Suotuo City was beautiful at night.
Lights were the stars of this long night.
Along the streets, streetlamps shed dazzling light, draping the city's stage in a golden robe. Neon lights beside the roads resembled seven-colored ribbons, adding still more splendor to the already glittering stage. Unwilling to be outdone, the lights on the tall buildings enveloped the stage completely, making it blaze like a brilliant pearl.
Although night had fallen, Suotuo City seemed to have only just awakened. It was even livelier than during the day. Every shop along the streets was brightly lit, and vendors who only opened at night had taken up their usual spots to sell snacks, trinkets, and other wares.
Within Suotuo City stood a sprawling cluster of towering buildings. The tallest rose a hundred meters into the air, an enormous structure that looked particularly imposing beneath the night sky. Light flickered faintly within it.
The Suotuo Great Soul Arena was oval in shape and stood one hundred and twenty meters tall. Its interior contained one Main Soul Arena and twenty-four Sub Soul Arenas, with room for sixty thousand spectators and one hundred VIP boxes.
It was not only a place where Spirit Masters sparred and exchanged insights, but also a stage upon which various factions displayed their strength. It was said that even the leader of the Sky-Blasting Gang, whose influence now blazed like the midday sun, had competed in the Suotuo Great Soul Arena in his youth. That lent the place a touch of legend and drew even larger crowds.
Even though the Heaven Dou Empire was fighting the Spirit Hall Empire on the front lines, with both sides leaving over a thousand corpses beneath Jialing Pass every day in a grinding stalemate that devoured lives like a meat grinder, none of it