Chapter 126: City Entry Fee
"So who is the one with the highest cultivation in Yuling City?" Qingyang asked.
Liang Chongtian said: "The one with the highest cultivation in Yuling City is the city lord Yuling Sanren, who is about the fifth level of foundation building. However, he is already over 150 years old and has several decades of life left. However, his cultivation efficiency has gradually begun to decline. I am afraid that he will not be able to advance to the late stage of foundation building in this life. As for other foundation building cultivators, they are generally the treasures of the major families. They often retreat for several years and rarely show up in the outside world. Even I don't know much about them. I estimate that there are no more than ten of them."
There are as many as 40,000 to 50,000 cultivators in Yuling City, but there are no more than ten foundation building cultivators. It can be seen how difficult it is to cultivate to the foundation building stage. It seems that it is too difficult to cultivate as a casual cultivator outside, and you must find a way to join the immortal gate.
Liang Chongtian grew up here since he was a child and is very familiar with the situation in Yuling City. As he walked and introduced, Qingyang soon had a general understanding of Yuling City.
The surrounding mountain range is called Yuling Mountain. The reason why Yuling City was built here is that the spiritual energy here is more concentrated than the surrounding area. It is said that it is also because a kind of natural treasure called Yuling Dew can be produced in the deep mountains here. Because there are more monks who come to collect this treasure, it gradually developed into such a large city of scattered cultivators.
Yuling Dew can accelerate the growth of spiritual medicines, stimulate the activity of spiritual plants, treat sick spiritual trees and spiritual grasses, and even make dead trees come back to life. It is extremely widely used in spiritual medicine planting.
This Yuling Dew has many uses. For example, you found a very important spiritual medicine in the outside world, but it is not old enough. It is not safe to continue growing in the outside world, and it must be transplanted to your own cave. But the growing spiritual medicine has left its accustomed living environment and is likely to die due to acclimatization. At this time, Yuling Dew must be used to treat it.
However, Yuling City has been here for thousands of years. After years of collection, Yuling Dew has gradually dried up. Although it can still produce some every year, the amount is much less than before. Except for a few major families, casual cultivators rarely get it, so now the cultivators in Yuling City can no longer survive on it.
Liang Chongtian said whatever he thought of, and the listener was interested. When Qingyang heard about the function of Yuling Dew, he couldn't help but have an idea. Yuling Dew can actually stimulate the activity of spiritual plants and make dead trees come back to life. I don't know how effective it is for the four seeds I planted in the Drunken Immortal Gourd.
When I get to Yuling City, I can get some to try, but I don't know if it's worth it to use this kind of natural treasure to water a few seeds that have been there for who knows how many years.
Soon, they arrived at the gate of Yuling City. Although it was a city of casual cultivators, it was similar to the cities in the secular world. At the tall gate, there stood two rows of patrol warriors in uniform attire, wearing uniform black armor and holding the same weapons. The leader was a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training, and the soldiers below were all in the late stage of Kaimai Realm.
Even to look after the gate required a cultivator in the Qi training stage. With his own cultivation level of the fifth level of Kaimai Realm, he was not even qualified to stand guard at the gate. Qingyang had a deeper understanding of the foundation of Yuling City.
The cultivators who entered and exited the gate had different levels of cultivation. Some casual cultivators had higher cultivation levels than the patrol warriors who looked after the gate, but no one dared to attack casually. They all accepted the inspection honestly, because the world of immortal cultivation, like the secular world, also had a certain order, especially in the gathering places of cultivators. For those who disrupted the order, they would not be welcomed anywhere.
Even Liang Chongtian, who was born in the Liang family, a big family in Yuling City, was no exception. He took Qingyang and Yu Mengmiao and lined up in the back.
Soon it was the turn of a casual cultivator in front of them. The casual cultivator had a rough appearance, dark skin, a beard, and a mountain axe on his waist. He looked like a butcher killing pigs, but his cultivation was not low. He had reached the eighth level of Kaimai Realm.
Seeing that it was his turn, the black and rough casual cultivator flicked his sleeves and was about to step into the city, but was stopped by a patrol warrior in front of him, saying: "What are you doing? Are you in a hurry to reincarnate? Pay the city entrance fee first and apply for an identity certificate before you can enter."
The black and rough casual cultivator was already at the eighth level of Kaimai Realm, while the armored cultivator was only at the seventh level of Kaimai Realm, but he was not polite at all when talking to the rough casual cultivator.
"What? You have to pay a fee to enter the city? Where in the world is there such a rule?" The black and rough casual cultivator shouted. Obviously, it was also his first time to come to Yuling City, and he didn't know that there was a rule of charging an entrance fee.
The patrol warrior rolled his eyes at him and said, "It doesn't cost money to build Yuling City? We take turns patrolling the city every day, and we don't need to pay for protecting the safety of the cultivators in the city? Do you think we are all idle and come to the city gate to do voluntary work? Don't waste your words, hurry up."
Hearing what the patrol warrior said, the black and rough casual cultivator was relieved. Yes, sometimes you have to pay to enter and exit the secular city, not to mention this casual cultivator city. The patrol warriors have to protect everyone's safety, prevent monsters from attacking the city, and maintain public order in the city. Who is willing to work for free?
"Tell me, how much silver do you want?" The black and rough casual cultivator said.
The patrol warrior spat, glared, and said angrily: "Are you kidding me? Are you pretending to be confused? What can the silver in the secular world do here? If we patrol warriors need silver, do we need to ask you to collect it?"
The thick black cultivator was used to living in the secular world and forgot that this was Yuling City. So when he mentioned the silver, he saw that the other party was angry, so he hurriedly said: "Sorry, I said it was wrong. What do you want?"
Seeing that the thick black cultivator's attitude was okay, the patrol warrior did not take the opportunity to show off, but just said: "The identity certificate that allows permanent entry and exit requires one spirit stone, and the short-term entry and exit certificate requires one nourishing pill. The validity period is three months, and there is no one-time one."
"What? A permanent certificate requires one spirit stone? A short-term certificate also requires a nourishing pill? Why don't you go and rob it?" The thick black cultivator exclaimed.
The permanent certificate can be entered and exited at any time and is always valid. The short-term certificate can be entered and exited at will within three months. Because Yuling City has no restrictions on people in the city, if you don't come out after entering the city, no one will drive you away, so many ordinary people will stay in Yuling City for a lifetime and never go out. It is precisely considering this situation that Yuling City has now cancelled the one-time entry and exit certificate.
For one spiritual stone, the total wealth of many casual cultivators in the early and middle stages of the Kaimai realm cannot be added up. Even for casual cultivators in the late Kaimai realm, taking out one spiritual stone at a time can make them feel distressed for several years. This price is really more unacceptable than robbery.
~~~~~~Thanks to Daoyou Kanmanchengkong for the reward!