The moment Chen Mobai's new decree was issued, every major immortal city across the Eastern Wasteland exploded like a pot boiling over.
The Eastern Wu Rogue Cultivators and small-family cultivators who had fled over turned pale and flushed by turns. Some were furious, some panicked, and others began thinking of countermeasures.
"Isn't this Five Elements Sect going too far? We fled here to escape disaster, and now they want to drive us out!"
A Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator spoke in bitter indignation. In Eastern Wu, he had counted as a local champion; even if he had gone to the Eight Great Families, he would have been treated as an honored guest.
It was just that the housing prices in North Abyss City, where he had wanted to settle, were far too high, so he had kept renting. Now, according to the new policy, outside foreigners like them who rented homes were also going to be targeted.
"Five Elements Sect's move is clearly meant to force us back to resist the Demon Dao and the Demon Race, but how could rogue cultivators like us possibly be their match?" another female cultivator said anxiously.
The meaning this newly promulgated order wanted to express was already very clear.
However, even with public anger boiling, faced with the policy of Five Elements Sect, this Eastern Wasteland Overlord, all of them put together still had no ability to resist.
That night, quite a few heads of Eastern Wu rogue cultivator forces in North Abyss City and patriarchs of small families gathered in secret.
"I received news that Immortal Venerable Chen summoned the people of the Eight Great Families of Eastern Wu today. It must be them who want to force us back to serve as cannon fodder."
"Five Elements Sect definitely doesn't want all of