Half an hour later, Liu Qingcang finished arranging the defenses atop the city wall.
Once he confirmed that all the demon beasts had retreated, he led Chen Mu and the others down.
They returned to the military camp in the east of town.
On the way, Chen Mu gained a rough understanding of the town's current situation.
After reaching the camp, he recounted everything his party had experienced.
Liu Qingcang's brows knitted tightly as he listened.
"These are troubled times."
"The Demon Sect's plans for Cloud Province are probably not so simple."
He sighed deeply, but he knew that worrying now would accomplish nothing.
Whether Everlasting Prosperity Town could even hold out remained uncertain.
Chen Mu understood this just as well.
While he had hurried back, Zheng Hongyi had also led his troops into town.
The five hundred elite soldiers they had borrowed were now spread along the walls, replacing the original militia as the main defensive force.
But even that was not enough to ensure their safety.
Chen Mu knew little about the situation in town and had only managed to ask a few hurried questions on the way.
Still, he understood that the attackers today must have been nothing more than a vanguard sent to probe their defenses.
Those demon beasts had been too weak.
The Ironback Wolf packs at the front were all demon beasts that roamed the outskirts of Mangdang Mountain.
They could hardly be considered Demon Manor Troops.
The slightly more troublesome Tree Spirits and Stone Monsters also appeared to have been making a probing attack.
Although they had driven them back, they had also exposed the weakness of the town's defenses.
If they had possessed Heaven-Shaking Thunder or heavy siege crossbows, Chen Mu would not have needed to charge through the enemy ranks to