After listening to Shen Wansan's account, Chen Ze and Lin Bingchun quickly understood what had happened.
It turned out that before dawn had fully broken today, while Myriad Things General Store had yet to open for business,
a group of Mysterious Persons clad in black robes and exuding strange auras had quietly appeared near the Branch Store.
They moved swiftly and methodically, clearly having planned this in advance.
Rather than force their way in, these people spread out around the general store and launched spells from a distance in a sneak attack.
Spiritual energy lights intertwined into a net, and dazzling attacks of spiritual energy came crashing down upon the general store like a storm swallowing the sky.
At once, heaven and earth rumbled, while the energy ripples surged as violently as an incoming tsunami.
For a time, multicolored rays filled the skies, shrouding the entire store within them.
Fortunately, the Doppelganger stationed at the Branch Store reacted in time.
Although he had not detected those people beforehand, he appeared the instant the incident occurred and shielded the general store.
Thus, those attacks did not cause any substantial damage to the store.
However, the other side had been a group of Spirit Severing Realm experts attacking together. Their lingering force still swept through the streets and buildings around the store.
Many nearby residents had still been asleep when they were caught in the crossfire for no reason, instantly swallowed by the aftershocks of the attacks. They did not even know how their lives had been cut short.
Seeing that their ambush had failed, the Mysterious Persons did not linger to fight. They swiftly withdrew from the scene and vanished without a trace, leaving behind only devastation and everyone's stunned bewilderment.
At the time, the Doppelganger had feared that the enemy