Passing through the huge portal that was four meters high and ten meters wide outside the 'pier berthing area', Gao Yuan went straight to an unusually empty square.
Wherever he entered, his vision was filled with all kinds of people coming and going.
In the area tens of meters away on the left hand side of the exit is a docking station for the 'Transfer Spirit Boat'.
From time to time, a dark blue spindle-shaped 'Transshipment Spirit Boat' with uniform specifications would fly into the sky from this docking station, and quickly fly away in different directions.
According to the map of the 'Floating City' that he had previously viewed in the jade slips, Gao Yuan quickly determined that his current location was the outer square called 'East No. 3 Ferry'.
The 'east' here does not refer to a specific direction, but to the name of a specific area within the 'Floating City'.
The ‘Floating City’ of the Tiandong Chamber of Commerce itself is a very regular rectangular structure.
A cross-shaped main road spanning from east to west and from north to south divides this 'floating city' evenly into four rectangular areas.
As for the intersection of this cross-shaped street, it is an extremely large fortress-like building.
According to the description on the map, this giant building has a circular layout, with a height of about 20 feet, and directly about 600 feet.
From the perspective of Gaoyuan who was far away at this time, its overall shape is somewhat similar to the "round earth building" on the earth in previous lives.
This huge building with an exaggerated shape is the main venue used by the Tiandong Chamber of Commerce to hold auctions.
The four rectangular areas equally divided by the main cross roads are symmetrically distributed around this giant building.
Each of these four divided rectangular areas has an area of nearly twenty square kilometers.
In these areas, there are complete restaurants, inns, shops and other entertainment and living facilities.
These building facilities are fully supporting each other and form a system of their own, but each has its own emphasis on folk culture.
In layman's terms, these four huge rectangular areas are essentially large-scale folk custom streets that integrate the essence of folk customs from the four regions of the outside world: "east, west, south and north".
And because of the differences in the business styles of these areas, the names of these areas are also named after ‘east, west, south, and north’.
For example, the "East No. 3 Ferry" where Gao Yuan is at this time, its actual meaning refers to the "East District" No. 3 Ferry.
Its specific location on the map is in the upper right corner near the middle right corner.
In the entire "Eastern District", whether it is restaurants, inns, or the styles of items sold in various shops in the area, they all match the real "Eastern District" folk customs in the outside world.
"Tsk, it's so exotic!"
Gao Yuan sighed in his heart with a look of emotion on his face.
"Even though it was repeatedly hyped in the previous life on Earth and has reached the point of being vulgar, it is still a top-notch gimmick that turns heads every time it appears!"
"I have to say that the operators of this 'Tiandong Chamber of Commerce' are really good at mobilizing customers' emotions!"
While sighing to himself in his heart, his lofty gaze unexpectedly fell on the surrounding buildings that were completely different in style from the "Northern Territory" where he lived.
He didn't know what it was like for others, but as for himself, looking at these buildings full of exotic elements, he almost subconsciously aroused a strong desire to explore in his heart.
After all, most of his previous understanding of the world could only be limited to the various intelligence collected through the Exile Alliance.
Compared with cold intelligence information, of course these living physical cases are more attractive.
According to his understanding, due to the extremely vast and dangerous no-man's land between the various domains, unless they are big-shot monks who have reached the Hunyuan realm.
Otherwise, even those direct descendants of big families would have the opportunity to travel across regions.
In view of this, when given the opportunity to contact and experience exotic customs, those heirs of aristocratic families who are not short of spiritual stones will burst out with such exaggerated enthusiasm!
As his mind wandered, Gao Yuan stepped forward and walked quickly towards the streets with numerous pavilions outside the square.
Whether he was using this to increase his understanding of other domains, or visiting various shops in these neighborhoods to buy what he needed, his heart was full of expectations.
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‘Floating City’ North District.
A platform at the ‘North No. 2’ ferry.
It is different from the 'East No. 3 Ferry' that Gao Yuan arrived at by taking the 'Ferry Boat'.
