Chapter 587

The Huan Kingdom's royal capital, Nine Dragons Royal City.

As the Huan King Jian Shang's fortune rose and fell, the Dabie Mountain Range seemed to change along with it, revealing the wondrous mysteries of the Nine-Dragon Formation.

The nine peaks enclosing the Hidden Dragon Basin, in particular, now towered ten thousand fathoms high and stretched without end, resembling nine mountain ranges guarding the basin and forming superb natural defenses.

At this point, Nine Dragons Royal City, which required no city walls and only buildings within, was essentially complete. Eight main streets wound like dragons from the city gates to the central royal palace; countless palaces and towers stood packed together like scales and comb teeth, rolling on without end. Every building occupied a specific position according to the principles of the Changes, making the entire city a seamless whole. The royal palace stood out like a crane among chickens, resembling a dragon's raised head. Directly above it floated the Nine-Dragon State Cloud, representing the Huan Kingdom's National Fortune. Within that cloud, a magnificent palace flickered in and out of sight, like a sovereign attended by nine dragons.

Magnificent, imposing, solemn, and seamlessly integrated.

This was Nine Dragons Royal City, a vast undertaking in which even the position of every building had been fixed in advance. It looked like an ordinary royal city, yet carried the air of a military fortress, because once war broke out, its countless tightly packed palaces and towers could swiftly transform into military facilities such as arrow towers, archery turrets, Heaven-Sacrificing Altars, and Star-Watching Platforms—or watchtowers. This was the marvel of Nine Dragons Royal City.

On this day, more than twenty days had passed since the last system update, and the Huan King Jian Shang had already led his main force back to Nine Dragons Royal