Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 112 - 10: Taotie City [New Book Seeking Monthly Tickets!] _1

Chapter 112: Chapter 10: Taotie City [New Book Seeking Monthly Tickets!] _1

"Roar——"

A mighty beast’s roar echoed throughout the elongated mountain ridge, scattering layers of clouds.

The cultivator sitting atop the beast lightly flicked his whip. The gigantic beast dutifully lowered its head, extremely docile.

A chain of these beasts carrying large quantities of goods and people stretched out for miles, forming a curved black line. At the end of the line lie a majestic city gate built against the mountain.

The city wall was incredibly tall, its bricks and stones old and worn, resembling an ancient beast crouching on the horizon.

Standing in this desolate land, numerous auspicious clouds and beasts from all directions gathered. However, these flying creatures would voluntarily land outside the city and line up to enter. This rule forbidding flight was implemented by every large immortal sect, else it would be difficult to manage.

Each gate of Taotie City is split into a larger and smaller entrance. The larger one, extremely broad, allows large spirit beasts and cargo caravans to pass through. The process is slow, which leads the queue to stretch out. The smaller entrance is for people and smaller spirit beasts to pass through, so the queue moves faster.

In terms of scale and population, Taotie City naturally cannot compare with Yu City or Panyang City. However, this is the only city in the world primarily populated by cultivators, and less than half the inhabitants are ordinary humans.

Chu Liang stood in the queue, slowly moving forward.

He was dressed in richly decorated clothes, similar to the sons of wealthy families, not seemingly a cultivator. Beside him was Empress Feng, in a high waisted dress of red and white, her long legs and posture were extraordinarily attractive.

Passing through the deep and long city gate tunnel and raising their heads, they saw the wide street. On both sides of the street were generally four to five-story buildings. Each building displayed colorful signboards, all related to cultivators’ stores. People moved between the buildings, but their actions were light and agile since the city still prohibited flying – the rule was not to exceed the highest floor of the street buildings.

Violators would have the Law Enforcement Team come to sanction them.

In a city as large as this, the Law Enforcement Team was not small in number, with only a few being disciples of Taotie City, and the majority being Offerings that were hired.

The Offerings in Taotie City were divided into nine grades. The lower-graded ones were more like hired muscle rather than Offerings. It is the only sect in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands where there are more foreign Offerings than its disciples.

No choice, they simply have money.

"Let’s first exchange some money," Empress Feng called out beside.

She had naturally been here before, and didn’t have the same awe as Chu Liang. She just lazily put her hands in her sleeves and walked. The first building upon entering the city gate is a bank, conveniently established to exchange currency for those entering the city.

The commonly used currency in Taotie City is the Beast Coin which is more extensively used than in Shu Mountain. It is naturally also more detailed and comes in four denominations—the Azure Dragon Coin, Tiger Head Coin, Vermilion Bird Coin, and the Black Tortoise Coin.

From large to small, for example, one Azure Dragon Coin is equivalent to ten Tiger Head Coins, and so forth, calculated at a ratio of one to ten. The second smallest denomination, the Vermilion Bird Coin, is worth the same as Shu Mountain’s Sword Coin.

"Excuse me, could you help me exchange one thousand Vermilion Bird coins and a hundred Black Tortoise coins?" Chu Liang handed a bag of Sword Coins to the cultivator in the bank.

The banker took the Sword Coins, checked briefly, and nodded in approval.

Subsequently, he returned to Chu Liang a bag of tiny Spirit Stone Coins engraved with the image of a Vermilion Bird. Chu Liang pinched out a coin and felt it— it indeed had a unique spirituality.

The reason why all the Immortal Sects use Spirit Stone as the material for common currency is because it is tough and contains spiritual energy, and it is easy to bestow spirituality. This method can prevent counterfeiting.

Otherwise, if anyone could carve these forms out of Spirit Stones themselves, it would be impossible to regulate.

"Heh." Empress Feng sized up Chu Liang from behind and laughed: "You little rascal, you’ve saved quite a bit of money, haven’t you?"

Chu Liang looked at her cautiously and said: "It’s all hard-earned money."

