Blood Moon

Ji Hao felt like he had been staying in a cozy and warm bed that had a nice sunshine-like scent left on it, but someone had suddenly thrown hundreds of highly poisonous snakes onto his bed.

An unspeakable cold and wet atmosphere hit directly into Ji Hao's brain along with his spine. Ji Hao opened all his pores simultaneously, drawing the vast natural power surrounding his body. A pair of fiery wings suddenly stretched out behind his body along with a thunderous boom. Ji Hao then rushed down through the stairs at his highest speed.

Those guards didn't desert their duties. What really happened was, they had all been killed already.

The heavy rain had flushed all of the traces away, without leaving even a stain or the slightest scent of blood, but at the moment before those guards' death, their souls had struggled violently and left an extremely slight, invisible trace near the arch with the last bit of their power.