Simply put.
Xuanyuan had become terrifyingly powerful.
Over the past two hundred years, he had consolidated and absorbed all the forces and territory under his command.
His power was gradually reaching its limit.
Xuanyuan had been wondering how to break into a new phase of expansion.
And now, as if someone had brought him a pillow and blanket just as he was dozing off, Qi Bo and Kong had formed an alliance and come straight to him.
"Let's go! Back to the city!"
Xuanyuan laughed and left with his subordinate.
They returned to the newly built Xuanyuan City on the plains.
The city was magnificent. It spanned three hundred li from east to west, and its walls rose a hundred meters high.
It was divided into an inner and outer city, with a moat, Slaying Immortal Ballistas, Binding Immortal Nets, and other deadly weapons to defend against tides of Fierce Beasts.
These weapons lined all four walls.
More than a hundred Slaying Immortal Ballistas stood at every gate.
Watchtowers and beacon towers rose every ten li, and elite warriors patrolled daily.
The walls were wide enough for three carriages to race abreast. Arrays protected key positions, keeping the defenses secure.
The buildings inside varied in height and style.
But the planned residential districts, public areas, trading quarters, fields, pastures, workshops, cultural districts, training grounds, and other zones each had a clear purpose. Roads crisscrossed the city in an orderly grid.
None of these ideas was particularly advanced.
But promoting them and putting them into practice in an age of such widespread ignorance
was enough to leave every other Human Race power of the era in the dust!
Xuanyuan and his trusted aide entered the city, though the gate guards first made a brief check of their identities.
Then they headed