Wen Xu truly had no idea about this. "The situation is unusual?"
Though called a city, Rongyuan City was actually closer to an enormous artifact-refining marketplace. Of the four trapped cities, it had the highest concentration of cultivators. Even the ordinary people making a living within its walls were mostly strong-bodied folk. It could be said that the entire city overflowed with the words "simple, honest folkways."
After all, the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect had always acted simply and brutally, and those below followed suit. Rongyuan City's master was obsessed with artifact refinement and lazy about mundane affairs, so naturally he had no mind to rein in the city's chaos.
"The forces in the city each govern themselves, with severe clique-building. Then there's the issue of dividing the profits from the artifact-refining market. I suspect... those artifact-refining lunatics may not be willing to break the formation."
How should he put it? Perhaps those artifact-refining brains even felt that sealing off the city would better allow them to enter seclusion and forge a divine artifact.
Wen Xu's heartstrings twitched as he realized something. "Is there an artifact-refining grandmaster in the city forging...?"
"Little A-Xu, you really are too clever!" Jun Zhaoying could not help praising him. She pointed at Wushan beside her. "You also know that the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect is renowned throughout the world for the Heaven-Shattering Divine Sword. But the Heaven-Shattering Divine Sword is not wielded by them, much like No Spring and the Hundred Herbs Pavilion. Thus, Rongyuan City was founded with the original aim of forging a sharp weapon comparable to the Heaven-Shattering Divine Sword, one that could awe the world."
"So that was how it was?"
Many people actually knew of this matter, and Wushan had no need to conceal it. "That sword has now taken on