Chapter 137 Canglong City
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After ten years of hard work, he ate monster meat and fasting pills. At this moment, any mortal food seems to be delicious.
The city is too small, with only a few streets paved with bluestone, and other small streets are muddy and dilapidated. The people in the city have always lived a lazy and quiet life.
A brocade robe was a bit eye-catching in the city, so Liu Changsheng simply found a ready-to-wear shop and made several sets of green cloth long gowns.
There are all kinds of storage bracelets in Chen Menghai, but there is no gold and silver in the mortal world. Fortunately, there are still dozens of taels of silver left in the 100-two-patterned silver that Liu Changsheng got from Chu Manxue back then. He has been placed in the storage bracelet as a souvenir, but it is used at this time, saving some use and living a life in the mortal world.
After asking around, Liu Changsheng knew that this small city belonged to a county state southwest of the Great Yan Dynasty - the Southern Wilderness Kingdom.
Hearing the three words "Nanhuang Country", Liu Changsheng couldn't help but feel moved. Chen Menghai had a book of travel notes written by Yu Ling Zhenren, recording many places on the North Gu Continent, including the South Wilderness Kingdom.
When he returned to the inn, Liu Changsheng carefully read the travel notes and felt secretly happy.
The reason why it is named Nanhuang Kingdom is that most of the territory of this country is deserted and steep mountains. The southernmost part of Nanhuang Kingdom is the Purple Smoke Mountain Range where monsters are rampant and poisonous creatures are everywhere. There are no good spiritual veins in this Purple Smoke Mountain Range. Instead, there are many swamps and lakes that are prone to breeding toxic miasma and poisonous insects. There are even some volcanoes that occasionally erupt. The word "Purple Smoke" in the Purple Smoke Mountain Range refers to the smoke after the eruption of the volcano, as well as the purple-red miasma and poisonous fog that can be seen everywhere in the deep mountains.
The area of the 100,000 mountains under the Purple Smoke Mountains is far greater than that of the Daimei Mountains. Although monsters are everywhere, because of the poor spiritual veins and thin spiritual energy, high-level transformation demon kings cannot be born, and even the number of intermediate-level monsters is not too large.
There are not many spiritual medicines, there are many poisonous weeds, there are not many middle-level monsters, and there are many poisonous insects and snakes. Because of this, these 100,000 mountains are not liked and valued by Jindan monks. Few Jindan monks will enter this mountain to find medicine and treasures, and no Jindan major cultivation will build a cave in the poisonous miasma mountain to find land and meditation.
The Nanhuang Kingdom belongs to the county and states under the jurisdiction of the Zizhu Mountain Holy Land of the Tianshi Prefecture. There is also a Ling Crane Tower set up by the Tianshi Prefecture in the Nanhuang City of the Nanhuang Kingdom. The owner of the Ling Crane Tower is even an elder of the Jindan Realm.
However, the Southern Wilderness Kingdom is a border vassal state of the Great Yan Dynasty. The northern foot of the Ziyan Mountains belongs to the Great Yan Dynasty, the southern foot of the Great Chu Dynasty, and the western area belongs to another empire, Hanhai Kingdom. In this way, the 100,000 mountains in the Ziyan Mountains have actually become a place of no-cost.
There was no higher-level demon king transformed into shape, and poisonous miasma was everywhere, and the golden elixir monks were unwilling to visit. The Ziyan Mountains naturally became a place for some Qi Condensation Cultivators to set foot in the training, especially the disciples and casual cultivators of the small and medium-sized immortal cultivators in the three empires. They often go to the Ziyan Mountains to try their luck, catch some second-level and third-level monsters for cultivation, or find some century-old herbs and refine some early-level elixirs.
These casual cultivators are either poorly qualified or not accepted by major sects, or they are unwilling to be bound by the sects, and are wholeheartedly free. The Ziyan Mountains do not belong to any major forces, and they just become a good place for casual cultivators.
Although there are no high-level monsters in the Ziyan Mountains, there are powerful poisonous insects and poisonous snakes. The climate is warm, and the monsters reproduce quickly, so the danger is still quite large. Especially in the most central area of the Ziyan Mountains, there are many intermediate monsters and intermediate poisonous insects gathered, which are the forbidden zones for cultivators in the Qi Condensation Stage.
I don’t know when it started. Generations of casual cultivators began to choose a spiritual vein place outside the Ziyan Mountains to build a city, and there were three buildings at the same time, standing in a tripod.
These three monk cities do not belong to the three empires, but are close to the territory of the three empires. In fact, they are also occupied by casual cultivators born in the three empires.
The spiritual vein of this monks on the northern foot of the Ziyan Mountains is located like a winding Canglong. This city is simply called Canglong City.
It is said that there are tens of thousands of casual cultivators living in the city, but on weekdays, less than ten thousand people live in the city to practice permanently. The other casual cultivators all went to the Ziyan Mountains. Some were practicing with monsters, some were looking for herbs, and some monks directly chose small spiritual veins with good spiritual energy in the Ziyan Mountains. Only when the beast tide appeared would they choose to return to Canglong City to live.
Because of the warm climate, the poisonous insects of monsters reproduce quickly. Every three or five years, some low-level monsters are always driven out of the inner circle of the mountains by middle-level monsters. Then, these monsters begin to fight with monsters outside the mountains, and some monsters directly kill to the edge of the mountains. Most of these monsters are first-level and second-level monsters.
Whenever this happens, the monks in the three cultivators will join forces to kill these monsters, which can not only obtain some cultivation resources, but also enhance magical powers, but also prevent the monsters from infiltrating the border areas and harming the people in the border areas.
