Fang Yun glanced at the Ancient City blocking the canyon passage.
The Ancient City was neither large nor small, ten li in both length and width, comparable to a prosperous county town.
Its walls looked as though they had been cast from bronze and stood a hundred zhang high. The city contained a full array of buildings, but they were not in the Human Race's style. They were sparsely spaced and exceptionally tall, all built from a bronze-like metal.
The ground throughout the Ancient City formed a single continuous surface, seemingly made of red copper.
At its center stood a strange twelve-sided tower a thousand zhang high. Above its peak hung an enormous red-copper ring, within which flames seemed to burn, forming a red fireball.
The Ancient City was utterly out of place amid its surroundings, yet its imposing presence was extraordinary, as though it could anchor heaven and earth and suppress all eight directions.
Fang Yun looked toward the three Ancient Demons again and continued forward.
As though sensing him, all three Ancient Demons turned around together.
One was Crab Spider, who had entered the Star-Source Secret Land with Fang Yun and fought outside the Divine Gift Mountains and Seas. Crab Spider had actually reached the Emperor Realm, though his aura was still unstable, indicating a recent breakthrough.
Another was a golden giant. He was the one who had obtained Fang Yun's Leaf Book from the Tree Venerable that day and ultimately handed it over to Fang Yun.
The third struck Fang Yun as rather unusual. That Ancient Demon's race had already lost contact with the Summit of Myriad Stars, so he had not expected to encounter one here.
That Ancient Demon was a rarely seen flower maiden, a zhang tall. She had the face of a human woman,