Li Ping slowed his steps, his gaze sweeping his surroundings with interest as he carefully took in the interior of this immortal city renowned throughout the Western Wasteland.
Although Jixia Immortal City was a multilevel city built along a mountain, its streets at ground level were exceptionally well planned, without the slightest hint of disorder.
The roads were broad and level. Even five or six people walking abreast would not have felt crowded, and the low-level cultivators passing through moved in orderly streams.
Rows of uniformly built shops lined both sides of the streets. Some hung signs reading "Pill Workshop" or "Artifact Shop," while others advertised "Spirit Materials" or "Talismans." Qi Refining cultivators came and went, and the sounds of bargaining drifted faintly from within.
Following the street, he soon arrived at a Skyway.
Jixia Immortal City had been founded by cultivators of the Confucian School, who placed the greatest importance on ceremony and rules. Naturally, they would not permit cultivators to fly wherever they pleased within the city and disrupt its order.
In fact, powerful Flight-Restricting Formations covered most of the city. Without a token, flight was simply impossible.
Yet Jixia Immortal City was nearly a thousand li in diameter, and as a multilevel city rising tier upon tier, its actual area far exceeded what that figure suggested.
If they relied entirely on walking, even cultivators, whose speed far surpassed that of mortals, would need to travel from the districts at the mountain's foot to those halfway up or even at the summit,
spending an enormous amount of time. It was extremely inconvenient.
The Skyways had been built specifically to solve this problem.
They were not actual roads, but networks of narrow, elongated zones connecting different districts.
No Flight-Restricting Formations had been placed within these zones, allowing cultivators to