Everyone had originally been waiting quietly for good news, but wasn't Pill Fragrance City now hanging by a thread? Shouldn't the old city lord break through to the Body Integration Realm at once and save everyone from the fire and flood?
Thus, people in the city gradually began petitioning the City Lord's Office. Bit by bit, it developed into kneeling and praying outside its gates. Ordinary people merely wanted to live. Before the formidable methods of cultivators, common mortals had no way to control their own lives. They could only place their hopes upon the powerful figures they worshipped.
If the old city lord had been a Divine Cultivator, perhaps such powerful faith and will could have offered a little assistance. But Pill Fragrance City was famed for pills. For a Pill Cultivator, breaking through to the Body Integration Realm required not only cultivation reaching fruition as naturally as water flowing into a channel, but also uniquely profound insights into the Dao of alchemy, much like a Sword Cultivator's understanding of the sword.
"They're putting the old city lord straight over a fire to roast." And it was a raging blaze, without even cumin. Bian Chunchou found it strange. "Isn't the City Lord's Office going to come out and soothe the people's fears?"
Wen Xu thought that cultivators were inherently arrogant when facing ordinary people. Few could treat everyone equally as Chunchou did. That old city lord, rumored to be in secluded cultivation, certainly would not rashly attempt a breakthrough merely because ordinary people had petitioned her. As for public resentment... at this point, whether they soothed it or not no longer mattered much.
"Hey, someone's coming out."
Everyone craned their necks in anticipation, but the one who emerged was merely a Nascent Soul Cultivator. Though his tone was gentle,