After Zi He finished speaking, he leaped forward and looked Yang Lingrui over.
"Not bad. In just a few years, you've reached Eighth Level Qi Gathering. You're practically catching up to me—no wonder you're the genius the He Family has their eye on!"
"Quit needling me. I've only just entered the Eighth Level; compared to your Ninth Level Peak, the gap isn't just a little one."
Yang Lingrui then put on an exaggerated show of clasping his hands in salute. "I'll have to trouble Lord Zi He to bring this country bumpkin who's never seen the world into the imperial capital~"
"Cut it out! You brat just loves putting on an act!"
Zi He laughed and cursed at him, then turned and led Yang Lingrui toward the city gates.
"Greetings, Lord Guard."
Upon seeing Zi He, the gate soldiers all bent in unison to salute him.
With Zi He accompanying him, Yang Lingrui no longer needed to undergo the cumbersome inspection for entering the city and went straight inside.
The moment he entered, he sensed how different this place was from the outside world.
"The spiritual energy throughout the entire city is twice as dense. What a lavish stroke."
Yang Lingrui sighed in admiration.
Chongtian City was astonishingly vast. It even encompassed three mountain ranges, and its total area was nearly eight times that of Qiulu City.
The city was divided into twenty districts according to "Heaven, Earth, Mystery, and Yellow." The gate through which Zi He had brought Yang Lingrui lay in Yellow District Three.
Ordinary people lived in the Mystery and Yellow districts, but only cultivators could enter the Heaven and Earth districts.
To maintain twice the spiritual energy density throughout every corner of such an enormous city was truly staggering.
"What's so remarkable about that? The Mystery