Yijiang City!
As time passed, news of Yijiang City's destruction spread. The incident caused enormous panic in the surrounding cities. Large numbers of people had already begun fleeing from some nearby cities, most of them ordinary mortals, though there were plenty of cultivators as well. After all, quite a few powerful cultivators had lived in the destroyed Yijiang City.
At this moment, the city's ruins were shrouded in an enormous purple glow. The surrounding area had all been designated a restricted zone, with almost no one permitted to enter.
Meanwhile, the guards transferred from Kunyang City had taken up their positions, encircling an area with a radius of fifty kilometers around Yijiang City.
"Who could be so bold as to wipe out an entire city in the Land of Water? This can no longer be explained away as mere personal grudges!"
"Exactly. Though Yijiang City wasn't large, all sorts of factions had bases there—the Great Sound Pavilion, the Immortal Allure Chamber of Commerce, the Land of Water... All of them were killed. Not a single person escaped. I'm afraid the major factions will join forces against the culprit this time!"
"Could someone be refining some demonic treasure? If that's really the case, then wouldn't the millions of people in Yijiang City have all been used as blood sacrifices?!"
All kinds of discussions drifted through the sky. The upheaval in Yijiang City had frightened away many low-level cultivators, but it had also drawn many powerful ones. They all wanted to see just who had dared commit such a terrifying deed.
Whoosh!
A pale blue streak flashed across the sky, radiating the powerful cultivation fluctuations of early Soul Formation. Without the slightest hesitation, it descended directly toward the sealed-off area.
"City Lord!" Among the guards blockading Yijiang City, a late-stage Nascent