Among the people asleep in Chentang Pass were 3,000 men between the ages of ten and thirty, and 3,000 women between ten and twenty.
They were not virgin boys and girls, but their nature should have been more or less the same.
Zhang Yang tried to awaken the sleeping people, but failed completely.
This gave him an ominous feeling. He had Brick Village Building Order assess them, but even it could not reach a conclusion. It seemed that whenever the power of these gods was involved, Brick Village Building Order became somewhat powerless.
The good news was that everything else was normal. Central Earth Meridian was smoothly breaking down and fusing the nine spiritual veins within Chentang Pass's foundations. In the end, it would likely undergo another upgrade.
As for Old Alec, Robert, Norton, Ig, Kalli, and Tony, who had taken the three-pattern spiritual plants, although they had all been branded by the Heaven Heavenly God Mark, they had not fallen into a coma. Instead, they had benefited enormously from the spirit energy–rich little city.
Finally, there was Azure Dragon. Although it had been hit hard by the truth Zhang Yang had told it, it did not remain dispirited and despairing for long before beginning to cultivate the general principles of the Great Dao Scripture.
But Zhang Yang did not let the four sword cultivators who were reincarnated sword souls—Zhao Xiao'er, Tang Dashan, Li Shuangzi, and Liang Xiao—get close.
For three whole days, things continued like this. Then Zhang Yang suddenly smelled a faint whiff of decay, startling him. He carefully examined himself and everyone else, but found nothing unusual. That meant the source of the stench was the people in the little city.
Indeed, all six thousand people had died, still dying in a sleeping state.
Their corpses decayed