The stunned Douluo Continent: the Heavenly Emperor cleaved a celestial river with one strike?

"Have we reached White Emperor City?"

At Jiang Wanwan's words, Zhu Zhuqing's eyes instantly filled with anticipation.

She was full of curiosity about the Heavenly Court's seat she was about to see.

Zhu Zhuqing hurriedly stood and walked to the bow of the Moon-Escaping Immortal Palace. Holding the railing with both hands, she peered down curiously.

The Moon-Escaping Immortal Palace was slowly passing through the final sea of clouds. Cloud wisps parted like gauze on either side, and the moment the view suddenly opened up...

Zhu Zhuqing froze!

No, she had not merely frozen. She had been utterly shaken, deep in her soul.

Before her, upon that boundless land, stood a...

A magnificent city she simply had no words to describe.

Zhu Zhuqing even felt that rather than calling it a city, it would be more fitting to call it an immortal mountain, a divine realm standing amid the clouds and mist.

A miracle forged jointly by the wonders of heaven and earth and supreme might!

The whole of White Emperor City gleamed a soft silvery white. It was not ordinary white stone, but a kind of jade that seemed to hold moonlight within it, its divine radiance restrained.

The walls towered into the clouds, at least a thousand zhang high by her estimate.

Countless intricate, profound Dao patterns were carved upon them, flowing with a faint golden glow in the sunlight.

The walls stretched out to either side beyond the limits of sight, as though the city itself were an unbroken mountain range.

Within the city, towers and palaces rose in overlapping tiers. Some hung in midair, borne aloft by clouds and mist; others were rooted in the earth, yet towered like peaks.

As for anything more, Zhu Zhuqing could not make it out clearly.

For a faint silver dome of light shrouded the skies over the entire White Emperor City...

Immortal Qi swirled, myriad rays of rosy light shone, and phantoms of auspicious beasts appeared and vanished among the clouds. Faint strains of immortal music and Dao resonance drifted on the wind.

This... this utterly transcended the concept of a "city"!

Every magnificent structure Zhu Zhuqing knew on the Douluo Continent flashed involuntarily through her mind-the Heaven Dou Imperial City, Spirit City, the Star Luo Imperial Palace...

Yet none of them could begin to compare with this "White Emperor City" before her.

"This... this is White Emperor City?"

Zhu Zhuqing gripped the railing tightly, her voice trembling slightly.

Hearing her, Jiang Wanwan smiled and walked over to stand beside her. Gazing at the familiar scene before them, a trace of pride flashed through her eyes:

"Yes, White Emperor City, one of the Heavenly Court's most important bases in the Eastern Wasteland, and our home for some time to come."

Douluo Continent, Shrek Academy.

Gasp-!

Silence!

Deathly silence.

Until Ma Hongjun broke it with a shrill cry of disbelief.

"I... my heavens! The people of the Shrouding the Heavens World... actually... call this a city?!"

His chubby finger trembled as he pointed at the sky screen, his eyes round and his mouth open wide enough to fit an egg.

Not only he, but Dai Mubai, Oscar, Xiao Wu, and even the usually calm Tang San had all fallen into the same stunned state.

They looked up at the immortal city on the sky screen, a sight beyond imagination, and felt their understanding of the world being mercilessly crushed again and again...

"This... how could something like this exist?"

Oscar murmured, "How much money would this cost... no, this isn't something people could build at all, is it?"

Dai Mubai nodded reflexively.

Tang San's Purple Demon Eye had unwittingly activated to its utmost, his eyes filled with incredulous shock as he tried to confirm that this was no illusion.

Yu Xiaogang, too, had been rendered utterly speechless.

"Have I gone mad, or have the people of the Shrouding the Heavens World gone mad? This is a fucking... city?!"

Heaven Dou Empire, Heaven Dou City.

The crown prince's residence.

Qian Renxue stood before the window, her beautiful golden eyes fixed on the sky screen, her full bosom rising and falling slightly.

It was not hard to see that she, too, was far from calm.

As the daughter of Spirit Hall's supreme pontiff and its young mistress who had spent years undercover in the Heaven Dou Empire, she had thought she had witnessed the world's greatest power and splendor.

She had marveled at Heaven Dou City's grandeur and Spirit City's majesty and sanctity...

