Madam Qianrou had raised a crucial question. How was Lin Bai going to deal with it?
Previously, they had not dared to kill Lin Bai because they feared that his death would prompt the Chu imperial family and Tianshui Sect to investigate the Hunter Realm thoroughly, exposing Verdant City.
Now that there were other martial artists in the Inner Earth World besides Lin Bai, Verdant City was bound to be exposed.
And since the Demon Race had already decided to abandon Verdant City, there was nothing left to worry about.
"Lin Bai..." the City Lord murmured. "Give him another three days to consider. If you and he successfully consummate your union within those three days, take him to Barren City."
"If he continues stalling and brushing us off, eliminate him during the evacuation."
"Although killing the bearer of a Supreme Avatar would be a tremendous loss, he is still a human. If he refuses to submit to the Demon Race, he will become a great enemy of the Demon Race sooner or later. It would be better to eliminate him before he has a chance to mature."
"Understood." Madam Qianrou grasped the City Lord's arrangement.
Immediately afterward.
The martial artists inside and outside the City Lord's Mansion secretly received Madam Qianrou's order to evacuate. All of Verdant City's core members began withdrawing from the city in an orderly fashion.
Verdant City had a strict hierarchy.
The martial artists residing in the City Lord's Mansion were all core members of Verdant City. Since they were evacuating, they would naturally be the first to leave.
Only after they had departed would it be the turn of the ordinary martial artists in Verdant City. If they ultimately could not all evacuate, their lives would likely be numbered.
Verdant City's "evacuation plan" had not