Light Cultivation
Eps. 315 — Yanghai City
Jian Chen and Lily arrived at the destination city the next day, he thought the merchant's destination was a small town but his guess was wrong when he saw the city's very high barrier wall
After asking Jian Chen learned that the city in front of him was named Yanghai City.
Jian Chen's carriage entered the city barrier, there were several officers there who stood guard and checked everyone who wanted to enter.
"Two silver coins for one chariot, now where's the pay?"
"Huh? Why did the price suddenly go up, wasn't it just one silver last week." The leader of the merchant entourage seemed to object.
"Yeah last week yes last week, now yes now, everything can change with time." The officer shrugged his shoulders casually.
"Ugh, the more expensive the need to live in this region..." Grumbled the leader of the merchant entourage while paying ten silver coins.
Realizing his destination had arrived, Jian Chen and Lily got off the carriage and thanked the merchant entourage.
Jian Chen did not forget to give a sizable leather pouch as payment for the merchant entourage. When the leader saw the contents inside, he was silent with widened eyes.
Jian Chen also gave the old men a few bags of skin each, his reaction not much different from the leader of his entourage.
"This rider..."
"Don't refuse, I'm giving it to you voluntarily."
The merchants looked at each other, the money Jian Chen had given them was large enough to be able to provide for them all their lives.
The merchants did not expect Jian Chen to be this rich, they hurriedly thanked Jian Chen even some of them to tears.
Jian Chen smiled warmly. "I hope with the money your life can be better, then see you later..."
Jian Chen and Lily then bailed away, the merchants did not even let go of his gaze even though Jian Chen's shadow had already disappeared.
After being given such huge money, they chose to go home and return to their families. No one intends to continue trading.
"Oh, this young master Jian is indeed generous huh..." Lily chuckled after walking far enough away from the merchant entourage. The girl walked beside Jian Chen.
"They need money more while I don't, isn't that the right answer."
Lily nodded slowly. "By the way, it seems they did not realize there were desert robbers who had attacked them. If those merchants knew our strength maybe they would..."
"The better they don't know it, the less they know the better." Jian Chen cut the girl's words.
After killing all the desert robbers in a matter of seconds, Jian Chen and Lily did not stop there, both of them immediately looked for the robber headquarters which turned out to be not far from the location of the merchant entourage overnight.
Jian Chen made sure to finish off all the robbers without remaining even a little so that the other merchants would not be victims while traveling.
"I didn't think they'd open a branch here either..." Jian Chen smiled enthusiastically as he saw there was an association shop in Yanghai City.
Jian Chen clucked in awe at how the city could stand in the middle of the desert, at first the young man had thought that Yanghai City was a shabby city but it seemed like his conjecture was wrong.
Jian Chen first headed for the association shop, he planned to dig up information regarding two things, first about the desert palace that people told him about and secondly regarding the organization of Shio Hunters.
Some people in the city had glanced at Lily not even excessively being the center of attention. Jian Chen sighed, he did not expect that a beautiful face could cause some troublesome things.
With his status in the association not difficult for Jian Chen to be an important person in the shop, his manager named Manager He instantly bowed his respect to him.
Manager He is a forty-year-old man, he is also the one who takes care of the association in this city.
"I guess the store here is quite crowded, I didn't expect that many warriors would stay and buy our resources..." Jian Chen and Manager He sat in one of the rooms that had been provided, While Lily was eating wine casually not far from the two sitting down.
"The situation is not so young master but lately the situation of the Sand Dragon Province has changed since there was a palace that suddenly appeared in the middle of the desert, it made many outside warriors come here..."
Jian Chen tapped his finger on the spell over and over, "This desert palace... Was it really that incredible until it was famous to come out of the empire?"
Manager He coughed slowly. "Young master, it is actually not surprising that the desert palace was until famous, from what is known, the magnificent palace was made of shining gold."
Jian Chen was a little surprised, he had yet to find out this important information from Luo Bai but on the other hand he so understood the situation.
Manager He added that the desert palace was just west of the desert right near the provincial capital, with many tourists coming there from various regions.
"If the young master wants to go there you should be careful because there is a lot of quicksand, you should use the instructions that have been listed in the place."
Jian Chen nodded slowly, though he hesitated about going to that palace.
Jian Chen then inquired about the organization of the Shio Hunters, Manager He was in fact lacking information on the matter, perhaps in this city there was no information regarding them.
"So what do we do next, to that desert palace or to another city?" Lily asked then, devouring the wine she threw into her mouth.
Jian Chen had already been given a small map regarding the entire mainland of the Sand Dragon province by manager He with great accuracy and completeness, there was even a hint of the wind direction listed.
It could make it impossible for Jian Chen to get lost in the desert even if flying.
"Tomorrow we'll get out of here, it's late afternoon, I don't want my visibility to be reduced when flying."
Manager He prepared several rooms for his second bed, even though Lily and Jian Chen did not use them that night to sleep.
Jian Chen was still trying to train a technique that could gather power in Yin, behind this he had experienced rapid progress regarding the technique.
As of now, Jian Chen could absorb five circles of Yin inner power within an hour, even if five minutes instantly disappeared but that was rapid progress.
Jian Chen was training in his room when suddenly the sound of the bells of the city sounded so loud all over the city. The sound of bells ringing repeatedly showed a sign of danger to the city.
Before long the bell rang, Manager He came and knocked on Jian Chen's room door with a hunting breath, he explained that there was a soldier attack attacking the city.