No matter what excuses the port officials outside use to threaten me, I remain unmoved.

They kept saying things like, "The Celestial Empire cannot stand by and watch people die," and "Upholding the spirit of humanitarianism, we should also help the people," and then they promised all sorts of benefits.

Anyway, it was those little Japanese devils from the East who died, what does it have to do with me? I didn't help those demons attack them.

That's already my bottom line as a human being. Otherwise, I would have plenty of demons at my disposal, and I could command the demons that are Tamamo-no-Mae.

But now I'm in a bit of a predicament. It's raining and windy outside, and we can't go home for the time being.

Although they didn't even get to see the Jiuyuan family before their clan was wiped out, their own losses were still considerable.

Especially the final trap, which resulted in the deaths of many people from each family, with the death of Senior Brother Geng Qi being the greatest loss.

I don't know how to explain this to my master when I get back. Fortunately, because of the backup plan I made, none of my close brothers suffered any losses, and I even healed those who were missing limbs.

Now he's lively and energetic, bragging to everyone. Horse Face is the most diligent in his cultivation; he already had enough to begin with.

After experiencing a life-or-death battle, he is now a second-realm innate martial artist, which is already considered a genius disciple for his age.

As I was lost in a jumble of worries, a dragon's roar suddenly echoed from the sky.

Startled, I quickly looked up at the sky. If another powerful dragon demon were to appear at this moment, I would really be in trouble.

After all, everyone is in a bad state right now, but I suddenly realized that...

The dragon's roar in the sky carried a familiar feeling, and I quickly contacted the power of the contract. I was immediately overjoyed; it was Chiwen who had arrived.

It's been almost two years since I last saw Chiwen. I wonder how he's doing now. The power of the contract only tells me that he's doing very well.

There has never been any damage, and through my master I also learned that the country wants him to guard the national divine beast, and has been feeding him with the national fortune to deepen his connection with the national fortune.

This is good preparation for my future advancement to the sixth realm, and it doesn't affect my contract with Chiwen. Overall, I'm the one who benefits.

After all, acquiring a future sixth-realm expert is something any power would dream of.

If I didn't currently have no power in the eyes of the dynasty, and if I didn't have a master acting as a go-between, the dynasty wouldn't have bothered to cultivate Chiwen.

After all, if the nation wanted innate spirits, how could such a vast land like China not have them? It's just that often the people who find innate spirits are not suitable.

Furthermore, unclaimed innate spirits are difficult to command, and the current dynasty is unwilling to consider them. Aside from the Chiwen, the current dynasty...

There are also five national guardian beasts, one in the capital and one in each of the other four border regions, but I don't know what they are yet.

Only one in the capital had sensed a trace of its aura and knew it was a sixth-realm being; the others were not qualified to know.

Master must have put in a lot of effort to get Chiwen to come this time, since I can sense that Chiwen is already a great demon of the fifth realm.

I waited a short while until I could see the dragon's shadow through the dark clouds, but after I saw it from afar...

Suddenly I felt something very strange, and for some reason, I saw a dragon-like creature starting to swirl in the clouds.

I suddenly had a very bad feeling, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what was wrong. I felt extremely awkward.