Chapter Fifty-Eight: Arriving at Gutai City
At noon, the sunny day that hung high in the center of the sky was radiating its strongest light of the day.
Under the dazzling sunlight, a city wall as high as 20 zhang and 50 miles long is standing there quietly.
The city is open on all sides, each gate tower is threefold, all are the top of the hill type, the four corners are cocked, three layers of heavy eaves, the bottom floor is surrounded by a corridor, antique, majestic and magnificent.
Within the castle are a dozen wide streets paved with blue bricks, which can accommodate six horse-drawn carriages in parallel.
The houses on both sides of the street are lined up one after another, and the signboards and banners of teahouses, restaurants, inns and other shops are hung all over it, accompanied by the bustling flow of people on the streets, all of which set off the prosperity of this city.
"Gutai City! Oh my God, I finally arrived here in time, I can't do it, I must eat well after entering the city, and then take a comfortable bath, and then sleep happily! Otherwise, I will definitely die. ”
At the south gate of Gutai City, there was a sudden miserable wail, which attracted the sideways of pedestrians. I saw three young men in tattered clothes, tired faces, and dusty men standing in front of the city gates, and it was the slightly chubby young man among the three who made a wailing sound.
"Dead fatty, what are you howling, it's not that you're tired alone, we're also tired, okay. If you want to be here and shout, it's better to go into the city early and find a place to stay. ”
Another handsome young man with an iron box on his back patted the chubby young man's back with his eyes, and immediately grinned at the other party's painful teeth.
"Hey, Xiaobai, you bastard, you still have the strength to beat me so much, I'll settle accounts with you when I'm full of food and sleep!"
Although the chubby boy was unforgiving, his eyes were a little evasive, obviously a little afraid of the young man who was carrying the iron box. As for the other black-skinned young man, he didn't join the two of them in the fight, but just silently looked up at Gutai City in front of him.
These three teenagers are Muyang and them.
After parting with the villagers in the valley four days earlier, they hurried to the side of Gutai City.
Because at that time, there were only five days left before the days for the various sect families to recruit disciples in Gutai City, not only was the time pressed but the road was still relatively far, and the three of them had no horses to ride, so they could only rely on their own speed to hurry.
And worried that on the way back, they might encounter people sent by the Crazy Knife Sect to search, which would cause unnecessary trouble, they relied on their familiarity with the wilderness and Zhao Yuanbai knew the direction of Gutai City, so they decided to abandon the relatively flat road, and basically drilled everywhere in the mountains and forests when they hurried.
Along the way, the three of Muyang traveled starry night, endured all the hardships, and did not even have the effort to play some game along the way, and relied on the supplies left by Muyang in the storage bracelet of Mo Xiaoqi to maintain, and when they were hungry, they gnawed dry food, and when they were thirsty, they drank spring water, and when they were really sleepy, they found a safer place to take turns to take a nap, and the hard work was really not enough to be humane with outsiders.
Especially in the mountains and forests, there will be all kinds of dangers, all kinds of poisonous insects, snakes, ants and large ferocious beasts in the mountains and forests are still a trivial matter, with their strength to encounter a casual solution, but when you encounter a wild beast, it is a different matter.
They had encountered a total of four first-order desolate beasts and a second-order low-grade wind leopard, and with the strength of the three of them, it was more than enough to deal with those first-order desolate beasts, but the wind leopard, which was good at sneaking attacks in the dark, was extremely fast and attacked quickly, and almost caused them casualties.
At that time, the wind leopard suddenly rushed out from the shadows and attacked, if it weren't for Mu Yang's quick reaction and pushed Mo Xiaoqi, I'm afraid that this little fat man would have died directly on the spot.
Because none of the three of them had learned the ancient martial arts of the body, they couldn't keep up with the speed of the Wind Leopard at all, and finally relied on Muyang's explosion of a body and its frontal rigidity to delay time, and then Zhao Yuanbai spent another thunderbolt to kill the Wind Leopard and escaped this catastrophe.
Although the way is extremely thrilling, but the harvest is also quite rich, the desolate beast has a lot of materials that can be used for refining weapons and alchemy, which can be used for refining by itself or exchanged for yuan stones in a special shop, especially the wind leopard, the desolate beast will condense a crystalline body similar to the essence of vitality called "desolate yuan" in the second-order body.
The higher the grade of the desolate beast, the better the quality of the desolate element, and there are various desolate elements in many high-quality elixir refining spiritual materials, but to get the desolate element, there is no other way than to hunt the desolate beast and get it. Therefore, the value of the Wild Yuan has always been high.
Although the Wasteland Yuan of this Wind Leopard is only the lowest quality, it can also be exchanged for ten lower-grade Yuan Stones in the shops that bought the Wasteland, and these ten Lower-grade Yuan Stones are enough to buy an ordinary four-grade mortal weapon or a four-grade Mortal Pill with special effects, so its value is also good.
Under such an uninterrupted full-speed rush, the three of Muyang ran out of supplies, and because of all kinds of dangers and battles, they didn't even have a change of clothes, so they could only pick out a set of clothes that were not too tattered to wear, and finally arrived at Gutai City at noon on the last day, tomorrow is the beginning of the selection day, and if you miss it, you can only wait for another three years.
