Chapter 290 - 277: Yunyuan Immortal City

Chapter 290: Chapter 277: Yunyuan Immortal City

Great Black’s enormous body was certainly majestic, but it also made moving around rather inconvenient.

Jiang Zuo still needed Great Black to serve as an impressive figurehead, so he had it learn the Transformation Technique.

Great Black didn’t mind, but it first sought the opinions of the two Divine Beasts, Xiaoqing and the Fire Phoenix.

Xiaoqing and the Fire Phoenix weren’t opposed to learning the Transformation Technique, but they would only change their size. They disdained the idea of altering their appearance.

Although Great Black didn’t know why, it decided to listen to its two superiors.

However, since Jiang Zuo wasn’t in a hurry, Great Black wasn’t particularly diligent about its cultivation.

Upon seeing three new Miracle Buildings appear in the Spirit Garden, Great Black’s desire to produce offspring began to stir once more.

This time, Great Black’s target was the newcomer, the female Golden Giant Wolf.

In Great Black’s eyes, the Golden Giant Wolf was breathtakingly beautiful. After spending just a little time with her, he cast Huahua, the big white dog, to the back of his mind and began to court the Golden Giant Wolf.

Unlike the Pale Moon Ice Wolf, the Golden Giant Wolf had a much more easygoing temperament. Faced with Great Black’s courtship, she merely hesitated instead of outright rejecting him.

Had she still been in the outside world, the Golden Giant Wolf would not have considered producing offspring at this time.

But after spending ten days in the Spirit Garden and coming to understand the extraordinary nature of its various Miracle Buildings, she was stunned. Amid her astonishment, the thought of having offspring began to take root.

And by now, Great Black’s bloodline was actually quite extraordinary.

Aside from Xiaoqing and the Fire Phoenix, Great Black possessed the strongest bloodline in the Spirit Garden.

If the Golden Giant Wolf wanted to have offspring, Great Black was arguably her only option.

Seeing that the Golden Giant Wolf didn’t refuse him, Great Black sensed he had a chance and pursued her all the more ardently.

The Pale Moon Ice Wolf observed Great Black’s antics, but it remained as aloof as ever, not treating him any differently just because he had broken through to the fifth rank.

It simply focused on its cultivation in silence, refining the Spiritual Power it had gained from slaying beasts to prepare for its own breakthrough to the fifth rank.

During those ten-odd days, Jiang Zuo’s main task was to completely re-refine the Daoist Talisman Undying Puppet Body.

Fortunately, Jiang Zuo had purchased a considerable amount of the necessary materials in advance while wandering through the major Marketplaces.

Otherwise, re-refining it would have taken over half a year, at the very least.

Once the Puppet Body was re-refined, it hurried back toward the Black Tortoise Dao Sect.

Just as before, Jiang Zuo had the puppet travel through various Marketplaces and Immortal Cities, large and small, to build up its reputation.

Half a year after the destruction of the Forbidden Land, Jiang Zuo decided to head to Yunyuan Immortal City.

Yunyuan Immortal City was the largest and most prosperous Immortal City on the Ancestral Continent.

Cultivators from the Ancestral Continent who wished to travel to the Western Divine Continent could only do so by taking a Flying Ship from Yunyuan Immortal City.

Yunyuan Immortal City was the hub connecting the two human continents.

Every year, a vast number of Cultivators—all at the Divine Body Realm or higher—passed through Yunyuan Immortal City.

Not only that, but a medium-grade Spirit Vein ran beneath Yunyuan Immortal City.

Cultivators could purchase property in Yunyuan Immortal City or rent a Cultivation Room to enjoy the Spiritual Qi from the medium-grade Spirit Vein for their cultivation.

Because of this, Yunyuan Immortal City attracted a great number of Loose Cultivators.

While most Loose Cultivators couldn’t afford to rent year-round, renting a space during a breakthrough was an extremely convenient option.

Furthermore, Yunyuan Immortal City was situated on the northwesternmost edge of the Ancestral Continent, close to the Endless Sea. For those unafraid of hardship and danger, the surrounding area offered abundant cultivation resources.

Yunyuan Immortal City housed multiple Teleportation Arrays, enabling direct travel to and from many other Immortal Cities.

「One month later.」

Jiang Zuo arrived at Yunyuan Immortal City via a Teleportation Array.

Yunyuan Immortal City had lenient policies for Cultivators entering and exiting. As long as one was not on the city’s wanted list, they could come and go freely.

The city had even gone to great expense to forge a special Spirit Treasure for this purpose, one that could lock onto and identify the auras of all who entered and exited.

Once someone was on the wanted list, no disguise could fool the Spirit Treasure’s appraisal.

After teleporting in, Jiang Zuo was required to register his identity and was given a small booklet outlining the Immortal City’s rules.

The booklet didn’t contain many rules. The main ones were a prohibition on fighting within the city and a ban on flight in certain designated areas.

Yunyuan Immortal City was as bustling as the legends claimed, looking for all the world like an imperial capital from the mortal realm.

The only difference was that mortals had been replaced by Cultivators, and a single glance revealed figures soaring through the sky from time to time.

Cultivators of the Divine Body and Three Flowers Realms were a common sight here.

Even Dao Fruit Realm Cultivators, normally a rare sight, were not difficult to encounter within the city.

’Just as the rumors said, it’s a massive commercial city. As long as you have money, you can buy practically anything here.’

As the hub connecting two continents, Yunyuan Immortal City was home to countless merchants.

Every three months, a merchant caravan would depart from Yunyuan Immortal City to the Western Divine Continent, and another would arrive from there.

The caravans brought not only innumerable goods but also large numbers of Cultivators.

In addition to the official cargo, these Cultivators would also be carrying plenty of their own resources.

Vast quantities of goods and resources changed hands here before being transported to other parts of the continent.

Yunyuan Immortal City was massive, yet after looking around for a while, Jiang Zuo discovered that he couldn’t find a single place to stay. It was absurd.

Not even the more expensive places had any vacancies.

However, that was just the situation in the Inner City.

With such an enormous population of Cultivators, Yunyuan Immortal City also required a considerable number of mortals to perform various tasks.

Mortals, of course, could not afford to live in the Inner City, which led to the emergence of an outer city.

This outer city was located beyond Yunyuan Immortal City’s grand defensive array, and as a rule, the Immortal City’s authorities did not interfere in its affairs.

However, if events in the outer city began to affect the reputation of Yunyuan Immortal City, that was another matter entirely.