Zhang Xiu returned to the rocky wall nearby and resumed swinging his miner's pickaxe, recalling the recent events in his mind, his eyes filled with added sorrow.
The attack by the Wu Yue Sect on the Black Wind Desert was too sudden, and no one had anticipated the arrival of this disaster. The cities of the north, led by Wangbei City, changed sides overnight. Countless followers of the Wu Yue Sect swept through each city, executing all who dared to resist.
The City Lord of Xiansha City was among them.
At that time, Zhang Xiu had just begun his meditative cultivation when his door was kicked open, and a Soul Witch stormed in, easily overpowering him and clamping spirit-power-suppressing shackles on his ankles.
Afterward, as the Wu Yue Sect advanced towards the Central Plains, most of the captured cultivators were driven to the frontline, leaving only a few Qi Refining cultivators like Zhang Xiu to serve as slaves, tasked with mining and alchemy among other logistics work.
