Li Xiaoya flew at the head of the pack, leaving the others far behind. Although he had spotted the city wall from a distance, only when he drew closer did he realize how extraordinarily high it was. Built entirely of enormous stone blocks nearly ten feet square, the massive wall rose hundreds of yards into the air and stretched across his path as far as the eye could see. He truly had no idea how such a wall had been built.
Moreover, its material was a dull gray, and even those powerful shockwaves and tornadoes had barely left a mark on it. Clearly, it was exceptionally sturdy.
"Good! Almost there!" Li Xiaoya muttered excitedly. Looking back, he saw that Zhang Hong and the others were still in midair, more than a third of a mile behind him. Farther back, figures among the Demonic Path rogue cultivators had also begun shooting into the air on Escaping Lights, one after another. The sight was remarkably spectacular—there appeared to be several hundred cultivators.
Aside from the advantage of his abundant magic power, Li Xiaoya owed his lead chiefly to the speed of his Flying Spiritual Artifact. Flying Spiritual Artifacts were the rarest of all Spiritual Artifacts. Generally, whenever a sect or cultivator obtained materials suitable for crafting Spiritual Artifacts, none would spend them on an artifact meant solely for flight. Li Xiaoya, however, had been lucky. The Mu Household consisted of surviving descendants of the great Thousand Leaves Sect, and they happened to possess one such Flying Spiritual Artifact that they had never brought out to use. For one thing, their Core Condensation Stage cultivators lacked sufficient magic power, and bringing it out would merely attract attention. For another, although the Flying Spiritual Artifact was fast, it consumed a considerable amount of magic