After the eighteen kings became Lu Yun’s Infernum, he went one step further and wrote them into the Tome of Life and Death. Despite their new undying status, they couldn’t remain in Multitude City. 

Talents and heavyweights abounded in the metropolis. While his new contingent of kings could change their appearance—someone, somewhere would discover something. It would rock the Hongmeng if the realm discovered that kings who’d died to time were alive again.

If that became common knowledge, any manner of character would come looking for Lu Yun.

Thus, he sent them to the remote City of Immortals, bidding them to expand his territory from the one hundred and eight cities that formed Immortal Region.

Any locale in the southern reaches of...