Land of Order, City of Ten Thousand Monsters

"This is City of Ten Thousand Yuan?" Looking at the Great Wall stretching for thousands of miles in front of him, almost without end, and the city that was a thousand meters high and resembled a mountain, Luo Yun nodded. It seemed pretty good.

"Name!"

"Luo Yun!"

"Race?"

"Humans!"

"Humans? Hah, another ignorant one. You should call yourself a hairless monkey!"

"Cultivation level!"

"An Earth Immortal!"

"What is the purpose of coming to City of Ten Thousand Yuan?"

"Settle down, cultivate oneself!"

The two cultivators at the city gate, responsible for registration, glanced at the young man before them and asked casually, "Do you have any relatives or followers in the city?"

"No!" Luo Yun sighed, looking at the dog ears twitching above the two cultivators' heads. It seemed he would have to change their names again.

"Without someone to accompany you, it wouldn't be easy for someone as young as you to live in the city!"

Luo Yun smiled and said, "I have my own ways of surviving, so you two don't need to worry about it!"

"Heh!" The two nodded, then took out a square, white jade-like object, manipulated it for a moment, and handed it to Luo Yun.

"This is your identity tag, which records your personal information and appearance. The additional fee is 5 Immortal Stones!"

Immortal Stones are higher-quality Spirit Stones, containing Immortal Qi.

Luo Yun naturally possessed this; after Lin Qing's death, his belongings naturally became Luo Yun's.

"Alright, let's go in!" The two dog-eared cultivators' eyes burned even brighter when they saw the Storage Ring Luo Yun had taken out.

Luo Yun chuckled and said, "Thank you both!"

Then he leisurely entered the city.

While he was on the mountain, he didn't just focus on spiritual practice; in his spare time, he would listen to people gossip and learn about the situation below.

In addition, based on my own experience along the way, I am not very familiar with the entire Immortal Realm, but I do have some understanding of this area.

This continent is called the Four Directions Domain. Its total area is unknown. It is said that even a true immortal could not fly out of it even after hundreds of years.

There are countless cities within the Four Directions Domain, but they are divided into five levels from top to bottom: Heavenly Cities, Earthly Cities, Human Cities, Small Cities, and Villages and Towns.

Village Towns are rural communities inhabited primarily by ordinary people. They are not governed by higher-level officials and do not need to pay taxes. The only requirement is to make offerings to deities in exchange for their protection.

As for the price of making offerings to deities, that depends on the deity's character.

Some deities only need a mouthful of incense offerings, making them easier to serve. Other deities require young boys and girls, which the village must provide.

The small town has a certain number of cultivators, including Mortal Realm and immortals.

In the lower realm, these three realms are vastly different, but in the upper realm, they are collectively referred to as the Mortal Realm, and in reality, there is not much difference between them.

Because of the abundance of Immortal Qi, it may take 8,000 to 20,000 years for a mortal to cultivate to become an Earth Immortal in the lower realm, but in the immortal realm, there are countless mortal cultivators who become immortals in just three or four hundred years.

The ease with which one can become an immortal has blurred the lines between immortals and mortals, making it common for humans and immortals to coexist.

The Qingyuan Martial Competition that Lin Qing was going to participate in was held in Qingyuan City, which was a small city. What Lin Qing was vying for was the City Lord of such a small city.

The city above the small town is Human City, a city protected by the Spiritual Qi of all living beings. Living and cultivating in such a city will also be enhanced by the city's fortune, bringing many benefits.

City of Ten Thousand Yuan is a Human City who governs tens of thousands of cities with names like Qingyuan City, hence the name City of Ten Thousand Yuan.

Cultivators are highly dependent on cities because, in addition to immortal beings, the immortal realm is also home to many Fierce Beasts, Demon Beasts, and Devil Beast, as well as Devil Cultivators and ghost cultivators active in the wilderness. It is easy to die unexpectedly when you are out in the wild.

If the Immortal Path had been established and Demon Beast Immortals had moved into the Fierce Beast Realm, they would have been exterminated long ago within 300,000 years.

Unfortunately, they cannot be killed, because the Immortal Realm is not the Immortal Realm of humans, but the Immortal Realm of all spirits. The rabbit or the wolf you see may be the home of an immortal race.

By attacking their people, you are diminishing their fortune and making them your enemy.