The 'Ferry Spirit Boat' docked at the platform of the 'Bei No. 2' ferry is far superior to the 'Ferry Spirit Boat' that Gao Yuan boarded, both in terms of space volume and gorgeous appearance.
In addition, the passengers who disembarked from these 'deluxe edition' 'ferry boats' were all well-dressed and well-groomed, and they looked like they were either rich or noble.
Moreover, after these people got off the platform, they often whispered and laughed with each other. It was obvious that they knew each other well.
But this is normal, because according to the map in the jade slip, the No. 1 and No. 2 ferries in each area are dedicated VIP areas specially used to pick up and drop off guests at the 'heaven and earth' levels.
And those who can casually throw away hundreds of thousands of intermediate spiritual stones just to pay for the auction tickets are naturally not ordinary people.
Except for those big guys at the Hunyuan realm and above who can cross domains, they are basically all well-known figures in the Northern Territory.
Among these people, the children of the Hunyuan Realm families in each city account for the majority.
At this moment, below the 'Floating City', a spindle-shaped luxury version of the 'Ferry Spirit Boat' soared into the sky.
The latter's entire body was covered with a layer of water-like blue halo. It first circled the periphery of the 'Floating City' and quickly flew around for several laps.
Then he flew straight towards the "North No. 2 Ferry". In a few flashes, he arrived at the docking area of the ferry and parked steadily beside the platform.
Accompanied by a low 'buzzing' sound, the hatch of the 'ferrying spirit boat' slowly opened.
I saw two girls wearing light blue uniforms and skirts, nimbly jumping out of the Lingzhou cabin, standing on both sides of the platform and saying something into the cabin.
After a moment, six figures, four men and two women, filed out of the cabin under the guidance of two girls in blue skirts.
The first person was a tall young man with a fair face and an extraordinary bearing.
He was wearing a pure white scholar's uniform that looked very cool, and he was holding a foot-long folding fan in his hand, coupled with two beaded and jade accessories hanging on both sides of his belt.
Coupled with his youthful and sunny smile, he has the temperament of a well-dressed beast.
"Ming'er, be careful."
The young man in white dexterously stood on the platform and was not in a hurry to leave.
Instead, he turned around naturally, first gave a gentle reminder, and then stretched out his hand slightly, as if he wanted to support the person behind him, fearing that he would trip.
Following closely behind the young man in white was a pretty girl who looked younger than her age.
She has a beautiful face that is either happy or angry, and her waist-length satin-like hair is only tied up with a light green ribbon and tied neatly behind her back.
Wearing a goose yellow slim-fitting palace skirt, her beautiful figure was highlighted vividly.
This girl with picturesque features was none other than Chen Ziming, who was forced to come out to 'take some time off' despite her aunt Chen Lanyun's persuasion.
And the girl who followed her step by step was her personal maid 'Qing'er'.
Looking at the hand stretched out by the young man in white on the platform, Chen Ziming frowned subconsciously, then smiled reluctantly and shook his head, turned slightly sideways, dexterously passed the other person's hand, and came to the platform.
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The young man in white didn't care at all about Chen Ziming's rejection. He took it back very calmly and followed Chen Ziming unhurriedly while saying something in a gentle tone.
And behind the three of them, three more young men with the same extraordinary appearance walked out of the cabin one after another.
After two of them floated down to the platform, they caught up with the three people in front of them in a few short steps, and quickly gathered around Chen Ziming. They all had gentle expressions, but they refused to give in to each other and kept talking to Chen Ziming.
What.
Seeing these three people gathered together, Chen Ziming suddenly felt a little irritable for no reason.
These four young men following her were naturally her aunt Chen Lanyun, who had arranged for her to be the candidates for her 'draft'.
Speaking of which, Chen Lanyun also had good intentions in order to find a husband who was a good match for Chen Ziming.
This point can be seen from the 'prefecture level pass token' alone.
Although the Mei family is wealthy, they spent tens of millions of intermediate-level spiritual stones at one time just to purchase the various levels of 'passage tokens' from the auction.
But he couldn't help but that his family had a big business and a large number of people. Although he bought a lot of "passage tokens" at the "heaven and earth" levels, after evenly dividing the rooms, there weren't actually many.
