Chapter 1599 - 1115: The Wheel of Fortune Turns (Part 2)

Chapter 1599: Chapter 1115: The Wheel of Fortune Turns (Part 2)

The advisor of the City Lord’s Mansion reminded, "Just say that the City Lord is going to the Immortal Alliance this time to fight for the reconstruction of the Teleportation Array. Everyone should remain calm."

Xue Zijing, thinking about how to legitimately rise in rank, nodded and replied, "Quite right, I will go now..."

Before he could finish talking, several mighty auras descended from the sky. He was alarmed and quickly went out to check.

The arrivals were aggressive and assertive. The leader spoke in a loud voice that could be heard throughout the city, "In the past, the Demon Race invaded the Wilderness, wantonly slaughtering the innocent and robbing. Today, the Human Race Cultivators are magnanimous. If you are willing to leave on your own, we will not pursue this matter.

Not only will we not utterly exterminate you, but we will also help the Demon Race purify the atmosphere!

Hai Kou City’s City Lord Zhai Kuang and Commerce Association President Zhang Shisong have confessed to various crimes of exploitation and murder of their kind.

This time, Black Tortoise Pavilion has come to arrest their accomplices—all cultivators and demon cultivators of the City Lord’s Mansion and commerce firms.

If you have done no wrong, you will be released soon. But if you have oppressed the commoners with heinous crimes, none will be spared. We ask the city’s residents to remain calm and not help these scourges escape!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the city, which had been noisy due to the destroyed Teleportation Array, suddenly fell silent.

After a few breaths of silence, a hum of discussions exploded.

"They’re Human Race Cultivators? What do they mean? It sounds like they’re going to stand up for us?"

"Pah! How could they be so kind-hearted? Be careful of deception!"

"It’s one thing, but they’re here to arrest the people from the City Lord’s Mansion and commerce firms, which is a good thing!"

"Exactly! Who cares about grudges between them? If they can kill those who have been crapping on us, that would be satisfying!"

"The city’s Protective Array is quite powerful. Don’t be swayed by their loud shouts. It’s another thing whether they can get in or not..."

......

There were varied attitudes among the city’s demon cultivators: some just watched the fun, others were indifferent, and some closed their doors to avoid trouble.

Not a single person stood up to say a word for those in power.

Living in the city all these years, avoiding being disturbed by the Great Demon Beasts from the Wilderness during the day, the price was higher taxes when times were good. Each year they earned barely enough Spirit Stones to get by, couldn’t save money or afford Elixirs, and their cultivation speed naturally slowed down.

However, in the city, it was either controlled by the City Lord or the commerce firms, or they were at odds with each other, with Immortals fighting and mortals suffering.

They couldn’t fight back, and it’s the same wherever they moved. Ordinary demon cultivators suffered from oppressive rule for a long time!

Now finally seeing the City Lord’s Mansion and commerce firms humiliated, only a fool would help them out.

"Damn it, they’re coming for us." Xue Zijing’s face turned pale as he looked at the mansion’s advisors, "Master and the President are blessed with good fortune, they couldn’t have just been killed; they might have been delayed by something.

They must be deliberately scaring us and disrupting our morale; we’re all in the same boat and must work together to resist foreign enemies! Once the masters return, everything will be fine!"

The advisors half-heartedly agreed, planning in their minds to quickly run. After all, whether they were from the City Lord’s Mansion wasn’t written on their faces, and as long as they hid among the ordinary people, they couldn’t possibly be recognized.

Being an advisor for a salary was just to have a meal and gain some benefits, and at this point, who would be foolish enough to die?

Besides, the City Defense Array wasn’t made of paper; a forceful breach would require...

"Bang!"

Everything happened in a very short time.

Just as the Black Tortoise Pavilion disciples finished shouting, the impatient Iron-Headed Lion took a few steps forward and rammed straight into the City Defense Array!

The array held up against one strike, but facing a second, third, and fourth barrage like a storm, it shook and teetered instantly.

"Finished, finished, the City Defense Array is about to break!"

"Run! The Great Demon Beast is charging in!"

"Oh my! Hai Kou City is totally doomed now; without the City Defense Array, how dangerous will it be in the future?"

"Senior, please calm down! We will bind all the demon cultivators you want, every single one, and send them out. Just give us a way to live..."

...

Some quick-thinking demon cultivators realized that they weren’t here for the city residents, but to capture the detested scoundrels.

If so, why not bind the culprits and send them out, at least saving the City Defense Array?

Even if they can no longer hunt demon beasts and have to migrate, at least it provides some buffer time.

