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"Warship—it's an Upper City warship!"

The gang cultivators present froze for a moment, then in an instant, they were utterly swallowed by immense terror.

Do not assume that because these Lower District cultivators fought and killed every day without regard for rules, they had no fear of the Alliance cultivators.

In truth, only a few months ago, they had witnessed with their own eyes how that warship had crushed the Lower District's gangs and swiftly destroyed them all.

These newly emerged gang cultivators feared the Alliance far more deeply than the gangs before them ever had.

It was not as though they had never considered that their reckless behavior might once again draw an Alliance purge.

This time, however, far too many people in the Lower District had been implicated.

Many independent cultivator workers who had not originally been involved with gangs had been swept into the blaze as well.

The unstable environment in the Lower District and the shortage of laborers had even dealt a massive blow to trade—the very lifeblood of Heyang City.

As the saying went, cultivators were not immortals. They, too, sought profit and avoided harm.

In a chaotic place, without absolute martial force to back it up, no matter how many resources were shipped in, there was no hope of selling them for a profit.

The tens of millions of cultivators in Heyang City ensured that no single force could ever fully control it.

Since safety could not be guaranteed, naturally, they had to consider avoiding risks.

With goods shipments halted and orders cut off, the supplying sects themselves had some reserves. Under such circumstances, rather than suffer even greater losses over a momentary fit of temper, it was better to pause and observe how things unfolded.

The major sects believed that if they truly