"Dark shadows collided, and corpses rained down?"
"Sky Cities, the Outer Dao, battle..."
As Li Chen listened to Wu Ding's account, he found himself secretly yearning for it.
Sky Cities were also known as Celestial Palaces, the dwellings of immortals, and served as the abodes and cultivation grounds of Puppet Master Grandmasters.
They combined cultivation, research, warfare, and protection in a single place. Within them lived the Puppet Master Grandmasters' cherished kin and puppet legions, alongside countless rarities and heavenly treasures. They were sacred lands in the eyes of countless low-ranking Puppet Masters.
According to Wu Ding, they had seen dark shadows blot out the sky and sun. Then, as though a heavenly hound had swallowed the sun, heaven and earth plunged into darkness. Amid thunderous crashes, the corpses of cultivators fell in droves like rain, landing just outside the market town where he had been.
Everyone had rushed out of the market like madmen to fight over them, even resorting to outright violence and slaughtering one another.
Even as Wu Ding recounted this, his face remained somewhat pale, and his entire body trembled faintly, as though in fear, yet also in excitement.
"You never saw that scene. If you had, you'd understand just how insignificant one person's strength truly is..."
"I don't know whether his fortunate encounter was connected to it, but the incident itself really did happen. I'd heard about it before."
He Ran slowed his Mechanism Beast until he was traveling alongside Li Chen and transmitted his voice without betraying a thing.
Li Chen's heart stirred, and he transmitted back, "Brother, you've heard of it?"
He Ran said, "Indeed. Twenty-five years ago, in the eastern Linhai Region, in the former lands of the Great Huan Dynasty, Puppet Master Grandmasters fought experts from the Other Continent around New