Myriad Cultivator City was vast and complicated.
An immortal city inhabited by hundreds of thousands of cultivators could not possibly be simple within.
The lord of Myriad Cultivator City was named Wan Haishan. He was a powerful Golden Core True Person and, it was said, a descendant of the city's founder. His prestige was unmatched.
Yet True Person Wan spent most of his time in secluded cultivation within his own Cave Mansion and rarely showed himself. The ones truly responsible for managing the city's affairs were fifty-seven Purple Mansion families!
Each of these families possessed one or several higher cultivators, dividing power among themselves through strength.
Beneath the Purple Mansion families were guilds of all sizes.
These guilds were basically attached to the families, helping the latter control every trade and profession in Myriad Cultivator City.
Below them came the tens of thousands of Rogue Cultivators.
The brokerage Wang Chen found belonged to a small gang. The fourth-layer Qi Condensation broker led him into an alley in the northern part of the city.
A household here had a vacant room for rent.
Wang Chen had now figured out why housing prices in Myriad Cultivator City were so exorbitant.
Put simply, there were only two words.
Safety!
Back then, that True Person had founded Myriad Cultivator City to provide the many Rogue Cultivators with a place to shelter.
An enormous formation had been laid beneath the immortal city. This defensive formation, connected to the earth veins, was said to be capable of withstanding the strike of a Nascent Soul True Immortal when raised to its highest level.
More importantly, the grand formation also possessed formidable power to ward off evil and suppress demons.
Although the ever-operating formation suppressed the cultivators within the city and greatly affected the efficiency of cultivation,
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