The cultivator who had arrived was responsible for monitoring the formations around Qingshi City. Normally, even if a beast pack or swarm of insects approached Qingshi City, he would never leave his monitoring post.
That was because most of the beast packs in the White Python Wasteland shared one characteristic: they would not approach areas where the fluctuations of cultivator auras were especially powerful.
Cultivators often appeared around Qingshi City, and within a radius of several million miles, those fluctuations could be said to never dissipate year-round.
This caused the highly intelligent insect swarms and beast packs to generally keep their distance from Qingshi City. That was the fundamental reason that, although Qingshi City lay deep in the heart of the White Python Wasteland, it was rarely plagued by insect beasts.
Of course, there had been beast packs and insect swarms that attacked Qingshi City in the past.
But even when that happened, the attacks had been quite limited. With the combined strength of the many cultivators in the city and the city-protecting restrictions, even if several beast packs attacked at once, they could still be held back.
However, things were clearly different now. More than a hundred monitoring points had been established around Qingshi City. Even in the outermost area, four or five million miles away, there were more than thirty monitoring formations.
Now, all the monitoring formations on the outskirts were displaying warning signals. What that meant was obvious to everyone.
As the crowd's expressions changed, the mid-Profound Rank cultivator who had hurried over had already turned around and directly boarded the auction platform. He ignored Qin Fengming, swept out his arm, and a huge stone more than two zhang tall suddenly appeared on the stone platform.
Just as Qin Fengming felt slightly surprised, a fluctuation appeared on