Beyond Chess Mountain, seven thousand li east of Spirit Peak, lay Wufang City.
That day, the sun shone brilliantly in a cloudless sky. It was another fine day.
Yet when the common folk and nobles living there suddenly looked up, they saw an enormous object more than a hundred zhang wide drifting toward them like a dark cloud.
It hovered above the city, its shadow enveloping several li around it, weighing on their hearts like a nightmare.
"What is that?"
"An Immortal Mountain! It's an Immortal Mountain!"
"Nonsense, it's clearly a mirage..."
"No, it's a demonic city descending from the heavens to destroy us!"
Some ignorant commoners were so terrified that they fell to their knees, begging Heaven for forgiveness.
Those charged with ruling these mortals were descendants and old associates connected to the cultivation world. They were all scions of Chess Mountain's elders from generations past, and naturally possessed knowledge far beyond that of ordinary mortals.
They recognized the object at a glance, but their terror was no less intense-if anything, it was greater.
"Why would a Flying Boat descend here?"
"Has Guangyun attacked us? But Wufang City is a place where mortals live! Why go this far? Why go this far?"
They thought Li Chen had come to destroy them. Despair rose in their hearts, and they could think of no way out.
After the Black Shark Flying Boat descended upon the area, Mechanism Puppets and Chang Clan Soldiers rained down one after another through the magnetic origin passage mounted aboard it.
This was a cylindrical lift formed from an invisible force field. It was formless and intangible, yet possessed a tangible ability to support and raise objects.
Under the effects of the Mystic Light Illusory Image Array, it formed a cylindrical beam beneath the Flying Boat, shining