Autumn gave way to winter, and the north wind howled. Outside the city, a mantle of white frost made the ravines look even darker red.
A closer look even revealed patterns within the ravines, as though they had come alive.
A stifling wave of heat churned within them.
Above the ravines, the number of Firebirds and Fireblaze Army soldiers had increased, and even the patrols were more rigorous than usual.
As the Jade Soul Race continued to appear, the atmosphere within Soul-Repelling City grew noticeably more somber. The cultivators coming and going all wore exceptionally tense expressions.
There were also far more cultivators in the market square. Stalls that had often stood vacant were now fully occupied, with no shortage of Spirit Transformation cultivators among the vendors.
Ye Yunzhen and Ye Haifei were walking through the square, occasionally bending down to inspect the treasures on the stalls. They had to admit that the Spirit Realm had far more treasures than the Mortal Realm.
Many had vanished entirely from the Mortal Realm, yet here they could still be purchased with spirit stones.
It opened their eyes, but also drained a considerable portion of their spirit stones.
Almost every member of the Ye Family had now appeared in the city with an altered face.
Many cultivators changed their appearances, so few people came to investigate the Ye Family cultivators.
Even so, the Ye Family still arranged for them to appear in pairs.
Otherwise, if too many appeared and some slipup exposed them, the Ye Family's decades of concealment would burst like a bubble.
"What's that?" Just then, a flock of Ironblood Fury Eagles suddenly appeared high in the distance. They flew into the sky in formation, circling overhead.
Clear eagle cries rang out.
A cultivator rode on each Fury Eagle.
The cultivator