Chapter 122
“This is Baiwa City?”
“Why doesn’t it look like what we imagined?”
“Why is it filled with monsters?”
“Junior Brother! What are you doing? Don’t act rashly!”
On this particular day in Baiwa City, about two or three hundred cultivators entered the city one after another. They had all been sent by their sects on a mission to search for treasure.
In their minds, Baiwa City was supposed to be a “no-man’s-land” on the frontier. However, to their astonishment, the city turned out to be completely different. The entire place was inhabited by monsters—none of them had taken human forms, but all of them were intelligent.
Even more surprising, these monsters mimicked human behaviors to an uncanny degree. They moved about with such semblance of normalcy that, if not for their appearances, one might mistake them for humans.
Sensing that something was amiss, a few sect disciples decided to return to their sects and report this discovery to their masters. Yet, they quickly realized that they were unable to leave. They were trapped in a barrier that isolated them from the outside world—so much so that even their communication swords could not get through.
For a moment, Baiwa City buzzed with activity due to the arrival of these hundreds of cultivators. Some of them, already disdainful of the demon race, grew even more agitated when they realized they were trapped. In their frustration, they tried capturing some of the demons to interrogate them.