Chapter 158: Chapter 0166: Xiao is Poor! Chapter 158: Chapter 0166: Xiao is Poor! The small Array emanated from the disk, almost forcing Qi Tian and Huang Liuyan to stand pressed against each other. Qi Tian might have appeared small with a boyish face, but he was almost as tall as Huang Liuyan. Besides, the soul of an adult resided in his young body. Standing this close to Huang Liuyan, breathing in a waft of her scent, he found himself fighting a wave of reactions.
Huang Liuyan, who still thought of Qi Tian as a child, didn’t notice his discomfort. Instead, she said, “Stand straight. During teleportation, hold on to tightly. Otherwise, you might get lost in the chaos of space, and that ans certain death.”
“This is the legendary Teleportation Array?” Qi Tian asked in astonishnt. The Teleportation Array, a technological marvel capable of great spatial displacent in a short ti, was truly a black technology of the Cultivation World. He had always dread of witnessing it, and today, he finally had his chance.
Without answering what she felt was a naive question, Huang Liuyan took Qi Tian’s hand and said, “Hold on tight, we’re leaving now.”
The mont Huang Liuyan released a spirit rune, the rune on the Teleportation Array flickered. In an instant, a bright golden light engulfed them. Before long, they disappeared.
Myriads of miles away, in a bustling city, stood a square filled with nurous Teleportation Arrays. The lowest-grade spirit stones that adorned these Arrays were middle-grade spirit stones. From ti to ti, these arrays would light up, indicating soone’s arrival or departure.
Suddenly, one particularly small Teleportation Array lighted up. As the light faded, a man and a woman appeared- who else could it be but Qi Tian and Huang Liuyan?
Huang Liuyan let go of Qi Tian’s hand. She had been holding on tightly, fearing Qi Tian might not comprehend the peril of teleportation and get himself into trouble. But fortunately, their journey had been smooth with no hiccups.
At this mont, a male cultivator approached them and asked, “How long are you planning to stay in Wanjie City?”
Qi Tian didn’t answer as he was ignorant about the city. He decided that playing dumb was the best course of action.
“We won’t stay long, just a day at most,” answered Huang Liuyan.
The male cultivator nodded and handed them two jade tokens, saying, “Please wear these Single-Day Plates on you at all tis. Don’t lose them, or you will be in trouble.”
“Thank you.” Huang Liuyan nodded and fit the so-called Day Card around her neck. Observing her, Qi Tian did the sa.
“Enjoy your stay in Wanjie City,” the male cultivator blessed before walking towards another group of cultivators stepping out of the Teleportation Array.
“Sir, what kind of place is Wanjie City?” Qi Tian asked.
Huang replied, “You probably wouldn’t grasp it if I told you everything now. Let’s keep it simple: you can fulfill most of your desires here as long as you can afford the price. For example, even if you want to be the emperor of the Great Zhao Nation or the Mansion Master of Imperial Master Mansion, Wanjie City can make it happen if you can offer sothing of equal value.”
Qi Tian gasped in surprise. He thought Huang Liuyan was taking him to sothing like a departnt store. He didn’t expect Wanjie City to be so wickedly powerful. To suggest that becoming the emperor of Great Zhao or the Mansion Master of Imperial Master Mansion was easy and insignificant left him thoroughly astonished.
“So, if the Mansion Master wants to eliminate National Master Manor and Guardian National Master Manor to monopolize power in Great Zhao, would it be easy?” asked Qi Tian.
“Exactly! But Xiao is poor. If he had the money, he would have co here long ago, sought soone to obliterate those two Master Mansions. Why wait till now?” Huang Liuyan answered, chuckling.
“The Mansion Master is poor?” Qi Tian twitched at the corners of his mouth. That was a cultivator at the Gold Core Stage, who could outsize him in any way. If even Xiao Xiaowu was poor, what would he be? Impoverished? Destitute?
Seeing Qi Tian’s shocked expression, Huang Liuyan smiled and said, “Do you feel impoverished? No need to be embarrassed, I actually feel the sa every ti I co to Wanjie City. In fact, almost every cultivator who cos here feels poor. There are too many incredible things here, but everyone’s available wealth is limited. Enough of that, I’ll take you to buy a decent battle weapon classified as a stick. Follow .”
Qi Tian followed Huang Liuyan as they left the Teleportation Plaza. They hailed a horse-drawn carriage. This kind of carriage operates similarly to taxis on Earth except that they’re faster. They can reach any corner of Wanjie City in a relatively short period of ti.
