The Endless Sea, the Great Huan Immortal Kingdom, Nine-Dragon Island.
Ten years had now passed since the Great Huan Immortal Kingdom's founding ceremony.
Nine-Dragon Island had become a vast base renowned throughout the Two Seas. Cultivators of the Two Seas ranked this island alone alongside first-rate powers such as the Spirit Wisdom Sect, the Myriad Beasts Sect, the Great Li Sect, and the Stormcloud Sect. Some even compared the Great Huan Immortal Kingdom to the Heaven-Hiding Sect, a power between the overlords and the first-rate factions.
In just ten years, Nine-Dragon Island's permanent population had soared to thirty million, with a transient population of twenty million, bringing its average total population to around fifty million. Of those, twenty-five million were subjects of the Great Huan Immortal Kingdom, while the remaining five million permanent residents belonged to the various factions' outposts. Almost every power of any standing in the Two Seas had an outpost on Nine-Dragon Island, including major merchant associations, adventuring groups, organizations, sects, and noble clans.
Nine-Dragon Island still had its original ten cities: Heaven-Supporting City in the center, Nine-Dragon City at Nine-Dragon Harbor, and Qian Dragon City, Earth Dragon City, Thunder Dragon City, and the others built along the eight dragon-shaped mountain ranges. They were all named according to the eight trigrams. Yet even the smallest had expanded more than tenfold. Heaven-Supporting City alone was a hundred times its size before the founding, with over ten million permanent residents and closely packed buildings stretching as far as the eye could see.
This was only because the Great Huan Immortal Kingdom exercised strict control; otherwise, the number of cities could easily have surpassed a hundred. Various powerful factions, particularly the overlord powers, the Sea-Connecting Trade Alliance, and Myriad Treasures Commerce, had repeatedly insisted on building their own cities. However,