Northeast Wei State, White Lion Marketplace.
As the largest marketplace in northeastern Wei State, White Lion Marketplace had, after decades of vigorous development by the Song Family, grown to house several thousand resident cultivators and Rogue Cultivators.
Its prosperity and bustle had gradually surpassed Tuoyun Mountain and Iron Immortal Valley in western Wei State. It was now considered one of the foremost large marketplaces within Wei State.
Yet today, White Lion Marketplace's streets were unusually deserted. Most of the shops had voluntarily shut their doors, while countless cultivators in the city surged toward the gates on all four sides.
Song Yuanxue and the many Foundation Establishment Cultivators defending the city stood atop the marketplace walls, their brows slightly furrowed as they watched the hundreds upon hundreds of Demonic Beasts swarming below.
Although the beast tide from the Northern Frontier had been moving south for half a year, northern Wei State had remained quite peaceful. Only occasional small groups of Low-grade Demonic Beasts had come south to harass them.
This was the first time Song Yuanxue and the others had encountered such a major disturbance, and they could not help sighing inwardly.
Previously, they had learned that the sect had dealt the Demonic Beast Army a crushing defeat at White Dragon Valley. They had thought the Demon Race of Golden Feather Mountain might not dare head south again so easily.
Yet even after more than half a year, the Demon Race Army had still come south. They had failed to avoid this calamity.
As a Foundation Establishment elder of the family, Song Yuanxue had also lived through the previous Demonic Beast Turmoil. Naturally, she knew the cruel fate awaiting the cultivators in the city.
But now that it had come to this, facing the vast Demonic Beast Army beyond the city,