Countless Ancient Cities were embedded across the continent like stars. What Li Ziran had not expected was that the continent had already broken apart, floating through the Void Expanse like islands suspended in the air.
These islands wriggled, slowly merging into the Ancient Cities. Yet through the cracks between those cities, he could vaguely make out an ice-block-like phantom.
Frozen Continent!
He saw it clearly—it was a block of ice. That ice seemed to be gradually taking the shape of an Ancient City. Within the city, Void Spirit-like creatures seemed to be moving about, yet all he could sense was nothingness, as though it was not truly a substantial city-state at all.
More of his attention fell upon the very center of those city-states, where a golden Ancient City towered high. As the aged Boundary Wall devoured everything around it, the city fought back like a warrior.
Gold!
Pure gold—not the bronze color of Hippo Ancient City today, but gold carrying an incomparable sharpness.
This memory stretched on for a long time. It seemed that the Frozen Continent formed by those Soul Barons had been completely immersed in such a dream, as though struggling, or perhaps pursuing transcendence. He could even sense a faint will emanating from the Frozen Continent.
Its form appeared now as though it had been waiting.
This Continental Core, smuggled over from several civilizations, actually seemed to have faith in these Ancient City-like civilizations.
The city-states were being destroyed. Smiling faces on the Boundary Wall nearly blanketed the entire Void Expanse, and the outer walls were smashed into powder. Yet the civilizations developed by those city-states did not retreat in the slightest. Instead, city-state after city-state clustered together, forming an even vaster colossal city-state.
This city-state was more than a hundred times larger than Hippo Ancient