Bone-piercing cold enveloped their bodies, making them shiver and tremble. In the endless darkness, a ray of blazing light suddenly appeared, and an immensely grand ancient city slowly came into the Park District Squad's view.
Longtian City had roads leading in every direction. It stretched over a hundred and fifty li both north to south and east to west, with twelve large marketplaces, 3,200 square residential wards, and thirty-six city gates. It was one of the largest and most prosperous major cities on the central plains of the vast Haomiao Continent.
It was a Fifth-Grade Secret Realm, its sprawling area roughly equal to twelve or thirteen Western Liang Cities of Nine Li.
Clearly, Longtian City, where the Xu Family lived, was also situated within a vast greater world, rather than a dead land with fixed boundaries that could not expand in any direction.
This was also why, after the Migration Land collapsed and Xiao Shuai's branch lost the Xu Family's support, they had gradually been slaughtered and absorbed: many powerful forces existed in the world outside Longtian City.
But that was all history now. Today, Longtian City's commerce flourished immensely, and Cultivators were as numerous as hairs on an ox. On top of that, the Xu and Zhou Families had been on good terms for generations, and both had Sixth-Grade experts overseeing them. As long as the two families did not court disaster, defending themselves posed no problem.
Xiao Shuai had also briefly explained the history of Haomiao Continent to Ren Ye. But the latter had no ambitions here and did not intend to stay long, so he had only listened casually without looking into it seriously.
In short, before coming to Longtian City, Ren Ye had felt a certain swagger, as though, after Nine Li, he could finally stand