These past few days, as more and more Demonic Cultivators appeared outside Wilderness City, the atmosphere, which had relaxed somewhat with the arrival of the supply fleet, quickly tightened again as Wilderness City went into lockdown.
Under the City Lord Mansion's orders, all factions, and even the Rogue Cultivators, were brought together, to prepare for the difficult trial that would soon be upon them.
There was still no response from Soul-Severing City.
It was unknown whether the front lines were still discussing a countermeasure, or whether they had already replied and the Message Talisman had merely been intercepted along the way.
But whatever the real reason was, the coming great battle could no longer be avoided.
For a time, an oppressive feeling of storm clouds pressing down before the rain enveloped all of Wilderness City.
Amidst this tense atmosphere, Shen Changchuan did not do much, not even going into seclusion to cultivate.
He merely patrolled the city from time to time, showing his face in public. While encouraging everyone, he also kept watch for Demonic Cultivator spies who might have slipped in to cause trouble.
Wei had not asked him to do this. Shen Changchuan had taken the initiative himself.
In truth, over these past few days, as Wilderness City's current acting City Lord, Wei had official duties piled up like mountains before her.
Tasks such as arranging the cultivators from the many factions now gathered in Wilderness City had already left her frazzled and overwhelmed.
Naturally, she had no time to assign Shen Changchuan any tasks.
But that suited Shen Changchuan just fine.
Though under his leadership, Dawan Village, once merely a small village in the Border Wilderness, had rapidly grown and expanded in just a few decades into today's Dawan City, a name renowned even throughout the Tiannan