"We're here, senior, look, that's Tiangu City." Fang Ling stood next to Ning Qingyan and pointed to the city wall ahead.
After walking out of the forest and walking along the main road for more than an hour, Ning Qingyan finally felt the smell of fireworks.
"Thank you." Ning Qingyan nodded with a relaxed expression.
Fang Ling and her group were covered in scars, causing people passing by to look at them more.
After recognizing that they were members of the Fang family, their expressions became a little weird again, and they left quickly.
Fang Ling could clearly see the changes in the eyes of these people, and so could Ning Qingyan.
It's just that the former doesn't care, Ning Qingyan... This has nothing to do with her, so she won't care.
"What proof is needed to enter Tiangu City?" Ning Qingyan asked.
Along the way, Fang Ling dutifully introduced her to some nearby situations, but because Ning Qingyan didn't want people to know that she had just come to the Xuan Realm, she didn't ask many questions directly.
Now, when we arrive at Tengu City, we still need to ask some common sense questions.
Ning Qingyan remembered that in the mysterious world thousands of years ago, only those with jade tokens proving the identity of major forces or aristocratic families could move freely in various cities.
If you do not have something to prove your identity, you will need to go through a very complicated registration process when entering the city, and you will have to pay spiritual stones and have someone guarantee you before you can enter the city.
Even so, after entering the city, you will be restricted in the areas you can go to and the time you can spend in the city.
All in all, it's very troublesome.
Today's Ning Qingyan is so poor that she can't even get a spiritual stone, let alone find someone to guarantee her.
"There is no need to prove anything, just pay a low-grade spiritual stone as the entrance fee. However, senior is a guest of our Fang family, so there is no need to pay the entrance fee." Fang Ling smiled sweetly.
Ning Qingyan curled her lips calmly, without revealing the subtlety in Fang Ling's eyes.
"Senior, do you plan to rest in Tiangu City for a few days? If you don't plan to leave immediately, how about you come back to Fang's house with us?"
Fang Ling said her invitation nervously.
Before Ning Qingyan could refuse, she added: "No matter what, the appearance of senior saved us today in Linshan. If not, I am afraid that we people will be bullied or even killed by the Yan family. So, still
Please give us a chance, senior, so that we can fulfill our duty as landlords."
From the moment they talked about the entrance fee, Ning Qingyan could tell that Fang Ling wanted to invite her back to her home, and she didn't feel any resentment in her heart, so she acquiesced to her plan.
Now, this smart girl made her words clear and clear, which actually left a good impression on others.
Ning Qingyan agreed smoothly: "In that case, I'll trouble you."
Seeing Ning Qingyan agree, Fang Ling's eyes lit up with excitement, "No trouble, no trouble! I'm so happy that Senior Ning is willing to come to my home!"
While talking, they kept walking towards the Tengu City.
After hearing that Ning Qingyan agreed to visit Fang's house, Fang Ling's pace became much faster.
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The scale of Tiangu City is not comparable to those Xiuxuan cities in Ning Qingyan's impression. It doesn't look much different from the medium-sized cities in the mortal world.
With the name of the Fang family, Ning Qingyan entered the city easily and saw the scene in the city.
It’s really… no different from the mortal world!
If I had to say the difference, I'm afraid the currency circulating here is not real gold and silver, but spiritual stones.
This is also normal.
Ning Qingyan had experienced the prosperous era of mystical cultivation thousands of years ago, so she was not surprised by the use of spirit stones as currency.
However, after a rough scan, she found that the quality of the spiritual stones used as currency for communication was not as good as that of their time.
'The spiritual energy between heaven and earth has been leaking for hundreds of years, and it has only slowly recovered in the past two to three hundred years. The spiritual stone veins did not have enough time to nourish, which resulted in these spiritual stones having many impurities and not being pure enough.'
'Master Ning, I'm afraid that the pure mid-grade spirit stone veins will now become a resource that the sect's family will fight for even if they lose their heads.'
Bixi sent a message to Ning Qingyan.
Ning Qingyan's eyes moved, and she had some thoughts in her mind, which were awakened by Bixi's words.
She wants to raise children and raise so many people, and she can’t do it without the spirit stone!
"These spirit stones are not pure enough." Someone happened to take out the spirit stones to pay the bill. Ning Qingyan glanced at it and said something to Fang Ling intentionally or unintentionally.
Fang Ling did not doubt that he was there, and nodded with great approval: "Yes! It is too difficult to obtain pure spiritual stones."
In fact, because of Ning Qingyan's words, she had another filter in her mind to guess Ning Qingyan's identity.
‘She must be an elite disciple from a big family! Otherwise, how could she look down on these impure low-grade spiritual stones? How could she reach the Qingling realm at such a young age?’
Ning Qingyan didn't know that Fang Ling would have such a misunderstanding. She just wanted to use the topic to find out about the current situation of the spiritual stone veins in the mysterious world.
Fang Ling seemed to be particularly unguarded against her, and Ning Qingyan learned everything she wanted from her without saying a few words.
"Spiritual stones are both currency and cultivation resources. They have always been indispensable to the strength of a family or a sect."
"Just like this small Tiangu City, in addition to our Fang family, there are also the Yan family and the Zheng family. Every year, in order to compete for the ownership of the spirit stone veins, they will fight each other and fight constantly. There are endless conspiracies and conspiracy."
When Fang Ling talked about these things, her brows revealed a maturity that belied her age.
Ning Qingyan raised her eyebrows calmly, "There are many spirit stone veins in Tiangu City?"
Fang Ling smiled bitterly and shook her head: "It's just that there are not many, so we will fight for it."
"Tiangu City belongs to the border of the Eastern Territory. Whether it is spiritual energy or cultivation resources, it is the ultimate existence in the entire Eastern Territory."
"If it hadn't been for a low-grade spirit stone vein here, I'm afraid even the city wouldn't have been built."
"There is only one low-grade spirit stone vein?" Ning Qingyan was a little surprised.
She realized once again how difficult the Xuan world is today.
A city is only supported by a low-grade and impure spiritual vein.
You must know that there were hundreds of spiritual veins in her storage ring, including several top-grade spiritual veins.
"..." Even though Ning Qingyan has never regretted what she did, she feels a little guilty every time she feels the reality of the mysterious world.
Of course, it’s only as small as a fingernail, no more!
She is not a holy mother. In that situation, if she didn't fight back, would she be killed at the provocation?
What's more, she didn't expect such serious consequences at the time.
"Cough." Ning Qingyan coughed lightly and touched the tip of her nose.
Fang Ling didn't notice anything strange about Ning Qingyan. Of course, even if she did, she wouldn't think too much about it. She would just assume that a 'disciple of a big family' like Ning Qingyan didn't know about the suffering outside.
"For the sake of balance, Tiangu City is jointly managed by the three of us, and the ownership of the spiritual vein mining must be fought over every year."
"arrive."
Before Fang Ling finished speaking, they arrived in front of a majestic mansion.
Ning Qingyan looked up at the hanging plaque and said playfully: "City Lord's Mansion?"