The golden morning light slowly spilled forth, and figures began to stir atop the distant mountains.
A massive iron city stood upon the mountain, surrounded by countless towers, while many Exotic Beasts darted through the air within it.
From afar, the iron city resembled an enormous primordial Exotic Beast lying prone upon the earth.
Before the spirit mountains and the colossal city lay countless pitch-black, bottomless trenches. They resembled canals and moats, yet held no river water. Instead, layer upon layer of bright fiery-red Spirit Patterns flickered alternately between light and dark.
Before the trenches, Flame Birds with blazing-red feathers carried cultivators in and out without pause.
At that moment, Spirit Boats of every kind drifted over from afar at an unhurried pace, all descending before the city's black trenches. The cultivators riding the Flame Birds took out Spirit Disks and conducted special examinations on the gathered cultivators.
Only those who passed the examination could follow the Flame Birds through the checkpoint.
"An inspection is mandatory to enter the city. There are simply too many races on the Barbaric Continent to guard against them all. Without inspections, Ju Hun City would have become a joke long ago." Ye Qing Feng had followed Duan Jinyu to the city, and their spirit boat likewise descended before the trench.
"This is Sky Sparrow Ditch, created specifically to deal with the Jade Soul Clan. The Sky Sparrow Flame it unleashes is more than ordinary Mid Spirit Transformation cultivators can withstand. If it burns continuously, even Seventh Order Void Refinement Venerables could suffer grievous injuries. Most importantly, look at its range." Duan Jinyu continued his introduction, hoping to discern something from Ye Qing Feng's eyes.
Yet even in the end, he could not detect the slightest change in her expression.
That surprised him somewhat.
"Young