Chapter 189: Cloud City
Cloudsdale
Across the hillside, Cloudsdale is close in front of you, and this Zhongzhou gateway looks magnificent from the hillside.
The legend of Cloudsdale is familiar to the residents living in Zhongzhou, and the most widely circulated version is that there is a giant beast called "Yunqi" living near Cloudsdale, and the white mist shrouded outside the city is produced by this giant beast.
No one had ever seen the full picture of Yunqi, because it was too big, and with the relatively primitive inhabitants at that time, they couldn't cultivate such a powerful power. New Bayi Chinese Network Debuts Fastest Network Update Computer:
I won't be able to fly into the sky and see the whole beast.
Every year during the winter months, the beasts wake up, when the clouds are at their thinnest, and you can see the full picture of Cloudsdale from the hillside.
But it's not this season, even if Ma Yang is standing at the foot of the city wall, he can't see the whole picture of the city wall.
"This wall is inevitably too high, what is it defending against?" Ma Yang raised his head, and he couldn't see the top of the city wall with all his eyes, and could only slightly see the low end of the three big characters "Cloud City".
"Hurry up, don't grind." Some of the cultists began to drive away the surrounding pedestrians, and there were many black-robed cultists standing around the half-open city gate, distributing the villagers who had been transported.
When Ma Yang walked to the front, Elder Liu went up and whispered, and then the sect members in charge of the distribution handed him a green wooden plaque.
"You don't know what kind of good luck you go, but you actually let the elders take a fancy to it, and go to the city's forging camp with a green card." The sect member said angrily.
Only at the city gate there was a relatively strict inspection, and when they got inside, the Source God Sect disappeared, and it was difficult to encounter this kind of black-robed sect in the streets.
Perhaps in order to hide people's eyes, the one occupying Cloud City on the surface was actually a small tribe, and when Ma Yang first came in, he had already been swept by several spiritual powers, and after testing his body, he hid it.
Ma Yang's current realm is not even easy to judge himself, according to the gray energy, he is still only in the Dao Absolute Realm, but if the origin power is counted, the Heavenly Will Realm may not be able to beat him.
But in terms of spiritual power, Ma Yang boasted that he was not lost to anyone, and after so many times of strengthening, the strongest person in this tribe was a weak chicken who had just entered the Dao Absolute Realm, and he couldn't find himself at all.
The streets of Cloudsdale are very wide, and they are many times larger than Fengbo Village, and it seems that there are at least 10 million residents in the city.
It is simply divided into four areas, including the residential area, the combat area, the trading area, and the municipal area.
The place where Ma Yang was going was located in the combat zone, and Cloudsdale had a highly centralized management system, so that it was convenient to manage a large number of residents.
The Forge Battalion is prominently located in the combat zone, where the best Forge Divisions are gathered, and even after several war changes, this kind of logistics personnel are unscathed.
In their eyes, forgers are traded as scarce war resources, and their lives are much more important than ordinary soldiers.
Anyone can be trained to become a soldier, but only those with a certain amount of talent can
Enough to become a qualified blacksmith.
"Green wooden signs? You go to Master Wang, and he will arrange what you need to do. "There were already congregants waiting at the door, and those holding white wooden signs were walking to the left, while the green wooden signs were walking to the right.
On the right is a place where only a master-level forge can stay, and coming here means being able to save your life.
"You're the helper they arranged?" This Master Wang didn't even raise his head, and he was still concentrating on building the weapon in his hand.
Ma Yang was not in a hurry, but watched the forging process with more interest.
I have also forged some weapons, but after seeing Master Wang's forging techniques, I still sighed to myself.
The stout figure seemed to be the standard for a qualified blacksmith, and Master Wang swung the forging hammer shirtless, constantly pounding the red-hot iron.
At the critical point, he inhales sharply and spits the wine he shouted into the forge, and the flame is stimulated by the wine, giving off an even hotter temperature.
This wine is also supposed to be some kind of special product, and ordinary wine gas simply cannot stimulate the flame at such a high temperature.
After the iron is gradually formed in the forging furnace, it is finally quenched in a bucket next to it.
Wipe the sweat from your forehead, take a sip of the wine in the gourd, and then leave the forge to rest.
"Your job is to give me a hand, and then supervise the slaves in the production room on the left, so that they don't get lazy."
"Production room? Are they the houses on the left? Ma Yang asked.
"You're lucky, the elders of the Source God Sect chose you to come over, and you can survive." Master Wang didn't talk, but said to himself.
He received a task a few days ago, because the Source God Sect needed a lot of metal platforms, and the materials were still being transported, but the forging camp was not manpowered.
