After getting off the magical artifact train and leaving the station, he found a city utterly different from the last. The whole city was enclosed within an enormous spell formation, lush and green, with springlike weather all year round.
Jiang Chen wandered aimlessly.
Along the way, he discovered that public order in this so-called Reincarnation Heavenly Kingdom was exceptionally good. The law enforcers all had fiery tempers, rather reminiscent of his own hatred of evil back in the day.
Someone took him for a tourist from out of town and tried to sell him overpriced souvenirs. Two men in black-and-white uniforms immediately rushed out from the side, trussed the seller up, and hauled them away.
There was also a sleazy man who quietly asked whether he needed lodging-a proper haunted-house hotel, haunted by beautiful female ghosts every night.
Jiang Chen had actually planned to stay a night, mainly to see how far this nation, where humans and weird objects coexisted, had come in working out a model for their coexistence.
But the law enforcers were extraordinarily stern and nearly killed the sleazy man on the spot.
Jiang Chen passed through city after city, taking in the local customs along the way, gradually deepening his understanding of the new world as it stood today.
In a city on a plain of withered yellow grass, he saw an exit sign beside the road.
Any farther, and he would leave the Reincarnation Heavenly Kingdom and enter the "Dark Curtain Royal Court."
From what he had learned along the way, he knew this was one of the world's four great empires.
A group of former Reincarnators watched closely as King Chen vanished over the horizon with the setting sun. They all let out long breaths, a great weight lifting from their hearts.
Just then,