Chapter 258: Black Rock City
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Zhang Yue left early the next morning without saying goodbye to anyone.
When Kashan walked into the cabin with a moss cake and a glass of water on a plate, she only found something that Zhang Yue had left behindβan exercise booklet for Kashan to teach Jiani after practicing, and two bottles of elixir.
At this time, Zhang Yue had already left hundreds of miles away.
According to the induction in the vein stone, Black Rock City was about 18,000 kilometers away, and if this distance was on the ground, Zhang Yue could fly to it in an hour. However, you can only use the earth escape technique underground, the speed is far less than flying in the air, and the consumption is still large, and you have to stop and recover the true yuan after a certain distance of escape.
18,000 kilometers takes about three or four days to get there, plus the time it takes to clean up the rock monsters.
Zhang Yue didn't go out of his way to find the rock monster, but if he encountered it, it was still okay to spend some effort to collect the crystal nucleus, this thing should be considered hard currency in the center of the earth, and it might be useful in Black Rock City.
He was lucky, he came across a large rock monster lair on the way, although it took him half a day, but he harvested more than five hundred rock monster crystal nuclei, three of which were as big as fists and shimmered with golden light, from the three foundation building period rock monsters.
A few days later, Zhang Yue arrived in Black Rock City.
As soon as he saw Black Rock City, Zhang Yue knew why people chose this place to build a geocentric city.
The Black Rock Layer shrouded the outside of Black Rock City like a huge shell, but the shell was not completely sealed, there were many voids and passages, these passages were sealed with rubber, and the area inside was the city.
The black rock is very hard, impervious to water vapor, and it is difficult to pass through the earth escape technique, which requires a lot of mana. The black rock formations are like the city's natural protective walls.
On top of that, there is a steady stream of leyline heat passing through the black rock formations. The leyline heat flow is the lifeblood of humans in the center of the earth, and there is no sunlight here, and edible plants and gas mushrooms that can decompose air need to rely on geothermal heat to grow. The leyline heat currents travel through the layers like ocean currents, bringing life to this world of earth and rock.
The general leyline heat flow is intermittent and slowly changes direction over time, so the tribes in the center of the earth need to wander constantly. There is a stable leyline heat flow here in Black Rock City, which is really a unique condition.
Zhang Yue walked towards the entrance of the largest passage in Black Rock City.
The passage is more than two kilometers in diameter, and the thick rubber sheet that seals the entrance to the cave bulges outward, and there are glowing lines on the rubber sheet, marking large and small mooring areas, to which dense rubber boats cling.
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Zhang Yue walked out of the soil layer and landed in a blank area where there was no rubber boat mooring, and was thinking about how to get in, when the rubber ground under his feet automatically melted into a hole.
After Zhang Yue got in, the gum behind him re-fused and closed, and then the gelatinous layer in front melted, and a warm airflow came to his face.
A man in a gray guard uniform waited respectfully for Zhang Yue to come out, bowed and saluted: "Hello, Venerable Cultivator, welcome to Black Rock City. β
Zhang Yue glanced at it, this guard's cultivation was not weak, and he was at the realm of a martial arts master.
"Are you a guard here?"
"Yes, my name is Ott, and I'm a squad leader of the First Harbor Guard in Black Rock City. β
When Ott was on duty, he saw through a mirror-like surveillance screen that Zhang Yue did not take the plastic boat to act, and immediately realized that this was a cultivator, and he had not been to Black Rock City before, otherwise he would not have taken this port where the rubber boat was parked, but took the special passage for cultivators.
Realizing that the opportunity had come, Ott hurriedly asked his companion to ask for leave on his behalf, and rushed to greet him.
"Oh, I'm the first time I've come to Black Rock City, I wonder if there are any rules here?"
"Master Cultivator, do you need a guide?"
"Guide? β
"My lord, I'm very familiar with Black Rock City, I wonder if I will have the honor of being your guide?"
"Don't you have to be on duty?"
"It is my privilege to serve the practitioners. β
"Okay, you can introduce me to Black Rock City, and find me a place to rest. β
"No problem, please come here. β
Ott respectfully led the way in front, and Zhang Yue found that the people here were wearing special rubber shoes, the soles were glued to the rubber ground, the adhesion was not strong, and they could be pulled up as soon as they lifted their legs, and with the help of this kind of shoes, they could walk on the rubber ground.
Took Zhang Yue to the outside of the port, snapped his fingers, and a strange car flew over.
"It's a windmill, human-driven. Ott introduced.
The so-called windmill is a metal frame glued with rubber and a seat inside, and the "driver" sits in front of it, with a foot blower, and the wind sprays out from behind the body to drive the vehicle forward.
After getting into the car, Ott said to the coachman, "Go to the inner city." β
"Inner city?" said the coachman in surprise.
"That's right. β
"Okay. β
The driver pedaled the blower, and the windmill moved quickly.
The so-called road is actually a huge hollow pipe, and the pipe wall is densely packed with glue houses, many of which are more than a dozen storey "buildings". There is no elevator here, and anyone who wants to go up and down the stairs can simply pull up their rubber shoes and jump, but be careful about the direction of the jump, if you accidentally jump into the middle of the "road", you are likely to be hit by a whistling windmill.
Ott began to brief Zhang Yue about the situation in Black Rock City.
"Black Rock is one of the largest cities in the center of the earth, with a permanent population of more than one million and more than 10,000 affiliated tribes. There's the biggest market, the best academies, and the strongest defense. β
"Defend against what? rock monsters?"
"The rock monsters are one of the threats, and they have to defend other cities, but there has been no war between cities in decades, and now is a rare time for peace. β
"Oh, you go on. β
"The supreme ruler of Black Rock City is the Fellow Cultivators' Guild, and all cultivators will join this organization and reside in the inner city, where we are going. β
"Can anyone join the Fellow Believers, an outsider like me?"
"As far as I know, there are no restrictions, the Tongdao Association is a very relaxed place, as long as you go to the inner city and do a certification, you can join, and then you can enjoy all kinds of treatment of the Tongdao Association, such as a house in the inner city, reading books and regularly distributing crystal nuclei, etc. β
"What happens to ordinary people entering Black Rock City?"
"There is some fee to pay, not much, a person only needs to hand in a bottle of water or the equivalent amount of glue powder. Of course, there is also an expense to living and living in the city. β
While he was talking, the inner city arrived, and the windmill stopped at a circular arch, and the coachman said, "I can't get inside." β
Ott took out a metal coin with a pattern, and with a flick of his fingers, it flew over, and the coachman grabbed it nimbly, and immediately smiled: "Thank you." β
Zhang Yue got out of the car, the windmill turned and drove away, and Ott said: "Passing through this gate is the inner city, as long as you pass through this gate, someone will come to greet you immediately." β
The arch was carved with a strange pattern, and Zhang Yue recognized it as a probing rune.
Zhang Yue walked through the arch, the runes lit up, and the true yuan in his body suddenly reacted, fluctuating slightly.
Ott, who was following him, felt nothing at all, and this effect was only perceptible to the practitioner.
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