But we can't expect people who value order to live in the wilderness alongside these murderers.

So a contract was signed, and a large number of cities were built on this celestial land, giving cultivators a safe place to cultivate.

After the city was established, it was also subject to the constraints of all races and spirits, meaning that the city was only the size it was built to, and it was not allowed to expand outwards afterward.

From then on, the city was governed by order, while the area outside the city was in chaos; thus, the order of the immortal realm was established!

This is why Lin Qing calls himself the Village Chief and says that the place he lives in is called Mountain Stronghold.

He's right. Those who don't live in villages or cities are robbers and bandits, part of the disorder.

Some people prefer an orderly life, while others prefer a chaotic one, but these aren't always personal choices.

More often than not, many people are born without a choice.

For example, Luo Yun, who clearly yearned for order, ascended to the Mountain Stronghold.

Looking at the ancient and primitive city before him, with its very old buildings, Luo Yun felt nothing but curiosity; every corner was a delightful surprise.

Along the way, he saw not only people, but also burly pigs with thick noses, turtles crawling on the ground, and Cat Girl with human faces but cat ears on their heads.

This isn't a city, it's practically a fairy kingdom!

Only then did Luo Yun realize that the entire Mountain Stronghold was actually made up of humans!

Humans live in Mountain Strongholds, but cities are occupied by all sorts of demons; this is truly strange.

Moreover, he called me the hairless monkey.

Luo Yun was more rational than emotional, and of course he knew that the title of "leader of all beings" was a self-proclaimed one by humans. In the Cultivation World, the concept of "human" was very broad, and all living beings were considered human.

It's really strange for you to say your race is human, just like a tiger saying its race is vertebrates.

Luo Yun could understand what the dog-eared cultivator was saying.

But even though I understand, I'm still really annoyed!

That said, I can tolerate being called a "hairy monkey," but please don't actually treat me like a monkey and stare at me!

Feeling the intense gazes of the various fairies around him, Luo Yun felt a chill run down his spine.

"OI!" A voice called out from behind Luo Yun.

Luo Yun turned his head and saw an elephant head, standing four meters tall, with broad shoulders and a thick waist, a living Elephant Spirit standing at the entrance of a palace, calling out to him.

"You... called me?" Luo Yun pointed to himself and asked curiously.

"Who else should I call if not you!" the Elephant Spirit grumbled. "Are you a hairless monkey? Come here, let me take a good look at you!"

Luo Yun rolled her eyes, completely ignored him, and turned to leave.

Unexpectedly, the elephant became enraged and chased after them, stomping along the heavy stone slabs.

"What exactly do you want!" Luo Yun turned his head and asked.

"You think you're giving me face, a mere hairless monkey?" the elephant roared. "You dare run away? Come here now!"

As he spoke, his nose stretched out and extended towards Luo Yun.

[What a pity, he beat me to it!]

[So this is what a hairless monkey looks like; it seems to have no tail!]

So, hairless monkeys are also called tailless monkeys!

"What on earth is going on?!" Not only did no one step in to help, but the fairies around him even started commenting on Luo Yun's appearance, and some of them even started adjusting their own appearance right in front of Luo Yun.

And his appearance is visibly resembling that of a human!

"I understand!" Luo Yun's comprehension was astonishing; he understood instantly.

The concept of Innate Dao Body doesn't exist in this world, but the human body is indeed very convenient, unlike chickens or bears, who find it inconvenient to grab chopsticks or wipe their butts after defecating.

Even without the concept of Innate Dao Body, these demons would instinctively evolve in the direction of humans for the sake of convenience.

But it seems there's nobody in City of Ten Thousand Yuan!

Therefore, their transformations can only rely on their individual understanding of hairless monkeys.

Things are different now. A real hairless monkey has appeared here. Shouldn't we take a good look at it and then learn from it to discover the true method of transformation?

Having grasped the key point, Luo Yun was somewhat speechless. Not wanting to fight an elephant in the street, he simply slapped the elephant spirit's trunk, bent it, and then used his Teleportation Technique to disappear from everyone's sight.

When he reappeared, his ears were covered with feathers, and three magnificent long feathers were on top of his head.

Now when I walked down the street, no one stared at me!

While Yuan Jian was still renting a house, Yang Ning, relying on the Pangu Particles, had basically completed the collection of information about the Immortal Realm.

So, this is how things work in the immortal realm!