Believing those to be the pinnacle of what human effort could achieve.

But now, as she looked at the immortal White Emperor City amid the clouds...

She discovered how narrow her former understanding had been, how much she had been viewing the sky from the bottom of a well!

"Spirit City... Heaven Dou City..."

An unbearably bitter smile touched Qian Renxue's lips. "Compared with this White Emperor City..."

That gulf was not a difference between large and small, or more and less, but an essential distinction between mortal and immortal.

At that moment, an intense longing took root in her heart.

She yearned for such power, for such a world. "Shrouding the Heavens... the Heavenly Court... Heavenly Emperor Hao..."

The Shrouding the Heavens World.

The Moon-Escaping Immortal Palace had begun to slow, descending toward an enormous platform at the edge of White Emperor City.

As they drew closer, the city's details became clearer.

Those white-jade-like buildings were carved with images of the sun, moon, and stars, flowers, birds, fish, and insects, ancient people performing sacrifices, and gods and demons at war. Every stroke seemed to hold stories and power.

The streets were broad and tidy, paved with a kind of blue-green jade bearing naturally formed cloud patterns.

Mirrorlike lakes could be seen within the city, reflecting the palaces in the sky; gardens were everywhere as well, their exotic flowers and rare plants giving off a hazy radiance.

As the Moon-Escaping Immortal Palace finally landed...

Only with her feet upon solid ground did Zhu Zhuqing feel more keenly how extraordinary this city was.

The white jade beneath her feet was smooth and lustrous, yet incomparably hard, and she could faintly feel pulses of spiritual Qi beneath her soles.

With every breath, the rich spiritual Qi in the air flowed into her body on its own, rapidly restoring the strength she had expended using the Great Void Technique.

Had she not already begun immortal cultivation, her Soul Power would probably have soared by a considerable amount.

Just then, seeing Zhu Zhuqing still marveling, Jiang Wanwan patted her on the head.

"All right, you little girl who's never seen the world."

"You're this shocked by a mere White Emperor City? Won't your jaw drop when you see the White Jade Capital?"

"The White Jade Capital is the true city of immortals!"

Smiling, Jiang Wanwan led the still somewhat dazed Zhu Zhuqing down from the Moon-Escaping Immortal Palace.

"The White Jade Capital is the true city of immortals?"

Zhu Zhuqing murmured unconsciously.

She dared not imagine it. White Emperor City was already so breathtaking-what, then, must the White Jade Capital be like?

Soon, the two entered White Emperor City, and Zhu Zhuqing felt as though she had stepped into another world.

The spiritual Qi in the air was so dense that it nearly formed mist.

The streets were wide and tidy, broad enough for dozens of carriages to travel abreast.

The buildings on either side were magnificent and varied in style. Some were ancient and imposing, others exquisite and elegant, but every one of them radiated spiritual light.

Pedestrians thronged the streets, and almost all possessed an extraordinary bearing.

Some wore simple, ancient-style Daoist robes, others splendid battle armor, and some were not even humanoid, yet they seemed to coexist quite harmoniously.

An ancient, solemn atmosphere pervaded the entire city, yet it was also full of vitality and order.

But none of that mattered...

From the very first moment, Zhu Zhuqing's gaze was firmly seized by the breathtaking sight above White Emperor City.

What... was that?

There, more than a thousand zhang above White Emperor City, a silver "waterfall" appeared out of thin air!

Without a source, without any mountains, that vast current of silvery river water seemed to pour down from the void beyond the nine heavens...

Hundreds of zhang wide, it plunged like a surging, roaring silver dragon straight into some unknown part of White Emperor City, thundering as it fell.

Spray filled the air, refracting the sunlight into seven-colored rainbows.

Though this sight that defied all common sense was already shocking enough, what shook Zhu Zhuqing's heart even more was the "waterfall" itself.

She did not even know whether it was an illusion...

Merely looking directly at the waterfall made Zhu Zhuqing's eyes sting slightly, as though she were staring straight at a divine sword, its sword Qi bristling with killing intent.

"Do you not see the great river's waters come from heaven, rushing to the sea, never to return..."

Jiang Wanwan looked at Zhu Zhuqing with a touch of smugness. "Well? Don't you think it's spectacular too?"

"This... what is this?"

Still shaken, Zhu Zhuqing asked curiously.