The meeting underway at the City Lord's Manor focused primarily on arrangements for resisting the beast tide.
Before long, Liu Changxu understood why City Lord Chu Shixiong had such a foul temper. The pressure facing Many-Treasure City was simply too great.
Many-Treasure City had originally possessed formidable strength, but with the front lines in dire straits, most of its cultivators had been transferred to support other island cities at the very forefront.
Originally, two Nascent Soul Cultivators and more than thirty Golden Core cultivators had guarded Many-Treasure City. Now, only one Nascent Soul cultivator and ten Golden Core cultivators remained.
As for the Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators sent out as reinforcements, some were trapped, some had died in battle, and a considerable number had been captured.
Liu Changxu also learned from City Lord Chu Shixiong that those captured cultivators would face an exceedingly tragic fate.
Many of them would be sold by the sea-demon race to outland races. Whenever a human-demon war broke out, outland races would invariably come to purchase human prisoners of war.
Beautiful human female cultivators were especially popular among the outland races. They would become female slaves used for sexual pleasure, their plight utterly wretched.
Captured male cultivators fared little better. They, too, would become slaves to those outland races, either growing and tending spirit fruit and spirit medicinal herbs or being sent to mines with harsh, hazardous conditions to perform extremely dangerous mining work.
The worst fate was to be sent to mine on those extraordinarily dangerous, uninhabited planets. Their environments were so hostile that even Golden Core cultivators could not survive there for long.
Since all this information came from Chu Shixiong, a Nascent Soul city lord, it carried considerable credibility. After all, he had the most extensive experience.
It made Liu