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Zhang Miao, a Demon Slaying Lieutenant of the Great Qian’s Qingzhou, Baling Prefecture Demon Slaying Division, was leading a team to inspect the demon infestation situation in the counties under its jurisdiction.

Recently, he had arrived at Baiyun County.

After half a month of inspections and visits, Zhang Miao had basically grasped the local situation.

”Chief Commissioner Feng, Magistrate Cao, the demon infestation within Baiyun County is pacified, the people live and work in peace, undisturbed by demon troubles. Your contributions are undeniable. Upon my return to the Prefecture Division, I will certainly report to the Demon Suppressing General and have Baiyun County’s merit in managing demons recorded.”

Zhang Miao was about to leave, and both the county government office and the Demon Slaying Division enthusiastically saw him off.

Hearing Zhang Miao’s praise, the portly county magistrate wore an expression of modesty.

”My shame, my shame. It all depends on heaven’s favor. Those demons and monsters rarely come to our Baiyun County.”

Feng Yucheng didn’t say much. Frowning, he deeply understood the principle that the more one speaks, the more mistakes one makes, so he simply remained silent.

Just as Zhang Miao’s inspection envoy group was about to leave the city, a peasant woman suddenly rushed out from the crowd of onlookers lining the street.

With a ”thud,” she knelt at the city gate, holding a letter high with both hands.”Lord Zhang! I have an injustice to redress!”

Seeing this woman, the fat magistrate’s pupils instantly contracted, and he immediately gave the order.

”Where did this troublemaker come from? Could she be attempting to assassinate Lord Zhang?! Guards, drive her away with clubs!”

Feng Yucheng was already speechless at this pig-brained teammate of his.

Do you even hear what you’re saying?

Assassinate Zhang Miao?

Even I don’t have that ability, can this frail peasant woman manage it?

The fat magistrate actually wanted to seize the opportunity to silence her by killing her in the street.

But Zhang Miao stopped him.

”Magistrate Cao, she’s just a weak woman. Let her go, no need for violence.”

The woman knelt on the ground, her voice choked with tears.

”Lord Zhang! I beg you to uphold justice for me! My husband is innocent! He is honest and kind, friendly to others. Friends, relatives, and neighbors all praise his character without exception. He has never killed anyone!”

Zhang Miao sat on his horse, looking down at the woman.

”Madam, I am a demon slayer. I only deal with demon infestations. If you have an injustice to appeal, you should go to the county government office. This is not something I should handle.”

”Lord Zhang! It *is* a demon infestation! The person was killed by a demon, not by my husband! The government office tortured a confession out of him, forcing my husband to take the blame for the demon!!”

As soon as these words were spoken.

The fat magistrate was so anxious his flabby flesh trembled wildly, and he gestured frantically, ordering the constables to drive the woman away.

Feng Yucheng’s face changed drastically, and he silently took a step back, positioning the crowd in front of him.

The surrounding commoners murmured and discussed among themselves.

Seeing the constables about to forcibly drive her away, Zhang Miao’s subordinates immediately stepped forward to stop them.

Everyone in the Demon Slaying Division were martial artists, and those who could serve in the Prefecture Division had fairly high martial cultivation levels. Ordinary constables who weren’t even martial artists were no match for them.

Zhang Miao dismounted and helped the woman, who was kneeling on the ground crying with swollen, red eyes, to her feet.

”Madam, speak slowly.”

The peasant woman spoke between sobs, recounting the unjust case that had befallen her husband.

It was largely similar to the truth you uncovered in your second simulation.

The county government office had forcibly pinned the case of a person killed by a demonic being onto an innocent person, fabricating a case of human murder out of a demonic murder.

As she spoke, one after another, more commoners emerged from the crowd, kneeling beside Zhang Miao, weeping and telling him that their family members had also been unjustly executed.

These people couldn’t be certain that their loved ones had definitely taken the blame for demonic beings, but they were sure that their family members absolutely had not committed murder.

