Nuoding City was no longer the small border town it once had been.
Viewed from the sky, it resembled a colossal beast crouching upon the earth.
Yet unlike the cyberpunk neon and steel of the past, Nuoding City now exuded a stranger style, one far closer to dark fantasy.
The surface of the massive city walls was covered in a layer of dark-red biomass armor that seemed alive. This was the "Living City Wall" Orochimaru had cultivated using soul beast genes.
Whenever night fell, the vein-like patterns across the walls glowed with a faint red light, as though the entire city were breathing.
At the heart of the city, the original City Lord's Mansion had been replaced by a towering black spire that reached into the clouds.
The spire was not built from brick or stone, but grown from a black crystal that was neither metal nor jade. Its tip pierced the heavens, surrounded by thunderclouds that never dispersed.
This was the "Sky-Piercing Tower," and also Qin Feng's throne in this world.
Rather than landing on the usual pad, the spacecraft plunged directly into the rippling, water-like energy shield at the top of the spire.
Inside the control hall.
This place no longer resembled a mere server room.
Countless thick, translucent pipes twisted around the hall in a tangled web like the roots of giant trees. Within them flowed liquid that radiated seven-colored light—liquefied high-concentration Soul Power.
At the very center of the hall floated that enormous "Law Singularity"—Tang San.
Tang San was in an even more miserable state than before, yet somehow more sacred as well.
His body was curled into a fetal position, his skin completely transparent, allowing the energy circuits his meridians had been transformed into to be seen clearly.
His eyes were shut, but a slit