Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

Weifa City was enveloped in a halo of multicolored light.

This was the sign that the City Protecting Great Array was fully activated, indicating that the most crucial stronghold of the West Sea Sect in the Yin Nether Realm had encountered great danger and had no choice but to elevate its defense level.

Above the city walls, heavy crossbows were pushed to the middle of the crenels, their metallic arrowheads gleaming with cold light and aimed outside the city.

On the defense towers behind the city wall, which were even taller, God-Slaying Cannons were aimed straight at the sky.

Completely armed Taoist soldiers, battle cultivators with solemn expressions, the atmosphere was so tense and charged that it made one suffocate!

Meanwhile, outside the city, a large number of cultivators had gathered.

Like Wang Chen, they were all sect disciples who were pioneering outside and had run to seek refuge in Weifa City amidst the dangers.

However, they were refused entry at the gate!

After Wang Chen and the three girls, including Li Mengyan, disembarked from the Flying Warship, they arrived in front of the city gates.

"Open the gate!"

"Let us in quickly!"

"Sect disciples should help each other in times of need, it's against the sect rules to not save us when we're dying!"

"Let me in, I'm the nephew of Elder Zhang Delong!"

"What do you think you're doing?"

THe cultivators blocked outside the gate numbered four to five hundred, their sentiments ran high with some cursing loudly, others pleading desperately, and still others shouting threats.

But the battle cultivators guarding the gate remained unmoved, surveying everyone with an icy gaze.

There was not a shred of pity in their eyes.

Some cultivators got angry, their blood ran hot, and they leapt up trying to forcibly scale the wall.

The result was they crashed headfirst into the Mana Barrier of the City Protecting Great Array, immediately rebounded to the ground, and tumbled in a mess of limbs!

This was actually the result of the city's defenders showing restraint; otherwise, under the counterattack of the array, even a mid-tier cultivator in the Purple Mansion realm would have been reduced to ashes.

After such a lesson, other cultivators dared not act rashly anymore and could only grumble discontentedly at most.

Seeing this situation, Wang Chen and Li Mengyan along with others stood at the edge of the crowd, quietly watching for developments.

Calamities had erupted in the Yin Nether Realm, evil Qi soared to the heavens, and evil spirits ran rampant. It was unknown how many pioneering disciples had met their demise, and the cultivators who had managed to escape here were either incredibly lucky or exceptionally strong.

The sect would certainly not abandon so many elite disciples to fend for themselves outside the city walls.

As expected, in just the time it took for half an incense stick to burn, a cultivator in purple robes appeared on the city wall and loudly said, "By the command of White Monarch True Person, all disciples are ordered to..."

This sect leader from the Law Hall of Weifa City, a high-tier Golden Core cultivator, issued an order permitting all pioneering disciples to seek refuge in the city.

But they had to come one by one, and had to undergo a screening for evil spirits.

This was to prevent evil wraiths from attaching to the disciples and sneaking into the city, potentially causing chaos from within and without.

After hearing the command from White Monarch True Person, everyone's anxiety was no longer as intense.

Then the purple-robed cultivator instructed everyone to hand over their Pioneering Commands, and the order of entry into the city was determined by drawing lots.

Soon, an ancient mirror shimmering with golden light floated above the city wall.

The disciples whose lots were drawn had to stand under this ancient mirror for a moment. Only if they were found to be unaffected and unharmed could they enter the city.

The first dozen or so people all passed the inspection safely.

But when a tall, skinny cultivator stood beneath the mirror and was illuminated by its light, he immediately showed an expression of extreme pain, black smoke began to seep from his body, and his expression turned incredibly ferocious.

Evil wraith!

This cultivator was clearly harboring an evil wraith within him!

"Ah~"

He let out a piercing scream, his hands formed into claws as if trying to attack the cultivators in front of him, but suddenly a bolt of thunder struck down, reducing him to ashes.

All of the cultivators who witnessed this scene couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.

Evil wraiths are unexpectedly unpredictable; most cultivators who are possessed are unaware of it and have no idea that they've been targeted until their souls are seized and they abruptly come to their senses.

Just like this poor cultivator had done, otherwise, he wouldn't have dared to stand so nonchalantly under the Sunlight Mirror.

The Sunlight Mirror was a superior magical treasure, specialized in defeating monster spirits and evil wraiths and discerning Divine Souls and their manifestations!

The cultivators ascended the wall in an orderly manner for inspection, and after passing, they reclaimed their Pioneering Command.

Afterward, two more cultivators possessed by evil wraiths were exposed.

Wang Chen, Li Mengyan, and the others all successfully passed the examination of the Sunlight Mirror and entered Weifa City.

"Senior Brother Wang, we are truly in your debt this time."

Yun Feifei gratefully said to Wang Chen, "Do you have a place to stay in the city?"

After thinking for a moment, Wang Chen replied, "I'll first find an inn to settle down and understand the situation before making plans. Junior Sister, do as you please."

Yun Feifei and the others apparently had their own plans, and he felt it wouldn't be right to impose himself on them.

"I will keep Senior Brother's kindness in my heart forever!"

Yun Feifei took out a jade talisman and handed it to Wang Chen, "Let's keep in touch at all times."

Wang Chen laughed, "Junior Sister, you are too kind."

He accepted the messaging jade talisman from Yun Feifei.

These talismans functioned like mobile phones from his previous life, enabling mutual communication, but with restrictions on distance and number of uses, and they were tremendously expensive, so most cultivators wouldn't use them.

However, messaging jade talismans were more convenient and secure than Crane Messages and Flying Talismans.

After parting ways with the three female cultivators, Wang Chen headed to a tavern in the city.

The tavern wasn't small by any means, with dozens of tables laid out in its main hall.

When Wang Chen entered, most of the tables were occupied by customers, indicating the business was booming.

The patrons included both the local inhabitants of the city and the pioneering cultivators from the West Sea Sect, gathering in small groups, whispering and discussing quietly, creating a tense atmosphere filled with repression.
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Many faces showed signs of worry.

Wang Chen chose a spot at the edge in a corner and ordered a pot of Spiritual Wine and two dishes of dried meat.

Just for these items, it cost him fifty Low Spirits!

The prices in Weifa City were indeed steep, and it seemed they had gotten even higher now.

Wang Chen didn't bother to haggle; his main purpose here was to gather information.

After listening for a short while, Wang Chen gleaned two essential pieces of news.

The first was that Weifa City hadn't anticipated this disaster at all; it wasn't until it broke out that they reacted by immediately activating the great array to seal the city gates.

The second piece of news, more important than the first, was that the Transmission Array connecting to the Mountain and Sea Realm couldn't be used due to the influence of the Yin Sha Energy!

This news was particularly crucial as it meant that everyone was now trapped in the Yin Nether Realm, with not even Golden Core True Persons able to return to the Mountain and Sea Realm for refuge.

Amongst the patrons, there were a few cultivators like Wang Chen who had breached the circumference of the evil spirits and fled back.

Recalling the outbreak of the disaster, they all felt a lingering fear.

Although they were safe for the moment, a foreboding cloud hung over everyone's head, casting a heavy expression on their faces.

"If, if the Transmission Array can never be used again..."

A cultivator spoke in a hushed tone, "What are we going to do?"

His words struck a chord with many people, which resulted in their gaze turning angrily upon him!

What to do if they couldn't return?

Wang Chen drained the Spiritual Wine in his cup in one gulp, his heart eerily calm.

Then there was only one option: Fight to the death!

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