This is Gao Yuan's most intuitive feeling after seeing the city wall in the distance!
At this time, he was still at least ten miles away from the city wall, but when he looked along the city wall to both sides, it was difficult to see the city except for city gates of different sizes at regular intervals.
corners.
The dark and tall city wall is like a natural moat, extending infinitely toward the end of the field of vision.
Looking across the city wall, you can vaguely see some tall towers and the cornices of some huge palaces.
At this time, at the city gate closest to the two of them, a motorcade was passing through the tall city gate, heading straight in their direction along the gravel road outside the city gate.
This gravel road may be due to the intensive traffic of people. The snow on it has long melted under the repeated trampling of pedestrians and vehicles, making it look quite muddy.
However, this convoy was running very fast. When he saw the two people approaching, the driver showed no intention of slowing down. Under the rapid grinding of the wheels, dirty snow water was thrown to the roadside from time to time.
Gao Yuan frowned slightly at this, and had no choice but to pull Chen Ziming back to the wild field on the gravel road, planning to wait for the convoy to pass before leaving.
However, just as a dozen cars in the convoy were rushing past the two of them, a "huh" sound suddenly came from one of the cars.
Then I saw a fat middle-aged man wearing a dark brown robe leaning out of the carriage with some effort, stretching his neck and looking this way.
"Grandma, stop the car, stop the car quickly!"
The middle-aged man saw Chen Ziming's appearance clearly at a glance, and his spirits were immediately shaken, and he hurriedly greeted him forward.
Then, before the motorcade stopped, the middle-aged man flew up from the open window and landed in front of the two of them with a few flutters.
Gao Yuan couldn't help but narrow his eyes when he saw the other party rising up in the wind and heading straight for this side, Kaiyuan Realm!
At this moment, Chen Ziming next to him called out crisply after seeing the person clearly:
"Mr. Xu!"
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Ten minutes later, Gao Yuan got off the camel beast car behind a young man with a vigorous look on his face.
Then he waved goodbye to Chen Ziming, who was sitting in the car and looking at him eagerly, and quietly watched the other person sitting in the camel beast car slowly heading towards the inner city.
At this time, he already knew the identity of the middle-aged man whom Chen Ziming called "Mr. Xu". He was a guest of the Mei family and the housekeeper of Chen Ziming's aunt.
As early as nine days ago, Qingliang City received news of the drastic changes in Qingyuan Town.
Whether it is the ancestor of the Chen family in Qingyuan Town, or the two ancestors of the Hunyuan Realm who used to watch the ceremony in Qingliang City, if anything happens to either of them, it will be a big deal.
Not to mention that this time the three ancestors died at the same time. After the news came, there was an uproar in Qingliang City. A luxurious lineup was sent to deal with the matter that day. Even the god who had never cared about worldly affairs
Senior Yu Linglong, a powerful person in the realm, was shocked.
Mr. Xu left the city this time because he was assigned by Chen Ziming's aunt to search for possible surviving members of the Chen family around Qingyuan Town.
In other words, Gao Yuan's mission of escorting Chen Ziming ended the moment he met Mr. Xu.
Although he was a little reluctant to give up, he still handed over Chen Ziming to the middle-aged man very calmly.
Because for Chen Ziming now, obtaining the protection of the Mei family is the best destination.
But his mood was still a little low, and he even lost interest in the gorgeous scenery on both sides of the street.
Shaking his head, Gao Yuan emptied his mind of these negative emotions, exchanged a few polite words with the young man next to him, and then continued walking along the street under the leadership of the other person.
This taciturn young man in his thirties was named Yue Zhou, and he was a student of Mr. Xu.
When Chen Ziming briefly introduced the process of how the two met according to the rhetoric designed by Gao Yuan before, and expressed Gao Yuan's intention to live in Qingliang City permanently, Mr. Xu readily agreed.
He immediately handed over his identity token to the young man and asked him to take Gao Yuan to the Administrative Hall to go through the relevant procedures.
With the Mei family's signboard here, the administrative hall's work efficiency was extremely high. It didn't take long for them to complete the entire process and hand over a tooth-white jade slip and a palm-sized cyan token representing their identity to Gao Yuan.
in hand.
Then Yue Zhou took Gao Yuan through the streets and alleys until they came to the housing management office that was responsible for housing rental matters in outer cities.
House rentals in Qingliang City all start from one year, and the rents range from a shared house with one mid-level spiritual stone to a luxurious compound with hundreds of mid-level spiritual stones per year.
