Five days later, Liu Changxu piloted the Xin Yue Boat into the skies above an enormous city.
Golden Jade City was an important stop on his journey. Unlike Eastern Splendor City, where cultivators and mortals lived together, its residents were almost all cultivators.
Golden Jade City had prospered thanks to the spirit jade deposits in the Golden Jade Mountain Range. It had formed as cultivators gathered to mine spirit jade.
Built amid the Golden Jade Mountain Range, which stretched for tens of thousands of li, Golden Jade City covered far too vast an area. The Azure Cloud Sect had therefore built neither towering city walls nor a protective grand formation, setting up formations only on the territory under its direct control.
The other lineages and rogue cultivators living in Golden Jade City had likewise set up formations of varying sizes and grades on their own territory.
Viewed from above, the colored light screens of countless formations dotted the mountains like stars scattered across the heavens. Innumerable pavilions and towers appeared and vanished within them, while countless flying boats traveled back and forth through the sky and spirit beasts soared freely overhead.
With a third-tier supreme-grade spirit vein running through the Golden Jade Mountain Range, Golden Jade City was rich in spiritual energy and wreathed in mist, like an immortal paradise.
The Golden Jade Mountain Range had once yielded small quantities of fourth-tier spirit jade, and its reserves of first-, second-, and third-tier spirit jade were all abundant. It had soon attracted great numbers of cultivators to mine the jade, gradually bringing Golden Jade City to its present scale.
To ensure that the high-grade spirit jade produced there fell into its hands, the Azure Cloud Sect directly controlled the mining of the Golden Jade Mountain Range's important spirit jade deposits. It