Novel Full Chapter 460 - 221 Tianqu City_2
Chapter 460: Chapter 221 Tianqu City_2
“Chief has been considerate!”
Captain Li gave a solemn bow.
While they were talking, Wei Ziyi also came in from outside.
Seeing Su Mo, she snorted: “You’re back?”
“Yep.”
Su Mo nodded: “Miss Wei, get ready, we will set off for Tianqu City immediately.”
“Leaving now?”
Wei Ziyi was stunned, then promptly agreed and hurried back to pack her things without saying more.
Soon everyone was ready and set off directly.
However, after they descended from Shouyang Mountain, Su Mo pulled the reins to stop and turned to look back at the Ziyang Sect, a ripple of emotion flickering in his eyes.
Wei Ziyi glanced at him and couldn’t help but ask:
“What did you and Sect Leader Li talk about?”
She knew that after Su Mo left the Qianshi Pavilion, he headed straight for the Sect Leader’s residence.
But since it wasn’t appropriate for her to follow him in, she had to leave reluctantly.
Now that they had descended from the mountain, she couldn’t help but ask.
Su Mo smiled slightly: “Nothing much, just that the Grandmaster entrusted me… to deliver an escort.”
“??”
Wei Ziyi was startled: “Deliver to whom?”
“I’m not telling you.”
“…”
Wei Ziyi’s lips twitched: “Can’t you have a proper conversation? Right, why is Senior Duan nowhere to be seen? Didn’t he say he was going to Tianqu City too?”
“Him…”
Su Mo smiled: “You can breathe a sigh of relief, he has other important matters. Let’s go, the excitement of the Tianqu Sword has been brewing for so long, I’m already quite eager.”
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The group set off from Ziyang Sect, heading towards Tianqu City.
The journey was definitely not short; even rushing the horses along, it took nearly half a month to just barely arrive.
The closer they got to Tianqu City, the more people from Jianghu they saw.
The more people there are, naturally, frictions are bound to happen.
Therefore, on their way, Su Mo and his companions occasionally saw fights on the roadside, and from time to time, several bodies that had not been buried in time lay across the path, or were hanging from trees.
However, it’s best not to meddle in these kinds of fights, even if one witness them.
The reasons vary, some due to quarrels, others due to feuds; the rights and wrongs are difficult to discern, and rash involvement is likely to trap one in complex disputes from which it’s hard to extricate oneself.
Hence, the group chose to turn a blind eye to the twists and turns encountered along the road.
But if someone really took advantage of their martial arts to attack ordinary people, they would not hesitate to draw their swords to help whenever they saw injustice.
In a blink of an eye, Tianqu City was already before their eyes.
From afar, they could see a mighty city situated amidst the four corners of the world.
Looking down from a high vantage point, the city walls were mottled and ancient, and the buildings within, vaguely visible, all bore the marks of age.
This was the largest city Su Mo had seen since he arrived in this world.
Compared to the Four Great Cities of the Phoenix Alliance or any of those encountered along the way, none could match it.
“There are actually civilians in Tianqu City?”
Su Mo surprisingly looked towards Wei Ziyi. He had assumed that since Tianqu City was the battleground between good and evil, aside from the masters of the Righteous Path stationed here, there wouldn’t be civilians living in it.
After all, the Three Great Demon Sects would come and clash occasionally, and anyone could easily perish in the crossfire.
“Hundreds of years ago, Tianqu City was the capital of Donghuang, the undisputed heart of the entire Donghuang.
“How could such a place not have civilians?
“Not everyone is willing to leave their birthplace.”
Wei Ziyi smiled: “But this is also my first time here; I’ll have to take a good look around later. The Seven Great Sects and the various sects from all parts of Dongcheng are stationed here, and it can be said that this place is a concentrated essence of the entire Jianghu of Dongcheng, incomparable to ordinary places.
“Many people even think of this place as a land of opportunities. Those who can’t find a master to accept them come here to Tianqu City to try their luck.
“If one could gain the favor of the Seven Great Sects, that would be an overnight rise, ascending straight to the Ninth Layer.”
Hu Sandao didn’t feel much about the second half of what Wei Ziyi said.
But the first half, the part ’not everyone is willing to leave their birthplace,’ deeply resonated with him, and he nodded repeatedly:
“If it weren’t for being forced beyond choice, who would want to leave their homeland?”
The Scar-faced Strange Guest riding with him also nodded continuously: “If it weren’t for being forced beyond choice, who would want to leave their homeland?”
The corners of Hu Sandao’s mouth twitched, tempted to fight it out with the Scar-faced Strange Guest.
However, although the Scar-faced Strange Guest’s mind seemed as naive as a newborn, his martial arts skills were not forgotten.
Whatever Hu Sandao did to him, he would do the same to Hu Sandao.
When Hu Sandao hit him, he was fine, but when he hit Hu Sandao, Hu Sandao would grimace in pain for a long time.
For the moment, Hu Sandao was helpless against him and could only let it go.
Fu Han Yuan also sighed softly, his feelings of nostalgia provoked by Wei Ziyi’s one sentence.
After briefly chatting among themselves, the group promptly made for Tianqu City.
However, as the saying goes, “Distance tests a horse’s stamina,” the city that seemed close at hand still took them half a day’s journey to finally reach the base of Tianqu City.
There were also guards at the foot of Tianqu City, mainly from the Dongcheng Seven Great Sects, with many other sects supporting them, taking turns on watch to prevent the Evil People of the Demon Sect from stealthily infiltrating.
Therefore, the control over the city’s entrance and exit was quite strict.
Ordinary civilians and merchants had to have documents to show where they came from and for what purpose they came.
And after entering the city, one could not immediately run about; there were also registration and bookkeeping, meticulous in all aspects.
If one belongs to the Jianghu, ordinary documentation would not suffice.