Weifa City was awash in celebration.
The joyous news that True Person Bai Jun had led five Flying Ships and the Demon Suppressing Legion to destroy the Evil Nest spread back to the city at the fastest speed. The baleful clouds hanging over everyone's heads dispersed at once.
The people who had spent their days and nights in constant fear emerged from their homes and took to the streets to celebrate the victory.
All the fireworks in the shops—items that normally sold well only during festivals—were sold out. Many cultivators simply cast spells with powerful sound and light effects into the sky, venting the joy in their hearts!
Never had this fortress city been so lively.
And when the Demon Suppressing Legion returned, the festive mood reached its peak.
Countless people thronged both sides of the streets, offering fervent cheers to the returning cultivators.
Yet of the eight hundred Purple Mansion cultivators who had set out, only a little over six hundred returned.
Nearly two hundred cultivators had perished within the Giant Cocoon Evil Nest.
Among them was the Sect General who had commanded the Demon Suppressing Legion. This high-level Purple Mansion had fought until his final moment, but before Wang Chen destroyed the Evil Nest's core, he fell beneath the frenzied attacks of countless Evil Monsters.
Such losses were considerable indeed.
When True Person Bai Jun returned to the Sect Law Hall and read the report on the battle against the Evil Nest, he, too, could not help falling silent for a long while.
At last, his gaze settled upon one name.
Wang Chen.
Previously, True Person Bai Jun had held no impression whatsoever of Wang Chen. He had had no idea there was such a figure among the frontier cultivators.
He had someone retrieve Wang Chen's records and