"Has anyone come from the Inner City lately?" Mo Yun asked.
The so-called Inner City was actually the Prefectural City.
In this world, each Prefectural City was generally surrounded by a ring of county towns, which guarded it at the center.
Because it lay innermost, ordinary people habitually called it the Inner City, while the county towns surrounding it were correspondingly called the Outer City.
The origins of this arrangement dated back to before the Martial Dao flourished among the human race.
Back then, the human race was weak, treated by demons as living provisions, and could only struggle to survive in the cracks.
To fend off demons, the Prefectural City erected towering walls, while the surrounding county towns built fortified villages and laid trap after trap.
An entire Prefectural City thus became a defensive pass against demons.
Of course, Mo Yun reckoned that the Outer City must have served as a buffer for the Inner City back then.
When demons came, they gnawed through the Outer City first. By the time the Outer City could no longer hold out, the important figures in the Inner City would have had time to mobilize their troops or flee.
Later, however, the Martial Dao gradually flourished among the human race, and one martial prodigy after another burst onto the scene, finally turning the situation around completely.
Human martial artists drove the demon race back again and again, ultimately forcing them to retreat into deep mountains and ancient forests to eke out an existence. The arrangement of Inner and Outer Cities, however, remained.
Meanwhile, Black Wolf naturally understood what Mo Yun meant. He was asking whether the Chaos Blade Sect had come to investigate the previous incident.
He composed himself and lowered his voice. "They sent people to investigate, but after learning what