Not long afterward.
Li Ping, who was refining pills in a side hall, met Ji Shuxuan's family, whom Ji Nianyuan had brought into the sect.
From Ji Shuxuan, Li Ping learned just how chaotic things had become outside the Snowflight Sect.
Ji Shuxuan had been brought into the Snowflight Sect a day earlier. After evacuating the sect disciples' friends and relatives into the sect, its cultivators had decisively abandoned every area outside the sect under Shi Yutong's command, no longer maintaining order in the city.
Last night, Li Ping had stood on the roof of the main hall to observe the situation beyond the Magic Formation.
Flames had lit up the sky outside, and the sounds of cultivators battling had carried over constantly. Only at dawn had the chaos gradually subsided.
Apart from the third-tier spiritual vein beneath the sect grounds, Snowflight City also had quite a few first- and second-tier branch veins extending from it.
The Snowflight Sect had established spirit herb gardens, spirit beast gardens, and other resource sites along these branch veins. When Shi Yutong ordered the sect's cultivators to withdraw, preserving their lives had been the first priority. They had taken as many precious resources as possible, leaving behind large quantities of ordinary resources they had no time to gather.
He guessed that last night's commotion had been the city's rogue cultivators fighting over the Snowflight Sect's property and the goods in the Market Ward's shops.
Some rogue cultivators might have made a fortune in that night of chaos.
But just as many had fallen in the fighting, never to see the dawn again.
Even now, Ji Shuxuan still shuddered at the thought of last night's commotion outside.
Had Ji Nianyuan not joined the Snowflight Sect, allowing their entire family to move into its grounds, the