Yizhi Sand Sea, Golden City.
The Golden City of more than a decade ago had been a true Golden City.
No one knew whether every building in the city had truly been built from gold, but every structure throughout the city had certainly gleamed with golden light.
That was how Golden City of the Yizhi Sand Sea had earned its name.
However, over the years, Golden City had gradually become unworthy of its name.
Especially for those visiting Golden City for the first time—when they saw the lush greenery everywhere, each of them wondered: where, exactly, was the gold of Golden City?
Could it be buried underground?
More than a decade ago, Ye Zhen had cultivated and planted vast numbers of Yidongqing Divine Trees throughout the area surrounding Golden City. Over the past decade, through the efforts of the Sand Sea priests, an enormous oasis had formed within an eight-hundred-li radius of Golden City. Lakes had even appeared, sustaining hundreds of millions of Sand Clan people.
Golden City had long since become the Golden Holy City beyond the nine great sand cities of the Yizhi Sand Sea, also known as the City of the Heavenly Gods.
It meant the place where the Heavenly Gods dwelled. Any Sand Clan people able to live in Golden Holy City were citizens blessed and favored by the Heavenly Gods.
Before the coming of war, every citizen of Golden Holy City had worn a smile.
So long as they were not too lazy, they could always find food on the Yidongqing Divine Trees outside the city.
If they were more diligent, cultivated a few plots of land or took on some work, they could easily support their entire families.
But as the dark clouds of war loomed over Golden Holy City, the smiles within the