As they stepped out of the bank, Empress Feng noticed Chu Liang was still holding his hand over his money bag, subconsciously protective.

She laughed and said: "Relax, don’t act like a country bumpkin who’s entering the city for the first time... even though you really are. Let me tell you, the more nervous you are, the easier you are to be targeted by thieves."

"Hehe," Chu Liang responded with a smile.

Master, you don’t think I’m guarding against other thieves, do you?

...

"Moo--"

A sound suddenly came from behind, like a deep, heavy mooing of a large ox.

Turning around, there in the middle of the street, a grey, bald, three-story tall beast was walking slowly. Its body was wrapped with dozens of long chains, pulling a long wooden cart steadily forward.

This beast was called a Mountain-seat Beast. It’s industrious and gentle and is the most common demon beast used for heavy transportation.

However, this massive Mountain-seat Beast was not pulling goods, but people. This was the patrol wagon of Taotie City. Travelers who didn’t want to walk could get on the wagon and move forward with the beast.

Empress Feng led Chu Liang onto the wagon from the rear. At the entrance sat a cultivator, with a donation box at the side. Chu Liang stuffed two Black Tortoise Coins into the box, and the cultivator didn’t even bat an eyelid.

Once on the wagon, the master and student duo leisurely enjoyed the scenery outside the window. Chu Liang noticed that besides the cultivators’ exclusive Spirit Plants, Elixirs, Magic Artifacts, and so on, the shops on the street also had many restaurants, tea houses, and gambling establishments... Things that would be in an ordinary city were also here in Taotie City.

While watching, he overheard two cultivators chattering in the seat next to him.

"Hey, the Seven Star Mansion Report this month is out?" a cultivator laughed.

"Yeah, it’s quite sensational." Another took the Seven Star Mansion Report and read eagerly.

Hearing this, Empress Feng’s eyes lit up. She leaned over and asked, "Fellow Daoist, does the contents of this edition of the Strategy of Nine States include any news about Empress Feng of Shu Mountain?"

After the previous event at the Southern Border City, she has long been looking forward to this. If she couldn’t earn any merit to suppress that old man Wang Xuanling, she would always be dissatisfied.

"Yes!" The cultivator nodded, "The very first headline it is."

Then, he read the headline aloud, "Shocking! The tyrannical Peak Master of Shu Mountain silver Sword Peak explodes a man’s head with a punch, to discover the identity of the deceased was unexpectedly the current Marquis?"

"Hmm?" Empress Feng’s eyebrows furrowed.

She assumed that she would be lauded this time for her heroic deeds. Who would’ve thought it would be another negative headline?

"Master, calm down..." Chu Liang quickly tugged at her clothes, whispering, "We’re outsiders here..."

"I’m not angry." Empress Feng forced a smile, then turned to the cultivator and barked, "Continue reading!"

"Ah..." The cultivator was surprised, almost dropping the Seven Star Mansion Report onto the floor from the shock, but under Empress Feng’s imposing aura, he obediently began reading.

"One day, the Peak Master of Shu Mountain’s Silver Sword Peak, Empress Feng, received a distress call from her disciple and immediately rushed to Southern Border City. After landing and running into an irate middle-aged man, a verbal skirmish ensued. Before the eyes of a multitude of onlookers, Empress Feng didn’t hesitate to explode the stranger’s head with a punch!"

"Only after that did she find out, the man she faced was the current Marquis Ding Shan!"

"Why did this appalling incident occur? And what secret is behind all this? Truly... Shu Mountain’s Double Heroes Brilliantly Solve Mystery; How Can the Depraved Debauchery of the Marquis Manor Father and Son Be Told..."

’Let me elaborate for you...’"

Melted in the heat that veered onto his face, Chu Liang feeling the sizzling wrath of Empress Feng next to him!

He hurriedly motioned to the cultivator, whispering, "Don’t read anymore..."

Then he tried to pacify his boiling master, whispering, "Master, don’t get angry, don’t get angry, getting angry makes room for the devil..."

As he was consoling Empress Feng, he couldn’t help but grumble internally: It’s just like Zhang Xiaohan, putting everything in writing... Even if it’s true, he shouldn’t say it like that.

People will feel very embarrassed when they hear it told in that way...