Li Yan and his companion stood on a road paved with bluish-brown boulders. At this moment, they seemed to be standing at the entrance to a town, a triangular opening where two mountains met.
Yet the entrance was already overgrown with weeds and thorn-like trees, completely blocking it off. That was why the two of them had flown in from above the mountaintop.
The streets throughout the town were paved with large quantities of bluish-brown boulders. Only in the cracks where two boulders joined did a few wild grasses stubbornly push their way out.
Looking out from where they stood, the entire street still appeared rather clean, carrying with it an endless tranquility amid the deathly silence.
Beneath their feet was a main road. As it stretched deeper inside, branching side roads appeared in quite a few places...
Li Yan looked at the buildings lining both sides of the main road. Much like the cultivation cities of today, the main streets generally did not contain cave dwellings or sects, but all manner of storefronts facing the street.
He could still see quite a few tattered banners and signboards, some high, some low, some long, some short, hanging before the entrances.
Whenever the wind rose, the shop banners and some of the signboards would sway and flutter without cease, making soft "puff puff" and "clatter clatter" sounds.
Yet there was not a single person on the entire street. Only the wild grass growing from the cracks in the stones swayed in the wind in echo with its companions, but there were no cries or calls of hawkers at all...
In the eyes of the two, the entire city was a place completely blanketed in blue-gray. Beyond the feeling of desolation and decay, it was even more gloomily sinister...
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