Chapter 1486 - 1064: No More Pretending, Time to Lay Our Cards on the Table! (Part 2)

Chapter 1486: Chapter 1064: No More Pretending, Time to Lay Our Cards on the Table! (Part 2)

"Maybe they think with the city lord in control, seizing prey is still prohibited." Jiang Yuan replied in the private channel, "After all, according to the previous rules, first come, first served. Even if it’s hard work, you can at least scrape some benefits. When the new city rules are issued, more than half of those present will cry."

"Sigh! It’s not easy for ordinary demon cultivators to live by the teleportation array." Mist Dragon sighed deeply.

The powerful caravans started recruiting experts as soon as the teleportation array was destroyed, sending them to deep mountains and forests to slaughter demon beast tribes, not delaying selling demon cores at all.

Demon cultivators who don’t even dare to go to slightly distant mountains and forests—aren’t they all just ordinary folks and mediocre people?

Yet they still have to pick a leader from among the dwarfs, fighting each other savagely for demon beasts. It’s really pitiful when you think about it.

Sure enough, after City Lord Kang Muzi finished the formalities and won the demon cultivators’ enthusiastic applause, he changed his tone with a smile, "As everyone knows, the previous teleportation array was destroyed because it was built with the help of the Demon Realm Alliance, and certain ruthless individuals couldn’t stand to see us doing well and came to sabotage. ℯℯ𝑙.

Now, the Immortal Alliance has helped us rebuild the teleportation array. This unveiling of the new teleportation array marks the complete severance of ties between Wanbao City and the Demon Realm Alliance!

From this moment on, Wanbao City has been reborn and has no further ties with the Demon Realm Alliance.

At the same time, the city rules once coerced by the Demon Realm Alliance are all hereby nullified. Next, I will issue the first and most important new city rule: In Wanbao City, the more capable you are, the more you get; those strong and resourceful will get the spoils..."

The overturning of the first city rule banning the seizing of prey, the rule of first come, first served, wasn’t even finished before the originally silent and joyfully smiling demon cultivators suddenly froze, then erupted in shocked and surprised uproar.

It was as if a drop of water fell into a pot of boiling oil, exploding completely!

"First come, first served, no seizing allowed—was this really a rule the Demon Realm Alliance forced the city lord to sign? This, this was clearly meant to be fair, so that even hard-working demon cultivators with weak strength could get a meal. It turns out this wasn’t custom-made by the city lord for us!"

"Damn, the more capable you are, the more you get, sounds nice! Letting people grab and seize, where’s our chance to make a living?"

"In this case, who the hell can seize from the caravans? Don’t they just want us to starve to death?"

"It’s really all about protecting one’s own people; Kang Muzi overturning the Demon Realm Alliance’s enforced rules only fattens the pockets of the caravans and commerce associations, doesn’t it?"

"Earlier we had thirty teleportation arrays, plenty of demon beasts, and no seizing allowed, so everyone followed the rules. Now there are only fifteen teleportation arrays, their number halved and not enough for slaughter, yet they’re allowing open robbery. Unless we band together, there’s no way to survive..."

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The demon cultivators weren’t stupid; they immediately understood the implications—once the rules are broken, the future fifteen teleportation arrays would be monopolized by those in power, leaving no demon beasts for ordinary demon cultivators to slay?

This Wanbao City is going to be a city for the rich and powerful, the ruthless!

Unable to appease the public’s wrath, Kang Muzi waving his hands couldn’t suppress the rumbling discussions.

In disguise, Qu Luming mingled with the group of indignant demon cultivators, sighing, "We’re insignificant; no matter how much we oppose it, we can’t change the city lord’s mind. He’s with the caravans and commerce associations; knowing the demon beast numbers have drastically reduced, how could they bear to allow us a share for slaying?

Previously, with the Demon Realm Alliance forcibly suppressing things, they didn’t dare openly monopolize all the benefits. The current Immortal Alliance doesn’t care about such matters, as long as there’s money to be made. Naturally, the city lord doesn’t need to hide and pretend to be benevolent anymore."

"Who wouldn’t say so, can’t fight them, can’t reason with them, and life can’t go on like this!"

"We thought with the teleportation array rebuilt, we could slowly get back on track. Who knew, this teleportation array was built by the city lord for himself, and we can’t even get a sip of soup!"

Seeing those around him growing more furious, Qu Luming continued to incite, "The city lord openly supports seizing. It’s not just about monopolizing all the demon beasts. If you think deeper, if killing a cultivator without cause is a sin punished by heaven,

But if a battle is sparked over seizing demon beasts and you’re killed for being less skilled, it’s rightful self-defense. If you think even deeper, killing a single demon beast compares to killing an ordinary demon cultivator, and the latter is more profitable!

Anyone with sinister intentions might deliberately release a few demon beasts, luring unsuspecting cultivators to slay them, then ignite a massacre under the guise of seizing demon beasts... Tsk tsk, Wanbao City is going to become a city of slaughter!"

The demon cultivators, whose faces were red with anger just a moment ago, turned pale after hearing this.

They were all part of the circle of slaying demon beasts for years—who hasn’t seen deaths over secretly seizing demon beasts? But back then, the city rules did suppress things; cultivators without strong backing didn’t dare go too far.

Now, with the city lord openly supporting seizing, life and death on the battlefield are by chance, who knows why and whose hands one might die by?

"Hiss! It’s really terrifying when you think about it!"

"I can’t believe the distinguished city lord can’t understand this; it’s clearly him laying it all out without pretenses. The demon beasts aren’t enough, now they’re targeting us ordinary demon cultivators!"

Qu Luming incited, "Do any of you have friends or family at the front? Quickly inform them; the teleportation array is about to activate, and once the demon beasts are transmitted and chaos ensues, lives could be lost!"

"Yes, yes, yes, quickly tell family and friends, retreat! Don’t get caught in the chaos!"

One tells ten, ten tells a hundred.

Like Qu Luming, there were over a hundred members of the small courtyard dispersed among the demon cultivators, most of whom were disciples of the Ancient Ten Great Sects who often traveled outside.