Outer City District

The outer city area outside of Gaoqiang.

Wearing a thousand-faced mask Gu Jinlai was looking out from a pavilion, carrying a high-grade spirit sword that he had exchanged for ten million contribution points.

Yes, a superior-grade spirit sword.

The top-grade Spirit Artifact Cheng Ying Sword that he had previously exchanged for was destroyed during the process of killing Jin Yuhai.

Spoils of war?

There are no spoils under the power of the eternal furnace.

This is also why Gu Jinlai have not been fond of using the power of the Eternal Furnace against enemies.

At this moment, he stood on the attic, looking down at the pedestrians coming and going in the outer city.

His aura remained at around the Martial Grandmaster level.

This level of skill is neither too strong nor too weak, and it is quite in line with his identity as an advisor to the city guard.

Of course, the main reason is that without Qingguang, he simply cannot master the Hidden Dragon Technique in a short period of time.

Even maintaining his Martial Grandmaster level cultivation was difficult for him before he had even mastered the Hidden Dragon Technique.

Once he gets into a fight, experienced martial artists might be able to see through his background as a martial king.

"It's really bustling."

The Gu Jinlai in the attic evoked heartfelt emotions.

He is now in the outer city area, outside the city walls.

However, in terms of prosperity, the outer city is even more prosperous than the Inner City.

After all, although the new city within the city walls has a large population, how can it compare with the outer city, which has more than 80 million people?

Centered on the city walls and gates, the area appears to be divided into sixteen districts.

Or, to put it another way, there are thirty-two main streets that extend in all directions.

Every street is filled with restaurants, shops, inns, newspaper offices, post offices, banks, and so on.

Any one of these districts would be equivalent to a bustling metropolis like Star City in Qian Tian, and you can imagine how lively it would be.

The vast city provides a unique advantage for cultivators.

That is the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

Although Gu Jinlai were not cultivators, they knew that in such a giant city with hundreds of millions of people, cultivators could cultivate much faster.

However, the faster the cultivation, the faster the consumption of Spiritual Qi.

In this situation, it is natural to limit the birth of cultivators in order to concentrate the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi on a small number of cultivators.

This is also why Wind and Rain City vigorously promotes the Demon God Warrior cultivation system.

"Although there are many martial artists, compared to before I established Lingxiao City, the order in Fengyu City is indeed much better. It is incomparable to places like Star Province, Jiangzhou, Huangzhou, and Chi Province."

Gu Jinlai, he glanced down.

Among the passersby, there were many with Yellow Names, but almost none with Light Red Names, let alone Red Names.

This is the advantage brought about by social order and stability.

"In this situation, every Red Name is extremely conspicuous in my eyes."

Gu Jinlai said something, his gaze fixed in one direction.

Or rather, it's locked onto the aura of a military general.

He descended from the attic and, through his sense of qi, followed behind the military general, hanging there at a leisurely pace.

The name of this military general...

Bright Red, like blood.

Given the large number of cultivators, it is very rare for a military general to possess such Karma.

In Qian Tian, this would be equivalent to a Qi Refining Realm cultivator having Red Name.

Even in areas with relatively good order, the Red Name.

There are only two possibilities for this to happen.

One possibility is that this military general concealed his true cultivation level.

Another one...

He has other forces behind him.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to commit such a heinous crime.

A few minutes later, Gu Jinlai stopped in front of a large courtyard.

"Yuxuan Residence".

Gu Jinlai have looked at this courtyard.

He had been in the outer city for about ten days and had gained some understanding of the forces there.

The owner of Yuxuan Residence...

It's Yunshifang.

This is a super-large catering establishment.

The Wei family stands behind this organization.

The Wei family has not only a top-tier Celestial Person Realm Domain Lord behind them, but also connections with the Fang Family, a top-tier power, with many marriage alliances between the two.

"So, it's yet another large Lineage."

Gu Jinlai.

He has been hunting down "Red Name" players in the outer city for ten days.

But after ten days, only four beams of clear light were accumulated, less than one per day.

This is not because the order in Wind and Rain City is so good that almost no one does evil.

In ten days, he encountered no fewer than thirty people with Red Names who had completed the marking process.

Of these thirty people, apart from the two Martial Kings who were similar to him, as well as the two Martial Grandmasters, one Spirit Transformation, and one Primordial Spirit who were killed by him, all of them had extraordinary backgrounds.

They all started as King Wu.

Once you kill someone, all sorts of troubles will definitely follow.

"But if we don't kill them..."

Gu Jinlai, people have been experiencing the four beams of clear light that have accumulated over ten days.

Those who do evil often collude with each other, forming a network of power.

If he wants to avoid the net of these evil forces and gather the next thirty or forty beams of clear light to cultivate the Chaos Thunder Essence Body to its peak, it will take him at least three more months.

As for perfecting the Chaotic Thunder Essence Body...

It will take two or three years.

He couldn't wait two or three years.

People have stood in front of the Yuxuan Residence Gu Jinlai.

"As long as my strength grows fast enough, what can the Aristocratic Clan clans do?"

Gu Jinlai recalled his experience of leading the Gu Clan to Lingxiao City for the first time to take up his post.

