Meanwhile,
Barbaric City.
As the former forward base from which the Righteous Path Alliance of the Tiannan Domain attacked the Southern Yue Land,
this city had been a new city built from nothing by the Righteous Path Alliance in a desolate wilderness devoid of human traces.
Later, during the Righteous Path Alliance's war against the Demonic Path Alliance of the Southern Yue Land, Barbaric City had once become the center for the Righteous Path Alliance's supply circulation.
But afterward, as the Righteous Path Alliance advanced across the battlefield—especially after the great battle at Soul Severing Mountain had directly crushed the White Bone Sect's stronghold there—
Barbaric City's importance rapidly declined as well.
The Righteous Path Alliance's main garrison center in the Southern Yue Land gradually shifted to Soul Severing City, which possessed richer resources and stronger defenses.
At that time,
the strongholds of every faction moved away one after another. Small towns and other outposts scattered throughout the wilderness still needed guards, while the Devil Cultivator forces entrenched at certain resource sites within the conquered territory still had to be suppressed.
Thus, the cultivators within Barbaric City dispersed in great numbers for a time.
By the time Shen Changchuan left the Southern Yue Land back then, passing through Barbaric City, he found that the entire city had become considerably bleak and deserted,
reduced to something akin to a transit station.
Yet as the saying went, the tides of fortune turned, and feng shui revolved in cycles.
Now, with the Netherworld Sect entering the fray, the battlefield situation had changed drastically. Barbaric City, which had declined several years ago, once again became prosperous and bustling.
Its population and traffic had both surged dramatically.
Yet this was hardly a good thing.
It was entirely because the battle line had suffered defeats, Devil