Yuan Xi had an extraordinary background. She came from one of the Top Ten Uniting Dao Cities and was the City Lord's wife.
For someone like her to be targeted by people with ulterior motives was not impossible. Yet Lu Ye still had one doubt. The spectacle before them was indeed considerable, but if it was meant to deal with the wife of one of the Top Ten City Lords, it seemed rather shabby.
Almost at the same moment You Die sounded the warning, Lu Ye spotted the two Uniting Dao Cities in the distance. Before those cities even reached the battlefield, streams of light had already shot out from them, plunging straight toward the fighting.
At a rough glance, nearly a dozen Uniting Dao cultivators had charged out from those two cities.
They were two more Desolate-tier Cities!
The situation was bad.
A dozen or so Uniting Dao cultivators alone would have been one thing. The key was that two Desolate-tier Cities meant two City Lords would be joining the battle. That was what truly demanded attention.
"Fellow Daoist Yuan!" Zhao Lingfeng shouted sharply.
Though he was the lord of a Desolate-tier City, he had been besieged by three Uniting Dao cultivators working together ever since the battle began, leaving him no room to display his strength. Earlier, he had secretly rejoiced at Yuan Xi's great display of might, but now unease had seized him.
He too had realized that something was wrong with the current situation. It was highly likely that Yuan Xi had been targeted by someone.
Yuan Xi's status was noble. Even if someone had plotted so extensively to make a move against her, they might not dare take her life. But the others would not receive such treatment.
The death of one Zhao Lingfeng would