Black Cloud City.
It was shrouded by a formation!
Peaceful and serene.
At the savage frontier.
Demon Mountains stood in clusters.
Borderfolk lived like ants, wedged between the dazzling horrors of demons and the invasions of the Outer Dynasties, leading pitiful lives in constant fear, plagued by nightmares every night, never knowing whether they would see tomorrow's rising sun.
Across several hundred cities, eighty million people went hungry and scantily clothed, forever enveloped by death's shadow, trembling through each day in dread!
Great Xia was weak. Even though the Xia Emperor was an enlightened ruler who had exhausted every effort to protect the borderfolk, he still lacked the strength to bring them peace.
Compared with the surrounding border cities, where slaughter raged and blood filled the sky, Black Cloud City, protected by Xiao Chen and the Blade and Sword Brotherhood, was as safe and joyful as an immortal sanctuary beyond the world.
Great Xia's territory was vast, its borders exceedingly long. Cities along its frontiers were as numerous as the hairs of an ox, like stars scattered across the heavens—beyond counting!
The borderlands held many Demon Lands, while enemy dynasties and foreign races also launched invasions. The common people suffered unspeakably, living no better than mules and horses!
Before Xiao Chen took over Black Cloud City, its circumstances had been similar to those of the other small frontier towns. Its citizens had lived every day amid floods and flames.
After Xiao Chen arrived, he led the Blade and Sword Brotherhood in guarding the city like a needle steadying the sea. He built formations to fend off demons and foreign enemies, allowing Black Cloud City at last to live in peace, without worrying whether they would see the sunrise in the east when they awoke tomorrow.
To Black Cloud City, Xiao