The daylight gradually faded, and the setting sun was faintly red.
One long shadow after another appeared before Soul-Repelling City.
Because there was an annual quota for leaving the city, no one dared be the first to violate it, so naturally, many cultivators left the city at the start.
In the past, cultivators had left the city to venture far away, harvest treasures, and kill members of the Jade Soul Race.
But now, quite a few cultivators had set a personal safety warning line for themselves.
They set this warning line at the very edge of the city guard's patrol range, going a little beyond it, but not by much.
This way, the Heavenly Sword City Guard could support them, yet would not discover that they were deliberately lingering outside merely to meet the quota.
And there would not be too much danger.
There just would not be any gains, but to them, safety alone was already enough.
Anyone capable of cultivating to Nascent Soul or Spirit Transformation was naturally no fool. Now that Soul-Repelling City's Soul-Suppression Ranking had already been released, it meant the crisis was especially severe.
Of course, the names or Daoist titles of quite a few cultivators had still appeared on the Soul-Suppression Ranking. There was a copy of this list at the city gate, and in Soul-Repelling City's loose cultivator plaza, auction hall, and all the major restaurants as well.
Of course, the cultivators at the top were now almost entirely monopolized by the Heavenly Sword City Guard. Only a small number of Void Refining and Spirit Transformation cultivators from the various great factions ranked near the front.
A spirit boat descended from the sky. It was none other than Ye Qingfeng and Ye Qingwen.
The spirit boat the two of them piloted was a