At this time, Zhao Yuanbai and Mo Xiaoqi quarreled, but Mu Yang did not stop them, but quietly looked up at the tall city wall in front of him, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart. Although Muyang had seen all kinds of buildings from many ways in his previous life, in comparison, it was the ancient Thai city in front of him that gave him the greatest shock.
Aside from the magnificent momentum and huge pattern of the ancient Thai city, the city wall made of countless square pieces of black rock iron piled up and smelted alone shocked Muyang, the black rock iron texture is hard and tough, and it is often used as the main material for refining the first and second grade mortal armor, because it is a large number of ancient martial arts continents, so the price is not expensive.
It's just that this is not expensive, which refers to the case of a small number.
Now the entire wall is made of black rock and iron, and its thickness has reached a zhang wide. A rough estimate of all the walls of this ancient Thai city combined, not to mention the manpower and auxiliary materials required to refine them, the cost of black rock iron alone may have reached one or two million lower grade yuan stones.
If all these expenses are converted into high-grade Yuan Stones, you can already buy a good first-grade spirit weapon, you must know that as long as the weapon or armor reaches the level of a first-grade spirit weapon, then against any sixth-order desolate beast, whether it is to break through their defenses or resist their attacks, it is relatively easy, thinking of this, Mu Yang couldn't help but be speechless.
Although Mu Yang didn't know much about the way of refining, he could also see that the city wall of Gutai City was refined by the hands of masters, and its strength was definitely above the low-grade mortal armor, and there were many mysterious carvings on the city wall that exuded a hazy shimmer, and it was obvious that there was a formation on the city wall to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, and as for this foreign enemy, it should be all kinds of wild beasts all over the Guwu Continent.
The desolate beasts and the people on the ancient martial continent already hate each other, people hunt desolate beasts, and desolate beasts will prey on people, so human gatherings are often attacked by desolate beasts, especially those high-level desolate beasts with wisdom, when they think that there is a human gathering place nearby that threatens them, they will gather low-grade desolate beasts together to invade, which is also a catastrophic event called "desolate beast tide" by ancient warriors.
Therefore, in addition to those powerful high-grade sect families, or some middle-grade sect families with deep background, as well as hidden sects other than transcendent things, they will choose a treasure land with a relatively strong vitality and build their own sect here.
The rest of the middle and lower grades include the unfinished sect families, most of them are a few or even a dozen sects gathered together, working together to build a large or small city, and relying on the city's strong defenses to resist the desolate beast tide that may occur in the future.
But even so, if a high-grade, or even ninth-order desolate beast passed by nearby, and happened to see that this city was unhappy, then in addition to those super-powerful high-grade sects that could resist it, like these sect families that relied on the city to survive, they would only be met with destruction.
Although the construction location of the city will basically be far away from the existence of high-grade desolate beasts, but the world is impermanent, and if you can't keep it, you may encounter a high-grade desolate beast that loves to run around, so there is only one way to perish. Therefore, it is not uncommon for cities in the history of the Guwu Continent to be destroyed.
Just like the ancient Thai city in front of him, even if there is a strong city wall and a clever formation, if you look closely, Muyang can also find some paw prints and sword scratches of different shades on the city wall, and even some places can be seen with traces of repair, these traces are left on the city wall, quietly pouring out to the people who come here about the simplicity, desolation and past tragedy of the ancient Thai city.
"Oh! these three people stink!"
"Tut-tut, these three young men have hands and feet, but they are like beggars, one is standing stupidly, and the other is still standing at the gate of the city and making noise, I'm afraid they are not madmen. ”
"Let's get away from them!"
A series of disgusted words woke up Mu Yang, who was thinking wildly, and also interrupted the quarrel between Zhao Yuanbai and Mo Xiaoqi on the side.
The three of them have been rushing all the way these days and have not even had time to freshen up, not to mention the unkempt or anything at the moment, the tattered clothes on their bodies have left the smell of sweat, blood, rotten sludge and so on, which is indeed a little pungent, and it is indeed not an exaggeration to say that they are beggars.
The three of them are usually more clean people, and if they are not helpless, they will never let themselves become like this, so the words of passers-by really embarrassed them.
"Let's go and find a place to stay!"
Mu Yang hurriedly spoke, and under his leadership, the three of them walked quickly towards the city.
As soon as they walked through the city gate hole, the three Muyang people who walked into the city gate felt a prosperous and lively atmosphere coming to them, with eyes full of crowds and shouts and shouts.
Even Muyang, who had seen the prosperity of his previous life, was shocked, not to mention Mo Xiaoqi, who came from a small town, and Zhao Yuanbai, who had never seen the world since he was a child in the village.
"Uh...... Where should we go?" Zhao Yuanbai asked with some uncertainty.
"I ...... Well, I haven't been here, master, where do you know where to stay. Mo Xiaoqi also lowered his voice and whispered.
"Look, there are signs on the shops on both sides of the street, so let's just find an inn where we can rest. Come with me!"
Muyang took the lead in squeezing into the crowded crowd, and Zhao Yuanbai and Mo Xiaoqi hurriedly followed closely when they saw this.