The mountain gate of Yunhaimen is not in Yunhai City. To be precise, the current sect of Yunhaimen is not in Yunhai City. What is here is only the old site of Yunhaimen.
When the Baiyun Sect established its lower sect, Yunhai Gate, more than 500 years ago, the first generation of the sect leader chose the current Yunhai City as the site. At that time, this place was just called Yunhai Town.
The main reason for choosing this site was that there was a considerable low-grade spiritual stone mine within the old site of Yunhai Gate.
However, with hundreds of years of mining, the spiritual stone vein has been mined out, and the spiritual energy in this place has become increasingly thin, making it no longer suitable for cultivation and no longer suitable for maintaining a sect.
Apart from other things, the sect's spiritual medicine garden, spiritual beast garden, and alchemy room all hope to be built in a place with abundant spiritual energy.
Moreover, the opening of a sect's mountain protection formation also requires a large amount of spiritual energy, and a place with abundant spiritual energy is even more necessary.
Moreover, with hundreds of years of population growth, Yunhai Town, with the old site of Yunhai Gate as its center, gradually grew into a populous city and became Yunhai City. It has surrounded Yunhai Gate, thus limiting the development space of Yunhai Gate.
More than a hundred years ago, several new spiritual stone veins were discovered in the southern mountains, so the leader of the Baiyun Sect and the current leader of the Yunhai Sect decided to move the Yunhai Sect to the southern mountains thousands of miles away.
Now, what is left in Yunhai City is only the old site of the Yunhai Sect, but it is not abandoned. The sect still has a small number of disciples to maintain it.
First, the sect has been here for many years, and many of its facilities are still in use. Second, the sect does not want to cut off its connection with the mortal world, and keeping these places to occasionally hold some activities can also have a publicity effect for Yunhai Sect, which is conducive to the continuous recruitment of new people.
With the influence and contact channels in the mortal world, it can ensure that children from ordinary people are sent to the sect every year for selection, replenishing fresh blood for the sect.
The design of the airship does not pursue speed, but stability and safety. Most of the places it passes through are sparsely populated. But at this moment, a large city appeared in the distance ahead. Even if you look down from the air, you still can't see the other side of the city.
Yuanxiao, Xiaoying, and the little fat boy all squeezed to the edge of the airship and looked down. The scene that came into view from this perspective was quite shocking.
The streets were crisscrossed, two small rivers ran through the city and stretched to the invisible distance, rows of houses fell backwards rapidly, and small black dots covered the streets and alleys.
It was indeed a large city with a large population. Even the little fat boy who often went out was stunned.
Yuanxiao looked forward and discovered that the direction the flying boat was facing was an area in the city surrounded by mountains. There were more than a dozen mountaintops, connected end to end.
Some buildings could be vaguely seen at the foot, middle and top of the mountain, but they were too far away to be clear.
At this time, Zhang Dahai controlled the airship to gradually lower its altitude. After flying for a while, he reduced his speed and flew towards a towering mountain gate.
"The old site of Yunhai Gate is in front of us. This selection and testing activity is specially held here, not only to make use of the original facilities here, but more importantly to do a publicity in Yunhai City and let everyone know about Yunhai Gate.
Therefore, the residents of Yunhai City are allowed to observe the selection this time. Only a small number of people who pass the selection will be sent to the new mountain gate of Yunhai Gate in the south after the selection.
For those who are not selected, we will arrange to send everyone back to Ping'an County where they set out, and they can live their lives as usual. If you want to stay, you must seize the opportunity and perform well!" Zhang Dahai encouraged everyone.
"You guys, are you ready?"