Guiling City lay not far east of the Primeval Ruins, Eastern Peak Capital. This was not Wang Yu's first time here; once, he had relied on this wildly popular ruin to earn until his bowl and basin were both full.
But times changed.
A large sum of Spirit Stones to Foundation Establishment and Core Formation cultivators was now nothing more than twigs and trifles to him—apart from Top Grade Spirit Stones, at least.
Those Low-Tier Spirit Stones had already lost all meaning to him.
Even exchanging them upward would only get him high-grade stones, which were nearly useless.
At this moment.
Where the original ruins had been, an enormous pit had appeared, its end impossible to see at a glance. It was divided into four rings: Outer City, Inner City, Palace City, and Imperial City. Tier upon tier of palace complexes stood at the very heart of the city.
The style was extremely ancient—or rather, it was the style closest to an upper-realm Immortal Palace. The Outer City was split into hundreds of residential wards. Their spiritual light was faint; most had already decayed away beneath the passage of years.
Ancient corpses roamed within, wandering everywhere with their dried-up bodies.
In the Inner City, Yin fiendish energy shot to the heavens. Zombies and Yin Ghosts were everywhere, running rampant without restraint. There were also exceedingly rare demon creatures being born within, such as the Three-Eyed Corpse Infant, a kind of Aberrant Species Zombie comparable to a Nascent Soul.
And vicious plants that lived year-round in darkness.
Bloodthirsty Demon Vines, Yin Illusion Man-Eating Flowers... and so on. Just the things exposed in the Inner and Outer City Areas already foretold that this place was one of great ill omen.
The Palace City, filled with official mansions and immortal estates, had been