“Head to Thirteenth Street in the Eastern District of Wanjie,” Huang Liuyan instructed. She tossed two spirit stones to the driver before pulling Qi Tian onboard.
The driver pocketed one spirit stone and fed the other one to the horse. The animal chewed it up like a bean. The sound of the stone breaking in its mouth sent chills down Qi Tian’s spine.
Spirit stones are exceptionally hard, many tis harder than human teeth. If soone tried to crush one with their teeth, they’d end up with a mouthful of shattered teeth. Yet for this horse, it was as easy as chewing a bean.
This is a Dragon-Snow Horse, bearing a trace of dragon blood in its veins. Being a Secret Silver Level Spirit Beast, it can easily digest spirit stones. The Red-Eyed Demon Wolf we encountered in the Lianying Realm was a black iron level beast. The Golden Flur Tiger, I believe, is bronze level. Above that is secret silver level. These Dragon-Snow Horses are at the bottom of the secret silver level beasts and are rather weak. However, they’re still not beings that a Red-Eyed Demon Wolf or Golden Flur Tiger can provoke.” Huang Liuyan explained in detail. “Even so, the starting price for one Dragon-Snow Horse is 1000 spirit stones.”
Upon hearing this, Qi Tian swallowed hard. In the Lianying Realm, one spirit stone could be sold for ten to twenty thousand coins, and in the Great Zhao Cultivation World, it’s worth even more. King Zhangbei Manor only receives twenty spirit stones as reward from the royal family each year. With this comparison, it’s clear how costly a single Dragon-Snow Horse really is.
As Huang Liuyan conversed with Qi Tian, the driver urged the Dragon-Snow Horse into a mad dash. Initially, it ran along the ground, but within monts,he horse lifted the carriage into the air. The horse’s hooves contacted nothing but air, and it moved at an astonishing speed, much faster than the demonic birds Qi Tian had encountered in the Lianying Realm. He estimated that the carriage was covering three to four hundred kiloters an hour – twice as fast as the Golden Flur Tiger at full speed.
Just as Qi Tian was admiring the incredible speed of the Dragon-Snow Horse, Huang Liuyan pointed to the right side of the carriage, “Qi Tian, do you see that mountain? That’s Wanjie Mountain, where the City Lord’s Mansion is built at its peak. That area is the jewel of Wanjie City. Rumor has it that only cultivators at the Nascent Soul Stage can go there. People like us can only admire it from a distance.”
As if a dam had been opened, Huang Liuyan, sitting in the carriage, kept introducing famous buildings in Wanjie City. Qi Tian morized them diligently. This was special knowledge that Huang Liuyan had imparted to him; not everyone was fortunate enough to receive such treatnt.
Despite the impressive speed of the Dragon-Snow Horse, it still took them around ten minutes of flying to reach their destination. Qi Tian calculated that at a speed of three hundred kiloters per hour, they had traveled at least fifty kiloters. However, looking down from the carriage, he still saw thriving cityscapes. Wanjie City was a super tropolis that dwarfed any city on Earth.
After the Dragon-Snow Horse landed, it jogged another thousand ters or so before coming to a stop. “Please disembark. You can either explore on foot from here or hire another ordinary horse carriage to get to your destination.”
Huang Liuyan helped Qi Tian down from the carriage and thanked the driver. This driver wasn’t ordinary either – he was a male cultivator in the late Foundation Establishnt Stage. Who could believe that a strong cultivator at this stage would be working as a carriage driver?
“Uncle Master, where do we go from here?” asked Qi Tian.
“Just follow .” Huang Liuyan hailed another very normal-looking carriage. “Sir, how much to charter your carriage?”
This ti, the driver was at the Qi Cultivation Period. He was quite polite to Huang Liuyan, who was in the Foundation Establishnt Stage. “Elder, chartering my carriage will not be expensive at all. It only costs one middle-grade Spiritual Elixir per person per day.”
Qi Tian grimaced. A middle-grade elixir was worth several thousand silver coins; the driver’s asking price was a complete ripoff.
Huang Liuyan nodded. She knew that everything in Wanjie City ca with a price, and without money, venturing around the city could be quite difficult. When she first visited, she was also stunned by the high cost of living. She’s grown used to it now, but she still doesn’t dare to spend frivolously. As she herself put it, she’s poor too.
Still, one or two middle-grade elixirs were a small expense for her. She presented one as a deposit to the driver. “This is a down paynt; the rest will be given when the charter ends.”
The driver gleefully accepted the elixir. Qi Tian widened his eyes, curious whether the driver would feed the elixir to the pulling horse like the previous driver did.
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