Great Cang Imperial Capital.
As an ancient capital of six dynasties, time had left behind everlasting traces here, along with a legendary aura.
Some said this was where the ancestral vein of the land lay, where the feng shui of heaven and earth converged. Whoever gained this place would be king!
The Imperial Capital's layout was indeed extraordinary. With the imperial palace at its center, the main roads radiating in all directions were nearly ten zhang wide and stretched for dozens of li. Even the side streets were close to three zhang wide, allowing armies and cavalry to move through the city without obstruction.
Beyond that, this ancient capital had three rings of walls. The imperial palace formed one ring; ten li beyond the palace stood another; thirty li farther out was the third.
Beneath the imperial city, there were also nine man-made underground rivers, leading directly to the great river. Legend had it that the dynasty of that time had established an army of one hundred thousand Daoists. Those Daoists cultivated Daoist arts for one purpose alone: building the city.
Whether it was the walls that had endured six dynasties without falling, or the nine underground rivers supplying water to the imperial city, all were the Daoists' handiwork.
The walls were one thing, but excavating those underground rivers was something no art but Daoist arts could accomplish.
Such a layout had been built bit by bit over nearly a thousand years before the Six Dynasties.
Such a vast city could not be called anything less than impregnable. During one dynasty, rebels had once fought all the way to the imperial city, yet the defenses held them off for three full years. In the end, they forcibly extended that dynasty's national fate by another reign.
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