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Inside and outside the Tongye Duke’s Mansion, along with the entire Prefecture City, everything was draped in mourning.
In the streets and alleys, from peddlers and villagers to noble families and officials, everyone knew that the former ’Duke Tongye’ Li Shen Yao had passed away.
If not, the Tongye Duke’s Mansion would not have held such a grand ’Duke’s’ funeral.
However...
At this turbulent moment.
Li Shen Yao, a giant of the state, passed away and did not keep it a secret but made it grand and public. In just a few days, the news spread throughout Tongye State and even expanded to the surroundings. Was this impact good?
Upon receiving the news, many Prefecture Venerable and Guardians from various subordinate prefectures and cities rushed to attend Li Shen Yao’s funeral, and they already began to worry.
After all, in the current world, only the Tongye Duke’s Mansion was recognized as a noble house with a ’pure-blood’ human status.
If this place ceases to exist.
Then, aside from the extremely remote Changbai State, the realm ruled by the ’Heaven-Soaring General’ on Yellow Dragon Dao.
Would be completely overtaken by Divine Blood and Half-Demons.
And the young second son Li Xuanzong, could he really bear such a great responsibility?
As one Prefecture Venerable after another city guardian entered the city.
Yet...
When they saw Martial Artists wearing Demon Hunting Bureau uniforms walking through Tongye Prefecture City, they were astonished to find that the gathering of Demon Hunting Bureau people here was far too numerous.
Moreover.
In the Tongye Inner City, the core district, a majestic mansion was transformed and rebuilt into a brand-new ’Government Office’ with the inscription ’Demon Hunting Bureau’ on it.
The vertical pillars also bore a couplet:
’All demons slain and hunted are accounted for, with the divine above watching.’
Many officials, bewildered at first, thought that Li Xuanzong had absorbed the Demon Hunting Bureau, which could be considered a blessing amidst the chaos.
But when they arrived at the Tongye Duke’s Mansion...
They discovered.
That someone else had inherited the name of ’Duke Tongye’.
...
With valiant air in his brow, wearing a lion armor, exhausted and weary, Lan Jingyu led a hundred defeated cavalry, returning to Tongye Prefecture City.
Always guarding the eastern gateway under Li Shen Yao, Lan Jingyu was young yet already known as the ’General Xian Deng’, only twenty-seven or eight this year, having achieved the Primordial Pill level. After the resurgence of cultivation, he reversed refined dragon and tiger by battlefield prowess, gathering the military valor akin to Peak of the Primordial Pill.
A decade ago, when he was young, he joined the army. As the Northwest Demons and Monsters declared independence from Great Yin before the Tongye Duke’s Mansion had become independent, he participated in border army, stationed in Longxiang, achieving great merits repeatedly in battles against the Demon Court, rising through ranks like a rocket.
In less than ten years, he ascended from Ninth Grade to Fourth Grade, and if Duke Tongye had declared kingship, Lan Jingyu’s Third-Grade Martial Marquis title would be inevitable.
But...
When Guardian of the world’s first pass, ’Celestial Prison Pass’, the previously famed world’s first War General, who defeated Great Profound, establishing Great Yin, Tiger Minister Marquis Hu Wei began leading his followers, invading Tongye!
In a few months.
Lan Jingyu lost sixteen cities in succession, making both prefectures fall completely.
Facing a Martial Dao True Master who boasted the force of an army...
He had not reached the Peak of the Primordial Pill, and was distant from knocking the Celestial Gate. Naturally, he was no match for Marquis Hu Wei.
While Li Qiankun came to recruit him.
Marquis Hu Wei raised his banner, made swift advances, thoroughly smashing the last defense at Tongye Mansion.
As the commander, Lan Jingyu, against such vast disparity in strength, could only choose to flee, leading the defeated remnants back to Tongye Prefecture City.
Upon entering the Tongye Duke’s Mansion, before he could report.
He learned of the recent power upheaval.
Li Shen Yao, who had greatly appreciated him, passed away.
His legitimate third son.
Li Qiankun and Li Shentong perished at Li Treading Immortal’s hands, Li Xuanzong leading three thousand Prefecture Soldiers, heading to one of the two remaining prefecture cities, ’Ten Extremes Mansion’ Ten Extremes Pass, responsible for guarding one side, actually exiled to the frontier.
The least conspicuous illegitimate son Li Treading Immortal, step by step rose, unexpectedly seizing the summit of power in Tongye State amid chaos, claiming the title of Duke Tongye.
If not for hearing about Li Treading Immortal’s identity as the ’True Disciple of Mountain and River Sect’ and ’Great Demon Hunter Master’.
No matter the suspicion of his patricide and ambition.
Facing the ’State Authority’, Lan Jingyu could only forcefully suppress his resentment and step into the Tongye Duke’s Mansion.
Walking through corridors paved with green bricks, treading on soft golden mats, Tongye Duke’s Mansion’s first valiant general met the Duke Tongye.
He wore the Prison Warden Robe, youthful vigor, sat high with Demon Hunting Bureau Martial Artists dressed alike under him.
Moreover, each one... had to be at least at the Primordial Pill Level, seeing this, Lan Jingyu’s eyes slightly narrowed.
Rumors said the emerging Demon Hunting Bureau lacked top masters.
Yet each Primordial Pill Jade Liquid and dragon-tiger existence, could utilize top cultivation techniques, comparable to Celestial Beings.
A person without Divine Soul Domain could combat and strategize against demons with Divine Soul Domain, truly inconceivable in previous times.
This indirectly proved the capability and courage of this Great Demon Hunter Master.
His gaze subtly wandered in the hall, quickly noticing several familiar faces known within Tongye.
