Following the winding stone road, Shen Qiu and his party stepped into the city.
In an instant, a wave of warmth rushed into their faces, as if they had come from the brutal polar winter into the vibrant third month of spring.
This warmth was no ordinary furnace fire, but warm air formed by the great formation in the city drawing in earthfire and transforming it through runes.
Everyone looked up and saw that high above, a layer of pale-blue light curtain was like a gigantic glazed bowl-lid, blocking the lead-white heavy snow up in the clouds.
Snow fell without sound, and within the formation, spring endured.
The streets in the city were exceptionally broad. Pavilions and houses stood in orderly layers, connected to one another by suspended jade bridges, like jeweled towers in an immortal realm.
As they walked in, the warmth grew more intense, as if the houses themselves were furnaces, making them marvel inwardly despite themselves.
Azure Venerable moved with light lotus steps, taking in the surrounding scenery, and murmured softly to herself, "So it is Warm Spirit Jade... this object can breathe in and out the Essence of Sun and Moon, emitting warm air all year round."
Her tone paused slightly, and a trace of doubt swept across her face. "Though this type of jade is not considered rare, most of it is deeply hidden in the Northern Darkness deep sea and is extremely difficult to mine. How could such a quantity suddenly appear?"
"There is something the young lady does not know." The hunchbacked old man took up the topic. "Ever since the experts of the Nether God Sect entered the Thousand-Whirlpool Maze Domain, they began mining Warm Spirit Jade in large quantities. After the news spread, it drew countless rogue cultivators like ducks to