Cold Wind City held an extremely special position in Taiping Prefecture. It was only ten thousand miles from Cold Mountain Sect, yet the city belonged to no faction. It was a giant city primarily inhabited by cultivators.
There were four city lords in the city, all of whom had reached at least the late Ghost Lord realm. As for the elders in the Ghost Lord realm, there were supposedly two or three hundred of them, while cultivators in the Ghost Marshal realm numbered in the thousands or even tens of thousands. Ghost General cultivators were beyond counting.
It could be said that any cultivator living in Cold Wind City could be regarded as one of the city's cultivators.
With such a scale, it far surpassed even a first-rate sect.
For a city primarily inhabited by cultivators to stand beside a first-rate sect was, in itself, utterly inconceivable.
As for why this was so, even the three Ghost Realm cultivators, including Elder Li, could not clearly explain it.
The records merely mentioned that Cold Wind City had been founded so long ago that its origins could no longer be traced. It seemed to have existed for several hundred thousand years. Cold Mountain Sect, on the other hand, had been founded later by cultivators from Cold Wind City.
From the very beginning, the two had supported one another and existed side by side.
With two such forces occupying the same area, conflict over cultivation resources should have been inevitable. Yet Cold Mountain Sect and Cold Wind City had coexisted peacefully because both possessed an extremely stable spatial rift.
Those two spatial rifts had originally been one. Several hundred thousand years ago, however, a city lord who had reached the peak of the Integration realm in Cold Wind City had used a wondrous