The Artisan's Tools

After leaving Azure Dragon Gorge, Lin Cheng turned into a streak of light and swiftly fled toward the distance.

With a single step, he crossed ten thousand zhang.

After browsing through the information recorded in the jade slip, Lin Cheng fell into thought.

The intelligence stated that several seniors from the Lesser Immortal Realm had once appeared near East Royal City. However, not in East Royal City itself, but in one of its satellite cities.

Yet even a satellite city would not be much weaker overall than a second-tier Heavenly Realm City.

If he merely wanted to cause trouble, that would not be a problem. Even if he could not win, he could still escape.

But if he wanted to save people, he had to prepare properly.

Lin Cheng had originally planned to head straight for East Royal City, but on second thought, to be safe, he still needed to visit some other Heavenly Realm Cities... for no other reason than the "source objects" within each Heavenly Realm City.

To every Heavenly Realm City, such an object was an irreplaceable supreme treasure.

Only with it could a Heavenly Realm City exist.

Its function was somewhat like the treasure used to suppress fortune when establishing a clan territory, such as the Primeval Pearl in the Crouching Dragon Mountain territory.

There were only so many of these things across the entire continent. Since ancient times, the number of Heavenly Realm Cities on the Vast Azure Continent had always remained fixed. Altogether, there were only around a hundred of them—extremely rare and precious.

Only with a source object could a Heavenly Realm City continue to exist.

Without it, a Heavenly Realm City would exist in name only.

Just as the Crouching Dragon Mountain territory, without the Primeval Pearl and without the Immortal-Slaying Ancient