Ye Lin noticed that the eyes on those reliefs were all set with some unknown kind of gemstone.
Those gemstones gave off a ghostly glow in the darkness, like countless eyes spying from the shadows, sending chills down one's spine.
When he looked more closely, however, he discovered that those eyes were actually moving.
They were not lifeless objects, but alive, watching every person who approached the city.
The city's entrance was a gate so enormous it was suffocating.
The gate stood a million zhang tall and tens of thousands of zhang wide, forged from two complete bronze doors.
Upon each gate was carved an entire giant dragon.
The dragon on the left was jet-black from head to tail, its scales grim and gleaming, its jaws stretched wide as though unleashing an earth-shaking roar.
The dragon on the right was crimson gold all over, its eyes round and glaring, its claws extended as though it would tear apart every enemy bold enough to invade.
The two gates met together, their dragon heads facing one another to form a vast circular pattern.
At the center of that pattern was embedded a pearl dozens of zhang in diameter. It radiated a faint, eerie light, like a gigantic eye coldly watching the visitors outside the city.
On either side of the gate stood two colossal beast statues, each tens of thousands of zhang tall.
The statue on the left was a Kunpeng. Its wings were spread as if it were about to take flight, spanning ten thousand zhang, every feather like a Heavenly Blade and radiating a razor-sharp aura.
The statue on the right was a Taotie. It crouched upon the ground with its enormous mouth wide open, as though it could devour everything.
Faint firelight surged within the Taotie's mouth, as though