When the teleportation formation's silvery light that tore through space finally faded, Chu Bai and the ten other prodigies from Great Wall Prefecture at last found their footing on the suffocatingly vast plaza.
Apart from Chu Bai, whose breathing remained steady and whose blue robes bore not a speck of dust, the other nine top geniuses of Great Wall Prefecture were struggling to suppress the blood and qi churning in their chests. Ultra-long-distance teleportation across provincial boundaries—
The spatial strain it imposed on Foundation Establishment cultivators was no less than a battle to the death.
Yet once they steadied their surging spell power, truly raised their heads, and took in the towering city before them, all their exhaustion and discomfort were instantly drowned beneath an emotion called awe.
The Qingzhou Capital, that ancient behemoth entrenched in the east of the Nine Provinces Continent and embodying the Great Zhou Dynasty's supreme authority, finally revealed a despair-inducing tip of its iceberg to these young people from a remote prefecture.
What met their eyes was not a mundane city wall built from blue bricks and rammed earth, but a magnificent barrier a thousand zhang high, cast entirely from an unknown dark-gold immortal gold.
The walls were densely engraved with exquisitely intricate patterns of the City-Guarding Grand Formation. Those patterns flowed like living creatures, drawing in and breathing out the world's spiritual energy, radiating a terrifying pressure capable of easily erasing an ordinary Purple Abode powerhouse.
Within the city, there were no unremarkable streets or low-built cultivator markets. In their place stood spiritual mountains and immortal islands suspended amid a sea of clouds.
Countless spirit veins wound and converged between those floating islands like crystalline dragons. The immensely concentrated spiritual energy had even condensed into waterfalls of spiritual liquid visible to the naked eye,