Azure Fields City had once been the largest Immortal City in the Third-Grade Azure Fields State Boundary.
Though it could not compare to the flourishing splendor and flowing gold and jade of a true aristocratic clan's grand city, it gathered the vitality of an entire state boundary, bustling with thunderous fervor and the hearth-smoke of ten thousand households.
It was the central city most yearned for by the hundreds of millions of Spirit Farmers within the Azure Fields State Boundary.
Countless local Spirit Farmers of the Azure Fields Boundary dreamed of working hard in the fields, diligently amassing wealth, then settling down and establishing themselves in a great city like Azure Fields, passing on their family line and enjoying their twilight years in peace.
But now, all of it had turned to bubbles amid disaster.
Azure Fields City was already scarred and battered, with collapsed walls and ruined homes everywhere. Firelight had scorched the walls, leaving streak after streak of charred black marks.
Beneath the broken walls and shattered remnants lay corpse after corpse, as though they had still been struggling in agony before death.
The hope of peaceful living and happy work that they had spent their entire lives striving for, their life's blood poured into it, had been buried along with Azure Fields City amid the riots.
Mo Hua walked a circuit along the outer city streets. Seeing nine out of every ten homes empty, vast stretches of residences and marketplaces plundered bare, and corpses rotting in corners, his mood sank further.
After walking onward for over an hour, they entered the inner city, where things were only slightly better.
The inner city was likewise damaged, but relatively speaking, its buildings still retained fairly complete outlines, and its Array Techniques were mostly intact.
The overwhelming majority of Azure