It had not been Xu Chunniang's intention to catch the eyes of Golden Armor King and the other Demon Kings.
However, since things had come to this, it was best not to act rashly before she understood their intentions. She would take one step at a time.
With the scale Golden Armor King had given her, Xu Chunniang spent the next few days in perfect peace.
The low courtyard wall divided the residence within from the world without. The fighting outside the city grew fiercer and fiercer, yet it had nothing to do with her.
Even when the sand beasts regained their senses and withdrew from Sand City, not a single one tried to approach her.
Thus, the massive sand beast crisis finally came to an end.
The other cultivators, however, were not so fortunate.
Sand City, having endured the assault of the sand beast tide, was filled with shattered walls and broken ruins.
The city gates were battered beyond recognition, long stripped of their former appearance. Even the sturdy city walls had fractured in several places.
Cultivators' flesh and blood mingled with the bones and corpses of sand beasts, becoming the underlying color of the city.
Beyond the excitement and relief on the faces of the cultivators who had survived the disaster were numbness and exhaustion.
The prolonged, high-intensity battle had injured both their bodies and souls to varying degrees.
Such wounds needed time to heal.
It was at this moment that the Unicorn Demon King, as the city lord, stepped forward.
He issued orders in an orderly fashion. First, he calmed the crowd and distributed the rewards he had promised. Then, with great generosity, he waived the city entry fees for the next three years and released a series of tasks to restore the city.
The rewards for