(Thank you very much to 'Sui Feng Qi Wu' for the reward!)
"Murder!"
"Cultivators are fighting!"
"Run!"
The surrounding pedestrians finally snapped out of their shock at the sudden turn of events and began screaming in terror. Some of them had even gone pale.
To ordinary people like them, battles between cultivators—even the lowest-ranked ones—were terrifyingly destructive. If they were carelessly caught up in one and took even one or two hits, their utterly ordinary bodies would suffer serious injuries for months at the very least.
In Sparlier World, ordinary people dying after being caught in battles between cultivators was not something that happened every day, but it was certainly not rare either. Therefore, whenever cultivators fought, it was no different from a disaster for the unfortunate ordinary people who happened to be nearby.
Thus, amid wave after wave of terrified screams, the pedestrians around them abandoned all thoughts of their destinations and fled desperately toward either end of the street. Especially those few people who had just been blown away—they looked as though they wished their parents had given them two more legs, sprinting for their lives. Before long, everyone at the scene had vanished without a trace...
The only ones left were a few people who were cultivators themselves, as well as the two people facing each other from afar—the cause of it all...
The terrified screams of the ordinary people still echoed in his ears. Wu Yan's expression darkened slightly as he looked at the veiled girl across from him and spoke coldly.
"Although I don't know why you attacked me, didn't you see how many ordinary people were around us?..."
To cultivators, ordinary people were no different from ants. Yet, except for a few utterly vile individuals, cultivators would generally take the presence of ordinary people