"Only Five, Six, and Nine are left? What about the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Great Cities?" I asked curiously. This was truly a collapse like a falling mountain—before I had even taken over, it had already become a complete mess.
"There was no need to occupy the lower three cities at all. Their resources are barren, and they still need the resources of the upper cities to survive. Once the upper cities were occupied, all it took was enticing them with benefits. Was there any need to take another unnecessary step?" Fei Lingyu countered with a beaming smile.
"Just how many immortals did the Divine Throne send down to occupy every Great City?" I couldn't help being astonished.
"It wasn't that many. Including the casualties, there should be no more than two or three hundred. However, there are plenty of blind followers. With its elite forces dominating the Wilderness, the Divine Throne was naturally revered by the hunters of the Wilderness World. After taking control of the Hunter Bureau, all it had to do to attack and seize a city was replace the bureau chief and install one of its own immortals as the city lord. Moreover, the Divine Throne's organization had several legendary hunters stationed in every city to supervise matters. The Great Cities were naturally impregnable." Fei Lingyu smiled.
"So that's how it is. I had thought too highly of them." I sneered. This actually startled Fei Lingyu, and she hurriedly said, "Immortal Venerable, have you already come up with a countermeasure? You should know that although there are only two or three hundred immortals, every one of them is an elite. They are all outstanding figures among the immortals left behind by the Primordial Chaos Heaven, or they are simply Dao-Proving Immortals."
"You asked a Great City