The Horrifying Path of Immortality
Chapter 779

Sound Shakes the City and Stockade, Casting a Book to Lure Jade

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Huang Wei handed in his prey, then turned and quietly wandered through the city.

Through his eyes, Li Qing carefully observed the entire city.

There were no entertainment facilities in this city. Nearly everyone was striving to cultivate.

The pressure of survival had long eclipsed everything else.

Time passed slowly. Huang Wei eventually made a full circuit of the city, and Li Qing saw its complete layout as well.

"Fully militarized management. It seems this city is under no small pressure to survive."

From Huang Wei's memories, he saw that the city had suffered dozens of invasions.

Almost all the invaders had been Anomalies. They came in every variety—some corporeal, some illusory. At times they were easily dealt with; at other times, resolving them demanded a tremendous price.

They had even encountered logic Anomalies before.

It was an Anomaly much like an infectious disease. Once someone came into contact with it, they would be infected, and within three days, they would certainly die suddenly.

To eliminate that Anomaly, the geomancers had activated an enormous feng shui formation to cleanse it. More than one-fifth of the city's residents had died in that disaster.

Even the power of the Humanity Dao Forbidden Law could not stop that Anomaly.

That had happened twenty years ago, but in the end, they had still weathered it.

After learning more about the city, Li Qing discovered that it could accommodate no more than ten thousand people.

Whenever the population reached ten thousand, a geomancer who had completed their studies would lead a thousand people to a new feng shui treasure ground and establish another city from scratch.

But this process was extremely dangerous, and many people could be killed or injured along the way.

Not many succeeded in establishing a city. Moreover, some were too far

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