"What's going on?!"
Everyone was jolted awake. Lin Chang'an and Shen Lie both flipped onto the roof with grave expressions to assess the situation. Even Wei Yiyi, leaning on his iron crutch, poked his head out, his face taut with nervousness.
Wind and snow howled, yet the two men on the roof exchanged a glance and saw the shock and unease in each other's eyes.
"This is a Demon Beast!"
Shen Lie nervously swallowed, while Lin Chang'an stared into the distance with a solemn expression and said in a low voice,
"That's right. Judging by the sound and scale of it, it's a Second-tier Monster Beast—and there's more than one."
From the darkness beyond the Market's outskirts came ceaseless screams and chaos. Within the areas sheltered by the Two Major Sects, defensive array barriers slowly rose.
Some of the great lineages also gathered their clansmen together and activated smaller defensive arrays.
The Rogue Cultivators on the outskirts were the ones who suffered. Though they had paid Spirit Stones, the cultivators responsible for protecting them were at most at the Qi Refining Late Stage. How could they possibly shelter them?
Thus, in the darkness, offense and defense traded places, and cultivators became food for the Demon Beasts.
Watching the defensive array rise, Shen Lie on the roof could not help secretly letting out a breath of relief.
"So those ten Spirit Stones weren't paid for nothing."
Yet Lin Chang'an's expression remained grave as he recalled the measures taken by the Sect and those great lineages during this period.
"Could it be that these great lineages and Sects already knew that the leaking spiritual energy would draw Demon Beasts here?"
At that thought, Lin Chang'an could not help shuddering inwardly. Those colossal Sects were the true monsters that ate people without even