Before he knew it, a year had passed since Liu Yu arrived in the Western Sands.
Ever since Shi Renjie released news of the Holy Fire Secret Realm, the situation in the Western Sand Land had grown increasingly chaotic.
At the slightest rustle of wind or grass, cultivators gathered like clouds, fighting over a single word of disagreement.
Those who murdered and burned were beyond counting.
A year later.
Great Wind Immortal City.
The Western Sand Land was neither vast nor small, bordering the Righteous and Demonic Paths to the south and the central region of the Seven Kingdoms Alliance to the east.
Its territory was roughly three to five times the size of the Chu Kingdom, with nearly one-fifth extending into the regions controlled by the Righteous and Demonic Paths.
When the Divine Sand Sect or the Seven Kingdoms Alliance was powerful, they could naturally hold all the Western Sands in their grasp. When their strength waned, however, they were powerless to do so.
Now, following the upheavals in the Yan Kingdom and Southern Yu Kingdom, the Seven Kingdoms Alliance had declined slightly in strength and could no longer support the Divine Sand Sect in forcibly maintaining control over the entire Western Sands.
Great Wind Immortal City had become the de facto boundary. Beyond it to the west lay the territory controlled by the Righteous and Demonic Paths.
As a vital border stronghold, this city was far more important than an ordinary immortal city. Not only did it guard against external enemies, it also served as a trading hub where low-level cultivators from all three sides exchanged goods. It was a major immortal city comparable to White Cloud Temple's Immortal Palace City.
Its prosperity even surpassed that of West Sand Market Ward.
At dusk, seven streaks of