Chapter 120: Donghaifang City
Donghai County was the most sea-near mortal city on the eastern territory of the Han Empire. This county consists of 14 counties and a population of more than 100,000, making it the largest and last county seat at the mouth of the Tianhe River.
Hua Luo's boat traveled all the way down the Tianhe River, and after half a month of unhurried work, it finally arrived at the county seat.
When Sun Fengzhao saw such a magnificent sea for the first time, the magnificent scenery of the sea was as if a spell had been cast, which was thrilling. Sun Fengzhao, who saw the sea for the first time, couldn't help but let out an excited sigh of life.
The endless and vast sea, the blue sky and the water printed in blue left a deep impression on Sun Fengzhao. The tide of the sea is like a call from ancient times, constantly calling for the arrival of Sun Fengzhao.
The sea is a challenge given by nature to the human beings of this world, and the magical power it shows, the magnificent tides, and the never-ending sea water all make Sun Fengzhao amazed.
As soon as Sun Fengzhao smelled the breath of the sea, it was as if he had known it for a long time. All the spiritual power in Sun Fengzhao's body was also like boiling water when he approached the seaside, boiling with excitement, almost causing Sun Fengzhao to lose control.
When Hua Jue was surprised by Sun Fengzhao's inexplicable changes, Sun Fengzhao himself understood that it was due to the ghost lotus seed that he had been planted into his body to act as a spiritual root. This lotus seed is produced in the sea, which is a natural resonance with the sea.
As the heaven and earth spiritual creature of this ocean, even if it has been completely integrated into Sun Fengzhao's body and become a part of Sun Fengzhao, it still has something of its nature.
As soon as Sun Fengzhao got off the boat, he was pulled by Hua Jue to visit the "Baoguang Pavilion" of their family in this local city.
The "Spirit Hunting Conference" was not held in this mortal city, but also at sea, on an island fifteen days away from Donghai County, which was also where the Emei rudder was located.
But in this county where mortals live, because there are immortal cultivation materials such as the sea spirit beast Neidan, there are perennial exchanges. It formed a small market, which provided a platform and place for monks who hunted and killed sea spirit beasts to sell and buy, or to exchange various immortal cultivation materials brought from the inland.
Hua Jue pulled Sun Fengzhao and walked around the folk streets. As soon as Hua Luo got off the boat, he didn't know where he had gone. After three turns and two turns, Hua Jue stopped at the mouth of a small alley made up of two jade shops.
"Where is Fang City, and where is your Baoguang Pavilion?" Sun Feng asked puzzled, looking left and right at the street where he was standing. At this time, Sun Fengzhao's cultivation was only ten layers of qi refining, and through these dozens of days of getting along with the ancestors and grandchildren of the Hua family, he not only learned this secret technique of suppressing cultivation, but also was able to indulge in his own cultivation. I also exchanged some exercises and spells with Hua Jue and Hua Luo, and I gained a lot of experience. After all, Sun Fengzhao had reached the middle stage of foundation building at this time, and there were many problems and spells that he could not solve and learn before, and he could control them handily at this time.
Hua definitely smiled at Sun Fengzhao's question, pointed to the alley in front of Sun Fengzhao and said, "It's here!"
"Here?" Sun Fengzhao said in surprise.
"Yes, let's go, there is still our Song Gaozong's Treasure Pavilion inside!" Hua Jue said, and pulled up Sun Fengzhao and stepped into the alley first.
Just when Sun Fengzhao was still full of questions, he saw Hua Jue's foot and half of his body stretched forward, and disappeared into this seemingly ordinary alley.
There is no spiritual power fluctuation, there is no brilliance of the phantom array, how is this prohibition done?
Sun Fengzhao was stunned for a moment, accepted all the doubts, raised his feet behind Hua Jue, and walked into this forbidden.
"This is not a phantom array laid out with immortal cultivation materials, but a formation laid by mortals, which can only block the peeps of mortals and cover mortals, just now you can see through it with a look at the Heavenly Eye Technique...... But this prohibition is specially set up for immortal cultivators in the Fang Market here, in order to let the immortal cultivators who come here to buy and trade know that this is the entrance to the Fang Market......"
Before turning around and looking at the mortal formation set up by a few simple stones, Sun Fengzhao was broken by Hua Jue's words, and after being broken by Hua Jue, he looked at and studied for a long time, sighing that mortals also have great wisdom, otherwise how could he imitate a formation that is very similar to the immortal cultivation world.
Under Hua Jue's reminder, when Sun Fengzhao stood up and turned around again, he didn't use the Heavenly Eye Technique, and he saw a layer of immortal cultivators not far in front of him.