He is far from rich enough to casually take out a 'prefecture-level pass token' and give it to Chen Ziming for a 'blind date'.
Therefore, the ‘prefecture-level pass token’ in Chen Ziming’s hand was actually sponsored by Chen Lanyun out of her own pocket.
Of course, the cost of this spiritual stone is a drop in the bucket for Chen Lanyun.
Compared with the trouble caused by Chen Ziming's identity, it pales into insignificance.
In fact, since the Qingyuan Mountain incident that year, although Chen Ziming defected to his aunt, who was the housewife of Mei's family, her status has always been embarrassing.
As a direct descendant of Chen's family in Qingyuan, her status was originally within the boundaries of Qingliang City, so she can be said to be extremely noble.
Since the day she was born, countless people from Hunyuan Realm families in cities in the Northern Region have come to propose marriage. It is not an exaggeration to say that they have crossed the threshold.
However, just overnight, the Chen family in Qingyuan was wiped out.
And when all the glory that protected her in the past disappeared, Chen Ziming also immediately fell from being sought after by thousands of people to being ignored by no one.
After all, after reaching a certain level, appearance, character and many other aspects are just dispensable additions in front of family background.
If it weren't for an aunt who had been married to the Mei family for many years and was the wife of Mei's family, she would not be any different from the casual cultivators who were struggling to make a living outside Qingyuan Town back then.
It is even very possible that you will suffer a more tragic fate because of your good looks.
And this huge gap in status cannot be supported by Chen Lanyun, who is the housewife of Mei's family, no matter what.
In fact, after the Qingyuan Mountain incident, Chen Lanyun herself was greatly affected.
Without the support of her natal family, not only did her voice in the Mei family plummet, but she also encountered constraints and challenges in dealing with various matters.
This embarrassing and uncomfortable situation was completely changed until Mei Duoer was accepted as a direct disciple by the big boss of the Soul Realm, ‘Yu Linglong’.
Even so, it is extremely difficult for Chen Lanyun to find a truly suitable husband for Chen Ziming.
Because in addition to his embarrassing status, Chen Ziming also shoulders the important responsibility of continuing the Chen family's fragrance.
Therefore, even if Chen Ziming wanted to get married, he had no choice but to find a bride.
Putting aside other conditions, this recruitment alone can basically eliminate more than 99% of all the candidates that Chen Lanyun likes.
Therefore, the four in front of me do not have prominent family backgrounds, but there are no rumors of bad habits.
Moreover, Chen Lanyun had spent endless energy to select young men who were acceptable in terms of cultivation talent, manners and conversation, and she considered them to be more suitable candidates.
In view of this, although Chen Ziming was somewhat resentful of her aunt's forced apportionment, under the latter's persuasion, she still reluctantly agreed to come out and 'make contact'.
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Coupled with the good upbringing she received since she was a child, no matter how unhappy she was, she did not support her speaking harshly to the people around her.
In desperation, Chen Ziming could only slightly tighten his cheeks, slightly showing his carelessness.
The only thing left to do was to tightly hold the arm of his personal maid, Qing'er, and walk towards the door in the distance.
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Among the four people who were arranged by Chen Lanyun to go on a "blind date", Xu Liangyong's figure was prominently among them.
As the first person to discover Chen Ziming's 'value', Xu Liangyong was also the first person to surround him and pursue his pursuit.
Not only does he have good looks and conversation, but he also has a relatively innocent life experience because he grew up in Mei's family since he was a child.
In addition, despite insufficient training resources, he was able to successfully break into the Kaiyuan Realm at the age of twenty-nine.
In every aspect, they meet Chen Lanyun’s criteria for recruiting a wife.
In addition, Xu Liangyong's steadfast pursuit of hard work by Chen Ziming's side in the past few years has also helped him gain a lot of points in Chen Lanyun's heart.
Therefore, when Chen Lanyun decided to find a husband for Chen Ziming, Xu Liangyong was the first candidate who came into her sight.
Unlike the other three people, Xu Liangyong had long given up on the entanglement methods of persistent beating and bullying.
