The Great Lake Spirit Domain had an extensive water system, its crisscrossing rivers and lakes like a chessboard. Paths between fields connected smoothly, transport was convenient, and frequent exchanges between regions had greatly promoted commercial prosperity.
The Azure Cloud Sect was one of the Seven Righteous Sects, located west of the Northern Severing Realm Mountain Range and south of the Endless Ice Field. Under its command were five provinces in total.
Water Cloud Province was the province richest in Water Veins.
For six months of the year, clouds and mist coiled around it and water vapor filled the air, making it dreamlike and illusory as an immortal realm. Thus, it also had the alternate name "Cloud Dream Marsh."
And the seat of the provincial capital.
Its name was—[Water Cloud Immortal Capital]!
The city spanned over a hundred kilometers in length and breadth, with a permanent population close to ten million. This was a typical "Great Lake scale." Compared to it, over on Red Kite's side, a city with several hundred thousand people already numbered among the great cities.
The population gap between both sides was too large, and many aspects were different.
Especially the state of life.
Water Cloud People walked in a hurry and left in a hurry. From peddlers and pawns to high officials and nobles, all looked as if they were buried in affairs. Even the hawkers cried their wares by pulling at their throats and shouting with all their might.
Fearing that passersby could not hear, the markets were rather disorderly because of the flow of people, yet they also had another kind of dense, worldly bustle. They developed with order amid chaos, not completely like chicken feathers scattered all over the ground.
If the cities of Red Kite had begun to imitate Great Lake by