Mu Qing sighed. This mission on earth was quite.... difficult. He wasn't excited about the prospect of dealing with some crazy demon snooping around a half-dead village right from the start.

He was about to head back to Heavenly Court before something caught his eye. A small house, more like a barn, with metal bars on the windows. And through those bars he could clearly see... a person. A person chained to the wall with chains. He knew the gods weren't supposed to interfere in the affairs of men, but what he saw was something he couldn't just ignore.