Although the situation in Fengyu City is many times more severe than that in Lingxiao City, but...

Since he was able to fight his way out of Lingxiao City, break into Lingxiao Palace, and establish a vast empire that unified Tiannan, why couldn't he also make a breakthrough in Fengyu City and turn it into a truly orderly Fengyu City?

At this thought, a story I had heard Gu Jinlai flashed through my mind.

Then, he turned around, walked forward for a while, and finally came to a Land God Temple.

In a corner outside the temple, a man, filthy and missing a hand and a leg, lay on the ground like a dead man, his cloudy eyes devoid of any light.

"Zhou Ming."

Gu Jinlai asked, "Do you still have the evidence you used to sue the owner of Tianyinlou?"

Unfortunately, his words did not elicit any reaction from the man in front of him.

"It seems you're not planning to avenge your parents, your younger siblings, and all thirty-six members of your Zhou family."

The way continues from Gu Jinlai.

The man remained motionless; if it weren't for his continued breathing, one might mistake him for a corpse.

He Gu Jinlai.

Zhou Ming.

The eldest son of the Zhou family.

The Zhou family was considered a wealthy family in the outer city.

The father and uncle were both skilled military generals.

He himself had also studied at the martial arts academy and became an intermediate martial artist at a young age.

Two months ago, when Zhou Ming went out, he actually discovered the corpse of a dead Primordial Spirit True Lord. From that Primordial Spirit True Lord, he obtained a top-grade Spirit Artifact and several treasures, worth no less than 300 million taels of silver.

Taking advantage of this fortuitous opportunity, Zhou Ming quickly took these items to Wanbaolou, the most reputable store, and earned 240 million taels of silver.

They exchanged four thousand taels of this money for Cultivation Resources for martial artists, and the remaining two hundred million taels were deposited in Tianyin Tower by a local powerful Lineage, where they could enjoy higher interest rates than other silver towers.

Result...

When they tried to withdraw the money again, the two hundred million taels of silver had vanished. Tianyinlou directly shifted the blame to a staff member, claiming that it was that staff member's fault and that he had embezzled all two hundred million taels of silver.

They then presented themselves as victims and reported the incident to the authorities, resulting in the staff member being sent to prison.

The Zhou family naturally refused to accept this idea, and for the next two weeks, they made a scene at Tianyinlou.

Zhou Ming even incited many students from the Martial Arts Academy, seemingly intending to take the matter to the City Lord Mansion and ask the City Lord to take charge of their Zhou family's affairs.

This behavior immediately enraged Tianyinlou.

Half a month ago, a martial arts master led a group of people to break into the Zhou family. He claimed to be a close friend of the Primordial Spirit True Lord and, on the grounds that the Zhou family had killed his friend and stolen his treasures, slaughtered the entire Zhou family.

Only Zhou Ming survived.

Although he survived, his legs were broken, his arm was cut off, and he was thrown into the street.

This incident initially caused quite a stir in the outer city, making everyone at Tianyinlou who had deposited money in the store feel insecure. However, after the Zhou family was wiped out, everyone quieted down.

We intend to start with this approach, both Gu Jinlai.

"Wasn't it the Luo family that wiped out your entire Zhou family? And wasn't the leader Luo Jiudao, a Martial Grandmaster of the Luo family?"

Gu Jinlai looked at Zhou Ming and said, "As an advisor to the city guards, if you dare to identify Luo Jiudao, I dare to bring the Luo family to justice and make them pay for their actions."

Unfortunately, Zhou Ming remained paralyzed on the spot, without making a sound.

Considering that in the month or so since the Zhou family was wiped out, Zhou Ming had tried more than once to get his money back through legal channels, but all attempts had ended in failure, it's estimated that...

After thinking for a moment, he took out another token.

"I suspect the Luo family has members of the Demon Cult, but I'm worried about alerting them, so I need your cooperation. Once it's done, I can uphold justice for your Zhou family."

Upon hearing these words, Zhou Ming finally reacted.

His gaze fell on the token in Gu Jinlai's hand, as if he recognized something. "The... Lord Purifier..."

He asked in a slightly hoarse voice.

"That's right, others may fear the Luo family, but I don't."

Gu Jinlai said, "Moreover, with my cultivation as King Wu, I also possess the ability to uphold justice for you."

"Really!?"

At this moment, some light finally returned to Zhou Ming's cloudy eyes.

"Certainly."

As the saying Gu Jinlai: "Besides, even if it's fake, why not give it a try? The opportunity is right in front of you; it's just a matter of whether you can seize it."

"I... I'll go with you to testify against the Luo family..."

Zhou Ming struggled to get up.

"It's good that you agree."

Gu Jinlai grabbed Zhou Ming and strode towards the Luo family compound.

The Luo family is also a powerful Lineage in the outer city, and they have a deep relationship with the Zhang family inside the city walls.

As for the Zhang family...

That was a Lineage with a peak Martial King in charge.

That peak Martial King was also the biggest backer of Tianyin Tower.

However, that's not the point. The point is that, regardless of the Luo family or the Zhang family, the number of people with "Red Names " seen throughout Gu Jinlai has exceeded ten.