Nine Heavens.
Kirin City floated atop brocade woven from drifting clouds.
The entire city was arranged according to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Formation. Its streets, built of green jade, wound like coiled dragons, while Spirit Lanterns flowing with starlight hung from the eaves, illuminating the city's seventy-two market districts as brightly as day.
The eastern market displayed a dazzling array of rare treasures, while the western market carried the faint fragrance of Spirit Medicine and Immortal Herbs. Cultivators arriving from north and south rode auspicious clouds through the streets, their conversations mingling with the hum of Magic Tools in a unique rhythm.
Above the heavens, Immortal Birds and Fierce Beasts carried cultivators back and forth in an endless stream.
Vermilion Birds cloaked in rosy radiance raised their heads and shrieked, leaving crimson trails wherever their wings swept.
Chi Dragons covered from head to tail in silver scales lashed their long tails, and clouds surged and gathered around them.
There were even female cultivators riding seven-colored Luan Birds, their gauze skirts billowing in the wind, the tassels hanging from their jade hairpins tracing brilliant arcs through the air.
These figures, each radiating a mighty aura, swept past the city walls, causing ordinary cultivators on the streets below to stop and gaze upward. Cries of amazement rose one after another.
The immense plaza at the city's center resembled a dazzling pearl between heaven and earth.
At the heart of the plaza stood a majestic hundred-story building—the Nine Heavens Inspection Department.
The entire structure was founded upon Kunlun Mystic Iron and inlaid with Star-Patterned Glaze capable of drawing in the essence of sun and moon.
Ancient runes were engraved upon the flying eaves of every floor. Driven by spiritual power, they circulated with golden light, layer upon layer piercing straight into