Everyone followed his gaze and looked into the distance.
At the end of the horizon, a magnificent giant city lay sprawled across the earth, backed by a vast mountain range of rolling peaks shrouded in clouds and mist.
Its walls stood far higher than any prefecture city they had ever seen, like a gray-black mountain range forged by human hands, stretching across heaven and earth.
The walls extended endlessly to either side, their limits invisible at a glance, seemingly merging with the distant mountains until the city's boundaries could not be seen at all.
Elegant pavilions and towering black towers that pierced the clouds could vaguely be made out.
One could imagine the crisscrossing streets within, the houses packed row upon row, and the countless people it contained, along with the immense machinery that kept it running.
At that moment, countless broad official roads and waterways flowed in from every direction like all rivers returning to the sea, converging upon several incomparably enormous city gates.
The roads were filled with an uncountable stream of people, carriages, horses, and even strange riding beasts flooding grandly into the city, making those gates seem like giant mouths swallowing and exhaling the world.
In the deepest part of the city, toward the mountains.
Enormous Rainbow Bridges spanned the sky, linking different peaks and palaces. With flying eaves, bracketed arches, and imposing halls, they were far beyond ordinary buildings.
A faint rosy glow shimmered around them. That was the core mountain gate of Tianbao Supreme Sect.
"This is Tianbao City."
Sang Yanping paused, his gaze sweeping across the stunned faces before him. He slowly emphasized his words. "In all of Yan Kingdom, there are only eleven cities of this scale. Every one of them is the core of a top-tier power, a pillar that gathers