Li Qing saw this scene and shook his head slightly.
"Truly impressive!"
He let out a long breath of stale air, a trace of contemplation filling his eyes.
"Dragon Path City's defenses are tight. This counts as a relatively safe place."
Outside the city, he could still see quite a few Dao soldiers patrolling in secret, clearing out any weak Anomalies that might appear.
After some thought, Li Qing silently followed the flow of people into Dragon Path City.
He arrived outside Jixia Academy, where things seemed somewhat quiet at the moment.
There had originally been many students coming here for lessons every day, but now, the great number of students seemed to have vanished.
The six feudal lords of North Province and Yang Province had raised their armies, and countless scholars had cast aside their brushes to join the military, becoming officials under those lords.
They specialized in managing the various cities that had been conquered, and a new batch of rising elites was emerging.
The streets were also sparsely populated.
Although the merger of counties and villages had long been implemented, the population within the cities had not noticeably increased.
Li Qing knew the reason for this. It was all because of Anomalies!
In countless cities, anomalous phenomena appeared almost every day.
Even if cultivators within the cities dealt with them, there would inevitably be a certain loss of life.
One or two lives at the least, more than a dozen or twenty at the most—some incidents even swept through an entire district.
All ordinary people would have their memories wiped afterward, but human instinct would not disappear.
Everyone could sense that cities were not absolutely safe either, though the wilderness was even more perilous.
This had also left the streets sparsely populated, and all kinds of commerce