Who Brought Him into the Cultivation World?

Chapter 353: Chapter 295: Breaking the Curfew

The Nanling Guardian stayed awake until midnight tonight before going to bed with his clothes on, even though he was extremely tired, he dared not completely fall into a deep sleep.

Though the Nanli Sword Studio is stationed in the city openly, with the secret support of the Monitoring and Guardian Divisions, the proper handling of the city’s residents requires his personal supervision.

Whenever changes occur, his duty is to protect the safety of the Nanling City’s people, leaving the rest to the two divisions and the Nanli Sword Studio.

Because of this seemingly simple task, he is even more cautious. If he fails even in this, causing significant casualties in Nanling City, Che Dapao will certainly ”grill him on an iron plate.”

As long as they get through today, everything will be fine.

He murmured to himself and turned over to lie on his side, but just as his eyelids began to grow heavy, someone knocked on the door.

Startled awake, he shot up from the bed, and the Palace Guard outside could even hear the sound of a chair being knocked over.

Before long, the Guardian, dressed somewhat disheveled, opened the door, and the first sentence he said was, ”Is something wrong?”

The Palace Guard looked strange and hesitated as he spoke.

”I don’t know if you’d call it something wrong.”

Hearing this, the Guardian was nearly infuriated, giving him a smack on the back of his head and angrily saying, ”What do you mean ’if it’s something or not’? It’s either something or nothing, is it or isn’t it?”

The Palace Guard was also quite aggrieved. This matter seemed rather eerie, who knows if it counts or not?

”Boss, let me finish.”

”Hurry up and spill it.”

The Guardian said angrily.

”There’s a group of fishermen from outside the city violating the curfew, now wandering inside the city.”

Would you call this something?

We, a group of Palace Guards, can’t be sure!

Otherwise, we wouldn’t have come over to ask.

The Nanling City had issued a curfew notice to the city these days, not only targeting cultivators but also common people, prohibiting anyone from wandering in the city once it hits 7:00 PM.

They had considered that cultivators might defy the law recklessly, but never thought that ordinary citizens would be the first to breach this law.

The Guardian also listened with a strange expression, a group of fishermen wandering around the city in the dead of night?

Damn, has the world gone mad? Cultivators getting involved, and now a group of fishermen wants in too.

”Other than wandering, have you re-confirmed, are you sure they’re not cultivators?”

The Nanling Guardian’s expression tightened, asking further.

”Confirmed civilians, some of our brothers have already followed them, just asking, should we apprehend them?”

The Palace Guard asked softly.

”Arrest them, why not arrest them, lock them up for two days, release them after tomorrow.”

The Nanling Guardian ordered; at this time, he’d rather make the wrong arrest than let anything slip.

Just after he gave the order, two cultivators hurriedly rushed over, faces full of panic.

As soon as they entered, they yelled, ”Boss, those fishermen are all monsters, our brothers are all trapped...”

Within Nanling City, groups of twos and threes of fishermen scattered around, their figures swaying, moving as stiffly as marionettes, especially their faces blank, seemingly aimless, yet they only linger around the vicinity of houses.

The Nanli Sword Studio cultivators, patrolling the city, were the first to notice this oddity, but since they were all common people, they alerted the city’s Palace Guards.

After the Palace Guards arrived, they couldn’t decide whether to apprehend or drive them away.

As they hesitated, those fishermen suddenly went berserk and launched attacks on the houses.

The seemingly wobbly bodies possessed great force, breaking through courtyard doors with direct impact, and soon some fishermen started storming into the houses.

Strangely, aside from the initial panic and screams during the break-ins, everything went deathly silent inside the houses afterward.

It wasn’t long before Nanling City inhabitants hobbled out of the houses.

Such bizarre incidents spread like wildfire, occurring continuously throughout the city.

”Take action!”

The leading Palace Guard sensed something amiss; given the situation, how could they really be just ordinary fishermen?

A group of Palace Guards drew their weapons, moving forward, blades slicing through with severed limbs falling everywhere, then what shocked them happened, not a drop of blood flowed from those dismembered arms, despite the bloody cuts, not a trace of blood remained on the ground.

More frightening was how the severed limbs quickly withered as if drained by something, turning into jerky-like dried meat in the blink of an eye.

Liquid suddenly flowed out of the severed limbs, a black mass squirming out, startling everyone present.

”What the hell is this, and it’s alive!”

A Palace Guard shouted in panic.

All of a sudden, the liquid shot up, pouncing toward the Palace Guards.

”Don’t be careless, use True Essence to shield yourselves!”

The leader, though unclear about what this was, saw it crawling out of the fishermen’s bodies and knew, no matter how foolish, to avoid letting it get close.

With him taking the lead, dozens of Palace Guards simultaneously covered their bodies with True Essence, facing the strange liquid head-on, unleashing various forms of magic.

Amidst explosions, the black liquid masses vanished one after another.

But before they could catch their breath, the group of Palace Guards suddenly realized, they were surrounded!

Just in a few blinks while entangled with the black liquid, a group of fishermen and city dwellers had encircled them.

”Hold nothing back, kill!”

In that moment, not only did the Palace Guards erupt, but those commoners too surged forward, under the True Essence onslaught, many of the fishermen or residents shattered into pieces, innumerable liquid gushed upward, then closed in on them.

”Send the signal quickly!”

The leader urgently shouted, the situation clearly beyond containment, especially with those bizarre black liquids on the fishermen being even stranger.

At this moment, a brother suddenly inexplicably fell and after staggering back up, actually joined the opposite crowd.

Such terrifying events kept happening, with Palace Guards around him falling one after another, appearing on the opposite side.

”Send the signal quickly!”

He couldn’t help but shout, only to find the last remaining brother already vacant, standing in a daze.

He dared not imagine how this was happening, hastily grabbed the signal mechanism, and a firework shot up into the sky, quickly exploding, forming a large ”Support” character in the sky.

After doing all that, he was about to control his sword to ascend, when suddenly, his shadow behind him elongated and attacked his back...