At dusk, Bai Pu and the Ye Clan members finally arrived at Huaixi City with their Sha Clan captives.
Huaixi City was huge. Its grand main city wall enclosed a stretch of land a hundred li across, winding up and down along the mountain terrain like the Great Wall.
Upon the city wall, a layer of faintly flowing metallic symbols merged with the mountain terrain, forming a seamless whole.
These flowing metallic symbols bore some resemblance to the liquid-metal talismans outside Babel Tower, but it was also clear that their level was much cruder. At the very least, Bai Pu could understand some of the symbols among them.
Clearly, this was the "City Protection Array" Ye Qingmei had mentioned. If even a remote city like Huaixi City possessed an array like this, it seemed Donglai Kingdom's level of civilization was quite advanced.
At this moment, the atmosphere inside the City Lord's Mansion of Huaixi City was icy and tense.
The members of the Ye Clan and the Sha Clan, led by their respective clan leaders, were facing off inside the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion.
The clothing of the two clans was clearly distinct. The Ye Clan wore blue-green robes embroidered with leaves, while the Sha Clan wore yellow-brown clothes with golden-striped sashes.
Inside the hall, apart from these two clans, there was also a group dressed in blue. This was the other major family of Huaixi City, the Lin Clan.
At this moment, the Lin Clan stood in the hall in an obvious neutral stance, helping neither side.
The Sha Clan's clan leader, Sha Tongtian, had a very domineering name, but in reality he was a skinny little old man with a wretched appearance. Only the occasional gleam that flashed through his eyes revealed that he was