After a thousand years, Chen Ao and Saike reached the only City-State Power along their route.
In truth, cities could be found all along the way.
Both the Stone Village Tribe and the Crocodile Ancestor Tribe they had visited later had cities nearby.
They simply had no reason to visit those cities. Most Void Level experts also avoided entering them.
The City-State Power held too many powerful beings, with all sorts mixed together. It was a dangerous place. An Eternal True God might decide to kill you simply because you had an odd number of hairs.
And if someone like that wanted you dead, you could do nothing to stop them. On the Origin Continent, strength was everything.
Previously, Chen Ao and Saike had avoided city factions whenever possible. As long as they could obtain complete directions, they wanted nothing to do with cities.
This time, however, there were no smaller tribal factions anywhere around the city called Dark Nether.
Within a radius of three hundred thousand chi, there was no faction other than Dark Nether City. That left them no choice. If they wanted to reach the Haotian Gate, they had to come here to inquire about the rest of their route.
Otherwise, they would have to teleport blindly through the next several hundred thousand chi.
At teleportation speed, a single careless jump into a deathtrap would mean game over.
Flying instead could keep them from blundering into dangerous terrain, but covering that distance would probably take a million eras.
That was far too long.
"We have to be careful. Dark Nether City isn't a good place. There isn't a single tribal faction for dozens of chi around it. That tells you how domineering its city lord is!"
Generally, cities had many tribal factions around them. The two supported