The weakest martial artist? One punch and he's leveled up a whole realm!

This hotel is the most luxurious and top-class hotel in Lingtian Town.

All that's left is the presidential suite.

There is no other reason.

The price is indeed too high.

5 spirit stones a day.

This is already beyond the capacity of most people to bear.

Even if someone could afford it, they wouldn't be so foolish as to spend a fortune to stay in a presidential suite.

Because the presidential suite is just a bit bigger.

However, the actual experience was no different from those rooms that cost 1 spirit stones a day.

.......

"Sir, please follow me, I will take you to your room."

The waitress took the initiative to lead Ye Xiao away.

Ye Xiao followed behind him, and the two entered the private elevator.

then.

The elevator goes up to the top floor of the hotel.

The entire top floor, filled with presidential suites, will belong to Ye Xiao for the next week.

"Sir, is this your first time visiting Lingtian Town?"

The waitress smiled and said, "If you need a guide, our hotel can arrange one for you."

After all, the person in front of him was a big client with a black card.

A professional guide's job definitely needs to be arranged exclusively for them.

Ye Xiao nodded, making no attempt to hide it.

"This is indeed my first time here, and I know nothing about this place."

"I don't need anyone else, you can be my guide, is that okay?"

The waitress nodded quickly.

"No problem, I'll talk to my colleagues and then provide you with personalized service."

.......

During the elevator's ascent.

Ye Xiao thought of the "City of Shadows" that he had heard when he entered the hotel on the first floor.

So he asked, "When I came here, I heard about the City of Shadows, and I also heard that the City of Shadows will open at midnight tonight?"

"What exactly is going on?"

Upon hearing this, the waitress quickly replied, "The City of Shadows is a place inside the Shadow Rift."

"In fact, the City of Shadows is not a destroyed city; it is a city that has been completely preserved."

Upon hearing this, Ye Xiao's curiosity was piqued.

Let me elaborate.

The waitress smiled and nodded, then continued speaking slowly and deliberately.

"But the medium that preserves it is not time, it is darkness."

"The city was covered by a thick, dark dome, from which light could not penetrate, sound could not escape, and rain could not seep. Outside the city was the earth, inside the city was a frozen moment."

"All the buildings have been preserved as they were back then!"

"The dried fruit on the stall, the flowerpots on the windowsill, the buckets by the well, the timetable on the school wall—everything is still there, only no one is there."

Ye Xiao smiled upon hearing this and teased, "You do have a poetic touch; you describe things so vividly."

"Thank you for the compliment." The waitress smiled gracefully.

Ye Xiao roughly understood what kind of place this City of Shadows was.

Since the entire city was enclosed, people would definitely not be able to get in on ordinary days.

Tonight is when the city's seal is at its weakest.

That's why so many people are talking about the City of Shadows.

Many people even started forming teams.

Eager to try my luck in the City of Shadows.

Ye Xiao continued, "Why are so many people flocking to the City of Shadows? What treasures are inside?"

The waitress nodded: "Although the City of Shadows is fraught with danger, it remains the place that the vast majority of adventurers in Lingtian Town most want to go."

"Firstly, because it is mysterious and has been largely unexplored; secondly, because it does contain proven good things."

then.

The waitress took almost half an hour.

He told Ye Xiao about the City of Shadows.

After listening.

Ye Xiao suddenly realized that he had gained a comprehensive understanding of the City of Shadows and even the Shadow Rift.

The city of shadows was originally part of the city of spirit fields on the ground!

In the past, Lingtian City was not a barren little town.

It was not a bustling center for trading spiritual plants.

Its granaries, medicine stores, spirit stone reserves, and cultivation manuals are also quite abundant, most of which have not yet been discovered.

Someone once found a whole cabinet of perfectly good high-grade pills in a pharmacy in the outer city of Shadow City, the quality of which far surpassed that of similar pills sold in the Imperial Capital!

Some people have also discovered extremely rare obsidian iron ingots in the blacksmith shops in the inner city of Shadow City. These ingots are excellent materials for forging earth-grade spiritual weapons, and a single piece is enough for an ordinary cultivator to exchange for half a year's worth of cultivation resources in the capital city.

It is precisely because of these past lessons that later generations have the fantasy of entering the City of Shadows and becoming rich overnight.

And then there's more.

The residents of Lingtian City used to be families that cultivated spiritual plants.

Their cultivation methods are characterized by "nurturing" and "perception".

These techniques are rarely passed down outside the school, but their copies are still kept in academies and family libraries.

Over the years, explorers have occasionally found incomplete manuscripts of martial arts techniques in abandoned courtyards.

After being brought back to the capital, they were resold for an astonishingly high price.

These techniques can be learned even without spiritual talent.

For cultivators from commoner backgrounds, it is one of the very few cultivation paths that can break through class barriers.

Finally, it is rumored that an astonishing amount of spirit stone ore is buried beneath the ruins of Lingtian City.

Its quantity is conservatively estimated to be two-thirds of the total number of spirit stone mines that have been discovered in the Dragon Kingdom!

With such astonishing data, everyone would dream of getting rich overnight.

Whoever finds these spirit stone mines will have more money than they can spend in a lifetime.

Due to a combination of factors.

The exploration craze in the Shadow City, and even the exploration craze throughout the Shadow Rift.

It has consistently maintained a high position.

This also makes the Shadow Rift one of the five rifts in the Dragon Kingdom.

The most popular, densely populated, and visited Rift World has the highest number of visitors.

One can glimpse this from the bustling town of Lingtian alone.

.......

"Sir, are you interested in the City of Shadows?"

"right."

Ye Xiao asked, "I'm thinking of going out to join in the fun tonight, do you have any suggestions?"

The other party replied, "My suggestion is that you'd better not go it alone. There's a special team-up area on the second floor of our hotel, providing a place for our hotel guests to get to know each other."

"After all, as you know, the people who can stay at our hotel are not ordinary people. In this circle, everyone's strength is similar, making it easier to team up and explore the Shadow Rift together."

Ye Xiao nodded upon hearing this.

"Teaming up for exploration is a good suggestion."

"However, I have an even better idea."

A better idea?

Now it was the waitress's turn to be surprised.

"Sir, what are your thoughts?"

Ye Xiao smiled slightly: "I'd like to hire some powerful bodyguards to escort me into the Shadow City for exploration!"