Invitation from Soul-Repelling City, a Probe (Thanks to Tail Number 5564 for the 5000 Tip)

Golden dawn light faintly spilled forth, and on the distant peaks, figures were beginning to appear in scattered clusters.

A massive iron city stood upon the mountain peak. Countless towers surrounded the iron city, and quite a few strange beasts darted through the air within.

From afar, this iron city looked like an enormous primordial beast sprawled upon the earth.

Before the spirit mountain and the giant city were countless dark, deep trenches. These trenches resembled waterways and moats, but there was no river water within them, only layer upon layer of bright, fiery-red spirit patterns flickering between light and dark.

In front of the trenches, fiery-red Firebirds carried cultivators, constantly flying in and out.

And at this moment, spirit boats of all shapes and sizes flew over from the distance at an unhurried pace, finally landing one after another before the city's black trenches. The cultivators carried by those Firebirds also brought over spirit plates, performing a special sensing check on the gathered cultivators.

Only those who passed the sensing check could follow the Firebirds into the checkpoint.

"This is the mandatory inspection for entering the city. There are far too many races on the Wildlands Continent; guarding against them is like trying to defend against every arrow in the dark. Without inspections, Soul-Repelling City would probably have become a joke long ago." At this moment, Ye Qingfeng had also followed Duan Jinyu to the front of the city. Their spirit boat likewise landed before the trenches.

"This is Heavenly Sparrow Trench, designed specifically to counter the Jade Soul Race. The Heavenly Sparrow Fire that erupts from inside is something even an ordinary mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator can't withstand. If it keeps burning, even a seventh-rank Void Refining Venerable could be severely injured. The most important thing is its