There was a layer of cyan streamer flickering on that layer of prohibition, and at a glance, I knew that this layer of prohibition was not very powerful. With Sun Fengzhao's current cultivation in the middle stage of foundation building, he may not be able to break it with brute force, but with the cooperation of Sun Fengzhao's magic weapon and ancient treasure, he can still break this prohibition in one fell swoop.
And the whole passage, before and after walking, is a bland dead end in the eyes of mortals. This is one of the reasons why there are no mortals who might break into this place on a normal day.
As soon as Sun Fengzhao and Hua Jue walked into this layer of prohibition, a loyal and good-looking fifth-layer Qi refining monk jumped out of it.
As soon as this person came out of the forbidden, he bent down and bent his knees at Hua Jue, and greeted Hua Jue and said, "Young Master Hua, you are here, you have wanted to die and be loyal to me all these years!" said the old man and shed a few tears.
"Uncle Zhong, I miss you too....... this is Uncle Zhong, the head of the branch of my family's Donghai Baoguang Pavilion! I am the ...... that Uncle Zhong raised since childhood."
Hua Jue never said it, and Sun Fengzhao could also see that Hua Jue and this old monk of the fifth level of qi refining had a good relationship.
"Oh, it turned out to be Young Master Sun, the old ancestor has already explained, two young masters, come in with me!"
With that, Uncle Zhong turned around and strode into the forbidden light mask. Then Hua Jue, Sun Fengzhao followed Hua Jue and walked into this layer of prohibition, and suddenly felt a slight heaviness under his feet, and the mana in his entire body became more than a thousand catties.
Sun Fengzhao was slightly stunned, but immediately understood that he was bound by some kind of prohibition.
According to Hua Jue, this Fang City is mainly operated by the Emei faction, and other Central Plains Immortal Cultivation Sects and some large immortal cultivation families are jointly operated. In the entire eastern part, this Fang City is the largest Fang City, where many immortal cultivators from all over the world sell, exchange, and buy all kinds of immortal cultivation materials.
Sun Fengzhao was a little unconvinced at first that Hua Jue had blown this market into a mess. Because Sun Fengzhao, who has experienced the "exchange meeting" of Yu's Villa, is not very good for the concept of Fang City.
First, Sun Fengzhao has always felt that the transactions of the Fang Market and Exchange Meeting in the Immortal Cultivation Realm are a bit sneaky because they want to avoid the sight of most mortals, so the scale and grade are a bit unpopular in Sun Fengzhao's impression. It's either in the middle of nowhere, or it's secret.
Second, Sun Fengzhao didn't expect Donghaifang City to be opened in the middle of the downtown area, but he has always intuitively believed that this kind of Fang Market hidden in the downtown area cannot be very large in terms of scale or area. It is even more unlikely that there will be a large-scale ban. If you spend a lot of spirit stones, it will be a bit more than worth the loss.
But as soon as I walked into the entrance of this fang market today, I not only marveled that this fang market really deserved to be the largest fang city in the east, but also set up a large-scale ban on air in such a fang market.
In fact, with Sun Fengzhao's current mid-stage foundation cultivation, he can completely ignore this prohibition and forcibly fly in the sky, at most consuming some more mana. But if it is not necessary, Sun Fengzhao will not do it. After all, he is suppressing this cultivation now, and everything must be done in a low-key manner, otherwise all this effort will be in vain.
But when Sun Fengzhao looked up, he was glad that he was not so reckless. Sun Feng looked at everything in front of him, with a look of surprise on his face.
After the ban, this fang city is only three or four times smaller than the Donghai county town outside. Where is a street here, even a few dozen, no less. This is completely inconsistent with Sun Fengzhao's imagination of a lonely street, dilapidated and depressed. The streets and shops here are the same as those outside the city.
The only difference is that most of the things sold here are shops specializing in immortal cultivators who buy and sell raw materials for cultivating immortals, talismans, as well as magic weapons and elixirs, and there are even some bookstores that specialize in selling primary Dharma decisions and exercises, and some restaurants and inns that are convenient for those low-level Qi refining cultivators who can't completely clear the valley yet.
In addition, according to Hua Jue, in addition to the various factions that will take turns to send some low-level deacon disciples in the entire Fang City, there are also a certain number of masters of the foundation building and knotting period who are stationed here all year round to maintain the order of this Fang City, prevent people from making trouble, and mediate disputes in the Fang Market.
Speaking of which, this Fang City in Donghai County is really quite famous in the entire Immortal Cultivation Realm, and it is much more prosperous than other Fang markets built near the sect.
