Myriad Insect City.
Despite the name, the city wasn't dark or frightening.
On the contrary, its streets were clean and broad, and crowds thronged through them. The place was filled with the lively bustle of everyday life.
At first, it had been just a market at the entrance to Myriad Insect Valley. But as more and more people gathered, it had gradually grown into a city.
Myriad Insect Valley was happy to see it happen.
After all, they were cultivators, not actual immortals. They couldn't completely detach themselves from the mundane world.
"Braised golden-edged water beetles! Shell them and eat them right away—one bite and your mouth'll be dripping with oil!"
"Fire-roasted, bursting-with-juice bugs! Big and fragrant!"
Before Lu Bai and Li Mu had even entered the city, they could already hear the hawkers calling out from beyond the gates.
Perhaps because it lay beneath Myriad Insect Valley, nearly all the food sold on the streets was made from insects.
Lu Bai had no particular prejudice against eating bugs, but he certainly wasn't very hungry.
As they walked along the city streets, they spotted quite a few Myriad Insect Valley cultivators. When buying things from mortal merchants, they dutifully paid like anyone else.
If you didn't know what life was really like under Myriad Insect Valley, you might see the bustling streets and think the mortals here had a pretty good life.
But in truth, ordinary people could never afford to run the shops in this city.
You could pick any shop selling roasted insect meat, and its connections probably led straight to some elder of Myriad Insect Valley.
As for shops selling Spirit Insects, magical artifacts, pills, and the like, there was even less chance they were run by mortals. Ordinary people couldn't even get their hands on the