Yesterday's fourth update: Chapter 1179! 2/6!
"Jian, Rou Rou, Xiao Ting, Xiaoxiao. Shen-bao... Uh, Shen-bao isn't here. Gather up—we've got trouble to make!"
Xu Kun had slept for more than ten hours, settled the matter of the Kong family, and returned to the Haotian Pagoda with Yang Yao. He found that everyone except Shen-bao was there!
The City of Yanhuang was undergoing a main city upgrade. For three days, no Trial Takers other than its residents could enter!
After calling everyone together and receiving a round of responses, Xu Kun chose the City of Freedom as their meeting place!
The City of Freedom was no longer what it had once been. It had lost all its outer territories. Ares could originally have finished the job in one stroke and taken the central main city district of the City of Freedom, whose symbolic value outweighed its actual value. Fortunately, a member of the Phoenix Race, Yuan, had stepped forward and preserved the City of Freedom's status as a main city!
Tearing open a teleportation scroll, Xu Kun and Yang Yao arrived side by side in the City of Freedom's main city district.
The main city district itself had not suffered much damage, but the usually sparse district was packed to the brim today!
Trial Takers of all kinds of races occupied the area, each one hanging their heads, utterly devoid of Essence, Qi, and Spirit!
A gloomy mood hung over the entire district!
"Looks like this blow hit them hard," Xu Kun said.
Yang Yao sighed. "Of course it did. Even if other main cities had part of their districts occupied, as long as they retained their main city status, the impact on their Trial Takers would not be great!"
"But the City of Freedom is different!"
"The City of