A gloomy sky, a fine drizzle the color of blood, and a city of empty streets.
Stifling, eerie, desolate...
Anyone placed within the city limits could not help but feel a creeping, hair-raising shiver run down their spine.
Whether they were natives of Shui Yue World or cultivators who had descended from Azure World, everyone in this city moved with extreme caution, treading on thin ice without a shred of relaxation.
Because!
This city was no simple place.
This was an ancient city left over from the Primeval Era when humans and gods had lived side by side.
It was a royal city from the ancient times.
It was...
The joint royal city of gods and mortals.
Before they, the people of this new era, entered the city, there had been no trace of life within it; all that remained was this hollow, dead city.
The blood-like rain drifting across the sky seemed as though the world were mourning the era that had been lost.
A once-glorious past no longer existed, leaving behind only a massive ancient city.
Nine towering divine statues within the city caught everyone's attention, and they hurried one after another toward the nearest statues.
Divine statues!
Their true bodies were the ancient gods of the Shui Yue World's primeval period.
Divine statues!
These symbolized the status of the ancient gods and also served as the core of the entire ancient city grand array's energy operation.
Those who wished to obtain supreme treasures;
Those who wished to leave the ancient city;
All of them were forced to rush to the place where the divine statues resided.
At the foot of the divine statue located in the northeast corner of the outer city, several hundred people had gathered at this moment.
They had formed into various groups, confronting