"Barbarians!"
Chu Mu's gaze narrowed slightly, then he abruptly looked toward the two godlike figures standing in the air, as well as the Dharma Appearance battle whose outlines had already begun to emerge.
Within the range he could sense alone, there were Dharma Appearance barbarians, along with an unknown number of other barbarians causing chaos.
One had to know that this was Divine Mechanism City! It could barely be considered the heartland of Yong Province! Yet the barbarians were a Foreign Race from beyond the Nine Provinces.
Moreover, they bore a blood-deep enmity toward the Holy Imperial Palace—and indeed, toward the entire Human Race of the Spirit Realm! From what he had learned back in the Thousand Left Alliance, the lands of the Nine Provinces had once belonged to the barbarians.
After that great war of ancient times, the barbarians had been defeated and driven into the Barren Marsh beyond the Nine Provinces. From then on, they had engaged in bloody slaughter with the Holy Imperial Palace for countless years.
The Holy Imperial Palace had stationed massive forces along the Northern Border, fighting the barbarians almost every single day.
In the northwest of Yong Province, the so-called vital border passes, and even the establishment of Divine Mechanism City, Thousand Left Mountain, and Thousand Left Camp, had clearly all been intended to counter the barbarians' threat of war.
The barbarians themselves were also exceedingly peculiar. They could even be said to be a race born for war.
Barbarians had no souls.
Or rather, their fleshly bodies were so powerful that they completely suppressed the existence of their souls.
Because their souls did not manifest, the barbarians had developed into an absolute extreme.
On one hand, they possessed formidable physical bodies unmatched by the myriad races of the Spirit Realm. On the