Sunlit City.
Traveling in the luxurious flying carriage, Yue Yang and the others arrived at Sunlit City, several hundred kilometers away, in less than three hours.
This was a large city, somewhat different from ordinary ones. That unrivaled cross-shaped main road divided Sunlit City into four sections. The east-west stretch was nearly fifty kilometers long; the north-south stretch was slightly shorter, yet still twenty kilometers.
Outside the city stood a circular wall twenty meters high.
Apart from the four enormous city gates,
there was not a single other exit.
Looking down from the sky at the streams of carriages and crowds below, one could see the exceptionally broad roads. The avenue running east to west was astonishingly a full kilometer wide.
The north-south avenue was also four hundred meters wide.
Sunlit City was entirely a strategic metropolis built for war. It was first constructed during the era when Fei Wenli, the Conqueror Queen, swept across the lands ten thousand years ago, then expanded during the Prison Emperor's era six thousand years ago. However, the Conqueror Queen who had once swept through the Heaven Realm had been sealed away, and the great battle between the Prison Emperor and the three major powers of the Western Heaven Realm had likewise become a memory of history. Today's Sunlit City was no longer the strategic base where vast armies had once gathered. It had become a remote yet relatively prosperous "mountain city." Surrounded by valleys on all four sides, this enormous city spread across the open land in the middle and now housed several million people.
The people here were relatively wealthy. Relying on the abundant mineral deposits in the surrounding mountain ranges, they lived without worries over food or clothing.
Because of the many wars ten thousand and six thousand years ago, numerous