Above the Fu-marked Granary, Zheng Zibu had arrived with the city's defending Supernatural Ability Users. Just as he was about to activate his Supernatural Ability and capture a Fourth Grade cultivator from the Southern Border, he saw a jade toad shoot into the clouds, radiating an intensely cold Extreme Cold Qi.
As the old saying went, one move from a High Grade cultivator showed what they were made of...
Zheng Zibu merely sensed the jade toad's aura briefly before realizing that a powerful Super Grade cultivator had to be here, having concealed their aura and observed from the shadows all this time.
Alarm surged through him, and he roared almost instinctively, "We don't know where these villains came from! Fall back first, all of you! Don't act rashly!!"
Cautious though Zheng Zibu was, there was absolutely nothing wrong with his mind or reactions. He had lived over a hundred years, after all; those years could not have been wasted. Chijin was Great Qian's military staging ground, heavily guarded and able to support Yan Prefecture and receive its support. These Fourth Grade cultivators of unknown origin suddenly launching a bloody assault on Fu-marked Granary No. 1 was already deeply strange...
Now a Super Grade cultivator had appeared as well, leaving everyone even more baffled. He did not know their intentions, but he remembered his duty: to keep Chijin City safe.
That Super Grade cultivator had not shown himself earlier, yet abruptly unleashed his Supernatural Ability once Zheng Zibu arrived with his men. This... this looked far too fucking much like an elaborate trap.
"Don't act rashly! Fall back!!"
Zheng Zibu activated his Mystical Ability and drifted away.
Nearby, the other seven Super Grade cultivators had initially dismissed the Fourth Grade fighters, but now that they suddenly sensed a Super Grade Aura,