The Golden Scale Royal Court harbors numerous descendants of high-ranking mythical beasts, so by all rights, it should be a place brimming with life, yet the current situation has defied everyone's expectations.
"Master, Master, why does this place feel haunted?"
Jingming looked as though he couldn't wait to turn back.
Li Rui and the others also felt that this place was not what they had imagined.
After crossing the barrier, what appeared before them was a section of a wooden city wall, seemingly fashioned from entire tree trunks laid flat and smoothed, yet it stood several dozen meters high.
The middle of the wall opened to a city gate almost as tall as the wall itself, yet no one guarded it—only gusts of eerie wind blew through.
"The area ahead is called the Shadow Cover Wall, not for defense, but merely to delineate the Barbarian Emperor's presence from the outside world,"
