It had already made Luo Yi feel an astonishing, overwhelming pressure.
As the Treasure Ship sped closer to the city, the shadowy outline he had glimpsed finally came into clear focus.
The dark shape he had seen was indeed a city—a colossal one that occupied almost the entire island.
The island Azure Underworld Cloud City occupied in the Endless Sea alone rivaled the entire territory of the Great Qi Dynasty back on the Tiannan Continent.
Azure Underworld Cloud City was less a city than a kingdom.
What shocked Luo Yi even more was its layout.
It was utterly unlike any city he had visited before.
Instead of leveling the whole island before building, its founders had chosen another way.
They had built around a mountain that towered into the clouds at the island's center, raising ring after ring of buildings that spread outward.
Beyond the mountain, buildings of every kind stood shoulder to shoulder in concentric rings, extending all the way to the island's edge near the sea.
Apart from roads wide enough for several people to pass, almost no open space remained in the city.
Without a doubt, this vast settlement was Azure Underworld Cloud City, the largest stronghold of Human Race cultivators in the surrounding waters.
Even with all Luo Yi had seen, the orderly yet honeycomb-dense sprawl of buildings left him stunned for a long while.
Only when Hou Yue'er steered the Treasure Ship within a few dozen li of the island did he gradually come back to himself, puzzled.
In the sky nearby, theirs was not the only Treasure Ship.
Not far from Azure Underworld Cloud City, the glimmer of other Treasure Ships appeared from time to time, all heading toward the city.
"Azure Underworld Cloud City truly is the largest Human Race cultivation city in