Li Su neither left nor chose to enter the city.
Instead, he stopped atop a nearby hill, watching from afar as the ancient city blazed with lights beneath the night sky.
It couldn't be helped. What had happened was simply too bizarre.
One moment, it had been utterly silent and dead; the next, everything had come alive? Worse still, although he had seen everything with his own eyes, he couldn't detect the slightest abnormality.
There was not the least bit of strangeness visible in those people who had come back to life.
It was far too uncanny, utterly incomprehensible.
Li Su was now a True Immortal crossing tribulation. Though he had not mastered a divine ability like the Fire-Eye Golden Gaze, and even his primordial spirit had run off and become the sun hanging outside, the power of his mind was still astonishing. With his body sanctified, his vision could discern the finest details, leaving no corner unseen.
Yet he could not spot even the smallest problem.
Everything before his eyes was utterly normal. Even the Dao resonance and transcendent matter flowing between heaven and earth showed no abnormalities whatsoever.
This was troublesome.
After obtaining the Divine Cauldron, Li Su had thought that getting the overpowered cultivation technique from Yi Wuxin would be relatively easy. After all, he was already a True Immortal crossing tribulation. Even if Yi Wuxin had made a breakthrough during this time, he would at most be at the Immortal realm. Taking him down would not be difficult. The only thing to watch for was avoiding provoking the Human Emperor before he secured Yi Wuxin and obtained the technique.
Yet this strange city had blocked his path.
Without question, it had disrupted his original plans.
The Human Emperor Dynasty could not possibly be unaware of a