Mo City lay near the equator of Shouji Star. It was one of the few major cities located within the original habitable zone of this mostly uninhabitable frontier planet, and it was also the rainy city indicated by the important clues extracted from the memory of the captured black-robed cultivator.
Hearing the guide's casual mutter, Yu Sheng's expression shifted slightly. He asked curiously, "Not peaceful? What do you mean? Has public security gotten worse?"
"It has nothing to do with public security. Apparently, quite a few strange things have happened lately," the guide said casually, in the tone of a local trying to scare outsiders. "I heard cases of cultivators suffering cultivation deviation have increased sharply. People often hear or see terrifying things while meditating, entering a trance, or even just sleeping and dreaming. Even cultivators with profound cultivation are not exempt... There are even rumors that someone was scared to death after entering a trance. Of course, that claim has been debunked lately."
As he spoke, another guide beside him joined in and added, "Ordinary people like us, who have only learned the rudimentary Qi Induction and Breath Cultivation methods, don't seem to have been affected much... There's a rumor going around that this is some kind of 'heart demon plague' targeting only cultivators above a certain realm. Anyway, it has everyone in a panic."
"Large-scale cultivation deviations, auditory and visual hallucinations?" Yu Sheng frowned as he listened, instinctively glancing at Xuan Che. "And on a frontier planet like this..."
"What did the Star Stabilizing Elder say?" Xuan Che stepped forward half a pace and asked solemnly.
"The Star Stabilizing Elder? How would someone of that stature have time to pay attention to such a trivial matter in one city?" The guide waved his hand. "The Mo City Lord