This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable

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Yan City.

This is the state city of Yan State in the Central Spirit Domain, where Great Xia has established a Cross-Domain Teleportation Formation.

The sky is extremely gloomy, persisting for many days now, appearing as if torrential rain might fall at any moment, yet it never does.

It's like the ominous clouds hanging over the Human Race, the storm is approaching yet uncertain when it will arrive.

The report of the fall of Dragon City Pass and the betrayal of Rinsing Spirit Sect has just reached Yan City.

However, the cultivators in this city do not have time to be shocked by this news.

Because the battlefield is not only at Dragon City Pass.

Yan City's cultivators are also facing their own war.

Boom!

An explosive sound reverberates through the entire city.

Everyone in Yan City instinctively directs their gaze towards the direction of the explosion.

Immediately, in their field of vision, a giant avian takes flight from there.

Its enormous wings stretched across the sky like a dark cloud pressing against the Heaven's Vault, with a rampant aura, surrounded by dense black fog, concealing its true form.

Even from afar, the people in Yan City could see its pair of blood-red eyes, massive like two blood moons.

With a flap of its wings, it emitted a sound like a landslide or a tsunami, soaring upward rapidly, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

Inside the City Lord's Mansion.

"City Lord, the Cross-Domain Teleportation Formation has been destroyed!" A Seventh Realm Cultivator hurriedly entered, reporting to Yan Clan, the City Lord.

Yan Clan's eyes flared sharply, his expression extremely unpleasant, "How is this possible, didn't I instruct you to secretly increase the guarding strength of the Cross-Domain Teleportation Formation? The highest cultivation of Rinsing Spirit Sect's cultivators in this city is only at the First Tribulation Realm, right?"

They had already thoroughly investigated the strength of Rinsing Spirit Sect's cultivators hidden in Yan City and made preparations accordingly.

The Seventh Realm Cultivator shook his head urgently, his face pale, "Yes, we followed your orders and reinforced the surveillance at the Teleportation Formation location, setting up a trapping array, but..."

He swallowed hard, struggling to speak, "That First Tribulation Realm cultivator from Rinsing Spirit Sect actually has an Eighth Grade late-stage beast pet, with strength comparable to a Third Tribulation Realm cultivator!"

"We were unable to stop that demon beast, the formation was destroyed instantly by them!" The Seventh Realm Cultivator's face turned extremely tense, his voice trembling slightly, "After they destroyed the Cross-Domain Teleportation Formation, they immediately left, and we couldn't stop them at all."

"City Lord, what should we do now?" he asked.

"What to do? Prepare cold dishes!" Yan Clan cracked a joke that wasn't funny, standing and heading out to seek the Heavenly Secret Pavilion's oversight of Yan State.

As he walked, he ordered, "Immediately notify all cultivators in the city and all cities and sects within Yan State to raise their alert level to the highest..."

This Yan State overseer, in such a critical moment, was calmly and meticulously organizing various duties, as he would on a normal day.

"Tell them, war is coming." he added.

He had experienced many battles and witnessed much death during his life, so even knowing that the upcoming war would be more brutal than ever before, he could still remain calm and do what needed to be done.

As for how it would end, that was left to fate.

A similar scene was unfolding simultaneously in the state cities of various states within the Central Spirit Domain.

Even though Great Xia had prepared in advance, not a single city managed to defend their Cross-Domain Teleportation Formation.

Because the strength Rinsing Spirit Sect deployed to break the formation far exceeded Great Xia's expectations.

Moreover, they leveraged the unique advantages of beast cultivators to effectively play the fool.

Normally, the beast pet of a beast cultivator would match their own cultivation level.

A Nascent Soul Early Stage beast cultivator would likely have a beast pet only at Fourth Grade Initial Stage or lower.

Exceptions existed, but not many.

Moreover, no matter what, the strength of the beast pet wouldn't exceed far beyond its master's cultivation.

So, each city defense was prepared based on the investigated strength of Rinsing Spirit Sect's cultivators.

Just like Yan City.

They investigated and found that the highest cultivation level among the Rinsing Spirit Sect's hidden cultivators was a First Tribulation Realm cultivator, thus preparations were made based on this standard.

As long as Rinsing Spirit Sect's cultivators dared to strike, they would be able to confidently capture them.

However, the emergence of an Eighth Grade late-stage beast pet rendered all their preparations in vain.

Other cities faced similar situations.

No one anticipated that the higher-level cultivators of Rinsing Spirit Sect were all Demon Race.

So no one thought Rinsing Spirit Sect could gather such a formidable force to destroy the Cross-Domain Teleportation Formation.

This was the strength of an entire sect, not just a few traitors.