Lu Yun and the little fox had withdrawn from the battlefield. All available force within Redbud City had been mobilized, and everyone waited with orderly readiness for the beasts to come again.

It wasn’t Zhuo Bufan commanding the cultivators, nor was it the useless fool of a city lord. The true heavyweights of the city had taken control. They’d been suppressed by the bumbling buffoon before and had been unable to display their skill. Now that Lu Yun and the others were here, the city lord no longer dared throw his weight around, making way for the powerhouses to assume the reins of command.

Redbud City sat at the edges of the Redbud Plains. Though it wasn’t a large city, the forces that dwelled within were no minor ones. Legends of beast tides...