Ch.18 Travels

A few weeks passed as a figure of a majestic city appeared in front of Yuncheng, a city encased by tall hills and rock formations making it easier to defend and harder to attack.

A grand palace stood on top of the hills in the center of the city spreading a grand aura, the cities were bustling with street vendors and passersby as it showed the look of a healthy city.

This was the capital of the empire he was currently in. Although he had passed through many cities, both big and small, nothing could compare to this place.

Not only because of its looks but also because of the higher concentration of its spiritual energy.

If he remembers correctly his master said that the higher the elevation the greater the concentration of the spiritual energy.

Some cultivators even speculate that the spiritual energy of this word is something that dips out from the immortal world up above.

Though this is something only low-level cultivators talk about,.. as for why higher higher-level cultivators haven't talked about this?

Well, they are busy cultivating and do not have time to mingle with the mortal world.

Stopping a few kilometers away from the city of Yucheng started his slow walk, from a distance he could see a line of people and carts waiting outside the city gate.

The soldiers were checking the people and taking the entrance fee, a bronze coin for a person, and a silver coin for a cart of goods.

Yucheng didn't want to waste his time sitting in line so walked toward the noble area, with his looks and clean clothes no one doubted his qualifications to be there.

"Sir, your excellency is?"

A soldier placed in that gate asked him respectfully as he kept his head down not daring to look at Yucheng.

Although imperial power is the strongest here nobles of the court have enough power to determine the life and death of normal people like him.

Although the martial god could keep them in check before, but after his death two years ago the kingdom has started to move in a bad direction.

The emperor was already old and the loss of the hundred thousand-strong army had greatly harmed the military power of the nation.

Although the nobles were scared at first of the unknown threat but after two years of silence they have started to grow bolder.

Yucheng understood the thoughts of the soldier as he had traveled to various cities of the empire so he didn't make it hard for the poor man.

Taking out a gold coin he put it in the soldier's hands and walked inside the city. It was the toll for the nobles who wished to enter the city.

"Thank You, Your Excellency. Wish you a good time in the capital."

The soldier bowed as he spoke those words, and Yucheng walked forward without even turning his head.

As for how he got so much money in such a short time, well he would have to thank those bandits that contributed to this small wealth.

"Let's see, what should I do."

Yucheng muttered as he stopped in front of the crowded road ahead of him, after a week or so of traveling his habit of talking to himself had gotten better but wasn't completely fixed.

Closing his eyes he pointed toward a direction and started to walk toward it, after all as a cultivator he knows the power of faith.

Walking in that direction he chooses a random turn, again and again. All the crowd had disappeared and what appeared in front of him was the dead end of an alley.

Even though this was a dead end for some reason Yucheng gut feeling was telling him there was something ahead.

His eyes glowed a golden blue color as his spirit sense unfolded hitting the wall in front of him, in Yucheng's vision the wall disappeared and was replaced by a row of formation patterns.

"A Mortal grade, lesser Formation.."

"Illusion... and Forgetful..."

Yucheng muttered as he deduced the formation in front of him, although he hadn't started learning formation he knew what it was used for through his strong spirit sense and agile mind.

"Decent formation.."

Yucheng shrugged his shoulder as he walked forward, the wall in front didn't block him as he phased through it.

"Hey, what does this sword cost.."

"Five Lesser Spirit stones..."

"Hey, there is a limit to trying to cheat people..."

"Hey, young man you have great fat.."

"F#ck of old man, who you trying to cheat.."

"Get one free spirit grass if you buy another on..."

What appeared in was a wider alley with dozens of people in Taoist clothes wither selling or buying things.

The spiritual concentration here was higher than outside and although the cultivators here were generally in the Qi period they were stronger than those cultivators that called themself a martial artist.

A few eyes turned toward Yucheng as his figure entered, looking at his handsome figure and strong spiritual pressure they quickly turned their eyes away.

Seeing this Yucheng smiled and retracted his spiritual pressure, it was a neat trick that can be done by cultivators who almost have formed their dantina.

Yucheng walked forward and he looked around in curiosity, this was the first large group of cultivators that he had met in the mortal world.

Although these past weeks he had run into a few, they couldn't compare to the current number of cultivators here.

"Hey."

Yucheng grabbed a passing cultivator by his shoulder and stopped him in his tracks.

"Wha..."

Just as the cultivator was about to shout a lesser-grade spiritual stone appeared in his vision.

"Sir, I was saying what can I do for you."

The man's words did a 180-degree turn as he smiled like a Buddha, after all, a single lesser-grade spiritual stone is also a considerable sum for these loose cultivators.

"You see, I am new here. Why don't you show me around."

Yucheng said as he handed him the spiritual stone, and to make his perform better he took out another spiritual stone.

Some bystanders' eyes lit with greed as they looked at Yucheng taking out one spirit stone after another.

But before they could have any impure thoughts Yucheng's spiritual pressure exploded out. Although he was only a Qi period cultivator due to the outstanding foundation he had built the pressure was stronger than any average foundation period cultivator.

"My please sir, after all my parents did say I was born to help others."

The man quickly said as he wiped some sweets from his forehead, he was also having some impure thoughts but he quickly killed them after feeling Yucheng's strength.

"You truly are a kind man."

Yucheng muttered with a smile as his spiritual pressure disappeared.

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