Under such circumstances, Extinguish Bear City being breached was likely only a matter of time.
Some cultivators who understood array formations well unanimously believed that the main Fourth Rank city protection array formation within Extinguish Bear City could hold out for, at most, another thirty years or so.
Of course, that would be another matter if Heavenly Star Pavilion still possessed other Fourth Rank defense arrays.
But the great chaos sweeping the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World showed no sign of ending, and no one knew when it would finally be over.
One had to know that the last great chaos of such enormous scale had lasted nearly a hundred years.
Because of this, many within Extinguish Bear City had already become deeply uneasy.
Quite a few independent cultivators who had been summoned by Heavenly Star Pavilion in its early years were even trying to find a way to leave Extinguish Bear City and flee to the territory of other, safer forces.
Yet how could they know that the territories of other forces were, if anything, even worse off than Heavenly Star Pavilion's domain?
Take the Maple Leaf Li Family, a similarly ordinary Nascent Soul Force bordering Heavenly Star Pavilion. That clan was now in extreme danger, already standing at the brink of being overrun.
At least nearly thirty percent of the forces within its territory had fallen.
That was only because the Demon Race invading the clan had focused all its attention on the Maple Leaf Li Family itself and had not dispatched many demons to attack its subordinate forces.
Otherwise, those subordinate forces within the Li Clan's territory would likely be wiped out before long.
At the same time.
Deep within Extinguish Bear City.
Inside a cave abode.
Numerous array runes floated in the air here, like an ocean