Qingluan City

Qingluan City

After gaining a rough understanding of the situation across the Central Continent, Shen Gui decided that he had to visit Heavenly Demon City.

After all, Heavenly Demon City had been built by Nuwa and Fuxi.

If he wanted to resolve the Mystic Tortoise's fatal tribulation, starting with Nuwa was certainly a viable path.

Even if it did not work, learning more about Nuwa could not hurt.

Besides, if he wanted to go to Mount Buzhou, Heavenly Demon City was on the way.

With that in mind, Shen Gui headed directly toward Mount Buzhou.

As Shen Gui drew nearer and nearer to Mount Buzhou, the places he passed through gradually became less desolate. He could even see cities inhabited by clusters of the Demon Race.

These cities across the Central Continent were protected by Heavenly Demon City—or rather, by Nuwa and Fuxi. Though that protection meant little to powerful members of the Demon Race, it was a fine harbor from the storm for the weaker ones.

After all, even the mighty great demons would not dare openly make a move in such places unless they believed they could afford to provoke Nuwa and Fuxi.

Moreover, in this Primordial Wilderness where the strong preyed upon the weak, every race had its weaklings. The existence of these cities undoubtedly sheltered many Demon Race members at the bottom. Thus, anyone who made a move in these places would also face the resistance of the vast majority of demons in the Central Continent.

After traveling all this way and learning the general situation of these cities, Shen Gui had to admit that regardless of Nuwa and Fuxi's reasons for building Heavenly Demon City, this act had indeed benefited all living beings.

Qingluan City was a major city located north of Heavenly Demon City. It was said that the city lord was a Qingluan at the Golden Immortal realm, hence its name.

There was an old saying: in the Primordial Wilderness, Daluo Immortals walked everywhere, and Golden Immortals were worth less than dogs.

But everything was relative.

Compared to the terrifyingly vast number of living beings throughout the Primordial Wilderness, even those who attained the Immortal Path were one in a hundred million, let alone Golden Immortals, who had already traveled exceedingly far upon it.

Qi Cultivation, Foundation Establishment, Spirit Transformation, Void Return.

Only after passing through these four realms and surviving the heavenly tribulation could one enter the Immortal Path and become a Heavenly Immortal.

Yet even among Heavenly Immortals, the overwhelming majority of beings in the Primordial Wilderness would never reach that realm in their lifetimes. And even after stepping onto the Immortal Path and becoming Heavenly Immortals, most would remain trapped in that realm for the rest of their lives.

But above Heavenly Immortals were True Immortals, then Mystic Immortals, and only after that came Golden Immortals.

Thus, though Golden Immortals were spoken of so disdainfully, they were in truth already among those standing at the apex of the entire Primordial Wilderness. For Golden Immortals were, in fact, the limit of the Immortal Path.

As for the Taiyi and Daluo realms beyond that—gathering the Five Qi within one's breast and condensing the Three Flowers atop one's head—they were already walking the path of transcending the Immortal Path. Compared to the former, such existences were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.

One had to know that even great beings such as the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa had been merely at the Golden Immortal realm when they first took form. Thus, even in the Primordial Wilderness, a Golden Immortal could protect a region and even found a sect or establish an ancestral line.

So after all that, it was clear that with a Golden Immortal guarding Qingluan City, it was by no means some insignificant little city.

Before heading to Heavenly Demon City, Shen Gui had planned to stay in Qingluan City for a time and gather more information about Heavenly Demon City and Nuwa.

As one of the earliest cities to appear in the Primordial Wilderness, these cities built by the Demon Race naturally had no concern for things such as beauty.

Therefore, most cities were now built with walls made from whole massive boulders, while the buildings within were mostly constructed from stone or wood.

Qingluan City was no exception.

Still, this was the Primordial Wilderness.

Though the walls were merely piled from stones and looked crude, the presence of all kinds of formations meant that these simple cities did not actually lack defensive strength.

Taking Qingluan City's walls as an example, Shen Gui estimated that it would likely take at least several Mystic Immortal cultivators to blast them open.

Of course, although Shen Gui's cultivation was not high at present, he was still a Golden Immortal. Such walls naturally could not stop him.

However, Shen Gui had come to gather information, not to attack a city. There was no need to test them.

Suppressing his cultivation to the True Immortal realm, Shen Gui flew straight toward Qingluan City.