C170 Missed
C170 Missed
From this angle, Lei Yang was already unable to see the countless bustling palaces within the city. He could only see the city walls that were hundreds of meters tall and the huge city gates that were dozens of meters tall that were uprooted from the ground.
The tall and big city wall was made from countless large pieces of limestone. One could tell with a glance that this was the work of a powerful cultivator. It was definitely not something an ordinary mortal could build.
As for the gigantic city gate, it looked even more majestic. Although it was made entirely out of fine iron, it was inlaid with countless treasures and all sorts of expensive Spirit Stones s, giving off the incomparable noble aura of a Imperial City.
Even though Lei Yang was very far away, he could feel that there seemed to be an invisible dragon hovering there in the skies above the Fengdu Imperial City. However, no matter what, Lei Yang could not see its exact location or shape;
It was just that Lei Yang's current cultivation level was too low, he simply did not know what it was. The reason why he could sense the Emperor Dragon's Qi was because the Heavenly Dao's Spiritual Source, which was a rare existence in the world, was in effect.
There were even more people entering the city as well. There were city guards currently inspecting the pedestrians who were entering the city one by one, and those who wanted to enter the city could only enter after passing the city gate's inspection. As a result, there was a very long queue here, and Lei Yang could only follow at the back of the line as they slowly moved forward.
As Lei Yang got closer to the city gate, and once again saw the countless number of gems embedded on the gate, he immediately felt a sense of luxury, and among the group, many cultivators like Lei Yang had come to the Imperial City for the first time, so when they were about to enter the city, they began excitedly conversing.
Lei Yang stood in the middle of the line, listening to the various people who came from all over the world, and spitting out many novel and interesting news, it actually made his boring and waiting queue add a little more vivid colors, no longer as boring.
However, when they were close to the city gate, a fifteen to sixteen year old young cultivator in the crowd suddenly pointed at the huge purple Spirit Stones embedded on the gate and said: "Oh my god, look, there is actually a purple Spirit Stones there. I didn't think that there would be such a strange stone in this world!"
When he finished speaking, he even pointed towards a purple Spirit Stones the size of a bucket embedded in the steel of the city gate. His eyes revealed an undisguised innocence, and with a glance, one could tell that he was definitely a newcomer to Imperial City.
What are you yelling for, you ignorant countryside bumpkin, that is a top quality purple spirit, a treasure the Protector brought back from the distant Central State. He said that by placing it here, he would bring endless luck to the Qi, what do you know? The city guards didn't care about the youth's naivety. They directly scolded him with disdain, causing the youth's face to instantly turn red like a pig's liver.
The youth did not retort because he did not dare to retort at all. Suddenly, he seemed a bit scared. After all, this was his first time in Fengdu, and he probably did not want to cause trouble.
Because the guard was a fierce barbarian, this place quickly fell into a strange silence. However, the unreasonable gatekeeping attracted Lei Yang's attention.
Lei Yang secretly observed, seeing that most of the guards were at the middle stage of the Spiritual Source or even late stage, and looked at the people in line one after the other, without concealing the disdain in their eyes, completely acting like the guards of Imperial City were above them.
Seeing that even the guards had such cultivation, Lei Yang not only sighed in his heart, "It looks like this is indeed the capital of a nation.
As the guards continued to check the square, it was soon Lei Yang's turn. Lei Yang saw that after finishing the inspection, the man standing in front of him had gone straight into the city, so after finishing the inspection, he also walked forward with large strides.
"Halt!" But just as Lei Yang was walking forward, the guard suddenly called out to him, his eyes revealing a sinister light.
"What is the matter, Big Brother?" In order to not cause unnecessary trouble, Lei Yang smiled and whispered.
Seeing that Lei Yang's attitude was quite upright, the guard's attitude became slightly more relaxed, but he still impatiently said: "You can only enter the city after paying a hundred low rank Spirit Stones s!"
Lei Yang was startled, he thought that could it be that this fellow realized that he was an outsider and wanted to extort him, thus he asked again: "Then, why didn't the Big Brother in front pay the Spirit Stones?"
"Why do you have so many reasons? You can either pay your Spirit Stones or leave the city and get lost. What are you talking about?" I really don't know why a destitute scholar wants to pretend to be a cultivator! " Unexpectedly, the guard was too unreasonable, he did not stop Lei Yang from talking, and upon seeing Lei Yang spouting too much nonsense, he immediately became angry, and started roaring at Lei Yang.
Lei Yang was not someone who was easy to deal with, he had never feared any Core Formation Ranker before, he just did not want to provoke others, but he would not unconditionally tolerate it. Seeing that guy was being too unreasonable, the moment they were about to look for him, they suddenly heard a middle aged cultivator behind him say: "Young man, these Fengdu Imperial City mortals can enter and exit by themselves, while cultivators have to pay a hundred Spirit Stones, this is a rule set by the Imperial Family throughout the generations, quickly pay the Spirit Stones and enter the city. You must not provoke any trouble here, otherwise it will bring you a lot of trouble."
Hearing that, Lei Yang immediately understood what was going on, he cupped his fists and bowed to the middle aged cultivator, took out 100 Spirit Stones s and handed them over, then quickly walked into the city.
Big, absolutely big!
The liveliness, the absolute liveliness!
