Chapter 864: Such Green Leeks

The officials from the cultural relics department followed him out of the great hall.

Outside, not a soul was to be found; the streets lay barren with not even the breath of living creatures.

Everyone was stunned. Even Young Master Hua's brow furrowed slightly. When he had arrived, the place was bustling with voices and streets filled with the continuous flow of carriages and horses. How could everything have vanished in just an hour or two?

It wasn't just that the cultivators were gone—even the stalls that were perennially set up by the roadside had disappeared without a trace. Aside from the large structures like houses, everything else within the city seemed to have flown away on wings.

"Holy shit, the houses are empty too. Yan City has been stripped bare!"

"Who did this? No wonder the City Lord and his men never returned. They must be entangled in a fight with the thief as we speak!"