Where Is the City Lord's Cave Abode?

Among the crowd at the city gate, Lin Xiao also spotted Jiang Qu, who was squeezed into a corner and desperately waving to Lin Xiao.

Seeing that no one in the city had yet noticed the presence of the Execution Qi, Lin Xiao quickly spoke up to remind them.

"Everyone, please stop using your Spiritual Power! There are Execution Cultivator causing trouble here. A large amount of Execution Qi is currently being released within the city. Everyone, please conserve your Spiritual Power, maintain your focus, and try your best to protect your meridians!"

With the blessing of Spiritual Power, his words could be heard by almost everyone in Cloud Gathering City. However, most cultivators had no understanding of the art of Execution Cultivator and Execution Qi. Therefore, many people felt that it was easy for someone outside the city to tell them not to use Law Technique when the Cloud Burst was imminent. They did not listen and instead used Law Technique even more vigorously.

Jiang Qu's cultivation level was not high, but he was obedient. Although he didn't know what the "Execution Qi" was, he still stopped his hand that was casting a spell.

At this moment, someone in the crowd started shouting.

"Where is the city lord? Quickly summon the city lord to activate the formation!"

"Yes, yes! Quickly call the city lord! Where are the people from the city lord's mansion?! Don't they want to live anymore?!"

A member of the city lord's mansion immediately replied, "Do you think we don't want to call out? The city lord went into seclusion in his cave abode fifty years ago!"

"Where is the city lord's cave abode? Quickly send someone there!"

How would we know where the city lord's cave abode is!

"If the people of your city lord's mansion don't know, do you think we outsiders do?!"

The ruins of cultivators' cave abode in the Immortal Cultivation Realm can be sold as information, so the location of the cave abode dwelling of a powerful cultivator like a city lord is even more unlikely to be known to others casually. Everyone is aware of these things, but now that they are in a hurry, who cares about those things? As a result, many people angrily cursed at the people of the city lord's mansion.

Fortunately, no one has lost their temper and started fighting yet.

The entire city was in complete chaos.

The black mist in the city gradually thickened, but the people in the city directly above it did not notice it, or some of them noticed it but thought it was caused by Cloud Burst and did not take it seriously.

Outside the city were many fellow disciples and friends of those trapped inside. Seeing that everyone present seemed helpless, someone immediately shouted, "Quickly return to the sect and fetch our masters!"

"Yes, yes, senior brother, hurry and go find Master!"

"I'll go home right now and ask our ancestor for help. Cousin, hang in there!"

The crowd outside the city was preparing to leave and return to seek help from their elders. Lin Xiao quickly told them to inform their elders about the situation of the large number of people Cloud Gathering City and the simultaneous appearance of a large amount of Execution Qi.

Although most of these people did not know what "Execution Qi" was, they could see the increasingly obvious black aura in the city, so they did not refuse.

Many people had already fled when they saw that things were not going well. With these fellow disciples and Lineage members in the city leaving one after another, and many Rogue Cultivator also leaving with these sect Aristocratic Clan cultivators, only four people remained outside the city, including Lin Xiao.

Two of the other three were Nascent Soul Cultivator, and the other had reached the Golden Core Great Perfection stage. They were intently studying how to break through the city's protective formation.

One of them glanced at Lin Xiao and, seeing that he was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, kindly advised, "Young brother, the Cloud Burst is about to occur. You should hurry and see if you can find a relocation ship to leave Chongxiao Domain."

Lin Xiao, who had also begun studying the city's protective formation, turned around upon hearing the sound and saw one of the two Nascent Soul Cultivator. He had a white beard but smooth, rosy skin without a single wrinkle. His expression was kind and benevolent. After giving Lin Xiao a word of advice, he continued to concentrate on breaking the formation.

Lin Xiao spoke up, "Thank you for your kindness, senior. I have acquaintances in the city and cannot leave alone. May I ask why you are staying here instead of seeking refuge?"

Even for Nascent Soul Cultivator, the lifespan is generally limited to only two or three Cloud Burst at most. Lin Xiao had heard along the way that many Nascent Soul Cultivator would evacuate during Cloud Burst, hence his question.

Upon hearing this, the Nascent Soul Cultivator laughed and said, "Although the Cloud Burst dangerous, I've never seen its true form. Now that my cultivation has made some progress, I'd like to see it for myself. And coincidentally, I've come across a perfectly legitimate opportunity to study the city's protective array. Why not take it?"

The other two cultivators remained silent but nodded slightly in agreement.

All three of them were array masters, and they simply couldn't refuse this opportunity to study how to break through such a high-level, large-scale array as the city's protective array, which presented itself as a legitimate reason.

Therefore, even though the Cloud Burst was extremely dangerous, they all relied on their cultivation levels to stay here and study the city's protective formation.

After a brief exchange, the group stopped talking and focused on breaking the formation.

Lin Xiao was no exception. After all, being Foundation Establishment cultivator was just a disguise for him. He had Senior Liao as his master to teach him formations, and the sect also had high-level formations for him to study. He could be said to have a certain level of expertise in formations.

but...

"System, the situation is urgent. Can you break this formation?" Lin Xiao tried to communicate with the system while breaking the formation.

[All experiences on the path of cultivation are trials; please resolve them independently.]

"Alright." Lin Xiao was slightly disappointed and buried himself in breaking the formation.

Many array masters within the city were also attempting to break the array.

Because they needed to study the array points, the four people outside the city did not stay at the city gate for a long time. Lin Xiao briefly reassured Jiang Qu inside the city, telling him not to use Law Technique to attack the city's protective array, but only to focus on protecting his Dantian. Then he left the city gate to search for array points elsewhere.

As for the others in the city, only a very small number actually listened to Lin Xiao. Apart from a few who felt that their cultivation level was too low to withstand the city's protective formation and didn't want to waste their time, the rest were still desperately bombarding the formation.

However, since many disciples from various sects and Aristocratic Clan had said they needed to go back to fetch reinforcements, some people gradually began to urge everyone to save their energy. Instead of wasting their Spiritual Power on the city's protective array, they should conserve their Spiritual Power to protect themselves as much as possible after the Cloud Burst, so that they could have a chance to hold out until the rescue arrived.

With hope, the crowd was no longer as disoriented as before, and the number of Law Technique bombarding the city's protective array decreased until they disappeared completely after a short while.

Many people in the city sat down to meditate, preparing to replenish some of the Spiritual Power they had just used up.

Before long, they discovered that their Spiritual Power was completely unable to recover!

Moreover, the stagnation in the flow of Spiritual Power within the body became increasingly apparent, to the point that it was quite different from the stagnation caused by issues such as the grade of the cultivation technique!

As more and more people discovered this situation, the emotions in the city, which had been gradually calming down, began to stir again.

"Could it be that the danger of Cloud Burst lies in their ability to block the Spiritual Power within our bodies, preventing us from using Spiritual Power to resist danger?" Some people speculated.