Outside Apricot Clinic.

When he saw Su Yi, Ge Qian couldn’t help but say, “Your Excellency, earlier, it seems there was some strange spiritual fluctuation in there?”  

Yuan Heng and Bai Wenqing looked over too. They’d all sensed the change inside Apricot Cottage.

“I helped an old locust tree achieve spirituality, resolving a karmic tie,” Su Yi said casually. He glanced in the direction of Guangling City’s western gate.

In the west, the blasting of war horns filled the sky, mixed with the sounds of combat and the roaring of beasts.

“Come on, let’s go have a look.” Su Yi started walking toward the noise.

Along the way, the streets were deserted. They saw almost no other pedestrians.

When they neared the city’s western gate, they saw numerous martial artists stationed atop the city walls.

The city gates were open, and they could clearly see a team of armored martial artists locked in bitter combat with a group of spirit beasts.

The battle was intense, but small scale. There were at most a hundred of the beasts, and they weren’t particularly strong.

They were nothing compared to the beast wave that attacked the Cloudriver Prefectural Capital.

Furthermore, the martial artists were obviously...