Fan Yong entered the secret chamber of the main hall for healing.

Lin Feng defeated the attack of the Qingling army. Although Peace City had been breached by the Qingling army, Lin Feng emerged from the Spirit Mansion at the critical moment of the city’s fall. With his own power, he annihilated the entire Qingling army and defeated their main commander, Qingling lost the initiative to attack, leading to their retreat back to their lair.

Cultivators from the Human Realm gradually arrived in Peace City, and the remaining citizens emerged from the ruins. At this moment, Peace City was in ruins, waiting for Lin Feng to face a major challenge...

Lin Feng and the arriving Human Realm cultivators met up.

They gathered the surviving citizens together and assisted them in rebuilding their homes.

In a small farmhouse in Peace City.

"Oh, sister, catch this quickly."

"You’re cheating."

This is Wu Fa’s home. Since the Qingling army attacked Peace City, he gathered the remaining armed forces and established defensive works in the yard of his farmhouse.

Using the collective power of several cultivators, they formed a Seven-Star Defense Array.

This array protected his farmhouse from monster attacks. Subsequently, he rescued nearby citizens into the barrier.

But there were too many monsters, and the Qingling army invaded. Afraid that their whereabouts would be discovered, he only rescued a few citizens due to safety considerations. Then he hid the barrier, concealing the entire farmhouse in place.

"Uncle, come play with us." Ping’er happily called to him.

"You go ahead and play, uncle needs to cook for you all."

All the citizens felt immense joy upon seeing the Qingling army defeated. They cheered for Lin Feng’s victory and felt fortunate for the preservation of Peace City.

Wu Fa, with a cleaver in hand, was in the kitchen, chopping radishes.

One after another, the large white radishes were cut into the pot by Wu Fa. The skin of the radish was especially thin, so it softened quickly in boiling water.

Pieces of Heaven Mountain Snow Yak meat were already cut into small pieces by Wu Fa. After stir-frying them with honey, they were added to the broth, then the previously chopped radishes were thrown in.

The delectable meat juice from the Heaven Mountain Snow Yak meat, combined with the aroma from stir-frying in secret sauce, turned the pot into a gourmet treasure of the Mortal World.

Wu Fa revealed his hidden culinary skills, proving himself not just an ordinary cook, but a master chef.

These ingredients were provided by the tavern of the City Lord’s wife.

Deliciously juicy, a treasure of the Mortal World.

Clearly, Wu Fa’s yard had become a refuge for citizens. Before Peace City was successfully reconstructed, all surviving citizens would be sent here.

Lin Feng and other cultivators began to expand the range of the shelter. Wooden stakes were erected to form walls around, protected further by the barrier. This defense surpasses even the former Peace City.

Thus, life here was peaceful and comfortable. This collective life, compared to the vast city of before, brought everyone closer together. The atmosphere was lively and cheerful, gradually dispelling past pains and sorrows as Lin Feng and Wu Fa had planned.

Subsequently, Lin Feng activated the Barrier Technique from the Wind Character Technique, and together with the cultivators arriving from various places in the Human Realm, arranged the Heavenly Star Formation that Lin Feng comprehended over the Snow Domain. Once the Heavenly Star Array was completed, no evil demon could enter the Human Realm from this region.

However, the Heavenly Star Array required extremely potent Heavenly Essence Star power to sustain, so Lin Feng arranged the Cedar Seeds he collected in the Snow Domain over Peace City.

By accelerating their growth with mana, numerous cedar seeds sprouted rapidly, growing into small trees.

Cedar Trees are spiritual wood, and growing to this size within a month is already a hundred times quicker than usual, thanks to the collective efforts of over a hundred strong individuals. This group of cedar trees provided enough energy for the Heavenly Star Formation, ensuring the array’s stability for a millennium.

A thousand years later, the array will no longer be needed, and the Six Realms’ landscape might present a completely different picture that none can foresee.

On this day, Lin Feng finished his duties within the city and came indoors to rest. Suddenly, a cultivator entered, his strength matching Wu Fa’s. Upon entering, he delivered good news to Lin Feng.

"Report to the Alliance Hierarch."

Lin Feng, seeing his urgency, promptly responded.

"Why so hurried?"

The visitor said to Lin Feng:

"Alliance Hierarch, there’s news about the Qingling entrance you tasked us to find."

"Oh, where is it? Quickly take me to see."

The visitor mentioned that night was falling, and suggested that they undertake the journey the next day after everyone has rested.

At this moment, Lin Feng was feeling quite exhausted himself, thus he agreed with the cultivator’s suggestion.

Early the next morning, the cultivators gathered in the plaza, awaiting Lin Feng’s arrival to prepare for their departure.

Lin Feng knew this was his only chance, so he arrived particularly early.

Seeing Lin Feng in the plaza, everyone focused their gaze on him, ready to set off at his command.

Not disappointing everyone’s expectations, Lin Feng announced the departure the moment he reached the plaza.

Previously, while planting cedar trees, some cultivators often noticed blue light flickering in a valley. Yet, as soon as someone approached, the blue light vanished.

Suspecting something odd, they sent people to investigate the mountains in secret. When cultivators wore the Spirit Communication Cloak, a Sixth Rank treasure, they successfully reached the glowing area.

The Spirit Communication Cloak is a Sixth Rank treasure, rich in spiritual energy.

It not only releases a substantial amount of mysterious energy to render the wearer invisible but also suppresses the wearer’s aura from being detected externally.

Unless one’s cultivation reaches a certain realm, it’s challenging to perceive the Spirit Communication Cloak. To natural objects, it renders the wearer entirely invisible, untraceable.

As two cultivators of the Open Knowledge realm wearing Spirit Communication Cloaks gradually approached the mystically glowing area.

At that moment, a drastic change in the weather occurred. Muffled eerie howls echoed through the darkness as if from Demon Wolves or phantoms.

When the two sought the source of these sounds and reached the glowing area, a strange event unfolded. A shadow, malicious and terrifying, abruptly tore off one cultivator’s hand. The astonished cultivator exclaimed:

"This thing can detect the Spirit Communication Cloak!!!"

Immediately, the terrifying black monster wrenched out the heart and lungs of the arm-torn cultivator and consumed them voraciously.

The other cultivator managed to transmit this incident using the Secret Sound Transmission Technique.

Receiving the secret transmission, everyone saw the event through a spell-image that soon disappeared.

It was widely guessed that he faced a dire fate...

The group journeyed to a mountain peak.

Along the way, they observed many traces of battle-scorch marks.

This area had become a desolate place where no one dared to live.

Because by nightfall, countless roaming spirits and wandering ghosts appeared, souls of the war dead haunting the peaks and paths.

Yet for the cultivators, these entities were trivial matters.

After all, these Fifth Rank spiritual monsters weren’t opponents for cultivators above the Fifth Spirit Knot.

If outnumbered better than ten-to-one, experts of the Third Spirit Realm could easily crush them.

Nonetheless, due to constant warfare, lingering souls and grievances enabled these spirits to grow uncommonly powerful. They grew so strong that even Fifth Spirit Knot experts found dealing with them somewhat arduous.

With sheer numbers, these spirits overwhelmed opponents like packs of rabid wolves, making the mountains a terrifying place.

Rumor has it that a month ago, a Mortal World family ignored cultivators’ advice, insistently staying in the mountains.