Heavenly Chengshi, Part II

Airships were not allowed to dock within Heavenly Chengshi. Once they had reached a certain distance from the city, a number of smaller aircraft came alongside them. They looked like tiny boats with wings made of flame. One of the ships came up right next to theirs and a young man dressed in crimson-gold armor alighted upon the deck. He was a captain of the Phoenix Guard.

The Phoenix Guard was the name of the Xia Dynasty’s standing army. About 80% of them were composed of normal humans, whose job was to keep the peace and settle disputes between non-cultivators. The rest were cultivators. Most of them were at the Anima and Asura Realms. Squad captains were at the Human Limit Realm and commanders were Deva Realm cultivators. There were only around three dozen commanders, but that was still many times more Deva Realm cultivators than any other nation.