Chapter 531 - Ethereal City (1/2)

The purpose of the powerhouse in creating this world was unclear, but he obviously wanted Myriad Dao Academy’s disciples to obtain some magic treasures, pills, and secret scripts hidden in the evil spirit array, as well as obtain ways to fight certain enemies.

For example, this strange town — Wan Miantang and Lin Xuanzhi guessed that they had to skillfully find the method to counter the Northern Wild Wolves.

Wan Miantang nodded. “That’s right. After all, this is just a Profound Ranked array. It’s not difficult for us to leave.”

Profound Ranked Tier A arrays were not difficult for Huarong Sword Immortal and Wan Miantang. This evil spirit array’s world had a rule — as long as someone killed all the villains in this world, the array would break on its own, so Lin Xuanzhi and Wan Miantang had nothing to be afraid of.

If worst came to worst, they would just kill all the wild wolves.

Outside the evil spirit array, the ship went on for seven days before arriving at the mainland on the other side of the sea.

This continent was the legendary tenth Land, surrounded by the sea. Its size was naturally inferior to that of the other Nine Lands, so much so that it was even less than one tenth of those Lands. At best, it was a relatively large city.

The name of the city was not Myriad Dao Academy but was called Ethereal City instead.

There were residents living in Ethereal City. Most of them were different from the disciples from mainland cities who came to study. These residents were born in Ethereal City and died in Ethereal City. The vast majority of them had never even set foot outside Ethereal City all their lives.

Because for the residents of Ethereal City, this was a paradise.

There was no war and no politics here, only stable, peaceful days and abundant spiritual Qi.

There was a rule for the permanent residents of Ethereal City — if someone wanted to leave Ethereal City, then they would have to leave it for the rest of their lives.

Nobody wanted to leave paradise, so very few people wanted to enter the secular world.

Although there was abundant spiritual Qi and it was backed by Myriad Dao Academy, the most famous sect in the Nine Lands, Ethereal City’s residents didn’t necessarily have high cultivation levels. They were content with peace and enjoyment and saw through life and death. They accepted that all living beings experienced prosperity and decline, and life and death were impermanent, so they were not keen on cultivation, and there was almost no one with a high cultivation.

But they also didn’t really have many uses for cultivation in their entire lives.

After all, if foreign enemies invaded, Myriad Dao Academy would meet them. During the spring ploughs and autumn harvests, there were disciples from Myriad Dao Academy who came to help. These natives all received rent payments. As long as Myriad Dao Academy didn’t fall, they would never die of hunger.

The ship stopped at the port, and 120 disciples and examinees on board came down methodically.

Looking at the ethereal Myriad Dao Academy in the distance, the examinees showed their yearning for the future, and even events like how they had almost been scammed out of their pants at the sect gates were suddenly thrown aside.

“Wow, the spiritual Qi here is very rich, much stronger than in my hometown!”

“It’s so beautiful here ah. Look, is this Myriad Dao Academy’s main mountain in front of us? It looks so powerful and tall. I think I heard the sound of bells ringing.”

There were not many rules in Myriad Dao Academy, but each one was very strict. For example, if you weren’t a disciple of Myriad Dao Academy and also didn’t have important matters, you wouldn’t be able to casually step foot into Ethereal City, even if you were a prince or nobility.

Yan Tianhen had wanted to come to Ethereal City many times before, but was stopped by You Ming.

You Ming said, “Let’s not talk about whether you can even find Ethereal City by yourself. Even if you can, you may not be able to enter Ethereal City. Why bother making things hard on yourself?”

Myriad Dao Academy was both mysterious and dignified. It had existed since ancient times, and already had a longer history than the Qianyuan Dynasty. Sects were made of iron while dynasties were like flowing water. Myriad Dao Academy was akin to a colossal stabilizing force, towering outside of the Nine Lands from the ancient times until now. It overlooked every living being in the Nine Lands and also nurtured the Nine Lands’ new powers.

The residents of Ethereal City didn’t really feel much for these batches of disciples who would arrive every seven years. These disciples twittered and laughed as they walked and observed everything in the streets. The native residents next to them only glanced at them a few times at most, but they didn’t say much, and soon they continued doing their own things.

However, everyone had a love for beauty. If they saw any boys or girls in the group who looked amazing, the residents were still willing to talk about them.

Just like the youth walking beside Yan Tianhen — he had a very beautiful appearance. His beauty was exquisite and indistinguishable from male and female, but he himself was cold, like an unsheathed sword. If someone dared to disturb him, he would give that person an icy glance.

Yan Tianhen actually had great immunity to beauty. After all, he lived among a group of beauties from an early age, and his sweetheart was a peerless beauty in this world.

But when he saw the youth, he still couldn’t help giving this person a few more glances at first.

His lips were as red as blood, his skin was as white as milk, and his eyes were black and bright. He wasn’t very expressive, which made him look like a beautiful doll.

However, Yan Tianhen withdrew his gaze after only a few glances, which was fundamentally different from those inexperienced fools who kept staring.

Probably because Yan Tianhen’s attitude could still be considered satisfactory, in the next few days on the ship until they arrived at the city, that gorgeous youth took the initiative to follow beside Yan Tianhen.

Yet Yan Tianhen’s disguised face didn’t seem to stand out very much at this time. At most, it could only be considered pleasing to the eye. Naturally, he didn’t have much presence. There was also no brother who experienced hardships with him and entered the same evil spirit array with him on this boat. Thus, he ignored the others, and other people also didn’t take the initiative to pay attention to him.

Ethereal City was very big. After all, this city occupied an entire mainland. No matter how small the mainland, it was still pretty big when compared to other cities.

People were allowed to fly on their swords in Ethereal City, and there weren’t too many restrictions in this area. It’s just that so many new disciples were already disturbing enough, and if you added flying swords to the mix, who knows whether accidents beyond your control would happen.

So when people entered the city, they were not allowed to be more than three feet above the ground.