The enormous city lay like a sprawling dragon, its walls stretching beyond the reach of the eye.
Mist rose ahead among countless mountains and ravines. Innumerable estates nestled between the peaks, and tremendous beast roars rang out from time to time. Occasionally, exotic beasts and fierce birds could be seen soaring into the sky with riders on their backs.
An abundance of spiritual energy washed over them. Everyone felt utterly refreshed, like fish returning to the water after spending far too long ashore.
"Cultivating somewhere like this, even without spirit herbs, just drawing spiritual energy from heaven and earth, would be at least twice as fast as cultivating at the Violet Sun Gate."
Everyone was shaken. No wonder every lineage in Fufeng Commandery with any means at all sent its geniuses elsewhere. The cultivation environment here was beyond anything Fufeng Commandery could offer. This was no sacred ground of martial arts in name alone-it truly deserved the title.
Stay here. Whatever it takes, we have to stay here!
Even if they could not enter the Heavenly Strategy Academy, simply living here would be better than returning to Fufeng Commandery.
The same thought rose in everyone's hearts, bringing with it the absurd feeling that even if they had to beg, they would rather beg here.
They continued onward. The closer they came, the more imposing the immense city seemed. Its walls rose over a hundred feet high, black from top to bottom and radiating an aura that made their hearts tremble.
Countless waterways crisscrossed the area, crowded with boats carrying all manner of goods in and out of the city.
Streams of people converging from every direction packed the broad official road. Some rode magnificent steeds like theirs, while others rode exotic beasts outright.
Xu Yang and the others even saw