On both sides of the central city gate, the right city gate has several desks for registration, with many Qi Refining cultivators neatly lined up to enter and exit.
On the left city gate, there is only a solitary desk, visited by Foundation Establishment cultivators traveling via flying light.
Lu Yan headed towards the left city gate, and immediately a cultivator in blue clothing came out from behind the registration desk to greet him.
"Senior, is this your first time visiting our Nine Nether Immortal City?"
Lu Yan savored the name, feeling a bit strange about it.
The cultivator in blue saw this and said with a full smile:
"Our Nine Nether Immortal City was only established a little over a month ago, so it's quite normal that Senior is unfamiliar with its name."
As the cultivator in blue spoke, Lu Yan had already developed some suspicions about the origin of Nine Nether Immortal City.
"Tell me more about it."
Upon hearing this, the cultivator in blue revealed a proud expression and said:
"Senior may not know, but our Nine Nether Immortal City, despite its short establishment time, is backed by four genuinely powerful Golden Core cultivators.
Even in the Southern Xinjiang territory under the Cyan Simurgh Sect, it is considered a first-class major force, rivaling the influence of other sects and sectarians.
And our City Lord of Nine Nether Immortal City is Li Hao, Patriarch of the Li Family who once single-handedly established Wushan Marketplace, and he is already a strong Golden Core mid-stage cultivator."
Lu Yan at this point confirmed that this so-called Nine Nether Immortal City was indeed the seventy-third gathering place in the apocalypse version.
His gaze swept across the hundred-foot-high massive city walls of Nine Nether Immortal City, and its mountain-like grand scale made it impossible for Lu Yan to associate Nine Nether Immortal City with the dilapidated gathering places in the apocalypse version.
The cultivator in blue, speaking eloquently, did not recognize him, reminding Lu Yan of how, in the apocalypse version, he didn't deliberately conceal his appearance, but most of the time he was commanding the underworld army from the skies, rarely appearing in frontline gathering places.
Even the statues sculpted by the people had only a vague and unclear face.
Nonetheless, having Nine Nether Immortal City here is advantageous for Lu Yan, as even if his cultivation is reduced, the power he previously demonstrated before Li Hao is still enough to intimidate Li Hao.
At that time, Lu Yan can leverage Nine Nether Immortal City to acquire massive resources, and a third-level city defense formation would be easy to obtain.
While Lu Yan was contemplating this, he heard the cultivator in blue speak with a mysterious expression:
"Senior, do you know that our Nine Nether Immortal City has a backing?"
Lu Yan was surprised: "Backing?"
The cultivator in blue said with confidence:
"Senior, since you are in the Southern Border Territory, you should be aware that within the eight thousand miles of mountains in Southern Border, there are countless demon beasts, and every few decades they gather into tides to attack the surrounding territories.
A little over a month ago, shortly after the founding of our Nine Nether Immortal City, we encountered a once-in-a-millennium calamity beast tide.
Hundreds of thousands of demon beasts charged out from the Southern Border mountains, intending to attack our Nine Nether Immortal City.
At the critical moment, the underworld army descended from the sky and slaughtered the calamity beast tide, with the hundreds of thousands of demon beasts having no power to resist before the underworld army.
Among the demon beasts slaughtered by the underworld army, there were more than several dozen powerful ones exceeding the Golden Core Stage, with even over seven Nascent Soul Demon Kings falling.
After this news spread, reports came from various places about the appearance of the underworld army, and the myriad legends left by the mysterious underworld envoy in the Cultivation Realm.
Some claimed that the underworld envoy, unable to bear seeing demons eat humans, once wiped out a million in a demon city overnight, pinning and killing a Nascent Soul Demon King among the mountains while capturing their soul.
They also walked into several demon sects and, before thousands of cultivators within the sect, used the underworld army to slay the Nascent Soul Evil Master, causing the evil sects to lose face.
Following the battle against the calamity beast tide, the fame of the underworld army spread throughout the entire Cultivation Realm.
Various forces in Southern Border were shocked, and in a month over a dozen Golden Core forces and three Nascent Soul forces have come to pay respects at Nine Nether Immortal City, with even Cyan Simurgh Sect sending envoys soon. Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹~𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮~𝚗𝚎𝚝
Should Senior join our Nine Nether Immortal City, he would be under the protection of the underworld, with a status comparable to disciples of the noble sects, even with some respect before the top ten sects."