He was the last one to come out of the cabin. He only wore a robe with a rather low-key color and style, and no fancy accessories on his body.
At the same time, he did not immediately surround Chen Ziming like the other three people did.
Instead, he was a few steps behind, keeping a close distance, and followed behind calmly.
Looking at the three people wearing brightly colored clothes and decorated with flowers, they were like big roosters in heat, and they were surrounding Chen Ziming step by step.
Although there was no emotion on Xu Liangyong's face, a coldness with a hint of sarcasm flashed through his slightly narrowed eyes.
"Hmph, three idiots who only know how to please and be attentive, do you want to compete with me?"
"If this works, how about you idiots?"
Xu Liangyong sneered disdainfully in his heart.
He was not worried at all that Chen Ziming would be moved by the sweet words and flattery of these three people.
Because of the same thing, he has been doing it for three years.
But until later, when Chen Lanyun's intention to recruit a wife was revealed openly and covertly, he did not move Chen Ziming at all.
For this reason, he had been frustrated and depressed for a long time.
As for the reason, he had actually known for a long time that it was the person named 'Gao Yuan'.
At first, Xu Liangyong didn't take this person too seriously.
After all, in his opinion, this was just a casual cultivator who originally lived in a shantytown in Qingyuan Town, but because of his relationship with Chen Ziming, he was able to sneak into the outer city of Qingliang City.
And the reason why he hired Zhou Kui and others to kill this 'Gao Yuan' was not because he felt much threat from him.
What he was more interested in was that his pursuit of Chen Ziming was not going well and he just wanted to take the opportunity to vent his anger.
It wasn't until after this person disappeared that Chen Ziming continued to run to the small courtyard in the outer city for several years whenever he had time, that Xu Liangyong started to pay attention to this.
He began to explore in detail the underlying reasons why Chen Ziming could not forget this 'Gao Yuan'.
Thanks to his long-term and continuous ingratiation with Chen Ziming in the past few years, although Chen Ziming was unwilling to accept his friendship, he still had some sense of guilt and compensation.
Therefore, when Xu Liangyong began to no longer deliberately emphasize the pursuit of male-female relationships, but instead targeted the status of 'ordinary friends'.
After Chen Ziming's defensiveness was removed, he easily accepted him as a 'good friend' with whom he could communicate.
Through continuous insidious chatting, Xu Liangyong finally pieced together the emotional entanglement between Chen Ziming and Gao Yuan.
In his opinion, Chen Ziming's love for that 'Gao Yuan' was not a simple love between a man and a woman.
Rather, after the accumulation of a series of extreme emotions such as 'sudden changes', 'loss of loved ones', 'sharing weal and woe', 'survival in desperate situations', etc., it turns into a deformed emotion similar to 'obsession'
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This kind of 'obsession'-like emotion is actually easy to break.
The simplest one is to kill this 'Gao Yuan' and let Chen Ziming know about this person's death at the appropriate time.
When the goal you care about is completely lost and irreversible.
This ray of 'obsession' will naturally become a rootless root, and Chen Ziming may sink for a long time, but this complex and overlapping emotion will eventually dissipate over time.
And when Chen Ziming was sad about this incident, why wasn't this Xu Liangyong's opportunity?
As time goes by, there will be a day when he gets what he wants!
However, what made Xu Liangyong scratch his head was that this 'Gao Yuan' completely disappeared after killing Zhou Kui and several others.
In the past few years, both Chen Ziming and himself have tried every means to search for this person's whereabouts.
However, the result is always frustrating, and the person seems to have disappeared from the world.
Without finding this man's whereabouts, Xu Liangyong's plan to kill him would be difficult to carry out.
As for his subsequent plans to take the opportunity to go further, it is impossible to talk about it.
More than a year passed like this.
During this period, Chen Lanyun's intention to find a wife for Chen Ziming gradually spread.
Immediately, many competitors were introduced to Xu Liangyong.
Even though these people had been pursuing Chen Ziming for a while, they all encountered many obstacles with Chen Ziming, not softly nor hardly, just like he did at the beginning.
