Heng Hua delivered the letter, then strolled through an Autumn Moon Cloud City with Yu Yuyu.
This was Fu Henghua's first time in Bai Cang. Seeing sights even more secularized than Yanlong's, he clicked his tongue inwardly.
Before his eyes stood a vast city run entirely by mortals, with every kind of entertainment establishment one could imagine. There were even more varieties than he had seen in his previous life.
After walking down half a street, Heng Hua had already spotted five gambling houses. Mortals and cultivators mingled together, and Bright Moon Pearls, spirit jade, and Detonation Talismans could all be used as stakes.
The liveliest attractions were horse racing and beast fighting.
Twenty spirit horses competed at once, while over a hundred spirit beasts tore into one another.
Cultivators and mortals alike could buy a number and place their bets.
The bookstores and food stalls nearby likewise mixed mortal goods and cultivator goods together without distinction.
Fu Henghua could not even find an outer city reserved solely for mortals.
"This is different from what the books recorded. I remember Bai Cang's Cloud Cities were also arranged with mortals outside and immortals within, weren't they?"
"That was how it was in earlier years. Now, though..."
Yu Yuyu shook his head. "This place has become a true worldly realm."
Though both were secularized waters, Bai Cang and Yanlong followed completely different philosophies.
Yanlong borrowed ideas. With cultivation lineages at the forefront, they helped mortals develop while using mortal ingenuity to transform cultivation-related objects. The Talisman Pagoda and talisman crossbows had arisen from this.
Their Cloud Cities had clear boundaries between inner and outer, immortals and mortals.
But in Bai Cang, the boundary between mortals and cultivators had been completely erased. If mortals had money, they could even hire cultivators as thugs.