As soon as the bad news broke, Liu Changxu and the others received a message from the City Lord's Manor, ordering them to come immediately for a meeting.
Liu Changxu dared not delay. He immediately called his three senior sisters, Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, and Zhang Yuxin, along with his two friends, Lin Feiyang and Wu Yuangang, and headed to the City Lord's Manor.
Along the way, Lin Feiyang and Wu Yuangang lavished praise on Liu Changxu's foresight!
Even his Senior Sister Su Jinxiu, who had sulked at him over this matter earlier, was smiling again!
Liu Changxu merely smiled in response! Had he not been concerned for his three senior sisters' safety, he would never have bothered with whether anyone else lived or died!
When Liu Changxu and the others entered the Grand Hall of the City Lord's Manor, they found every cultivator there wearing an extremely grave expression. The faces of the two Nascent Soul True Lords, Hu Changchun and Jiang Han, were as cold as frost!
"We pay our respects to Elder Hu and City Lord Jiang!"
"Dispense with the formalities, young friends!"
Seated in the place of honor, Hu Changchun spoke with a hint of solemnity in his voice.
Several more Golden Core True Persons entered the hall one after another!
Once nearly everyone had arrived, City Lord Jiang Han spoke, his expression solemn.
"Young friends, you have presumably heard that the Sea Monsters used a high-grade spirit gold vein as bait to lure cultivators from our Sect into fighting over it!
"As a result, many of our Sect's cultivators fell for the deception! Blue Coral City alone lost eleven fellow Golden Core cultivators there. The cultivators from our Sect's other cities also suffered considerable losses.
"To prevent such incidents from happening again, I have a