"So this is the Seventeenth Fortress."
Chu Kuangren looked at the bustling street before him, lined on both sides with inns and taverns. None of it looked any different from an ordinary city.
With a stir of his Emperor Thought, he soon discovered something unusual.
The city before him was not built on the ground, but suspended in the starry expanse beyond the world!!
The Golden Profound Great Emperor beside him noticed this as well. He exchanged a glance with Chu Kuangren, and then both soared into the sky.
They reached a great height and soon encountered an invisible barrier in the sky. Once they passed through it, the first thing they faced was the immensely heterogeneous flow of spiritual qi in the universe.
This flow of spiritual qi was exceedingly mixed, containing all manner of attributes. For ordinary cultivators, never mind absorbing it-even surviving within such a flow would have been a problem.
However, both were Great Emperors with Emperor bodies, so this mixed flow of spiritual qi had no effect on them whatsoever.
Nor was that what caught their attention.
They now stood in the cold, lonely universe, with the magnificent city floating in space beneath them.
The city's interior layout looked no different from that of an ordinary city, but its perimeter consisted of enormous black walls constructed from blocks of extraordinarily tough, unusual iron!
Countless runes covered these walls, and they could faintly sense powerful cultivators stationed atop them.
"So this is the Seventeenth Fortress?"
"Tsk, what a magnificent sight."
"Look over there."
Suddenly, the Golden Profound Great Emperor looked into the distance beyond the fortress and cried out.
Chu Kuangren looked over as well.
Looking past the rear of the fortress, they saw a blue-and-white planet in the far distance. It was Firmament Star!
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