Type: Nature City
Controlled By: Verdant Crane Sect
Built in the branches of enormous ancient trees.
Platforms, rope bridges, glowing moss lights.
Calm, peaceful, full of animals and spirit creatures.
Peaceful caretaker of the forest spirits.
Uses Nature’s Flow to heal the ecosystem.
Secret: She hears whispers from an ancient tree that warns of disaster.
Excels at beast tracking.
Likes adventurers and gives quests.
Has a rivalry with the Obsidian Wolf hunters.
Harsh, old, blunt.
Strongest in the city.
Secret: Hides a demonic wound inside his chest.
• Mosslight Remedies (Herbs & Nature Tools)
Sells healing items, beast-repellent incense, bark armor.
• Spirit-Feather Roost (Pet Shop)
Sells tamed beasts like messenger birds, fox spirits, and vine-snakes.
Type: Hidden City
Controlled By: Shadowed Abyss Sect (secretly)
Almost no outsider knows it exists.
Foggy, dark, full of corrupted plants and demonic Qi veins.
The architecture is gothic, jagged, unnerving.
Cold, calculating.
Eyes glow faintly red.
Studies demonic Qi constantly.
Secret: He’s searching for a way to merge stars and demonic Qi.
Elite assassin, loyal only to Vorahn.
Can kill without touching her target.
Secret: She may betray the sect if offered “freedom.”
A chained researcher.
Forced to decode forbidden techniques.
Secret: He was once an Iron Crane elder.
These “shops” are more like restricted facilities:
• The Resin Pit
Research lab for demonic mutations.
• Grimroot Apothecary
Sells corrupted herbs.
Some can kill, some can empower.
Type: Remote Village
Controlled By: White Emerald Cult (secretly)
It appears to be a normal mountain village.
Simple huts, quiet roads, old farmers…
But underneath?
A massive underground labyrinth where shard cultivators train.
Calm, strict.
Master of the Shard Cultivation Technique.
Secret: He knows the truth — the technique’s “fatality rate” rumor was created by the cult itself to stay hidden.
Crafts weapons using Qi shards.
Weapons are sharp enough to cut Qi itself.
Secret: Her creations slowly drain her life.
Appears mute.
Actually a cultivation genius.
Secret: Has achieved 200+ shards already — impossible by normal means.
• Shardsmith’s Den
Sells shard-forged needles, daggers, mirrors, and tools.
Pretty much the most dangerous shop in the continent.
• Veilstone Supplies
Ordinary goods — but the owner is a spy for the cult.