Ten years had passed, yet Mu Yuan himself had barely changed. Neither had Dore, Isroya, Lu Liu, Uta, or the other Tian Yuan Great Generals.
For Saints, time had long since ceased to leave any trace.
If not for the fact that everyone was still young—still "young legends"—ten years would have been no more than the snap of a finger.
But compared to the Tian Yuan Experts, who had hardly changed at all, the entire Tian Yuan City—or rather, the entire Tian Yuan City metropolitan area—had undergone earth-shaking changes.
The metropolitan area had expanded several times over. It stretched more than a thousand kilometers from north to south and east to west, and was considerably larger than the defensive zone built around the main city by Tianze Lake next door.
Within the metropolitan area, railway tracks crisscrossed in every direction, their dense network linking vast regions and one magnificent city after another.
Second only to Tian Yuan City proper was Central Hub City, known as the "World's Bridge." It connected several major nations and had turned the entire Tian Yuan City metropolitan area into the center of the world.
Central Hub City was slightly smaller than Tian Yuan City proper, but it had an even greater flow of residents and visitors from elsewhere.
Tian Yuan City had even introduced a "visa-free" policy.
Foreigners and even people from beyond the world did not need visas to travel through Central Hub City and the World Tunnel. They only needed travel permits when leaving Central Hub City for other areas of the metropolitan region.
In the early years, when Central Hub City was still a transfer town, it had been only twenty kilometers from Tian Yuan City's southern railway station.
But by now, Tian Yuan City proper and Central Hub City had gone