Zhang Miao looked at the dense crowd kneeling around him, then looked at the fat magistrate.

”Magistrate Cao, with so many people crying injustice, you are not a very competent magistrate.”

The fat magistrate broke out in a sweat.

”This, this... these are all just troublemakers, Lord Zhang. You mustn’t believe their words...”

Zhang Miao gave the fat magistrate a contemptuous glance.

”People, today, right here at the city gate, Magistrate Cao will retry your cases. Magistrate Cao, is that acceptable?”

At this point, even if the fat magistrate had problems, he could only say there were none.

The initial peasant woman stepped forward and handed a letter to Zhang Miao.

”Lord Zhang, this contains the locations of all the demonic beings hiding in Baiyun County. A noble person entrusted me to give it to you.”

Zhang Miao took the letter.

”I suppose the idea of appealing for justice in the street today was also taught to you by this noble person?”

The peasant woman lowered her head in shame.

Suddenly, a loud, strained voice cried out from the crowd.

”Lord Zhang! Feng Yucheng has run away!!”

Zhang Miao turned to look and waved his hand, giving an order.

”After him!”

Several figures shot out from the inspection team, leaping onto the rooftops with incredible speed, directly scaling walls and running across roofs as they gave chase.

You were mixed in the crowd, witnessing everything.

That shout just now was, of course, also from you.

”It’s done...”

Afterwards, the unjust cases were all overturned.

The fat magistrate retried the cases and ended up trying himself into prison.

Feng Yucheng ran away.

He was a local power with many escape routes.

The demon slayers from the Prefecture Division and the County Division, along with five hundred soldiers from Baiyun County’s garrison battalion, went to encircle and suppress the demonic beings based on the locations provided in the letter.

They returned empty-handed.

Zhang Miao didn’t suspect the peasant woman had provided false intelligence because of this, as they did indeed find a large amount of evidence of demonic activity at those locations.

Zhang Miao deduced that it was the escaped Feng Yucheng who had tipped off the demonic beings, allowing them to flee.

At Chen Yun’s home, when the dust had settled and Zhang Miao’s team had already left Baiyun County, Shen Qingshan sighed to you.

”I never expected Chief Commissioner Feng was also part of the conspiracy behind the scenes. I thought at most the magistrate would be involved...”

The matter in Baiyun County was resolved. Third Sister’s family shouldn’t suffer as tragically as they did in the previous simulations.

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner wouldn’t appear for another seventeen years. You couldn’t just hole up at home during this time; you still had things to do.

”Brother-in-law, do you know about the Chixin Sect?”

”I do. It’s a second-rate sect in our Baling Prefecture. Why? Do you want to go and seek apprenticeship?”

”Exactly, but I only have Low-Grade Bone Structure. I don’t know if they’d be willing to accept me.”

”If you really want to go, I can make an introduction for you. Although your brother-in-law’s cultivation level isn’t high, an ancestor of the Shen Family was an old acquaintance of one of the Chixin Sect’s elders. Getting you through the door shouldn’t be difficult.”

”That’s fantastic!”

Outside the simulation, watching the content of the first year’s simulation end, Chen Yi was deep in thought.

”In reality, I could also replicate this method to eradicate Feng Yucheng and his gang.”

At that time, I could even set up preparations in advance to prevent Feng Yucheng from escaping, truly achieving a clean sweep!

Right at that moment, the simulation text before Chen Yi’s eyes suddenly shone with a golden light!

[Year Two, Age Nineteen.]

[Beginning trait draw...]

[Draw successful!]

[”The Most Severe Father to Non-Humans” (Gold):

When you engage in combat with non-human races, you can use your high fighting spirit to boost your own Vitality Energy, up to one hundred times!

Damage inflicted on you by non-human races is unconditionally weakened by one hundred times!

Furthermore, you cannot be bewitched or beguiled by non-human races through any means!

Those not of our race are sure to have different hearts! Fight on, warrior!]

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