Dark Orchid Empire encompassed three million kilometers of territory—an expanse that rivaled Darklake Empire. However, there were spirit veins that crisscrossed its domain, bestowing it with a much higher concentration of ambient qi than Darklake. Even the other fourth rank empires were less than Dark Orchid.

Ashflame City was one of the empire’s largest cities in the south. Also called the southern capital, it was the heart of the nation’s one million kilometers of territory to the south.

The city ran five thousand kilometers from end to end and there was a lower rank spirit vein beneath it. The concentration of qi in Ashflame’s environment was far greater than that of Darklake’s capital.

Compared to Ashflame, Dark City was a country village.

But to Lu Yun, one who’d journeyed through three thousand worlds, Ashflame wasn’t particularly impressive. He walked up to its largest restaurant—Immortal...