Master Wang was angry and told the elders who received them that they would not start work if they did not increase the number of people, so he divided some of the slaves on the side of the altar assembly, resulting in the need to capture the villagers to barely be enough.
"I don't know what the Genshin Cult is going to do? So much more manpower and material resources are needed. Ma Yang said as he took the piece of iron that had just been forged.
This piece of iron was lightly made into a delicate and peculiar structure, which was supposed to be used as an assembly part for large Karakuri structures.
"I'll be able to see it after a while, although they just gave me the drawings, but who am I! The best blacksmith in Cloudsdale! I've pieced together drawings that don't look like a normal altar, but I've never seen anything like that. ”
After Master Wang gave a brief introduction to the situation, he devoted himself to the forging work again.
No matter who gave them the task in the forging camp, as long as the price was fair, they would all receive it.
"What the hell is it that requires so many metal structures? It doesn't look like a material that traditional religion needs. Ma Yang's task is also very simple, that is, to use the whip in his hand to spur the villagers who were transported in the production room to carry out the forging work.
When these villagers arrived, they discovered that the Genshin Cult was only using them as mere slaves.
The living environment is extreme
It was so bad that there were cases of death due to excessive pressure within a few days, but the bodies were simply thrown into the pits dug outside the door, and the vacant places were quickly filled by newcomers.
Ma Yang's daily life now is very simple, get the parts made in the hands of Master Wang, and then hand them over to the strong men in the production room for processing according to this standard.
If they are slack, they need Ma Yang to use a little force to solve it.
During this period, he had a good relationship with the congregants who often came over, and Ma Yang, who grew up in a shop in the market, easily blended in with these people.
In his spare time on weekdays, he will also bring some good wine to eat and drink, anyway, Ma Yang is not short of gold and silver, and if he wants to obtain this metal, he will use his spiritual power to investigate it.
"Brother Ma, you don't know how magnificent this newly built altar is, I haven't seen such an altar in the many years since I joined the Source God Sect!" Through a congregation surnamed Hu, Ma Yang finally got in touch and agreed to take him to see the altar.
Brought Ma Yang a black robe worn by the sect members, and the Hu sect members gave the token of the Source God Sect to the guards in front of him, and then let him go.
Along the way, I passed several levels, and the smell of wet earth began to fill the air.
"This is the altar being built, I have never seen a building with such a structure......" Hu Jiaozhong proudly introduced on the side, after all, in his opinion, Ma Yang is a country man, where has he seen the scene of this big city.
As everyone knows, Ma Yang was surprised the moment he saw the altar.
The structure of this altar is actually a frame structure, which is the most common method used by construction workers in the age of technology.
The forged metal blocks and rods were used to build these, but without complete drawings, it is impossible to know the exact structure of this construction method.
There is another master in the Source God Sect! Looking at the building dozens of meters high in front of me, although it has not yet been completed, it can already clearly see the appearance of this building.
It's a hollow tower in the middle, and the countless small parts are supposed to be used on the inside of the tower to generate energy to attack the space directly above.
"What is this altar used for, do you know Brother Hu?" Ma Yang asked.
"It's said that the Divine Sect wants to summon something, but I don't know the specifics, do you know that there are a large number of people in our sect, in fact, we are taking money to do things, and I am not as religious as those people."
In the days that followed, Ma Yang racked his brain to think about what the altar was trying to summon.
All of them have a looming black energy in their bodies, could it be that the Origin God Cult is the source of the war?
"Ma Yang, after making this last batch of parts, I am going to watch the sacrificial ceremony, Elder Liu specially asked me to protect you thoroughly, and when the time comes, you will follow me and don't talk."
After the last batch of work was done, all the strong men in the production room called out first, and they, the craftsmen, were invited to the audience seats of the ceremony as spectators.
The black-robed cultists gathered bustlingly
In the makeshift platform around this tower, there are tens of thousands of people, plus the forging battalion and some auxiliary personnel, the scene is naturally quite spectacular.
When he entered the routine inspection, Master Wang told the guards that this was his apprentice, and he easily passed the test.
As soon as Ma Yang came in, he found that Elder Liu was sitting in a place closer to the altar.
There were also hundreds of elders near him, and the black aura emitted from his body was much thicker, but they themselves couldn't detect it.
"See, even the puppet city lord has arrived at the scene today, I really don't know how his old face is embarrassed to sit with the deputy sect leader." Master Wang said mockingly.
"Why didn't the leader of the Source God Sect come? Such a grand scene. After carefully observing the people on the platform, Ma Yang didn't find anyone more powerful than the deputy sect leader.
"That sect leader is very mysterious, it seems that no one knows the identity of the sect leader except for the deputy sect leader and the four protectors." After Master Wang finished speaking, he picked up the wine gourd and poured it into a mouthful.
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