Sovereign and Subject

While Warm Jade Pavilion was in utter chaos, Twin Sun Red Dragon City's imperial city remained as imposing and solemn as ever.

The Blood Qin Empire prized scarlet and revered black. Thus, the walls of Twin Sun Red Dragon City's imperial city were pitch-black throughout, as deep as the night and as hard and unyielding as tungsten iron. Within the imperial city, every building that met the eye was awash in boundless crimson, exuding a grim, murderous air that made one feel suffocated and uneasy.

At the very center of the imperial city stood a majestic scarlet stone platform a thousand meters high. Its base stretched nearly a li on each side, while its summit was only fifty meters long and wide. This enormous platform rose straight into the sky, with no stairs around it. Its surface had been polished as smooth as a mirror; without absolute strength, an ordinary person could never hope to climb it.

Under the starlight, scarlet and black runes flickered faintly across the platform's surface, and a stifling wave of magical power vaguely enshrouded the entire imperial city. This blood-red platform was the core of the imperial city's defensive formation, a colossal ancient magical device that had stood here since the founding of the Blood Qin Empire.

Specks of starlight visible to the naked eye drifted down from the heavens and were gradually absorbed by the gigantic platform. At every moment, it absorbed the natural elemental energy around it. Over countless years, it had accumulated an immense power beyond ordinary imagination. The magical fluctuations it emitted alone could place an enormous suppression upon every great power who entered the imperial city.

For instance, once a great power at the peak of the Saint Master realm entered the Blood Qin imperial city, his strength would be