Nanyang City did not conscript soldiers; the Shen Family had more than a dozen Magisterial Sorcerers, coupled with hundreds of intermediate sorcerers of the fifth rank and above among the younger generations, as well as the spell formations accumulated by the Shen Family in Nanyang City for nearly a thousand years. With just a few modifications, they could create a scenario where the lethality was not so apparent yet would successfully prevent the living dead from entering the city.
Although in terms of rescue, Nanyang's performance was not even comparable to that of Nanming Prefecture, when it came to the stability of the city, it was second to none!
This also allowed the citizens of Nanyang City to gradually return to calm after the initial panic, to the extent that there would even be lantern festivals at night.