Amid the vast, chaotic aura, massive cloud pillars thrust into the heavens like countless colossal blades. At this moment, millions upon millions of cloud-sand puppets were using warships to push the floating lands of various sizes together or transport them to designated locations.
On one of the lands, within a gigantic furnace as vast as an abyss, earthfire surged violently. Blue-black flames radiated astonishing might, melting a piece of luoyao crystal within. The black aura released by the luoyao crystal seeped into a type of dark-gray rock.
One by one, sand-puppet giants whose bodies could easily reach several thousand zhang hoisted the refined stones, each resembling a towering mountain, onto the giant ship with a sudden heave.
The giant ship transported them to the place where the cloud pillars intertwined, where sand-puppet giants promptly unloaded them.
Even with the sand-puppet giants' enormous bodies, some overly heavy stone beams still required several of them to shoulder and lift together. Alternatively, they had to be hoisted with massive xuanyao crystal chains.
"This is the first majestic city we've built in the Xuanyong Battlefield—Cloud City. What do you think? Not bad, right?" Ao Zhan proudly introduced it to Ao Lei. Ao Lei was a heavenly-immortal-level dragon whom he had recently recruited from the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace. He had always kept a low profile in the Immortal Realm, previously daring not to show his true face for fear of provoking the joint assault of the great heavenly courts.
Now that the Qinling Great Emperor had openly occupied a large territory in the Immortal Realm, they no longer needed to hide here and there as they had before, constantly lurking in the shadows.
Cloud City was still waiting to be built up, but as the founding city of the cloud-sand puppet clan, it also