Chi Kunli—this was the name of the Yuan Race member who had come out to negotiate with Xue Bufan and Feng Yecai. His dwelling stood atop the ruins of some ancient city.
It was hard to call this "a city," because at least half of it had been flipped upside down. Originally, this city should have stood upright, right? But millions of years of erosion had once again reshaped the "terrain" here.
The materials of the Yuan Race city were indeed extraordinary compared to the mundane things around it, having suffered almost no erosion. Perhaps the cost of recovering and refining the materials was too high? Naturally occurring refining materials were polycrystals formed by coupling with spiritual energy, and during smelting, these polycrystals rapidly changed. Not every altered polycrystal was suitable for re-refining.
Though he lacked the ability of City of Mountains and Rivers to directly sense the structure of the earth merely by standing on it, without extending spiritual sense, Xue Bufan still realized that everything around this city had turned to sand. Half the city was practically stuck into the sand like an empty shell.
—An undeniably dangerous building...
If the Yuan Race people in the deep valley lived in worker barracks left behind by their ancestors, then this city was equivalent to an imperial palace built thousands of years ago on Earth, with no protection whatsoever.
It was absolutely dangerous.
"A very wise choice," Feng Yecai said softly. "Only the environment here comes with an abnormal spiritual energy field that can slightly disrupt spiritual sense. If I had to choose a place to live on land like this, I would choose here too."
"...Aren't you afraid of being crushed to death?" Xue Bufan looked at the ruin structure, which could collapse at any moment, and lost some