After receiving the great demons' warning, the many people of the Monster Realm immediately raced toward the Azure Cloud Sect.
They were going to seize Merit from the Azure Cloud Sect.
That boundless Merit was enough to make their dreams come true.
The people of the Immortal Realm also heard the Demon Race's cries.
The many True Immortals immediately came to their senses and frantically rushed toward the outskirts of Azure Cloud City.
As long as they left Azure Cloud City, they could use Dao arts without restraint.
But when they rushed to the city walls, squad after squad of city guards raised their heavy crossbows at them.
"Fall back!" the city guards roared. "Those who force their way through will die!"
Seeing the heavy crossbows in the city guards' hands, the people of the Immortal Realm felt an utterly absurd sensation.
They were immortals, yet they were being threatened by mere mortal iron...
But they could not use Dao arts now. As for their physiques... their bodies were indeed stronger than ordinary people's, but no matter how strong they were, they could not withstand several heavy crossbow bolts.
At that moment, countless True Immortals hated Azure Cloud City beyond measure.
Why could no Dao arts be used in Azure Cloud City? Why could not even they, True Immortals, use them?
What they did not know was that in the more than twenty years since Azure Cloud City had been built, before Wu Fa took away a large number of cultivators, its permanent population had exceeded one million.
And over those twenty-plus years, countless people had come to Azure Cloud City.
Every person entering or leaving Azure Cloud City had to obtain a visa, which meant that they had all acknowledged Azure Cloud City's rule forbidding violence!
These people included