The Capital City of the Ya Kingdom had a Great Void-Sealing Formation, making it impossible to travel directly inside through the Great Void. Besides, Clear Harmony City was not very far from the capital.
After some thought, Zhang Yuan decided to fly to the Ya Kingdom's Capital City, looking along the way to see whether he could capture a few more Form Refinement, Spirit Transformation Path cultivators like Jingjue and squeeze more information out of them.
He used [Golden Carriage Luan Chariot] to summon the Golden Carriage and tossed Xiao Yuanjun and Cui Zhaowei inside in turn. At once, Zhang Yuan felt his whole body relax.
Xiao Yuanjun had been clinging far too tightly to his neck, as though terrified he might run away.
He drove the Golden Carriage toward the Capital City.
Along the way.
Cui Zhaowei's brows knitted together. She glanced out the window from time to time, visibly restless and no longer her usual calm self.
Zhang Yuan could understand why.
As they flew along, every town and village they passed in the Ya Kingdom had suffered the demonic calamity without exception. Blood and filth lay scattered everywhere, and the commoners' corpses had been gnawed at in various places.
If even the outskirts of the Capital City were like this, the capital itself likely faced more peril than hope.
"Some towns and villages have no people, but no corpses either. Senior [Jizhou] probably took them away to safety. Miss Zhaowei, you needn't worry too much."
Zhang Yuan offered a few simple words of reassurance.
The demonic calamity had struck suddenly, but Cui Qiezhe, as the Ya Kingdom's chancellor, had not simply sat waiting for death. Many towns and villages along the way were deserted; clearly, Cui Qiezhe had evacuated them early.
As for why he was certain