If one did not mingle in Huoyun City's circles, one's understanding of how deep the waters here ran would be skewed—after all, in the eyes of many powerhouses from the Lower Continent, Huoyun City was merely a place that had only recently advanced through bloodline ascension.
Despite its eye-popping performance in the Alliance Grand Competition, despite Officer Lin achieving the status of a Human Void Saint, despite Luoshen Holy Land and the Huoyun City government forming a deep alliance, despite the Pingtian Group being far from as simple as it appeared... beneath all those "despites," Huoyun City had indeed taken on the air of a deep pool.
But these were all cards that powerhouses from every side knew they could not offend lightly.
What did Infinite City amount to?
It was merely a region in a state of being beyond the control of the authorities... as if places like Infinite City did not exist within the territories of the various Lower Continents.
Those zones beyond supervision on their own soil might appear to be beyond the control of the authorities, but in reality, which one was not the result of deeply intertwined local clans... It was precisely because multiple parties were contending with one another that they could maintain that delicate balance between apparent chaos and stability.
Perhaps making a high-profile move now would offend some of Huoyun City's local clans... but with a forbidden item right before them, powerhouses who wanted to carve out a place for themselves under the new order of the human world would instead ignore it.
After setting aside all those reasons, there was actually one more possibility.
—They were simply thick-headed.
One had to admit that there really were thick-headed people in this world.
In the room, A Nan 2, who was inwardly