Six days later, the outline of a city appeared on the horizon. From a distance, it looked like a giant beast lying on the ground.
[Ten Thousand Stars City]
The city wall is made of some kind of dark gray spiritual mineral stone, which glows with a faint silver light in the sunlight.
The city wall is thirty feet high, with an arrow tower at every other section. Large attack formations are embedded on the top of the tower. The city gate is divided into three passages. Mortals go to the left, Rogue Cultivator goes to the middle, and those with official certificates go to the right. Golden Core Realm and above can fly in through the high-altitude passage.
Qin Tiexin and Chen Xi walked through the middle passage with their identity jade tokens. After checking their identities, they passed through the ten-foot-long city gate and entered the Heavenly South Domain largest city.
Ten Thousand Stars City is strictly divided into five parts, each part is larger than Falling Star City. Chen Xi and Qin Tiexin enter [] located in the north Cloud Ford Ward], is the easiest to manage and the busiest among the four major cities. It is the place where monks from various sects, Rogue Cultivator, and merchants settle down. There are many restaurants, pawnshops, auction houses, and miscellaneous alchemy shops. There is a mixture of fish and dragons, and news reaches all directions.
[Cloud Ford Ward] The main street is ten feet wide and paved with bluestone slabs. The center of the road is not paved with stone slabs, but a Spirit Rune light belt that runs through the whole street. The light golden Spirit Rune flows slowly under the stone slabs, like a constantly beating pulse.
The shops on both sides are connected one after another. The facades are all made of blue bricks and gray tiles, but the signboards are all kinds of. There is an auction house with a gold plaque, an elixir building full of elixir bottles, a bustling mercenary guild, and a weapon refiner shop with a long queue in front of the door. The cultivation level of the monks on the street is obviously higher than that of other cities. Foundation Establishment monks are everywhere, and Golden Core can be seen occasionally.
As soon as it landed, Chen Xi put away the flying sword.
"Junior brother, I'm going to find someone first. Find an inn nearby to stay. Once you're settled, use the jade talisman to mark your location for me." He took out two jade talismans from his arms and put one of them into Qin Tiexin's hand. "You make your own arrangements these days. I'll come to you if there's news. The capital is safer than other places, and no private fights are allowed on the streets, but you'd better be careful about your identity."
After saying that, he hurriedly turned around and squeezed into the crowd of people on the street. After a few steps, he couldn't tell which one was "Li Shan".
Qin Tiexin found an inn two streets away from the city gate. Star Spirit Inn, a three-story wooden building with two spiritual lanterns hanging at the door.
The shopkeeper was a Foundation Establishment Early Stage middle-aged monk. He charged him three Lower-Grade Spirit Stone for a room a day and gave him a guest room on the second floor facing the street. The room was not big, with a bed, a table and a chair, and a set of basic soundproofing patterns carved into the corners. It was okay to rest, but you couldn't practice martial arts in it.
Qin Tiexin stood the iron rod in the corner, sat by the bed and injected a bit of spiritual power into the jade communication talisman, and sent the location mark of the inn to Chen Xi.
Then he went out and started to inquire about "Lin Household". The channels in Beijing were always wider.
Chen Xi was nowhere to be seen for three days, so he went to Ten Thousand Stars City to inquire about it for three days.
In the past three days, he asked the storyteller in the teahouse, the clerk in the weapons shop, and the casual cultivators squatting in front of the mercenary guild. Each time he asked the same question, whether there was a family of cultivators named Lin in the capital.
There are more Xiuxian Lineage named Lin in the capital, ranging from small businessmen to high-ranking officials. There are no less than ten possible clues Qin Tiexin, but every family is different. Either there is no descendant named Lin Feng, or they are not the right age.
For those with ambiguous information, Qin Tiexin walked to the door one by one to confirm, and the emblems were completely different.
On the evening of the third day, when he was inquiring about information in a teahouse, an old monk at the next table interrupted and said: Marquis of Loyal Martial Valor Lin Residence [Purple Jade Ward] is just east of the imperial city. It has a hereditary title and is considered prestigious in the capital. Marquis Lin is the repairman of Golden Core I have two sons and one daughter. The eldest son and the second young lady are both Single Spirit Root geniuses. They are studying at the Supreme Splendor Academy in the south [Illustrious Dao Ward], and their descendants are also very outstanding.
As for Lin Household's youngest son, the old monk thought about it and said that he seemed to have average qualifications. He left home a few years ago and no one knows where he went.
Qin Tiexin helped the old monk pay for tea, crossed three streets in the direction he pointed, and turned into [Purple Jade Ward].
[Purple Jade Ward] is a gathering place for the palaces of knights and high-ranking officials in the imperial court. There are very few commercial shops. Most of them are independent fairy houses and garden caves. The stone beasts in front of the door range from lions to unicorns. The streets are wider but there are much fewer people than [Cloud Ford Ward]. There are few monks walking around. All kinds of spiritual flowers and herbs are planted around it. The concentration of Spiritual Qi is much higher.
The main street of [Purple Jade Ward] does not restrict people from entering, but there are often Foundation Establishment monks in black patrolling back and forth, and idlers will be quickly asked to leave.
Qin Tiexin walked deep in the direction introduced by the old monk and stopped in front of a red lacquered gate.
There is a plaque with gold characters on a black background hanging on the lintel: Marquis of Loyal Martial Valor Lin Residence. The clan emblem next to the plaque is a long sword thrust diagonally into the clouds. There is a diagonal light pattern on both sides of the sword, which is exactly the same as the emblem engraved on the scabbard of Lin Feng's sword.
The concierge was an old man Foundation Establishment Early Stage. He stuck his head out of the small window of the side door and looked him up and down.
Dark gray monk robe, coarse cloth leggings, one arm.
He said politely but coldly, "This master is going to the west of the city to ask for alms. Compassionate Grace Temple, Lin Residence does not accept outsiders."
Qin Tiexin took out the sword from the storage ring. The old marks on the scabbard glowed dimly in the setting sun, and the hemp rope wrapped around the sword's hilt had worn out rough edges. He handed the sword to the concierge with one hand.
"Please give this sword to Marquis Lin and say that someone brought it from Great Xuan."
The concierge took the sword and saw that the man's expression did not seem to be fake, and the sword was indeed their Lin Residence emblem. He hesitated for a moment, asked Qin Tiexin to wait for a moment, closed the side door and went into the mansion.
After half a cup of tea, Lin Residence's two red-lacquered doors were opened by two servants at the same time, and the door shafts made a heavy grinding sound. Standing inside the door was a burly monk, who looked to be in his early thirties. His eyebrows were similar to Lin Feng's, but his temperament was completely different. Lin Feng has the sharpness of a young man, while this man has the calmness of a middle-aged man who has been tempered by time.
Golden Core has a strong aura, and his identity is ready to be revealed, the master of Lin Residence, Marquis of Loyal Martial Valor Lin Boyuan.
He glanced at Qin Tiexin and stopped for a moment on the empty sleeve on his right shoulder without putting on any airs.
"Master, please come in."
Qin Tiexin followed him through the screen wall and patio, and entered the main hall. The main hall was simply decorated, without much decoration. A large map of Heavenly South Domain was hung on the wall, and a row of bookshelves could be vaguely seen behind the screen. Marquis Lin sat down at the main seat, and Qin Tiexin was at the guest seat. The maid served spiritual tea and retreated.
The sword was placed on the table, with the scabbard facing the main seat.
"The master has this sword in his hand and claims to be from Great Xuan. Do you know my son Lin Feng?"