Baoping State.

Consists of seven prefectures and forty-nine cities.

Serving as the clamp on the Martial Artists, maintaining order is the Demon Hunting Department...

From top to bottom.

Divided into three grades: Third-Grade Demon Hunter General, Sixth-Grade Demon Hunter, Eighth-Grade Demon Hunting Department Chief, each corresponding to state, prefecture, city.

As the core of Baoping State, the State Mansion 'Baoping'.

Though there is a Sixth-Grade Demon Hunter responsible for the daily dispatch of numerous 'Demon Hunter Patrols', there is no administrative-level Demon Hunting Department organization set up.

Instead, it is replaced by...

The Demon Hunting General Mansion!

This day.

News from Wutong Prefecture reached the Demon Hunting General Mansion.

Inside the General Mansion.

Everyone was silent as cicadas in winter.

Bang!

In the vast courtyard, passing through a fountain, stepping onto the white marble-paved corridor, on both sides of the colonnade carved with dragons and tigers; the tiles of the 'General Hall' shone like glazed tiles!

Suddenly, a tremor echoed!

Dragon-slaying Marquis Jiang Xiao donned a vermilion and purple robe, his hair bound with a jade crown.

He sat at the main seat, holding a Communication Jade Talisman in his palm, crushing it to dust, now it had turned into powder.

The explosion of energy contained within it just now shook the entire mansion slightly!

The material of the jade talisman, being a spiritual object, even an ordinary Primordial Pill Martial Artist would have to exert effort to destroy it, showing the great force Jiang Xiao used in this instance.

At this moment, Jiang Xiao was expressionless.

The confidant deputy generals leading their horses and holding onto their stirrups exchanged glances and dared not breathe loudly, their eyes revealing intense astonishment!

'Dragon Slayer Heir' Jiang Xian, is dead!

Since Jiang Xiao's rise, he was known for his romantic indulgences, a young celestial prodigy gleaming with arrogance, almost gathering the noble daughters of clans, famous ladies, and genuine heroines...and so forth, in his rear courtyard, with newcomers admitted every few years.

Similarly, he had many offspring, those in Divine Capital, those who ventured out, and those who came to develop in Baoping State...

Amounted to no less than ten or twenty! 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Although Jiang Xiao looked young in appearance.

But as someone who rose during the late era of the 'Great Demon Hunter Master', his bone age must have reached sixty or seventy years.

Jiang Xian was born to his only legitimately married 'consort' in his middle age, his legitimate son.

The attention he received was entirely different from those offspring from the concubine lineage of the Jiang family in the Dragon-slaying Marquis' Mansion.

"Divine Blood Sect, Song Chai Xin..."

Jiang Xiao murmured this name, slowly straightening his body, the overwhelming aura seemed to gather from his being:

"This is forcing this marquis to personally take a trip..."

His hair began to rise, divine light shone in his eyes, beside him a long spear started to buzz and tremble, while the two adjutants with Celestial Being cultivation level on either side bowed their heads, faintly...

There was a feeling of being 'unable to withstand'!

"Is the Marquis intending to personally rush and step towards 'Wutong Prefecture'?!"

A deputy general beside him trembled in his voice, cautiously whispered in inquiry.

Jiang Xiao glanced at him, expressionless:

"My son died outside, if as a father, I don't go there, what explanation will I give my legitimate wife upon returning to Divine Capital?"

He could be granted the Junior Third-Grade Military Marquis Title.

Half due to his outstanding abilities.

And the other half, relying on the influence of his wife's family.

Otherwise, with him just knocking on the Celestial Gate but just beginning the journey towards the 'Fifth Step' cultivation...

How could he compare to those old antiques, living fossils who have stood erect at the ends of heaven and earth since the 'Grotto Heaven Revival' began?

Jiang Xian's death in Wutong Prefecture certainly made Jiang Xiao sorrowful, but amidst grief, he knew very well.

All of this stemmed from a decision of his, truly, no one else was to blame.

No matter whether Song Chai Xin was truly colluded with the 'Divine Blood Sect', or whether the turmoil in Wutong Prefecture was indeed caused by him.

Actually, none of that mattered anymore now.

But his departure without saying a word subtly indicated a 'fact'.

That is...

He indeed obtained the 'Great Demon Hunter Master's legacy' from the 'Martial Temple' back then!

Confirming this point.

Then, he must go!

Since the 'Great Demon Hunter Master' vanished without a trace.

All the 'Grotto Heaven entrances' in the Great Zhao territory have been sealed.

To open them, one needs to obtain something like the Demon Suppression Dao Qi, a 'key' related to the Great Demon Hunter Master!

What's inside the Grotto Heaven?

Legend has it that they were once secret realms connected to the earth!

Historically, over three hundred years ago, they were as common as towns and prefectures within Great Zhao.

Nowadays, the so-called 'famous sects, orthodoxies, Dao lineages' of Martial Dao.

In that era, even the highest Dao lineages scarcely achieved the level of 'establishing a sect'.

No one knows why over three hundred years ago, the Grotto Heaven era disappeared, replaced by 'fallen world', severing the chance of immortality, making it so that there are no 'Fifth Step' Dharma Seekers in the world anymore.

But decades ago, the 'Grotto Heaven entrances' slowly began to open.

It is said that back then, even 'Grotto Heaven people' emerged, attempting to spread their teachings to the masses!

However, it was all ended by the Great Demon Hunter Master, turning it into a 'Dynasty Secret'.

Along with himself, he was buried in that era.

Even the Dragon-slaying Marquis Jiang Xiao, now a Baoping Grand General, does not possess the rank to peer into that piece of history.

And at this moment, 'Song Chai Xin'.

Holds that key!

Not just him as the Dragon-slaying Marquis.

Within the major powers of Baoping State.

Profound Soldier Cave, Gu Family, State Lord Lan Jingyi, who among them would not be tempted by this?