The Lightning Driver
Chapters. 7. The City Lord Xia Yu
The wine stall that had been quiet now became crowded again, the table in the left corner where the newly-acquainted group gathered became the most royal table. Grandfather Zhou with a heart desire that he had been holding back from the beginning began to open his voice.
“Long Boy! From your dress suit and your gestures, you're still very blind to this Green Forest/Persilatan World. Didn't it occur to you to join a certain guild or sect?” A wide smile accompanied every utterance of Grandpa Zhou.
Indirectly he invited Gou Long to join him. Gou Long understood the intent of Grandpa Zhou's words, in his heart he already intended to join a certain Union or Sect. Yet for the time being Gou Long still had a hint of doubt, and was not willing to be bound by the Sect or the Union.
Already this week Gou Long had been circling and touring Xia Yu City, he had not gotten any useful information for him. Gou long was very understanding, to more easily obtain various kinds of information in the martial world must be by certain means.
A good center and source of information is a guild or sect, then a wine shop where information and news exchange. Do not forget also of course to pay certain informants.
A bit of a face to Grandpa Zhou, then Gou Long asked, “Senior! What advantage would a junior get if a junior joined the Senior Sect? Junior also does not know what and how the sect that senior occupy.” His expression was flat, he even tried to hide the heart intent.
“Long Boy! This old man will be straightforward, I noticed your inner strength is very high for a boy your age. However, this old eye also sees the lack of fighting experience, as well as movement-movement, be it the Science of Punch or the Science of Weapons, right?” guess Grandpa Zhou.
“Joining a particular Sect or Guild, will hone your flaws in both of these. Then within the Sect or Guild there is certainly a guarantee of resources to practice for each member,” he continued.
“Long Boy! For this old man sect alone still located in the Southern area, this was roughly two days' journey from this Xia Yu City. That is the Sky Dragon Sect,” Grandpa Zhou said ending his speech with a look of pride.
Murong Qiu who was listening to this conversation was surprised with his face paled, his eyes sparkling brightly. The Sky Dragon Sect was extremely famous in this Southern region, which was a top-class sect.
All the cultivators wish that they could be chosen as disciples of that sect. He looked enviously towards Gou Long, the young man could obtain an opportunity like this without having to take the exams and procedures that the Celestial Dragon Sect had set up a long time ago, what an incredible fortune.
Gou Long, who had just come down the mountain, did not really understand everything in the martial world, including the big sects, and he subtly rejected it.
“Go from Senior, in the meantime let Junior save and think later, later in the day Junior will definitely come and visit Senior,” he replied.
Grandfather Zhou did not insist, his face still smiling as he took out a gold token from under the cloak, which he then handed to Gou Long.
“Bokah! If you visit the Heavenly Dragon Sect later, you can simply show this token to the sect gatekeeper, and things will be easy for you.”
Gou Long received the gold token then stored it into the universe ring.
The preoccupation at the table continued until not feeling two hours passed. Each of them would say goodbye, Murong Qiu stood up first then said. “It is an honor for Junior if Senior, along with brother Long and sister Mei are willing to stay at the City Lord Mansion for the next few days. Junior is confident of Senior's arrival to this City to take a look at this Alchemy Festival in Xia Yu City, right!”
Getting the invitation they all did not refuse, while rising up to follow the way the Miss walked.
This news of the Alchemy Festival in Xia Yu City had spread since a month ago. Therefore Xia Yu City became the busiest and most crowded city in this month, various types of people from various cities came to enliven or just look around to add to the experience.
To practice Alchemy itself, it required rare ingredients, and for every failure in refining or training was the equivalent of wasting rare materials for nothing.
Moreover, any cultivator who wanted to take a big step had to rely on the pills the Alchemists provided, this was why the Alchemists were so arrogant and haughty.
There were also those who only wanted to see the crowd and the shootout, and there were those who wanted to participate in the Alchemy refining technique itself.
Yep! the name of the show was the Alchemy Festival, but they were cultivators. Cultivator's life must not include the arena of competing in order to be able to exchange several styles. In this arena often some big sects sent messengers to see talented seedlings that they could raise as outer disciples of the sect.
And the peak of this Alchemy Festival was the public auction held by the auction house of Xia Yu city.
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The City Lord Mansion was the largest building in Xia Yu city, this building was majestic like an imperial mini Castle with high walls surrounding it. From a distance it appeared that four people were coming towards the gates of the City Lord Mansion, a girl in a red suit leading in front.
The guard who saw the approaching girl bowed respectfully and said. “Open the gate! Young miss has returned.”
“Uncle guards do not need to be too polite,” said the girl, while stepping her feet inside.
The three invited guests of the Miss followed behind him without saying anything.
Along the way to the main hall, they passed by several servants, who paid their respects to the young Miss. The presence of the other three behind their young miss made the servants whisper to each other. They had never seen the young Miss bring some guests all this time.
Murong Qiu ignored the attitude of the servants, he waved at one of the servants. “Aibi! ... Prepare a banquet and also provide three rooms for these guests, they will stay at this Mansion for the next few days.”
“Good young miss,” replied the waiter.
Inside the main hall of the City Mansion had gathered quite a few people.
Sitting in the main seat of the hall, Lord City Lord dashingly, he was a porposional middle-aged man, in a white suit and clad in a green robe, covering the sturdy muscles behind the suit.
Roman face with a sturdy jaw, accompanied by sharp eyes, sharp nose. Completed the handsome handsome handsome face of the middle-aged man with lips and a thin mustache decoration on it.
He was the ruler of Xia Yu City. “Murong Sun.”
His prowess was not mere nonsense with the cultivation level of the Late Stage Earth Realm. Keep in mind, in Xia Yu City only a few people managed to train all the way to the Late Stage Earth Realm.