Before Mu Feiyan could finish, Su Shi'er waved a hand. "No rush. Let's go in and take a look first!"
As he spoke, he looked ahead.
At that moment, the towering city before them was shrouded beneath an incomparably massive defensive barrier.
Constant waves of formation energy radiated from both inside and outside the barrier, rippling like ocean waves and making the very space around it tremble.
With a single glance, Su Shi'er knew that the formations here had their own distinctive qualities—and were far from ordinary.
Looking out, Sunset City covered a terrifyingly vast area.
Though Su Shi'er and the others were in the air, they could clearly see the scene within through the defensive formation.
Countless ancient-style houses and courtyard buildings, with gray brick walls and emerald tiles, stood row upon row in neat, orderly arrangements.
Setting aside the mountains on either side, four broad avenues, each over thirty zhang wide and paved with stone bricks forged from special Spirit Ore, crisscrossed in the shape of a "well," dividing the entire city into nine nearly equal sections.
Within each section, broad roads crossed vertically and horizontally like a chessboard. According to the width and size of the roads, these sections were further divided into countless blocks of varying sizes.
Those blocks held ordinary residences, luxurious mansions, taverns and inns, all manner of specialty shops, even places of pleasure and romance, as well as trading plazas specifically for cultivators to set up temporary stalls.
Countless cultivators and mortals bustled through the city. Outside it, flying vessels of all sizes and tamed bird and beast mounts rose and fell, coming and going in an endless stream.
From afar, this sight alone revealed the prosperity and liveliness of the place.
Part of it came from Sunset City on Yuhui Island serving