This towering city wall was completely different from an ordinary wall.
It was simply too wide. The city wall was like a city itself, with corridors on top wide enough for two carriages to travel side by side.
Inside the city wall stood rows upon rows of houses.
Within the estate enclosed by the city wall, Xia Chujian saw imposing buildings with white walls and gray tiles.
Their horse-head walls rose and fell in uneven layers, with blue bricks, small tiles, courtyards, side rooms, winding corridors, and lattice windows scattered with fallen blossoms.
Under the night sky, it looked like a distant ink-wash painting.
Xia Chujian clicked her tongue in amazement and lightly leaped down from the city wall.
The houses within the wall were densely packed, but every house was surrounded by yet another high wall. Inside the towering outer wall, they were like cities within a city.
Xia Chujian observed from the air for a while until her eyes grew dizzy, then summoned Seven Lù.
"Seven Lù, can you find anything unusual among these houses?"
Seven Lù asked, "What counts as unusual?"
Xia Chujian said, "A Ce told me earlier that the Shen Tu Family has a Helmet formed from a True God's head. I want to see what it is."
Seven Lù said, "If such an item truly exists, it must be kept in the most important and secure place in the family."
"Judging from this complex of buildings, it should be in the house of the Shen Tu Family Head."
Xia Chujian nodded. "Where does the Shen Tu Family Head live?"
She had originally assumed that the Family Head's house would definitely be the tallest and most luxurious one here.
But after arriving, she discovered that all the houses were built in the same style.
She