Such a great commotion, the evil army raced across the plain with terrifying speed, almost reaching the citadel before anyone could react. The overwhelming blood energy and corpse energy swept into the city, and even the children nearby sensed it, crying incessantly as all the cultivators in the city took to the skies.
In their residence, the siblings Xiao Sangwei and Xiao Bailiang were startled awake, only to find that Yue Jing's door was already open, perhaps she had already gone out to confront the enemy upon hearing the noise.
But those like Ming Chu, the elites, must have already gone. There were waves of cultivators on the city wall attacking remotely to buy time for the weak inside the city to evacuate.
"This time seems different from the previous two citadels; there's no blockade outside the city," Xiao Sangwei noticed this while she was part of the evacuation and relocation process, noting the subtle difference as she moved with the crowd.
