Three months later.
Mingdu.
A man and a woman arrived after a long, travel-worn journey. The man was handsome and refined, the woman breathtakingly beautiful. They were none other than Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong.
Traveling at full speed, the journey from the Sun Moon Empire's northern border to Mingdu would have taken only about half a month. Yet the two had spent three full months on the road, and those months had also been a process of tempering and settling for them.
Both had changed into clothing commonly worn in the Sun Moon Empire. Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong alike now carried a little more of the warmth of everyday life, having walked out of the ice and snow of the Far North and into the bustling mortal world.
"So this is Mingdu!" Gazing at the magnificent city before them, both could not help exclaiming.
It was a city without walls. During their three months of traveling through the Sun Moon Empire, they had visited quite a few places and seen plenty of cities without walls, but none could compare with the Mingdu before them-and not merely in size...
Cities without walls were nothing unfamiliar to Jiang Hai. In fact, the nearly hundred-meter-high walls of Star Luo City in the Star Luo Empire had shocked him more than the sight of Mingdu did. Having lived two lives, with his previous one spent in a technological world, he had seen countless cities larger than Mingdu. Although Mingdu was also filled with tall buildings, its tallest structures had only a dozen or so stories, far short of the reinforced-concrete skyscrapers of his previous life, which routinely rose dozens or even hundreds of stories.
What truly astounded Jiang Hai was that, although these buildings resembled the high-rises of his previous life, they