It was a bustling scene that was absolutely unimaginable!
When Lei Yang had passed through the long and narrow city gates and stepped into the Fengdu Imperial City, that was his first impression of the huge city known as Fengdu.
On the wide, flat, bluestone street, there was a steady flow of traffic. The packed crowd explained what it meant to be crowded, what it meant to be lively, and what it meant to have seen true prosperity.
On both sides of the bluestone street, there were all sorts of shops. The shops were filled with all kinds of items, such as clothing, pills, jewelry, spirit medicine, restaurants, etc. Everything was there.
There were all sorts of buildings and majestic palaces lined up neatly on both sides of the wide bluestone street, extending all the way to the ends of the world.
This liveliness, this prosperity, this grandeur, it was the first time Lei Yang had seen such a thing. Even when he was very far away, he was still shocked by it.
Looking at the bustling and bustling crowd on the street in front of him, and looking at the bustling giant city, Lei Yang finally experienced for the first time what it meant to broaden his horizons and see the world.
"Young Master, Young Master, is this your first time here?" Lei Yang stood there, dazed as he looked at the bustling and bustling city, only when he heard someone calling for him, did he suddenly wake up. Seeing a group of teenagers surrounding him, Lei Yang immediately became vigilant.
"Young Master is panicking. Everything is going to happen in this Imperial City, as long as we are in this Imperial City, there is nothing that we don't know.
When Young Master first came to Imperial City, he was not familiar with the place, so it would be better for me to help you lead the way, and only take ten Spirit Stones a day. Seeing the alert in Lei Yang's eyes, one of the thirteen or fourteen year old youngsters quickly explained. At the same time, he started to promote himself with all his might, and all of the youngsters around him nodded in agreement.
Lei Yang could tell that the teenager's clothes were ordinary, he should be a disciple of the Humble Class, and he didn't look like a bad person. From the words of the youth, he roughly understood that they were a group of people who specialized in guiding outsiders to lead the way for their careers. As a result, the wariness in their eyes dissipated quite a bit.
"Ten crystals, that's too expensive!" Lei Yang said casually, then turned and left.
"How about those seven?" When the boy saw that his business was done, he quickly put down three pills in an attempt to keep the customer.
But after Lei Yang heard this, he did not stop and continued to walk forward.
"Those five pills, can't you lose five more?" Seeing that Lei Yang was still determined to leave, the young man immediately became anxious, as though he was going to throw caution to the wind, he fiercely clenched his teeth, and lost another five pills.
Lei Yang thought that since he had just arrived and was indeed unfamiliar with the Imperial City, he stopped after hearing what was said. He turned around and said straightforwardly: "Deal!"
The young man was immediately so happy that he could dance with joy. With a single glance, he could tell that he hadn't had any business for a long time. Now that he had finally completed a single task, he was extremely excited.
After the youth made arrangements for the other youths, he quickly brought Lei Yang to wander around the Imperial City.
Along the way, Lei Yang discovered that he was indeed extremely familiar with the Imperial City, and continuously explained to Lei Yang about the various situations within the Imperial City.
According to the youth's introduction, Lei Yang had a rough understanding of all the regions in Imperial City. The Imperial City was made up of five regions, east, west, south, north, and east.
In the middle was the Qi's Imperial Palace, which was the largest area of the city; the places where the several official families of the East and South City resided were known as the Rich District, all sorts of mansions occupied a large area of land, thus, it was the second largest area other than the palace; the Western City was where cultivators gathered, and normally, there was a large movement of people going in and out, making it the third largest area.
The current location of the city gate was the southern part of the city.
Through their conversation, Lei Yang found out that this youth was called A Mu, a child of the North City poor, born young, whose parents died young, leaving him alone in this world.
In order to make a living, he eventually had to take up this well-known profession and earn a living. He did not expect to get to know a group of brothers who were born the same way as him.
Lei Yang felt that he knew everything, everything was normal, and everything was normal. Thus, he tried to ask Yue Yang about the Floating Cloud Pavilion's disciple recruitment, but he didn't expect that he actually knew about it.
According to A Mu's introduction, just two months ago, Floating Cloud Pavilion's gathering to recruit new disciples had just ended. If he wanted to enter the Floating Cloud Pavilion, he could only wait five more years because the Floating Cloud Pavilion would come to the Imperial City every five years to host a gathering to recruit new disciples.
After hearing this news, Lei Yang's feelings were all over the place. He never would have thought that just like that, he would miss the chance to enter the Floating Cloud Pavilion, and that he only missed out two months. I am a cultivator whose time is like gold, if I were to wait here for five years straight, Lei Yang would not be able to accept this result.
After knowing this, Lei Yang was extremely vexed, and his mood immediately became low. A Mu saw through his worries, so he suggested that he should find a place to stay first. Lei Yang nodded in agreement, now that he had no other choice.
Under A Mu's lead, Lei Yang stayed in a pretty good drunk house, paid the Spirit Stones, and sent A Mu away.
Before A Mu left, he spoke to Lei Yang with all his might. If there was anything else he needed in the future, he would definitely remember to look for him at the city gate.
He could feel that after Lei Yang heard about the news regarding the Floating Cloud Pavilion, his mood had become downcast, so he did not linger any further, and after seeing that Lei Yang had settled in, he left.