Mortal Seeking Immortal

Outside the city, due to the participation of three Yuanying Realm cultivators, the attacking demon cultivators died or fled, and the poisonous fog shrouding the city also dissipated. The crisis of Xianliu City was resolved, and the cultivators defending the city were able to return to the city to recuperate their spiritual power.

During the siege of the city by the demon cultivators, more than half of the cultivators defending the city were killed or injured. Zhuang Yu, whom Ye Zhou knew, also died on the north wall. Only one of the other three survived to protect Zhuang Yu, but he was also seriously injured and had no hope of promotion in this life.

Fortunately, the siege of the city by the demon cultivators did not last too long. There were still three months left before the opening of Qingyuan Hall. Time was tight and there was no room for further delay.

Therefore, as soon as the city gate was reopened, Ye Zhou hurried to the city gate to queue up to leave the city.

Because the crisis of the demon cultivators had passed, there were not many cultivators leaving the city at this time, and it was soon Ye Zhou's turn.

When he was about to leave the city, he looked back at Xianliu City behind him for the last time.

There were few people in the streets and alleys of Xianliu City, and it was no longer as lively as before.

Ye Zhou turned around and walked out of the city.

Not long after Ye Zhou left the city, the Taoist robe old man who was originally ordered to guard the west wall received a message from the monks guarding the city and learned that Ye Zhou had left Xianliu City.

The Taoist robe old man showed a trace of regret in his eyes. During the battle to defend the city, he knew that Ye Zhou was extraordinary and still so young, with a promising future. His departure was a major loss to Xianliu City.

The Taoist robe old man did not think about retaining Ye Zhou. As soon as the battle to defend the city was over, he personally found Ye Zhou and offered a lot of conditions that were extremely superior to the Jindan realm monks in the city, but Ye Zhou was unmoved. In addition, Ye Zhou had a favor to Qi Rongyin, so he could not force Ye Zhou to stay and could only watch Ye Zhou leave.

Not long after Ye Zhou left, Qi Rongyin also regained his freedom.

Before the battle to defend the city, the city lord was afraid that the demon cultivators who sneaked into the city would attack Qi Rongyin, so he protected her closely and did not allow her to contact the outside world.

The first thing Qi Rongyin did after leaving the city lord's mansion was to find Ye Zhou, but when she learned from the cultivators in the city that Ye Zhou had left, Qi Rongyin's beautiful eyes suddenly became dim.

After Ye Zhou left, a major purge took place in Xianliu City. The forces that originally belonged to Xu Wuzi were divided up by several other Yuanying Realm cultivators, and Xu Wuzi's disciples were also dismissed by him.

In order to prevent the city lord from suspecting that he was colluding with the demon cultivators again, Xu Wuzi announced to the public that he was in seclusion. If he was not summoned by the city lord on weekdays, he would not step out of his residence.

After this battle, the demon cultivators in the Guijue Desert lost a lot of manpower and were seriously injured. They never declared war on Xianliu City again for hundreds of years.

The spiritual insects in the Ghost Desert and the monsters in the Cangming Forest also suffered heavy losses. Not only did the scale of the insect and beast tides that appeared every year decrease greatly, but they rarely appeared once a year.

This made it difficult for the shops in the city that purchased spiritual insects and beasts. After the battle to defend the city, the number of spiritual insects and monsters outside the Ghost Desert and Cangming Forest dropped sharply. If the monks in the city wanted to hunt valuable spiritual insects and monsters, they could only go deep into the Ghost Desert and Cangming Forest. Even so, the harvest was not as good as before.

Some monks who originally made a living by hunting spiritual insects and monsters had to give up this way of making money and find another way out. As a result, some shops in the city that purchased spiritual insects and beasts also decreased a lot.

However, these had nothing to do with Ye Zhou. According to the instructions of the map he bought in the city, Ye Zhou had rushed to the nearest city to Xianliu City after traveling day and night.