This is because of the special location where this city is located. This fang market is the last human monk foothold where the mainland is connected to the sea, so there are often immortal cultivators from overseas who come here to trade goods in this fang market, bringing many special immortal cultivation materials and items that are not available overseas. This cannot but be said to be an unexpected surprise, and many cultivators from scattered cultivators and immortal cultivation families and sects will come to purchase and trade.
With these to attract immortal cultivators from all over the world to do business here, coupled with the special geographical environment of the Fang City, this Fang City has prospered year by year, and there are some rare things flowing out of the Fang Market from time to time, which attracts more immortal cultivators to come here to Taobao.
The direction of the Fang City that Sun Fengzhao and the others entered may be exactly the northern part of the entire Fang City. A large area of the street here was empty, and there were no storefronts or pavilions selling immortal cultivation materials. And they are all stall areas specially reserved for immortal cultivators who want to set up stalls temporarily.
According to Zhongbo, as long as you hand over a low-level spirit stone to the monk who manages this place, outsiders can set up stalls in the open spaces on both sides for a whole day without any interference, and even during the stall setting up, they will be protected by the deacons and disciples of these fang markets, so you don't have to worry that an enemy will take this opportunity to take revenge on you.
At this time, it was already afternoon, and there didn't seem to be many people on this street stall in Fang City. But this is also a very normal thing, after all, this city is not a secular city, it will be bustling all day long, and the people who can come here are all immortal cultivators who choose one out of ten thousand, and it is very good to have so many people at this time.
Sun Fengzhao, who had figured this out, laughed at himself, followed Hua Jue and Zhongbo, and walked all the way to the center of Fang. From time to time, under the introduction of Zhongbo and Hua Jue, I glanced at the small stalls on both sides. Sun Fengzhao was really the first time to enter such a large market, he planned to see if there were any noteworthy things in these stalls first, increase his knowledge, and whether he could purchase some of the immortal cultivation materials he needed.
After looking around all the way, Sun Fengzhao was a little disappointed in his heart. The things on these stalls, except for three or four pieces that can barely be called, other magic weapons, talismans, materials, and elixirs are simply something that he can't look down on, and it's just a waste of spirit stones when he buys them. I didn't waste any more time, and quickly followed Hua Jue and the others, and ran directly to the big shops in the center of Fang.
As soon as I walked into the center of Fang, I saw a huge white shield, covering every area in the city, where the shops were located.
What surprised Sun Fengzhao the most was that in the middle of this urban area, there was a huge pavilion floating more than 30 zhang above the ground.
This pavilion is verdant and dripping throughout, exuding a faint fluorescence, as if it is built by a large spiritual stone, which is really eye-catching.
Walking on a certain street in this city, you can see the street where several cars and horses can go side by side. Sun Fengzhao couldn't help but sigh with emotion, looking at the emerald green hanging pavilion that was shining in the sunlight, Sun Fengzhao was stunned for a long time.
Although he didn't know how this pavilion floated in the air without falling, Sun Fengzhao really felt that it was extremely rare.
"You won't be the first time you've been to Fang City, will you?"
It was not difficult to catch some information from Sun Fengzhao's expression, and the sound of shock came from behind Sun Fengzhao. But Hua Jue knew very well that all the monks who saw this city for the first time would have this kind of expression.
"Cut, what's the matter? This shows that Young Master Ben is bent on seeking the Tao and has no distractions...... Otherwise, how can my cultivation catch up with and surpass you!"
Sun Fengzhao spoke very casually with Hua Jue, and the deeper Sun Fengzhao came into contact with Hua Jue, the more he unconsciously learned some arrogant and angry ways of speaking. Now that Sun Fengzhao is fine, he can also raise a bar with Hua Jue. But in the end, when it came to the matter of cultivation, Sun Fengzhao still approached Hua Jue and whispered.
"Hmph, when I find my Yongxiu sister, I'll be 'double cultivation' immediately, and the 'double cultivation' that works overtime will definitely be a triple jump when the time comes, and I want you to look good, hahaha...... Double cultivation, double cultivation you, I want double cultivation ......" As soon as he mentioned the Hua Jue of "double cultivation", he couldn't help but smirk, like a cat in heat, a pair of thief eyes stared at the streets of Fangshi where people came and went.
At this time, there are no beautiful monks here, otherwise it will definitely cause misunderstanding. After being scolded by Sun Fengzhao for a few words, Hua Jue suddenly changed his previous hippie smiling face, pointed to the emerald green pavilion built in the air, and said: "This is the largest shop in Benfang City" Starry Sky Pavilion ", it is the industry of Emei Crow Old Road, and there are a lot of good things in it. There are also one or two auctions a month, and there will be a few good treasures coming out, but they are all worth a lot......"