East Sea City, the largest city in East Sea Commandery, was also the commandery's center.
The city's perimeter stretched over a hundred li. Its outer walls were built from massive blue stones more than thirty zhang tall, extending in an unbroken ring. The walls were over ten zhang wide; viewed from the sky, they resembled a circular range of hills.
The buildings within the city were primarily brick and timber structures, their style ancient and unadorned. Crisscrossing streets divided the city into one hundred and thirty-nine market wards, laid out in neat and orderly fashion.
The northwestern corner of East Sea City connected to a towering mountain peak. More than five thousand zhang high, the mountain was imposing and heavy, with all manner of structures built along its slopes and scattered across its face.
This singular peak rose abruptly above the rest, looking down upon and commanding all of East Sea City like the city's sovereign.
Today, every building on the mountain was draped in red and decorated for celebration. Red silk ribbons, lanterns, and other ornaments covered the entire mountain. At the great hall atop the peak, voices surged like boiling water, and the atmosphere was exceptionally lively.
Yun Qingxuan wore the Divine Firmament Azure Cloud Immortal Garment, a Divine Firmament Azure Lotus Dharma Crown upon her head and the Divine Firmament Immortal-Ending Sword at her waist, standing in the center of the hall to receive guests from all directions.
To Yun Qingxuan's left stood Qingqing. Today, she too wore the Divine Firmament Azure Cloud Sword Robe, the Azure Lotus Dharma Crown on her head and the Divine Firmament Heavenly Blade at her waist.
As a direct inheritor of the Azure Cloud Sect, every Divine Artifact Qingqing wore belonged to the Divine Firmament lineage. Though she had shown little