As news of Upper Water City's destruction spread, the atmosphere throughout the Divine Blood Sect visibly grew tense. Most disciples entering and leaving the mountain gate hurried along with anxious expressions.
A middle-aged male cultivator at the Spirit Transformation stage left the mountain gate amid the passing streaks of light, drawing no one's attention.
The male cultivator sped away, vanishing among the rolling mountains before long.
This man was Song Wen.
After flying more than a hundred thousand li away from the Divine Blood Sect and repeatedly confirming that no one was nearby, he finally stopped concealing himself. Mobilizing all the spiritual power in his body, he flew at full speed toward Upper Water City.
Upper Water City lay roughly eight million li southwest of Blood Radiance City. By the time Song Wen arrived, the sun was blazing overhead.
Yet Song Wen did not enter the city. Instead, he halted atop a mountain peak twenty thousand li away.
By his estimation, Pagoda Temple's true target in destroying the city was either Song Wen himself or the entire Divine Blood Sect. If that was indeed the case, Pagoda Temple might very well have laid an ambush within the ruins of Upper Water City.
Naturally, Song Wen would not enter the city.
At this distance, however, his divine sense was already sufficient to cover the entire city.
Amid the shattered walls and ruined structures stood countless wooden poles, some tall, some short, each hung with corpses. From afar, it looked like a living hell, a sight too terrible to behold.
Perhaps the city's slaughterers had done so deliberately, for most of the corpses remained relatively intact. Yet under the blazing sun, the bodies had begun to rot and stink, breeding insects and flies while drawing large numbers of carrion birds.
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