I'm just an ornamental fish in the water.

There's something on the street.

Standing above the dark clouds, Jiang Li turned his head and said in a deep voice.

"What?"

The couple, Xingfeng and Quyun, frowned. The latter made a quick decision, tearing away a large patch of dark cloud to broaden their view, and the three of them crowded together to look down.

On the widest road in Yanshi County, a shadow twisted and turned like a snake in the rain, moving at an extremely fast speed. The rain curtain that it crashed through even created a brief but continuous cavity.

"This doesn't seem like a kind person."

The Wind Messenger spoke intently, then pointed his finger downwards, pulling a gust of wind from the ground up into the dark clouds. He brought it to his nose, sniffed it, and frowned.

"It smells of blood, and there's a stench of demons about it!"

"Brother Jiang, send some thunder to shake it, but be careful not to harm innocent civilians. Force it out of the city first."

The Cloud-Driving Envoy made a quick decision and said to Jiang Li in a deep voice, then said in a somewhat inexplicable low voice, "I never expected that we would actually encounter evil spirits."

Jiang Li didn't speak, but just stared at the blurry and distorted shadow on the street. When the figure passed through the houses and came to a square, it suddenly clapped its hands together!

Clang!

Boom!

As the bronze gong struck, producing a crisp, resonant sound, a bolt of white lightning burst forth from the gong, but instead of striking the dark clouds, it pierced straight through them and headed straight for the ground!

Even though the figure was extremely fast, it was still far inferior to the speed of lightning.

A bolt of lightning as thick as three people could hug crashed down, completely covering the eerie shadow, and sparks flew everywhere!

Lightning in the clouds may appear as thin as a hair, but if it were to actually fall to the ground, even the thinnest lightning would be as thick as a bucket.

The lightning bolt unleashed by Jiang Li drenched the eerie shadow from head to toe.

The next moment, runes suddenly lit up on the bronze jar in Jiang Li's hand, and a divine light shot into the sky and disappeared.

Jiang Li knew that her action of activating the thunder was sensed by the Thunder Department monitoring runes on the bronze vessel, thus activating it spontaneously and registering it with the Thunder Department.

However, Jiang Li and the other two had no time to care about that now; they were just staring intently at the spot where the lightning had struck.

After all, even if Lei Bu received the message, it would still be a good thing.

As the firelight and smoke dissipated, the rain once again covered the area, leaving the paving stones in the square completely black, some even gleaming with a dark red light.

Amidst the chaos, a faintly visible dark shadow lay motionless on the ground, seemingly lifeless.

Something's not right.

However, the Wind Messenger frowned and said, "Even the powerful demons who can ignore the mortal energy of a city and wreak havoc in it, after being struck by this lightning, will at most only have a few bones left."

"How could this strange object have survived?"

It should be noted that although this bronze gong magic artifact exists in water palaces everywhere, it is a thunder-power magic artifact directly issued by the Thunder Department. However, anything related to the Thunder Department is never weak.

"Perhaps it's because Brother Jiang hasn't been cultivating for very long, and he's relatively unfamiliar with this magical artifact, that he hasn't been able to unleash its full power?"

The Cloud-Driving Messenger didn't hold back and directly voiced his guess.

Having a low cultivation level is not a sin, nor is it a sore point, after all, how long has Jiang Li been cultivating?

Jiang Li didn't feel uncomfortable at all. Instead, she nodded in agreement and said, "Just now, guiding the lightning used a lot of magic power."

"Perhaps so. But we must eradicate evil completely. Brother Jiang, give me that bronze jar, and I'll demonstrate it for you."

The Wind Messenger stretched out his hand towards Jiang Li, intending to deliver another bolt of lightning to completely obliterate him.

It would be better to reduce such a bizarre object to ashes, since the methods of evil are indeed unpredictable.

For example, the power of rebirth through blood is a unique ability that righteous cultivators can only possess after reaching an extremely high level.

However, evil spirits and demons have many methods that are intolerable to the righteous path, enabling them to do similar things.

Spells like the Substitute Death Curse are far too common for evil sects.

The Dao values ​​life, and no righteous cultivator would disregard human life. But for the evil path, exchanging the life of one or even a group of lowly mortals for an extra life of their own is an incredibly good deal.

Jiang Li handed over the bronze jar, but suddenly her expression changed, and she slightly raised her hand.

The Wind Messenger didn't turn around, grabbed at nothing, and turned to look at Jiang Li with a puzzled expression.

Jiang Li said in a deep voice, "This strange creature seems to have escaped from the county government office!"

Jiang Li discovered it the earliest. This strange creature also flew away on the main road of Yanshi County. If we trace its route back, it seems to have come from the county government office of Yanshi County!

"You mean, this monster has already done something unspeakable?"

The messenger frowned.

"Perhaps so. If this inference is true, then this strange creature may have fled hastily after killing people in the county government office and discovering that a thunderstorm was coming. It was afraid of being discovered by us."

"After all, if they don't escape and instead hide in the county government office to avoid the rain, it won't be long before the Night Watchers notice something is wrong."

"If it escapes, we can still hope that you and I won't find it."

Jiang Li said slowly.

Unless a county's city god's office encounters a "dimensional reduction attack" like Zhang Bao's, it must have a close relationship with the local secular county government.

After all, by analogy, the City God's Palace is essentially a county government office in the metaphysical sense of a county town.

The City God's Office has a famous saying: All the gods who roam during the day and night must patrol their respective territories no less than twelve times a day.

In other words, the Night Patrol God would patrol the county government office again within an hour at most.

By then, the monster will have no chance to escape and will inevitably be discovered. The rain that Jiang Li and the others brought will last for a full hour.

Although the strange creature was unaware of this, it was quite clear that compared to a night watchman who would definitely discover it after staying in one place for a while, it was better to brave the night rain to avoid being discovered.

"My lady, in the name of the Luoshui Divine Palace, inform the Yanshi City God's Mansion that Brother Jiang and I are keeping an eye on this strange creature."

"Tell Lord Yanshi that if this strange creature makes the slightest movement before the arrival of the City God's people, I will send down lightning to destroy it."

Without hesitation, the Wind Envoy believed Jiang Li's judgment.

Even if Jiang Li's speculation is wrong, the appearance of such a strange creature in Yanshi County should still be reported to the City God's Office.

"it is good."

The Cloud-Driving Messenger nodded, and before his voice had even faded, he had already vanished into the clouds and disappeared without a trace.

As a cloud-driving messenger, traveling through the clouds is her innate ability.

The Wind Messenger and Jiang Li remained silent, simply staring at the strange creature.

After about a quarter of an hour, the strange creature remained motionless, but more than a dozen shadows converged on the square where it was located.

These shadows came closer and manifested, surrounding the strange creature whose fate was unknown.

But one figure didn't approach; instead, he waved to the sky.

This person is naturally the Cloud-Driving Messenger.

The Wind Messenger nodded remotely and turned to look at Jiang Li.

"They're from the City God's Palace, Brother Jiang, go down and take a look."