The crimson Dragon Blood Pepper vines wound around the massive rock dam of Jade Ruyi City.
As the sun set in the west, the scales of the Snake-man guards shimmered with a rusty dark red, glistening alongside the lake's surface.
They gazed at the swathes of golden-yellow sweet bean fields by the lake, with the distant roar of the Guara Falls in their ears, yet their eyes were sombre.
At a place unseen and unheard, enemies from the north are drawing near.
Not only the Snake-man guards but even the city's residents clearly realized this.
Occasionally, they would look back at the enormous pyramid behind them, their thoughts inevitably scattered.
As the capital of the Snake-man Empire, Jade Ruyi City is located at the very center of Koko Lake, guarding the most fertile lakeside plains of the Musang River Basin.
Lake Heart Island of Koko Lake, after three hundred years of cultivation, has transformed into a grand city with a population of twenty thousand and six thousand buildings.