At the very least, when the sun rises tomorrow, the Great Demon Beasts from the Wilderness won’t rashly attack because of this array.

"Huh? Bind every one of them?" The Iron-Headed Lion, upon hearing this, shook its head and looked at the Black Tortoise Pavilion disciple, "Then let them bind, saving me the trouble.

Otherwise, if the array breaks and the demon cultivators end up in other demon beasts’ stomachs tomorrow, and the sins fall on me, how unjust that would be."

In the past, it knew nothing and acted on its whims.

Now it’s different; having become a Spirit Pet under Du Li and listened to some scriptures, it understood a little reason and dared not wantonly slaughter the innocent anymore.

Don’t be fooled by the Iron-Headed Lion’s simple-mindedness; seeing all the demon beasts in its courtyard having paths to ascension, except its own road was bleak, it also wanted to accumulate some virtue for future ascension as a Divine Beast.

"Then let them bind." The other party nodded and agreed, "Our task is to capture demon cultivators equal to Evil Cultivators. Urging relocation is not our duty. It’s naturally best if we can capture them smoothly."

Upon hearing that if they arrest the members of the City Lord’s Mansion and commerce firms and send them out bound, the city’s grand array would remain intact. Human Race Cultivators and that Great Demon Beast wouldn’t trouble ordinary demon cultivators, making Hai Kou City lively at once!

Normally they were the ones acting high and mighty above everyone; where would the common folk dare to resist?

Today, hehe! The tables have turned!

Whether it’s to preserve the City Defense Array or to take revenge and vent their daily grievances, prompted by someone’s shout, countless demon cultivators swarmed up, besieging the luxurious City Lord’s Mansion and imposing commerce firms completely.

The cries and shouts of attack almost made Xue Zijing wet himself!

In a hurry, he took out a Teleportation Talisman from his Storage Bag and without regard for anything else, ignited the Talisman Paper, thinking to first escape to a small town to hide then make plans.

However, after the Talisman Paper burned out, he remained standing in place, unmoving.

Someone in the air laughed aloud, "Rest assured to capture, we have already used a Magical Treasure to cover the city, they cannot teleport, they can only surrender."

Xue Zijing’s face turned green, gritting his teeth, "Everyone, let’s cut a bloody path! How can dignified cultivators sit and wait for death?"

But no one responded to him.

The advisors, calculating their own deeds, figured it wasn’t as irredeemably bad as the City Lord and others, so even if captured, it wouldn’t be too bad, right?

With the City Lord’s Mansion numbering in the hundreds, the Human Race Cultivators were most averse to adding sins by wanton slaughter. So there’s a good chance that being captured wouldn’t lead to death.

If they resisted forcibly, who knows? Magic has no eyes, maybe in a rash moment they’d be blasted to bits, where would they seek reason?

It might as well be better to just comply, saving strength and avoiding unnecessary waste. If at that time they are indeed let go, it’d be best. If they still want to fight and kill, so many of them could then resist together!

Almost everyone held similar thoughts.

Except for a few who saw their own sins as great and beyond hope, frantically resisting but were beaten half to death by the excited demon cultivators rushing in. Many demon cultivators, who originally didn’t intend to fight, seeing this realized they weren’t opponents, simply surrendered directly.

The Black Tortoise Pavilion disciples’ capture operation went smoothly. Going through the list one by one, ensuring they were all included, they used a Magical Treasure to collect hundreds of demon cultivators and returned to Qihan Mountain.

A similar scene played out in various cities across the Wilderness.

The closing net operation, the first step was to filter through the City Lords and Commerce Association Presidents of over ten thousand cities originally belonging to the Demon Realm Alliance; the second step was for the Ancient Ten Great Sects to move out in full force, capturing the remaining lackeys in these cities using all their means.

To assist with this operation, Yuan Man specially brought the Heart Mirror for a rough selection.

Humans are not sages, they each have their own desires for greed, anger, and ignorance.

But most demon cultivators weren’t rotten to the core, so they were released.

The Heart Mirror could only screen the current state, no one knew if they would become worse, falling into evil cultivation in the future, or reform and start anew. In any case, they were warned to be good in the future.

Another small portion was taken to see the Mirror of Evil, those whose crimes weren’t deserving of death were dealt with according to the alliance’s punishment by Du Li, Lan Shanying, Gao Yi, and other former members of the Demon Realm Alliance;

Those whose crimes were unforgivable were placed in the Seven-Layered Glazed Treasure Tower, their lifespan absorbed, battle spoils confiscated, and eventually thrown into the dungeon as laborers.