With the introduction from the rental manager, Gao Yuan finally took out twenty intermediate spirit stones, half of which were used as rent and half as deposit, and rented a townhouse with a small courtyard facing the street in Dongcheng.
At this point, he finally settled in Qingliang City.
Although this young man named Yue Zhou didn't speak much, he was very reliable in his work.
After Gao Yuan completed the leasing procedures, he took Gao Yuan to buy various daily necessities in the surrounding area and delivered them to his residence before he said goodbye and left.
Watching the other party go away, Gao Yuan closed the courtyard door and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he turned around and quietly looked at the place where he would live for some time to come.
Before Fu Lingshi, the rental manager had already introduced the area of this small courtyard. It was twenty-five feet long and twenty-one feet wide!
There is a masonry building with red tiles and white walls in the courtyard. Its scale is much larger than the previous shed that Gao Yuan got from Luo Zhen, and its structural details are more reasonable.
There is a walnut tree in front of the house, which is quite old. Because it is winter now, only the branches are left. Under it, there is a well.
After pushing the door open and entering the house, Gao Yuan looked around.
This room was obviously taken care of regularly by people. Although it only had some basic furniture and seemed a bit empty, it was very clean and tidy, and there was no musty smell like it had been abandoned for a long time.
After walking around for a while, Gao Yuan felt very satisfied with this residence.
In addition to the price, he added in his mind.
Ten intermediate spiritual stones a year, on average, nearly three low-level spiritual stones a day!
That is to say, he is now rich enough to afford living there. If it were a few months ago, all his belongings would be worth one day's rent of this house.
Casually sitting down on the Grand Master's chair nearby, Gao Yuan took out the jade slip that had been given to him by the Administrative Palace from the storage space, injected his inner energy, put it against his forehead, and began to browse quietly.
The content recorded in the jade slips is similar to the residents' production and living guide. It not only contains a detailed map of the outer city, but also details various precautions for ordinary residents to live in the city.
Especially for some taboo items, the corresponding punishments for violation are also listed at the back. The lighter ones will have their spirit stones confiscated, and the worst ones will be shot to death on the spot!
Gao Yuan felt relieved after quickly going through all the precautions in the jade slip, especially those taboos, to make sure nothing was missed.
After putting away all the daily necessities he had purchased, he didn't delay any longer and hurriedly went out. Following the signs on the map in the jade slips, he walked straight towards the shopping area.
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In the evening, Gao Yuan returned home with a gloomy look.
He has been shopping around the city for nearly a day today. He even ate lunch in restaurants in the city. He visited at least hundreds of shops. He gained a lot, but none of them were items he was in urgent need of.
.
It wasn't until later when he was chatting with a clerk that he seemed to accidentally mention why there were no Kaiyuan Realm items for sale at home, and the clerk asked a question that he had never paid attention to.
Inner city!
Qingliang City is divided into inner city and outer city!
Most of the residents in the outer city are monks working in various workshops. Because these people's cultivation is in the Qi training realm, the items sold in the shops in the outer city are also at this level.
And if you want to buy items at Kaiyuan Realm and above, you can only go to the inner city!
But that's where the problem lies. With Gao Yuan's current identity token authority, he can only move around freely in the outer city.
If an ordinary monk like him wants to obtain the qualifications to enter the inner city, there are only three ways.
The first way is to become a member of a big force with a Hunyuan realm. Whether you are a family member like Chen Ziming or a servant of a big force like Yue Zhou, you can enter the inner city.
The second way is to accumulate merit by completing various tasks issued by the Service Hall.
The last way is to become a Kaiyuan Realm monk and go directly to the Administrative Hall to exchange your identity token!
And the problem got stuck here. No matter which of these three roads, it was not a good choice for him.
I won’t talk about the first two paths. One requires sacrificing your own freedom, and the other requires spending a lot of time.
As for the last way, even if Gao Yuan becomes a Kaiyuan Realm monk now, he would not dare to blatantly go to the Administrative Palace to exchange tokens!
What should you do when people ask you where the Yuan Jing Stone came from? Could it be that it was dug out from the ruins of Qingyuan Mountain?
Once this word gets out, won't those big forces who are going crazy because of the incident in Qingyuan Town turn their attention to you?
I don’t know how much trouble it will cause by then!
After sitting in a chair and thinking for a long time, Gao Yuan couldn't think of a better way.
The only solution now is to improve your cultivation to the peak of Qi training first, and then take it one step at a time!