It was mid-winter.
Due to the Souths warm climate, the snow was mild, looking like heaven-sent glitter bringing a new shine under the sun.
A night wolf coach was travelling at a steady pace. Chui Yim, Bak Wun and Chor Shing Chit werent afraid of the cold and felt rather nonchalant about it; they kept the fireplace empty and were even glad about the chilly wind that blew in from ti to ti.
It had been half a month since they left Southern Ping; according to their planned route, they were nearing their destination, South Imperial City.
Chui Yim couldnt help but think about everything that had happened in the past few months. He fled from Chan Shue Gun, tattooed a gliph on Chor Shing Chit when his life was at stake, then fled to Night Lion City. That was where he t and cured Tse Yu Bak at an inn. As a result, he was implicated in the Tse Clans internal strife.
Afterwards, he arrived at the Engraved Mountain Range, where he found many precious herbs, even discovering a legendary gliph which improved his understanding of gliphism. He also learnt about the Fifth Teacher of Cloud Palace, Wat Suen, from Chor Shing Chit and Wong Kwan.
This sequence of events was followed by him feeling helpless after realising the changes in the Heavens Fla. He visited Breaking Thorns City which changed his mindset, subsequently deciding to insert energliph into the heavens fla.
His days at Southern Ping werent much smoother. He nearly lost his life to the Yellow Springs Lady, sohow ended up as Ping Chis direct disciple and learnt alchemy and dicine from him. Chui Yim even helped the Ping Clan maintain the citys leadership against the Mo-Yung Clan.
Over a year, Chui Yim had visited roughly twenty cities with countless experiences, so more morable than the others. So morable that they seed to have taken place only yesterday.
The closer the coach got to the city, the more Chui Yim felt this way.
After cultivating the Nine Levels Of Heavens Fla and picking up gliphism, Chui Yim finally felt like he was about to break through. This would be a new start for him. Cultivating energliph wasnt the true start to his path of gliphism; breaking through his inner chamber was!
Chui Yim had no idea how to pass his bottleneck, but he felt that South Imperial City would be where it happened; if he didnt break through before the Cloud Palace enrollnt, hed definitely lose against the other elite participants.
Look, thats South Imperial City right there, Chor Shing Chit spoke suddenly.
How should I describe it?
After seeing South Imperial City himself, Chui Yim was at a loss for words.
So authors had described the city in books, The city was as tall as a mountain, dense as a forest, and as vast as the skies and ocean.
By now, Chui Yim had been to countless cities and villages and he was no longer a naive country boy that lived under a rock. Night Lion, Breaking Thorns, and Southern Ping were major cities, but they were nothing compared to South Imperial City.
Southern Ping was similarly magnificent because the Southern Mountain located within the city was enough to awe anybody. However, things were different for South Imperial City. Gigantic, comprehensive city walls as black as ink looked like hills surrounding the city, but if one looked at the walls closely under the sunlight, one would see hues of dark blue.
Outside the city walls, there was an additional layer of fog that looked thin but was actually several tres thick, blanketing the city walls all around.
The city looked more like a mountain or heavens instead of a city.
This was the South Imperial City for you.
Even Chui Yim dared not confirm the tal used to build the walls, only able to guess that it wasnt a simple mineral or tal but an alloy. There was even energliph felt from it.
The main ingredient should be a good conductor of energliph, before being mixed with other materials to form an alloy.
It was hard to see through the layer of fog but both Chui Yim and Chor Shing Chit who saw the legendary gliph on the Engraved Mountain Range had a deep understanding of gliph formations which allowed them to identify the Cumulonimbus, Nimbus and Dewdrop gliphs.
The Cumulonimbus gliph would gather the water vapour in the air; the Nimbus gliph would then condense the water vapour into rain, the Dewdrop gliph turning the water-attributed energy into energliph.
Along with that alloy The city walls are becoming more powerful every second! The defensive strength of the walls increases every second! One day, it will beco stronger than any mountain or tal! The architect of South Imperial City is unimaginably rich, powerful and smart!
Chui Yim might be learning alchemy, dicine and gliphism simultaneously. However, he was still originally a talsmith, and it was already an ingrained habit to view things from the perspective of a talsmith. He had already gained countless ideas, envisioning many different thods to make new gliph weapons or carving gliphs with just a glance of the city walls workmanship.
Passing through the fog, the night wolf moved towards the city gate that wasnt far away. It was similarly shrouded by fog, making it look like an entrance to a cave hidden beneath a fountain thus nad the water curtain gate since passing through it felt like passing through water curtains.
South Imperial City spans a huge area. They have four city gates called water curtain gates, differentiated by their directions; North, South, East, and West, Chor Shing Chit explained. His face had a weird expression, as this was his hotown.
As the capital of the South, this was where the central authority was. Besides the imperial family, about twenty more clans were based in the city. So were cultivation-type clans, while others had many governnt officials or influence in the Lam dynasty.
Chui Yim rembered that he had read so books that described South Imperial City as a place with a high chance of eting elite clan mbers while in the city.
This might have been exaggerated, but it was enough to show how deep the roots of South Imperial City were.
Within a mansion in South Imperial City sat a frowning man.
Father. Not much later, soone ca in, easing the frown on the mans face.
Sing.
Sing was in good physical shape: muscular, but slightly evil-looking.
He was Chor Sing, the expected successor of the Spiral Dragon Chor Clan and the man sitting in front of him was his father Chor Chong Hoi, a four-chambered stage glipher.
Chor Sing was the most powerful cultivator of his clan within his generation. The three-chambered stage cultivator broke through last year and had the most potential, making Chor Chong Hois faction the strongest one in the Chor Clan. Their elderly clan leader was the only one who could restrain them.
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