Chapter 272: The State Preceptor's Whereabouts, Guardian City_2

"You think knowing in advance would have made a difference? You weren't even in Guardian City a few days ago. Unless you could have known months ahead that the National Master would come from Imperial City to give a lecture here for Cultivators, otherwise, you couldn't have heard the National Master's teachings."

"The scene a few days earlier was incredibly grand; I heard that the number of Cultivators rushing to listen to the National Master's lecture reached as many as several hundred thousand. It was a sea of people, there was even a stampede that killed two unfortunate Cultivators."

"Several hundred thousand? That's an exaggeration, isn't it? I feel like a hundred thousand is already overstating it; it was probably just tens of thousands. After all, they should all be Cultivators who went to hear the teachings, right?"

"How could it all be Cultivators? There would definitely be ordinary peasants who went to join in the excitement, and there weren't a few of them either!"