Standing at the bow of the cloud boat, Lin Bai gazed across the breathtaking Immortal Realm gates of Phoenix Valley and could not help sighing with emotion:
"I've been inside the mountain gates of many sects and lineages. In terms of beauty, Phoenix Valley is undoubtedly number one!"
After arriving in the Devil Realm, Lin Bai had encountered many sects and lineages, and visited quite a few of their mountain gates to admire the scenery.
Among the most scenic mountain gates were Tianshui Sect's Water Mirror Sea and Phoenix Valley's Spirit Nest Mountain Range. Both belonged to the top tier.
Living in a place like this, putting aside how much one's cultivation might grow, merely seeing such scenery every day was enough to soothe both body and mind.
On the other hand, some Flourishing Sects seemed not to care much about the scenery within their mountain gates. Perhaps that was because of the unique characteristics of their sects and lineages.
Take the State of Chu, for example.
As one of the Flourishing Sects in the Devil Realm Eastern Region and an ancient power with a legacy stretching back hundreds of thousands of years, the State of Chu's mountain gate was its imperial city.
Lin Bai had also visited the imperial city. There, one could scarcely see scenery like Phoenix Valley's, but it possessed a unique flavor of its own.
It was the feeling of oppression from supreme authority, the suffocating feeling of majesty.
That was what suited the State of Chu's foundation of "ruling the nation by iron law."
If the State of Chu had been like Phoenix Valley and built its imperial city like a paradise beyond the mortal world, it would probably have lost its unique style.
Lin Bai had also visited the mountain gates of sects such