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Guiyuan World, Dayuan City.

A yuan is a wall.

Dayuan City meant a city with tall, towering walls.

The wall was about a mile high, painted with various runes for resisting yuan-worms. Just outside the tall wall were mountains of flesh, the blood and flesh growing between the ground and the abyss. People would be devoured by the flesh if they were the least bit careless, and only within the high walls could they be considered safe.

The people here had long grown accustomed to the writhing mountains outside the city and the flesh growing everywhere.

Among them were people who awakened innately, capable of cultivation and wielding special abilities between heaven and earth, growing stronger by absorbing the breath of heaven and earth. They were called cultivators.

Every day, quite a few cultivators went out of the city to clear clogged roads, harvest yuan-worm flesh, and slay evil spirits.

There were also many evil spirits here, even stronger than those in the Western Ox Continent. Evil spirits lived in the wilderness, coming and going like ghosts, possessing special and bizarre abilities, and every day quite a few people met their ends at their hands.

The full name of the Shijia Clan was Great Ancestor Shijia, who were also of the Devil Race, living within the high walls, multiplying and thriving. Every month, a batch of caravans would travel to other high walls under the escort of devil cultivators to trade back and forth.

For closer distances, the caravan would travel for half a month; for distant ones, it would even take a year or several years to reach other high-walled cities.

And the day the caravan returned was the most bustling market day. The caravan not only brought goods that the people inside the high walls lacked, but also