For the next two months, life in the city revolved around cultivation.
More and more ladies joined the group that cultivates with Paul, and he accepted them all, making everyone of them happy in the process.
Some ladies even tried their luck at joining the family, but that was easier said than done, since Paul's ladies had an eye out for any potential trouble, and even though they never interfered in his cultivation with the women in the city.
They exercised their right to reject potential new sisters more than once, finding things that might disrupt the harmony of their family.
On the other hand, Paul's cultivation and theirs skyrocketed during this time, allowing Paul to reach level 841 of the beginning stage in both cultivations.
This progress was much better than they dared to hope, and the main reason for it was their discovery of a few ladies with special physiques, who allowed Paul to cultivate faster than normal.
He also built another gazebo in the garden, allowing him to cultivate under the moonlight, which in turn increased the ladies' cultivation speed.
This also helped the Bing sisters, since they could also gain benefits from cultivating under the moonlight.
At this time, the ladies also went out to hunt, and Paul joined them a few times on the days he took off to rest from cultivation.
The only change in this activity was that they never strayed more than two kilometers away from the city.
The reason was that they had already seen the creatures come as close as the city walls when Paul rescued the ice twins, so they decided to play it safe.
Paul and Sei also visited the sect master's mansion at least once a week to assess the crystal's state.
As much as Paul trusted Sei's assessment of the time they had remaining.
Even Sei himself said that this was just his guess, and it was better to inspect the crystals once in a while.
Unfortunately, the peaceful times came to an end much faster than anyone predicted.
-Paul, we have a lot of wounded and need your help.
Sun Ning barged into his bedroom, just as he was cultivating with Fei Yan.
-What happened?
Paul immediately stopped and turned to the woman, who was covered in blood and had her battle gear torn in a few places.
-The creatures attacked us when we were coming back from hunting.
We managed to kill a few of them and force the rest of them to retreat, but we paid a heavy price for that.
The elder said.
Paul immediately got dressed and rushed with her in the direction of the gate to help as much as he could.
The sight that greeted him was shocking, as no less than twenty women were lying on the street, receiving CPR from their friends.
Paul had no idea where the ladies had learned that until he saw Natalie kneeling beside Gu Man, giving her CPR, tears in her eyes.
Not wasting any time, he went to see if he could save the elder.
-Don't stop.
He instructed Natalie, who was relieved to see him.
-She shielded me from an attack.
The girl quickly explained as Paul used the diagnostic technique to check the woman.
What he saw was a mess.
It looked like she was struck in her back by a battering ram, damaging her spine, ribs, and internal organs, which were shutting down.
Worst of all, her spinal cord was severed, preventing her from even breathing or her heart from beating.
The only thing keeping her brain barely alive was the CPR that Natalie was administering.
Without any delay, Paul mobilised all his powers and reset the woman's spine while healing all the cracked and broken vertebrae.
Right after that, he reconnected her spinal cord, which was much easier now, since he was way more powerful than when he treated Madam Yang.
The next on the list were the internal organs, which were also healed as quickly as he could cast the spells.
However, Gu Man's heart didn't restart on its own, even when the most critical injuries were healed.
Seeing this, Paul stopped Natalie from continuing chest compressions and jolted the elder with a weak lightning spell aimed at her heart.
Gu Man's body arched, but her heart was still in cardiac arrest, so he jolted her again, using slightly more power.
This time her heart moved for a moment before stopping again.
-Come on, don't die on me.
He said and jolted her again, but this time, as soon as he did, he restarted the chest compressions.
Under the stimulation, the elder's heart started to beat once again.
Seeing this, he diagnosed her again to see if she suffered any brain damage, but she didn't.
-Stay with her, if she stops breathing again or her heart stops, continue the CPR and call me.
Paul said and rushed to the next patient.
For the next two hours, he saved as many lives as he could, depleting his mana, and even after drinking a mana potion, he still depleted that, healing everyone he could.
Unfortunately, there were some ladies whom he could not help.
Of the twenty-two injured women, nine didn't make it; five of those were dead before they were even brought back to the city, and the other four were too severely injured and died soon after, despite Paul's greatest efforts.
When he was sure that the surviving women were stable, he turned to the rest of the hunting Party, seeing that almost all of them were injured, with some of them missing parts of their bodies.
But their wounds were already taken care of and didn't threaten their lives, so they didn't even say a word when Paul focused all his efforts on their dying sisters.
They knew by now that he had the power to restore all of them, and they could wait for it, while their sisters lacked the luxury of time and needed to be saved immediately.
-Take them all to the mansion.
I'll need some time to restore my mana before I can do more for them.
Paul said in a tired voice, swaying a bit as he stood up.
It was evident that he was exhausted after saving the ladies.
Despite being so tired, Paul needed to know what was going on and how the hunting party had been attacked.
He sat down with Natalie and Sun Ning and asked them about it.
As it turned out, they didn't go any further than two kilometers, which was his first suspicion.
In fact, they were coming back and were about a kilometer from the city when the creatures suddenly showed up behind them and attacked their group.
Altogether, there were about twenty creatures that attacked them, and almost half died before they entered the male range.
However, those who did get close were extremely hard to deal with, and the ladies managed to kill only three before the rest retreated.
Not waiting to see if more beasts appear, they rushed to the city with the wounded.
The rest he knew; however, what surprised him most was that the creatures were not even trying to grab any of the women, and everyone was accounted for when they returned.
-From now on, no one goes out of the city, and we need to place guards along the walls.
Paul said after thinking for a moment.
-If the creatures can come so close to the town, then either they're getting immune to the pulse, or the pulse is weakening.
No matter which it is, we need to be ready.
He explained and left to restore his mana as soon as possible, so he could see the crystals and the array and find out what they were dealing with, knowing that whatever it was, it would be a huge problem for them.