Chapter 980 - 984: The Belle Is Spoken For

"Right up ahead is where the Human Daoist Sect is based." Miaoshan led the way, stopped before an ancient city, and pointed at it as she spoke,

Wu Tian slightly furrowed his brows,

"Human City"!

That was the name of the city before them. The city gate was twenty meters tall, forged from Gold, with Daoist talismans upon it,

The city walls stretched on and on, no telling how far.

The little guy scratched his head and cried out, "No, this isn’t right."

"What’s not right?" Miaoshan laughed. She took the little guy over from Qin Yuhan,

The little guy said earnestly, "Look carefully, this is a city. The Human Daoist Sect is a Daoist Sect, so how could it be..."

A city and a Dao Sect,

No matter how you looked at it, they didn’t match.

Since it’s a Dao Sect, wouldn’t a few mountains be enough?

Miaoshan shook her head and began explaining to the little guy, "You just don’t understand people’s hearts. Most people are never satisfied. Daoism should have the air of transcendent immortals, but the Human Daoist Sect has been tainted by worldly dust and also wants worldly power."

The little guy curled his lips. Could that still be called Daoism?

"Why do the three characters ’Human City’ look like your handwriting?"

Suddenly, Qin Yuhan noticed something and sharply asked Wu Tian,

Wu Tian was stunned, not expecting Qin Yuhan to see through it. He chuckled, "I didn’t expect either that the Human Daoist Sect would be in Human City. Those three characters of Human City were written by me, ten thousand years ago, I..."

But Qin Yuhan and the others had no interest in listening. Miaoshan and the rest were helpless too. Ten thousand years ago?

Were you even born yet?

...Wu Tian smiled and followed along with everyone, but in his eyes flowed memories.

Back then, this place was still a barren wasteland,

There wasn’t even a city here yet. When Wu Tian, not yet an Emperor, passed by, he saw a group of villagers suffering under mountain bandits’ bullying. Wu Tian took action, and then built this city for them,

The name of this city, the three characters "Human City," was also written by Wu Tian!

...At Human City, at the gate, there was a squad of soldiers standing guard, but they were wearing Daoist robes,

Which made Wu Tian frown slightly.

These soldiers were all at the Tongxuan Realm in cultivation. For ordinary people to try and make trouble here was clearly impossible.

"How do we get in?" Miaoshan and the others looked toward Wu Tian and asked,

These city guards were actually wearing Daoist robes—what was that supposed to mean?

Wu Tian’s eyes narrowed as well,

In the past, he had sheltered the commonfolk here so they wouldn’t suffer the bandits’ bullying and extortion.

Their descendants had lived peacefully within Human City ever since,

The City Lord was also a descendant of that old village chief’s line,

But looking at it now,

The city hadn’t been taken by bandits with brute force,

It had been tricked away by a Dao Sect instead?

All of a sudden, Wu Tian felt a kind of furious disappointment, like hating iron for not turning into steel.

"We just walk in." Wu Tian said.

They entered the city. The robe-clad guards at the gate even demanded Silver, calling it a toll. Miaoshan, wealthy and magnanimous, paid some Silver and only then were they allowed in.

The buildings here had changed a lot compared to before, but the main streets were still those few. With a single glance, Wu Tian felt a surge of nostalgia in his heart.

Human City had everything: restaurants, brothels, carriages, commonfolk scattered along the streets. Looking around, it was quite bustling,

"The blueprint for this city came from me. I based it on the great Chang’an of the flourishing Tang dynasty!"

As Wu Tian walked along, he discovered that all the commonfolk here had been planted with Dao Seeds!

Wu Tian did not head to the City Lord’s Mansion first, nor to the Human Daoist Sect. Instead, he looked for an inn,

From Miaoshan he had learned that ever since the Dao Emperor attained his throne, no matter where a Daoist temple was, every so often they would hold a Dao Debate Tournament,

The Human Daoist Sect,

Had already obeyed the Undead Martial Sovereign’s orders and become his lapdog. But even as they played the whore, they still wanted the Archway of Chastity,

The Dao Sect still kneeled every day before the Dao Emperor’s statue, and every few years they still had to hold a Dao Debate Tournament.

And Wu Tian had decided that on the day of the Dao Debate Tournament, he would make them lose face miserably.

The Dao Debate Tournament,

Was held on the Debate Platform,

Using a best-of-three single-duel system, where what was compared was not brute force. The Debate Platform was forged from the Dao Emperor’s imperial radiance,

Even if the Dao Emperor was dead, as long as Daoism did not perish, the Debate Platform would always possess miraculous power.

On it, every word and deed, so long as it was related to Daoism, would be transformed into power!

Whose "Dao" ran deeper,

On the Debate Platform, the power it turned into would be all the stronger.

The Debate Platform descended wherever the spectators were, so anyone who wanted to watch could come and watch,

Thus, whoever lost would be utterly humiliated.

Wu Tian had decided to shake the Human Daoist Sect to its core on that day.

"Let’s stay here." Suddenly, Wu Tian spotted an inn,

"Youjian Inn."

Qin Yuhan and the little guy rolled their eyes. The inn’s name had a very Earth City-style feel.

Wu Tian smiled. This inn was something he had opened together with someone else,

It was just that back then Wu Tian yearned for the Martial Path, so he left, leaving Youjian Inn to that man. That man’s name was Wei Tianbao. He was originally the village chief in a mountain village, but felt he wasn’t capable enough to serve as chief, so he abdicated and gave the position of village chief to Lin Xibei.

In other words, the current City Lord’s line were the descendants of Lin Xibei.

And Youjian Inn had always been run by Wei Tianbao’s descendants.

At this moment, when Wu Tian and the rest entered the inn, they saw that it had three floors, with an antique charm. The first floor was the area for food and drink,

The second and third floors were guest rooms,

The rooms on the second floor were just ordinary rooms,

While the third floor held the top-grade "Heaven" rooms,

As soon as Wu Tian and the others walked in, a waiter came up,

"Honored guests, are you here to eat, or to stay the night?"

The waiter’s face was full of sincere warmth. He had no choice—his surname was Wei. Youjian Inn didn’t hire outsiders, for fear something might happen and Youjian Inn might end up in someone else’s hands.

Youjian Inn had been founded by their ancestor together with another person,

Before his death, the ancestor left a final message for his descendants: if that man or that man’s descendants ever returned,

The Wei Family,

Must, together with him,

Co-own the inn!!!

For the sake of this promise, the Wei Family had always handled everything personally.

"We’ll eat, and also stay." Wu Tian carefully sized up this waiter, Wei San,

In his features,

He could vaguely see the shadow of Wei Tianbao.

"Eating is easy to arrange. For lodging, I’ll go get things set up."

Wei San immediately went off to make arrangements.

Wu Tian and the others first sat down,

Daji,

Qin Yuhan,

Miaoshan’s beauty,

Drew many a lingering gaze.

"Ladies, greetings. This humble scholar wishes to make your acquaintance and be friends. What do you say?"

As expected, their presence immediately drew in a splendidly dressed young man who walked into the inn,

From his features, Wu Tian faintly saw the likeness of that farmer from back then who’d struck it rich by sheer dumb luck, Lin Xibei,

The luxurious young master walked right up to them and completely ignored Wu Tian and the others, directing his words straight at Qin Yuhan, Miaoshan, and Daji,

With a look that said he wouldn’t leave unless they answered "Sure" or "Alright."

"These flowers are already taken." The little guy spoke up first.

"Taken?" The pompous young master’s face immediately darkened.