After hearing her out, Lin Changsheng nodded lightly, but inwardly thought little of it: That was nothing unusual. It was the same in the Azure Wave Archipelago.
Commoners were like wild grass; it was already a tremendous blessing if immortal cultivators did not persecute them at will.
Who would care whether they lived or died?
Lin Changsheng continued asking, "Then, according to you, this vast Wuji Island spans a full three to five thousand li! Yet it has only five cities?
"Just one each in the east, west, south, north, and center, with all the remaining areas occupied by shanty settlements of various kinds? If that is truly the case, how could this island have such a dense population?"
Xue Yubing did not answer immediately, merely continuing forward in silence. Not a sound came from the group.
They traveled like this for several hours before a towering structure suddenly appeared ahead.
Lin Changsheng looked closely. It was a city beyond description.
This was the first city he had seen, and he now knew the answer to his question.
Lin Changsheng had seen countless unusual sights along the way, but what shocked him most was neither the city walls that towered into the clouds, nearly two hundred zhang high;
Nor was it the enormous, heavy black iron gate that radiated a chilling aura.
Once they entered the city, all that met their eyes was the imposing grandeur of a city built of stone.
The granite walls were more than three chi thick, every stone block fired in fierce flames and quenched in cold water, leaving them incomparably hard.
Their edges were sharp as blades, their shapes so regular that they seemed to have been painstakingly sculpted with axe and chisel.
The stones were bonded with glutinous rice slurry mixed with oyster-shell