Seeing Lin Xuan remain silently lost in thought, the cultivators led by the old man naturally did not dare disturb him, and stood to one side with their hands tied...
"Then why are you inspecting cultivators' identities? Could spies of the ghosts have actually slipped in among us humans?" Lin Xuan knowingly asked. In truth, according to his thinking, Seven Absolutes Heaven, this hidden chess piece, should not have been exposed so quickly. If used later, its effect would have been even more obvious.
"Senior, you may not know this, but among us humans, traitors truly have appeared. Seven Absolutes Heaven has actually sworn allegiance in secret to several Ghost Emperors." The old man sighed, gnashing his teeth in hatred.
"What?" Lin Xuan thought to himself that it was indeed so, but on his face, he wore an extremely astonished expression. "Seven Absolutes Heaven actually did such a thing?"
"Yes. You may know a man's face but not his heart. Who could have imagined that You Province's largest merchant alliance was actually an espionage organization established by ghosts? Just before those fierce ghosts launched their attack, Seven Absolutes Heaven dispatched a large number of men, intending to sabotage the restrictions around Guiluo City..."
"Did they succeed?" Lin Xuan asked with exceptional concern. One had to know that although Guiluo City had nearly ten thousand cultivators permanently stationed there, compared to the strength of Yinhun Canyon, it was still far, far inferior. To put it plainly, this place was only a forward outpost from which humans monitored the ghosts.
Of course, one could not belittle the city's strength without reason. Aside from the main city, seven or eight satellite cities had also been built around Guiluo City, like stars cupping the moon.
Together with layer upon layer of restrictions, as well