The Filled Middle Ground

"How could today's Longyun City possibly be compared with your Heyang City?"

True Person Huai Jin rolled his eyes. He knew Ye Xiu was purely trying to take a jab at him.

In addition, because the mountains that had once stood here had been flattened into a level valley by forbidden arts, the old methods of identifying locations by the names of the various mountains could no longer be used.

True Person Huai Jin took the character yun from the Cloudwater at the borders as part of the name, and originally used dragon as the first character. But later, considering that Heaven might not look too kindly upon dragon-type demon beasts these days, he changed dragon to long.

At first, True Person Huai Jin had actually considered using it as the sect's name. But after Ye Xiu persuaded him, he changed it into the name of a city instead.

"In the cultivation world of the future, it's unlikely that great sects will continue governing one another."

Ye Xiu said, "The explosive growth in the number of cultivators has given every region the potential to develop accordingly. A region only needs a central area to gather the manpower and resources from its surroundings in order to become sufficiently powerful.

"The era when a single great cultivator could suppress dozens, even more than a hundred cities will most likely never appear again in the future."

This was also the inevitable path of development.

The strength of an individual cultivator was undoubtedly formidable, but that was only possible when their numbers were exceedingly scarce.

In the years gone by, merely stepping onto the path of cultivation had been extraordinarily difficult. Thus, even a Core Formation cultivator could easily keep tens of millions in check.

But now, never mind how far those ordinary people