Standing beneath the towering city walls, Cao Wenzhao looked at the orderly queue waiting to enter and the corpses swaying in the wind atop the gate tower. A chill gripped his heart.
He dared not step out of line and obediently joined the back of the queue.
Once inside Baihe County's walled city, Cao Wenzhao was instantly stunned by its prosperity.
Streams of people wove through the streets, shoulders brushing and heels treading on heels.
Though Baihe was only a county, it housed the ancestral grounds of the Yang Province Li Clan, a divine mansion immortal clan, and had already become the true center of both Yang Province and Eastern Prefecture.
It could well be called "the ground beneath the Son of Heaven's feet."
Even more startling was the astonishing proportion of cultivators in the city.
Quite a few people needed only to inadvertently release a wisp of their aura to leave his heart pounding with fear.
Qi and blood realm cultivators!
He had only ever sensed such an aura from his father and the heads of the other three great lineages on Golden Crow Island.
Yet powerful figures like these, each capable of changing the balance of power on Golden Crow Island, were now everywhere he looked.
He even saw a figure flash across the sky.
Cao Wenzhao sucked in a breath of cold air.
Flying through the air—an Innate True Person!
This was only the second time in his life he had seen such a legendary figure.
The first had been over twenty years ago, when his father had taken him to congratulate the Jiang Family's ancestor on his three-hundredth birthday.
The Jiang Family was one of the three great innate families of the Ninety-Six Islands, and Golden Crow Island, where his Cao Family lived, fell under its