Yuzhou — the fertile, prosperous heartland of the Xuan Yan Immortal Court — so it was well supplied with officials and garrisoned with plenty of troops.
Especially the three-thousand-li domain of the Great Golden Mountain Temple.
After the Xuan Yan honored and magnanimous lord granted that land to Lu Qian, all the officials, soldiers, and staff who had been stationed inside those three thousand li were moved to neighboring prefectures to wait temporarily.
Originally, throughout those three thousand li there had been over three hundred thousand people serving as officials, constables, spies, and garrison troops; many among them were cultivators of established ability.
Now, with the officials and soldiers of the neighboring prefectures rushing over in a frenzy, tens of thousands had arrived — almost all late Furnace Realm cultivators, many of them experts who had entered the Blazing Fire Realm.
From far off, under a sky stained with black light, the leading few middle-aged men in official robes shouted sternly: “That demon there — release Master Jin Keng at once!”
“How dare you, brazen demon-monk! How dare you harm a distinguished guest of our Immortal Court?”
“Turn back from your error — it’s not too late... Master Fahai, do not be led astray!”