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Li Chen had only just reached the outskirts of Tiger-Crouching City when he saw its towering, imposing walls, standing like a natural barrier.

According to Wu Nanzhi, these walls had been forged from millennium black iron wire mixed with rare stone. Despite the passage of ages, they remained as sturdy as ever.

Runes flickered across the city walls, radiating a profound, mysterious aura. Powerful formations were silently operating, protecting this city near the Hidden Dragon Mountains.

Once inside, they saw crisscrossing streets and rows of buildings with sweeping eaves and upturned corners, all arranged in orderly fashion.

The city had a population of a million. Besides local residents, there were cultivators from all walks of life, merchants, and many expedition teams from other places.

They traded spirit herbs, pills, Magic Treasures, beast hides, and more here.

The Hidden Dragon Mountains were strewn with treasures.

As a local, Wu Nanzhi began explaining the origins of the city to Li Chen.

To put it bluntly, she was bragging about how badass her lineage was. Originally, there had only been the Three Great Houses here, living off the mountains and waters around them.

But this place truly was a treasure land blessed with favorable feng shui, and the three lineages gradually grew stronger.

As more and more explorers arrived from outside, the three lineages also started doing business, spreading their branches and putting down new roots.

After hundreds and thousands of years of development, the city had reached its present scale.

Naturally, those years had seen no shortage of struggles. Whether facing Demon Beast sieges or challenges from other lineages, the Wu Family had repeatedly turned danger into safety and saved the people from calamity.

The Wu Family could be called the pillar of this place, holding up its very sky.

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