Early the next morning, Liu Changxu continued piloting the Xin Yue Boat westward with his family aboard.
After ten days of uninterrupted flight and more than sixty thousand li, the Xin Yue Boat reached Green River City, the second immortal city on their journey.
Unlike Golden Jade City, this city stood on a plain dotted with low hills, with a great river called the Green Water River winding around it.
An upper-grade third-tier spirit vein lay beneath Green River City. With its low hills and dense network of waterways, the region produced abundant spirit tea, spirit silkworm silk, spirit rice, spirit fish, and other spirit treasures, making it a renowned land of fish and rice.
This had attracted large numbers of cultivators to settle here, gradually giving rise to numerous cultivation lineages. The most famous were the four great Golden Core Lineages: Jin, Wang, Li, and Yue.
These four great Golden Core Lineages each controlled one of the city's four main industries.
The Jin Household controlled Green River City's spirit tea industry, the Wang Household its spirit fish trade, the Li Household its spirit silkworm silk trade, and the Yue Household its spirit rice trade.
Since this was an immortal city populated primarily by cultivators, its city lord had always been a Golden Core cultivator dispatched by the Azure Cloud Sect to ensure the sect's rule over the city.
Green River City had towering walls and an upper-grade third-tier defensive grand formation, along with flight-prohibiting restrictions that made flying impossible.
Upon reaching Green River City's east gate, Liu Changxu had no choice but to bring the Xin Yue Boat down and enter on foot with his wives and children.
At that moment, Qi Refinement cultivators waiting to enter filled the area outside the east gate, while a squad of Azure