quickly disappeared, and he shook his head helplessly.

"Bing'er, you are the best person among the young descendants of the Ye family, there is no one, they are the same, they are all the best people in the family, the empire and the family have exhausted their resources to cultivate you, in order to ...... after finding the origin spark"

"At that time, you will also face the abyss of death!" Ning Zhengshan walked up to Ye Bing, put a hand lightly on the girl's shoulder, and said with a smile: "You are so smart, can you understand what I mean?" ”

Ye Bing bowed his head and didn't say much.

Ning Zhengshan said so much, if the girl still didn't understand this, how could she become the young envoy of the Demon Town Division at the age of seventeen.

The Tianfeng Empire's search for the Origin Starfire is nothing more than because according to legend, the Origin Starfire contains a strong aura of heaven and earth.

Once you really get the Origin Spark, you can cultivate countless young Tianjiao in a short period of time.

At that time, the Tianfeng Empire will be able to sit on an equal footing with the Panlong Empire above Beizhou, and will no longer be constrained by it, and spend millions of gold to worship the Panlong Imperial Family every year while spending huge resources to train the Zhenjiang Division.

Sacrificing those demon slayers who live at the bottom, finding the origin of the spark, and then dispatching the elite of the empire to intercept it, is to gamble the maximum profit with the smallest capital.

I have to say that the Tianfeng royal family really seems to be a thoughtful businessman who works step by step.

This reminded the girl of her father, who was the patriarch of the Ye clan in the imperial capital.

He once said that the Xiao clan of the royal family has always allowed the Ye clan to develop and grow, and in essence, it is not afraid of the Ye clan, but has other plans.

As for what the plan was, the Ye clan couldn't guess it.

"Okay, Bing'er, every demon slayer attaches great importance to the life of the old man, and there are also people among them that the old man cares about." Ning Zhengshan looked at the pensive girl, restrained his solemn expression, smiled lightly, and beckoned: "Bury this young man named Huang Xuan, and allocate 1,000 gold from the old man's money to Miss Yaolan as a pension, and after waking up, he will be escorted home by the Demon Division himself." ”

"Now...... Activate the Rune Circle. ”

"It's late at night, let the old man see what the situation is now with the wolf demon without a leader."

"Yes!"

As the words fell, the Demon Suppression Guards in the courtyard answered, turned around and walked to a stone pillar directly west of the courtyard.

I saw the guard take out a palm-sized stone from his bosom, and the stone was engraved with strange symbols.

Place the rune stone into the groove of the stone pillar.

Soon, a pillar of light burst out from the top of the stone pillar.

At this moment, the forest in the distance also burst into a glimmer of light.

The two rays of light converged in the sky, and then the pillar of light revealed the scene in the southwest mountain range.

Looking at the picture projected by the pillar of light, Ning Zhengshan slowly approached.

But as the picture turned, Ning Zhengshan's face became more and more heavy.

When he was still some way away from the stone pillar, the old man's footsteps suddenly stopped, and a river of blood was reflected in his eyes.

On both sides of that river of blood, there were countless wolf demons with tragic deaths.

Some of these wolf demons are missing heads, some are missing legs, and some are even cut in half, and the dead wolf demons all have frightened eyes, as if they have seen some incredible monster!

"These wolf demons ......" Ning Zhengshan frowned, speechless.

Although the first-order wolf demon only has the cultivation of the mortal forging body realm, the nature of the wolf is to hold together, and more than three first-order wolf demons can at least reach the consummation of the late stage of the forging body realm of ordinary cultivators, and more possibilities can be compared with the qi induction realm.

It is impossible to be slaughtered to such an extent by the demon slayer team that entered the mountain range!

Even if all these demon slayers join forces, it will never be possible!

"Mobilize the rune array, there must be something dirty in the upper reaches of this blood river, it could be that conscious origin spark!" Ning Zhengshan shouted.

"Roger!" The guard stepped forward and recited the mantra, urging the power of the runestone's words, and the image on the stone pillar began to move forward along the river of blood.

Suddenly, a dazzling sword light flashed on the stone pillar.

Ning Zhengshan was stunned in place, his eyes were empty.

Behind him, Ye Bing approached, and he was completely stunned at that moment.

The girl's clear eyes reflected the figure of a young man wearing the brocade robe of the Demon Suppression Division.

The head of a wolf demon rolled to the ground.

A broken knife hung on the right side of the figure, and between the fingers holding the hilt, there was a space ring engraved with the seal of the Demon Suppression Division.

"It's him...... Ye Chen! ”