That day, the winds of change swept through Longevity Heaven. The city lords of the third-tier cities, who usually kept themselves hidden, all emerged and gathered the hundred senior members they had long selected, preparing to head for Konoha.
Although Lin Chuan had said that anything under a hundred people would do, for the sake of their own safety, every major city brought the full hundred, making a total of nineteen hundred people.
However, a problem soon arose. Konoha had not yet been linked to a teleportation array, making travel there rather troublesome. The closer cities could still fly there, but the distant ones could not. The only option was to first teleport to Nine Heavens City and then fly to Konoha, which was the simplest method.
But some cities did not have particularly good relations with Nine Heavens City. They had serious reservations about rashly bringing a hundred people into Nine Heavens City, so they could only take the longer route and seek out other nearby cities. As a result, most of their time would be spent traveling, which gave quite a few cities a headache.
However, Lin Chuan seemed to have anticipated this long ago. Before the city lords of the various cities could even set out, he directly employed Yomotsu Hirasaka.
Primordial Beginning City.
City Lord Chen Xuanyi wore a moon-white robe. Though his hair and beard were entirely white, his complexion was ruddy, and he did not look elderly at all. Instead, he resembled a young man in his twenties. He stood in the main hall, discussing departure arrangements with Zuo Qinghan and the other elders.
Buzz!
A spatial rift abruptly appeared in the square outside the main hall, then slowly expanded. It caused no spatial fluctuations, yet an aura spread from it, alarming everyone in