Having only just arrived, the three of them had not arranged for a temporary cave residence. They simply stayed by the sea from night until the next day, and incidentally watched a magnificent sunrise. The rising sun leapt up from the vast sea, utterly different from the sunrise they had watched from atop Juyong Hall's roof ridge.
Bian Chunchou even used a Shadow Recording Stone to record the sunrise. After all, it was the first time the three of them had watched a sunrise by the sea. How could they not leave behind a memento? What a pity that would have been.
After watching the sunrise, fishing boats heading out in the early morning gradually returned to port. Last night's disturbance seemed not to have caused any aftermath. Just as the three were preparing to return to the city and find somewhere to settle down, they discovered—
"What's going on? Why is there no one on the streets?"
One had to know that many cities in the Cultivation Realm were Evernight Cities, with no such thing as a curfew. Even at night, they were brightly lit and their markets remained open. So why, now that it was daytime, had all the stalls packed up and gone home?
That should not have been the case. It was one thing for small vendors to close up, but why were even the shops lining both sides of the streets tightly shut? Amid the dim morning light, the city suddenly carried a scene of decay, adding several degrees of chill.
The three changed course for the largest Pill Fragrance Avenue in the city, yet even Pill Fragrance Avenue was sparse with people. There were a few, but they were clearly as bewildered as the three of them.
"Did all the citizens of Pill Fragrance