Because of this, whether it is the Tianshi Mansion, the largest immortal cultivation force of the Great Yan Dynasty, the Divine Sect, the largest immortal cultivation force of the Great Chu Dynasty, or the Hanhai Palace, the largest immortal cultivation force of the Hanhai Kingdom, they all tolerated the existence of these three cultivators' cities and even secretly supported them behind their backs.
The most wonderful thing is that there are teleportation arrays that can be transmitted to each other among these three cities. During the tide of beasts, these three teleportation arrays can support the monks of the three cities. On weekdays, they can also provide the monks of the three cities with exchange of supplies. Of course, it also facilitates the monks of the three cities to travel to the other two empires of the three empires.
If you do not have these three teleportation arrays, if you want to go from the Southern Wilderness Kingdom to the Great Chu Dynasty, you must cross the large dangerous area in the center of the Ziyan Mountains. If you walk around the Ziyan Mountains, you have to walk at least dozens of times more.
Shen Menghai's storage bracelet contains a complete topographic map of the entire Ziyan Mountains. The mountain where Shen Menghai died that day was actually a branch outside the Ziyan Mountains. However, Liu Changsheng didn't know it before, and he could not determine where the nameless mountain belonged.
Now that he knew the existence of these three cultivator cities, Liu Changsheng immediately lost his plan to travel and practice in ordinary mortal cities.
After figuring out the nearest route to Canglong City, Liu Changsheng left the small city and drove the shuttle directly towards Canglong City.
More than a month later.
Liu Changsheng's figure appeared in front of a huge stone city.
The city is built in a valley, built along the mountains. On both sides are continuous mountains. The highest mountains are about a thousand feet high, while the other peaks are mostly less than three hundred feet. The valleys at the intersection of mountains are built with thick stone walls dozens of feet high.
The entire city is east-west, with a city gate on each side. Looking around, there is a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles in the city, which is blue-gray all over, like a dragon-shaped shape. The dragon head has the highest position, about four or five hundred feet.
At this moment, Liu Changsheng was standing in front of the city gate on the east side.
In front of me was a thick city wall, about fifty or sixty feet high, all of which were made of huge blue stones, looking rough and mighty.
The city gate tower is even tall, a hundred feet high. There are rows of huge ox crossbows on both sides of the city gate tower. Although these crossbows are just magic weapons, the crossbow arrows are as thick as the mouth of a bowl. If you want to pull the bowstring, you need to have brute force like a hundred cows. Naturally, mortals in the world cannot pull these ox crossbows, and only monks can control them.
Even if the fierce third-level monsters encounter these Hundred Cow Crossbows, they will be killed instantly. Under the scattered rain of arrows, powerful middle-level monsters will have to retreat and even be killed on the spot.
Under the city gate, there are three vigorous and powerful words "Canglong City" written on the golden lacquer plaque.
Unlike the mortal city, there is no soldier or guard on the wall of this stone city on weekdays. Under the sunlight, colorful and slender light threads appear and disappear from time to time in the faint white clouds above the city.
The spiritual sense swept across the tall city wall and was actually bounced back, and there seemed to be a restriction in the sky.
"It is worthy of being a city of monks, and there is actually a ban on air!"
Liu Changsheng nodded secretly to praise him. He had seen the powerful strength of the mid-level demon bird. If there was no ban on the ban in this city, one day a mid-level demon bird would break in, wouldn’t the cultivators in the entire city be in trouble?
Under the city gate tower, eight guards in black iron armor were arranged on both sides. On the left side of the city gate tower, there was a long wooden case. Behind the wooden case, there was a male cultivator wearing silver armor.
The spiritual sense swept over and the eight black armored guards were all at the level below the seventh level of Qi Condensation, five at the sixth level of Qi Condensation, three at the fifth level of Qi Condensation, while the silver armored guard was a cultivator at the eighth level of Qi Condensation.
It was already past noon, and there were few pedestrians at the city gate. The silver-armored guard lay on the wooden table and was drowsy, while the eight black-armored guards were also listless.
Only when Liu Changsheng came from a distance did the eight black-armored guards look over lazyly.
But his eyes were all looking at Liu Changsheng's waist.
Seeing that there was a simple inconspicuous small storage bag hanging around Liu Changsheng's waist, and there was nothing else, the tall man in charge suddenly lit up and down, looked at Liu Changsheng up and down, grinned, and said, "What, you are new!"
Liu Changsheng couldn't help but be stunned and secretly guessed, could he know all the monks in the entire city?
However, his face was calm, he bowed and said, "This fellow Taoist is right. I have heard of the name of Canglong City for a long time, but this is the first time I have been here!"
"Since it's the first time, I need to apply for an identity token to enter and exit this city!"
After the tall man said that, he pointed at the silver-armored guard.
Although Liu Changsheng is young, he is at the eighth level of Qi Condensation, and this tall man is only at the sixth level of Qi Condensation and dare not neglect.
"Thank you!"
Liu Changsheng smiled slightly, turned around and walked towards the silver armored guard.
Hearing the words of the two, the sleepy silver armored guard yawned and turned his head to look at Liu Changsheng.
"A fellow Taoist is planning to live in the city for a long time, or is preparing to purchase some supplies in the city!"
The silver-armored guard looked at Liu Changsheng up and down, yawning Liantian.
At this moment, Liu Changsheng was wearing an ordinary green cloth robe, dressed as a Confucian scholar, and just a small storage bag was hung around his waist. At first glance, he felt a sense of poverty and sourness all over his body, which was naturally not popular.
This chapter is over. (To be continued.)
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