More than twenty days later, Liu Changxu, Duan Yuwei, and their party finally arrived at Great Liang Immortal City, the capital of the Great Wei Immortal Dynasty.
Seen from afar, Great Liang Immortal City resembled a colossal beast sleeping amid towering mountains, its enormous body melding with the mountain ranges.
Above the immortal city, a grand formation barrier radiating five-colored spiritual radiance spread like a dazzling canopy of glazed glass, enveloping the entire city.
The formation barrier flickered constantly with mysterious five-colored light, at times dancing like a spirit serpent, at others coiling like an auspicious dragon, weaving one breathtaking tableau after another.
Through the dreamlike curtain of formation light, the sights within the city were equally captivating. Halls and towers rose from the ground, majestic and lofty, appearing and disappearing amid the clouds and mist. Some towers thrust their pointed roofs straight into the clouds, as though seeking to pierce the heavens; some halls stood solemn and imposing, exuding an ancient, weighty air, as though silently recounting the immortal city's past glory and splendor.
Outside Great Liang Immortal City, however, lay what seemed like another world. Desolation and ruin filled the eye, and the boundless earth looked as though it had been scorched by raging flames, reduced to a wasteland of charred soil. Its former vitality had long since vanished, leaving only deathly silence hanging in the air.
Countless deep craters and ravines crisscrossed the ground like hideous, gaping maws, silently telling of the savagery of the previous, heart-stopping battle of spells. These hollows varied in size, some so deep their bottoms could not be seen, their pitch-black openings seemingly still holding the lingering might of immortal arts.
Just as the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle and the Heavenly Mystery Sect's flying boat approached Great Liang Immortal City, a gap suddenly