Free Web NovelChapter 2016: Chapter 2016: Zhenhai City! The City Entrance Fee Is Outrageous! You’re Such Crooks!
"Taking a boat?"
Mu Jinyu heard Ming’s words and felt like it wasn’t that significant!
"Taking a boat won’t prevent sea beast attacks, will it? It doesn’t seem very meaningful to me!"
Ming lazily replied, sounding a bit impatient, "Do you think it’s just an ordinary boat? Of course it’s different. The boats that dare to cross the Forbidden Dead Sea are all comparable to Supreme Holy Weapons. Plus, the locals have studied this area for a long time; they know how to use special medicines to smear the boats so that the sea beasts will find them repulsive and won’t approach. It’s generally very safe with few accidents!"
Pausing, Ming retorted, "Otherwise, do you think, why did our Human Race, who originally lived in the Central Domain, get driven away by other foreign races and come to all these different regions? And how did those other foreign races come from other domains?"
"It’s by using this method!"
"Though the Forbidden Dead Sea is indeed dangerous, it is not impossible to cross!"
"Rest assured!"
Ming advised, somewhat earnestly.
"Hmm, I understand now!"
After hearing Ming’s words, Mu Jinyu felt it made sense.
If the Forbidden Dead Sea were truly impassable, then the five great continental regions of the Canglan Realm wouldn’t have any connection at all.
But that’s not the case; these five continental regions still have some connections.
For example, after the Cangyan State discovered the Earth Emperor Relic recently, how did all the powerful races from other continental regions get the news immediately and rush over?
So, though the Forbidden Dead Sea is dangerous, it is not impossible to cross, and the danger level is about the same as ordinary people crossing the sea by boat.
There is a possibility of a shipwreck, but the chance is quite low.
Besides, if ordinary people encounter a shipwreck, it’s difficult for them to survive.
But cultivators are different; although they cannot fly through the sky in the Forbidden Dead Sea’s area, they have internal breath and are not afraid of drowning after falling into the sea!
Thus, the level of safety is actually much higher than that of ordinary people crossing the sea.
"Hmm, I’ll go find a boat now!"
Mu Jinyu calmed down at this moment. Although he still had some trepidation about the Forbidden Dead Sea, he was no longer as worried as when he first heard about its terror.
Afterward, he turned around, changed direction, and flew away!
He spent about an hour.
Mu Jinyu finally found a city nearby.
Zhenhai City.
This city was very large.
It housed over thirty million people.
Most were ordinary people, but there were also many cultivators!
Most surprisingly, outside the city’s walls stood enormous, battleship-like sea vessels.
"As expected, it’s not an ancient city. This city has only been established for about three hundred years at most!"
When Mu Jinyu arrived in Zhenhai City, Ming suddenly sighed with emotion.
Mu Jinyu wanted to say, three hundred years is already long enough.
You lived tens of thousands of years ago; how could ancient cities from then still exist now?
Especially after the demise of several Human Emperors, when the Human Race was oppressed by foreign races to the extreme.
Back then, various ancient cities were inevitably demolished to vent anger; there’s no way they could have been preserved intact.
The architecture of the Human Race in the Canglan Realm, if it has been preserved for fifty thousand years, is considered remarkable.
Even ancient buildings of ten thousand years ago are probably scarce!
Anyway, Mu Jinyu has not seen such ancient buildings during his time in the Canglan Realm.
He remained silent, not wanting to disturb Ming’s reminiscing, and while thinking about these matters, stepped into Zhenhai City.
"The city entrance fee is ten jins of Source Stone!"
As he approached the city gate, two City Guard Soldiers wielding halberds blocked his path and stated plainly.
They had been City Guard Soldiers here for a long time and could often see people from various state domains come to Zhenhai City, so it was easy for them to see that Mu Jinyu was here for the first time.
And judging by his expression, he didn’t know the rules here, so they took the initiative to inform him.
"So expensive?"
Hearing this, Mu Jinyu slightly furrowed his brow.
Ten jins of Source Stone may not sound like much, but it could cover a trip using a long-range Teleportation Array.
The activation of an ultra long-range Teleportation Array also requires costs, needing at least four or five jins of Source Stone as starting energy.
Yet, the city entrance fee here is ten jins of Source Stone; how can it not be expensive?
And as Mu Jinyu arrived with no one in front of him, he wasn’t very clear about whether this entrance fee was genuinely this price.
Was there no entrance fee at all, and they were just trying to bully him, a newcomer to Zhenhai City?
Or is there an entrance fee, but not as expensive as ten jins?
"That’s how it is! Everyone entering Zhenhai City has to pay an entrance fee of ten jins of Source Stone each time!"
Hearing Mu Jinyu’s comment about the cost, the two City Guard Soldiers also slightly frowned, then replied helplessly.
If it were someone else, they might not bother explaining so much.
But they had been City Guard Soldiers for years, and even if their cultivation wasn’t high, just at the Unity Realm Stage, they could still see that Mu Jinyu’s cultivation was probably around the Life and Death Realm.
Therefore, they naturally dared not face Mu Jinyu with a condescending attitude and ignored his questions.
They answered honestly.
Even though a Life and Death Realm cultivation isn’t considered high in Zhenhai City, since the City Lord is a great Chrono Light Realm cultivator!
If some cultivator at the Life and Death Realm or Creation Realm caused trouble here, the City Lord would surely take them down.
But they didn’t have the confidence to look down on Mu Jinyu because of the City Lord’s strength.
What if this outsider Mu Jinyu turned out to be rash and got angry enough by the high entrance fee and their bad attitude to kill them?
Though the City Lord would probably avenge them, could they be resurrected even if Mu Jinyu eventually died at the hands of the City Lord?
They’d still be dead, wouldn’t they?
So, towards local people who understand the rules, even if their cultivation was at the Pinnacle of Creation Realm, they could maintain an aloof posture, not bothering much with them.
But with outsiders, especially those who look like they might have a bad temper, even if their cultivation was only at the Life and Death Realm or even the Void Breaking Realm, they’d be much more courteous!
After all, if you don’t cherish your own life, who will cherish it for you!
"Is that so? Then your place is really greedy!"
Mu Jinyu complained.
If he didn’t have to come here to take a ship to the Central Domain, he would have turned around and left after seeing such an expensive entrance fee.
It’s really unjustifiable!
He didn’t think that after paying the entrance fee, there wouldn’t be a boarding fee for the ship; he would still have to pay.
However, it seemed that the channels for boarding a ship to various continental regions in the West Sea State were monopolized by Zhenhai City.
Even though Mu Jinyu was very dissatisfied and unwilling, he ultimately paid the exorbitant entrance fee.
He kept comforting himself: ’Oh well, anyway, I got here without spending money and even earned over a hundred jins of Source Stone from that silly woman, so it doesn’t matter!’