But this incident still gave Xu Liangyong a great sense of crisis.
After a few years, he had already regarded Chen Ziming as his forbidden love.
Whether it was for his own personal interests or for his self-esteem as a man, he would not allow anyone to intervene in this matter.
For this reason, he began the process of thinking hard about countermeasures.
Of course, he could not change Chen Lanyun's idea of recruiting a new wife, and the search for the whereabouts of 'Gao Yuan' was still far away, with no hope at all.
After some hard thinking, Xu Liangyong finally decided on Chen Ziming.
After several years of contact, he had a thorough understanding of Chen Ziming's character.
Although this girl looks weak on the outside, she is very strong and independent on the inside.
To put it nicely, it means that one has a tough personality and hides a needle in the skin, but to put it harshly, it means that one is easy to accept death.
Once something is determined, it is difficult to change it easily.
Especially regarding this "lofty" matter, Chen Ziming has fallen into it so deeply over the years that even her aunt Chen Lanyun can't change anything.
And if we want to completely reverse this, in addition to that "lofty goal", we can only start from Chen Ziming's "obsession" itself.
In response to this, it didn't take long for Xu Liangyong to design a framework of targeted solutions.
Coupled with this auction of the 'Tiandong Chamber of Commerce', it gave him another opportunity to perfect his plan.
In fact, his plan is actually very simple.
In the past few years, especially in order to reduce Chen Ziming's wariness and establish a 'friend' relationship with him, he has actively promised to help him find the whereabouts of 'Gao Yuan'.
Taking advantage of the auction, he and Chen Ziming were able to go outside Qingliang City.
He was going to tell Chen Ziming that he discovered the whereabouts of 'Gao Yuan' through his friends who were walking outside.
In this way, Chen Ziming was sent to the wild far away from Qingliang City.
Then let the pre-arranged personnel launch a surprise attack halfway and kidnap Chen Ziming.
For him who is currently on the second level of the Kaiyuan Realm, it is naturally easy to unconsciously knock out Chen Ziming, who is not even in the late stage of the Qi Training Realm.
Then during this period, someone took the opportunity to break Chen Ziming's body and take away her virginity.
In the end, he chose the opportunity to make a brilliant appearance, risking his own life to rescue Chen Ziming regardless of his injuries.
In addition, there is another important point.
That is, after returning to Qingliang City, before Chen Ziming reacts, he must pretend to be unintentional and reveal all the details of this matter to Chen Lanyun in detail.
At the same time, at the right time, she showed her deep love for Chen Ziming and her willingness to marry Chen Ziming even if she was no longer pure.
At that time, in order to prevent the news from leaking out, besides betrothing Chen Ziming to him, Xu Liangyong, does Chen Lanyun have any other options?
As for Chen Ziming, she must be in a state of confusion after such a big change.
After this incident, even if she still liked Gao Yuan in her heart, even if the latter really returned to Qingliang City, Chen Ziming would feel so ashamed that she would not have the courage to look for him again, right?
As for Chen Ziming's feelings and loss of virginity, in Xu Liangyong's opinion, they are trivial matters.
In the final analysis, what he really cares about is Chen Lanyun's status as niece-in-law.
Maybe after he got married to Chen Ziming, out of compensation, Chen Lanyun would devote more resources to him on the basis of her original support for him!
What's more, after knocking Chen Ziming unconscious, you still left him at his own mercy?
Things like losing one's virginity can be handled by Xu Liangyong himself!
At most, the scene can be disguised properly after the fact, that's all.
"Of course, the two friends who were brought in to help us cannot stay in order to avoid future troubles."
"Then I'll tell you that it was only because of my serious injuries that I killed the two of them on the spot!"
"Anyway, when the time comes we need to set up a fierce battle scene, so we can just fake it and kill these two people directly."
"This will not only win Chen Ziming's favor more, but also minimize her resistance!"
Following the few people leisurely, Xu Liangyong quickly went over every detail of the plan in his mind.
After confirming that there were no omissions, he stopped delaying, walked a few steps faster, and joined in the awkward chat with the people in front of him.