In the Equal Sea Domain, within the Mountain-Covering World, a city stood upon the plain like a range of towering mountains. Its base was a vast hemisphere of stone more than a hundred li across, crowned with countless high buildings and brimming with spiritual essence. Beneath it lay a deep crater, while farther away, a boundless sea of forest stretched faintly along the horizon.
The stark contrast made the whole scene look utterly out of place, like an immortal mountain that had fallen to earth and taken root there.
And that was indeed what had happened. This city, so at odds with its surroundings, was the Sky City whose propulsion had been destroyed by Spell Dao experts in this battle, forcing it to make an emergency landing-the Cloud-Raising Immortal City.
After becoming Grandmasters, Puppet Masters would often build a Sky City themselves or join someone else's. A Sky City was a blessed land and private property belonging to a Grandmaster, and might also serve as the foundation of a sect or an alliance of powers.
Those who lived within the city were mostly the Grandmaster's relatives and followers. Vast Puppet Legions were also stationed there, alongside countless rarities and heavenly treasures.
In times of war, such cities also bore the mission of resisting the Outer Dao and preserving the spark of the Puppet Masters' legacy. Over hundreds of thousands of years of conflict, they had developed into distinctive War Fortresses.
In function and standing, a Sky City differed little from the mountain-gate blessed lands possessed by ordinary major sects. Yet one feature gave it an entirely different significance: its ability to float through the heavens, or even drift through the void.
It was a mobile city, able to appear almost anywhere it wished. As a super-fortress carrying an entire small