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Silver Province City before him looked brilliantly lit from the sky, but upon closer inspection, there were certain contradictions lurking behind those lights.
In weather like this, with heavy snow filling the sky and night already fallen, more than half the shops in cities across the other provinces of Great Xia would have long since closed. Yet in Silver Province City, every shop was still stubbornly staying open with its lights on, even the tiny stores tucked away in the alleys. None had shut their doors. That was hardly reasonable.
Zhang Tie had long heard that after the remnants of the Heaven-Piercing Sect established the Heaven-Piercing Empire with the Devil Race's backing, they had issued a number of absurd decrees—for instance, laws requiring every shop in a city to remain open until a certain hour at night—in order to dress up the prosperity and bustle of the Heaven-Piercing Sect's territory. This was presumably the same thing.
Within Silver Province City, the Devil Race and humans had already begun living in the same city. The Devil Race stood high above all others; this was likely the blueprint and model for the Devil Race's future rule over the Hua Clan.
The residents of Silver Province City had already begun to be brainwashed. Zhang Tie saw that whenever patrolling Devil Race warriors passed by, the timid civilians standing at the roadside would proactively salute them. No one dared disobey. Those who did were likely already "dealt with" by the Devil Race and the Heaven-Piercing Sect...
The sight was certainly jarring