The Boundary Line

There were many cities in this forbidden zone, for it had once been part of the Great Light Dynasty's territory. But along the way, most of the cities Bai Yang and the others had seen lay in ruins, their streets piled with bones. Now and then, monsters rampaged through them. Not a single living soul remained.

But the city now standing before Bai Yang and the others was exceptional.

It was inhabited, and quite a lot of people lived there.

The vast city stood beneath the shadowed sky. Its walls rose a thousand meters high like a towering mountain, built from some unknown blue-green stone with the cold sheen of metal.

The city seemed to have been built only recently; its exterior showed no signs of age.

The thousand-meter walls stretched so far in either direction that the eye couldn't find their ends, like a blue-green dragon lying across the land. The sight alone was enough to shake anyone who saw it.

"How could there be a city here?" Bai Yang asked Qing He.

But Qing He didn't know either, so she had no answer.

People stood on the walls, spaced at regular intervals, staring coldly into the distance. They wore matching blue-black armor and looked like soldiers. Every one of them had a cultivation level no lower than Martial Master.

The people on the wall noticed Bai Yang and his group arriving, but they paid them no heed, continuing to gaze coldly ahead.

Bai Yang frowned as he studied the city. It stood near the center of the forbidden zone. Weren't its people afraid of being infected by corpse poison?

He soon learned why. At the heart of the city stood a black stele three thousand meters tall. On all four sides of its surface, an article was inscribed