Once the foremost major city under the Thousand Left Alliance, after the Thousand Left Alliance's destruction, the banners atop its walls changed hands. In merely a few hundred years, after many twists and turns, it had changed masters time and again.
By now, like the Thousand Left Mountain Range, this city had become an important territory directly governed by the Yong Province Prefecture.
It was also under the command of the Town North Marquis and belonged to the crucial frontier passes of the Northern Border.
Under such circumstances, the disputes of the past had naturally drifted far away from Divine Mechanism City.
The Holy Imperial Palace ruled the world, shepherding all under heaven for countless years. Its inviolable majesty had long seeped deep into the hearts of countless people throughout the Nine Provinces.
After the Holy Imperial Palace took over Divine Mechanism City, everything naturally fell into place.
No matter how much dissatisfaction there might have been, it could only be buried deep, never daring to reveal itself.
As for the various factions that had once destroyed the Thousand Left Alliance and had also sought to carve up its territory...
Other than a very few who had been exceptionally quick to read the winds, the overwhelming majority became like discarded tools after their use. Beneath the banner of the Holy Imperial Palace's laws and righteous cause, they were successively branded unforgivable "criminals," then ruthlessly suppressed and reduced to ashes.
Under the Holy Imperial Palace's governance, this Giant City, long ravaged by war, swiftly regained its stability in just a few years. By now, it was no weaker than in its former heyday.
At the Divine Mechanism North City Gate, the several-hundred-zhang-tall gate was a scene of clamorous activity. Streams of cultivators came and went, countless flashes of spiritual light flickering