Azure City enjoyed an excellent geographical location.
Water bordered it on one side, mountains on the other three, and two of those mountains were spiritual mountains home to cultivation sects.
Zen Sound Temple stood on one, and the Beautiful Splendor Sect on the other.
Azure City itself also housed a dozen or so aristocratic clans of varying sizes. Judging by their scale, some could even rival a second-rate sect.
The moment Su Jiu and Chu Luohen entered the city, they felt its prosperity.
Street vendors called out their wares without pause, and pedestrians streamed to and fro.
Here, cultivators actually outnumbered mortals. Su Jiu found the scene strangely familiar. Tomorrow City had been just as lively during the time she had spent waiting for a ship to the nameless island.
Su Jiu thought there must be quite a few people staying here while they waited for the array to be repaired.
These people could hardly spend all that time simply living here and eating through their savings until nothing remained. They would surely be doing something, and Su Jiu's current aim was to seek relevant clues throughout the city.
For instance, why had the Teleportation Array been destroyed? To her, once too many coincidences piled up, they ceased to be coincidences. She needed to establish whether this was chance or design.
Su Jiu did not want to remain in the dark about everything. If someone had done this deliberately, she could not rule out the possibility that they were already being targeted. If someone was targeting her, how could she rest easy without promptly uncovering the hand behind the scenes?
Chu Luohen was meticulous, and his thoughts almost perfectly matched Su Jiu's.
Spotting a young man selling maps by the city gate, Chu Luohen picked one up without hesitation.
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