Chapter Three Hundred and Seven – Bright Water City (2/2)

Just as she was thinking, Zuo Mo suddenly turned around to face her. “Miss Rong, where is the biggest city of Sky Water Jie?”

Rong Wei gathered her thoughts and said with a slight smile, “There are twenty eight primary towns in Sky Water Jie. The most prosperous would be Bright Water City. Does City Master have any plans?”

“Oh, I have a batch of items I want to sell, and buy items along the way.”

“If that’s the case, Bright Water City is perfect. The biggest merchants in Sky Water Jie are all in Bright Water City.” Rong Wei then said with a smile, “This one’s house is located in Bright Water City, and have relationships with those merchants, we may be able to help.”

Zuo Mo hurried to give him thanks. “Many thanks, Miss Rong!”

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Su Yue finished reading the paper crane that Gao Jian Ting had sent, and a shadow flashed through her eyes. Su Yue was very charismatic and attractive. She was still the most attractive woman even among the multitude of beautiful women in Hundred Flower Alliance. She had managed Hundred Flower Alliance for twenty years and had good relationships with all the sects. The disciples under her had mostly married the accomplished disciples from big sects, and she had a deep foundation.

“Let’s not rashly move on this matter.” Su Yue said deeply, “See what their origins really are.”

“Yes!” the female disciple respectfully responded.

“Where are they now?”

“They reached the border of the city last night.” The female disciple crisply answered, “It was Miss Rong Wei that brought them over.”

“Oh.” Su Yue was slightly surprised and then had an expression of deep thought. She could not see what connection Rong Wei had with this Master of Golden Crow City.

The House of the Crow Marquis was as deep as the sea, and hard for outsiders to probe. But Hundred Flower Alliance had countless eyes, and were the most skilled at spying. Su Yue could see a hint. Of all the factions in Bright Water City, the one Su Yue was wary of the most was the House of the Crow Marquis.

The House of the Crow Marquis was usually low-key and did not attend to outside matters. The Crow Marquis himself only focused on cultivation. However, all the hints showed that there was a deep background behind the Crow Marquis. Su Yue had detected this a long time ago, but after all these years, no matter how they searched, they still did not find anything.

Rong Wei’s trip this time was the biggest action the House of the Crow Marquis took in years.

Su Yue smelt an unusual flavor from this.

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When they saw Bright Water City, Zuo Mo and the shidi were slightly shocked. Bright Water City was tens of times bigger than Dong Fu. The entire sky was covered in lights that streamed without end. In the sky above the city floated hundreds of islands of various sizes. The houses constructed on the lucky clouds were multicolored from the lights of all kinds of jinzhi and formations.

Sky Water Jie was more prosperous than Sky Moon Jie as expected.

The other people were alright, but the trio of Zuo Mo, Gongsun Cha, and Chun Yu Cheng were people that were inexperienced. Each of them gaped, their faces filled with shock.

Rong Wei who had been constantly observing them felt slightly confused. These three’s actions did not seem like those that came from large sects.

However, she was not suspicious. Many disciples from large sect never asked about worldly affairs so they could concentrate on cultivation. Some people would never even leave the sects mountain for decades.

She didn’t show any signs of scorn and enthusiastically showed them around.

“Bright Water City is the best part of Sky Water Jie. Almost four-tenths of this jie’s ling veins are located here, and there are the most secret paradises here. If City Master wants to develop here, you could buy a few secret paradises. They are the best for cultivating.”

Secret paradieses did not hold any attraction for Zuo Mo. His mo physique could automatically absorb ling power from the world and it could process the impurities. He did not need a secret paradise.

The other people also lacked interest in the secret paradises.

Rong Wei was even more certain now that the Master of Golden Crow City came from a large sect. For normal xiuzhe, secret paradises were their biggest love as well as their greatest wish. Many xiuzhe worked their whole lives with the goal of owning a secret paradise.

Only disciples from large sects did not need to worry about secret paradises.

Zuo Mo’s procession could truly be called vast. They had camped at an empty area outside the city. What made Zuo Mo depressed was that the empty area outside the city was owned. It had taken Rong Wei coming forward to get the matter settled.

Shu Long and the others did not have any interest in touring the city. Having recovered his youth, Shu Long’s mania on cultivation was enough to make Zuo Mo sweat. With him as the role model, everyone in Guard Camp had become cultivation maniacs.

The people of the forging division also stayed at the camp with only Sun Bao and Ji Wei coming along. Other than that, Bao Yi was a person that could not be left behind. Considering that they should not be high-key, Gongsun Cha still took along three divisions, Sky Peak Platoon among them.

Even so, this procession was very eye-catching.

The killing aura of Vermillion Bird Camp that had been forged through combat was completely different than normal guards. Landing in the eyes of those who understood, they couldn’t stop themselves from speculating.

Fortunately, Rong Wei knew many people in Bright Water City and people would occasionally come up to exchange greetings.

Rong Wei’s mind suddenly moved and when she raised her head, a paper crane flew over.

The paper crane landed on her palm. She lightly unfolded it. When she finished reading, there was a surprised expression.

The Marquis was not in the compound!

The compound guard she had sent back to the compound informed her that the Marquis had left half a month ago and had not yet returned. Rong Wei felt slight regret. She had wanted to take the Master of Golden Crow City to meet the Marquis. The Marquis was very knowledgeable and might have been able to see his origins.

It seemed like she could not do it. She was worried about the affairs of the house and bowed in apology to Zuo Mo, “My sincere apologies. Rong Wei did not know that the Marquis had left a fortnight ago, and has not yet returned. There are many affairs in the compound. Rong Wei will bid farewell early. City Master, please give your forgiveness.”

Hearing this, Zuo Mo hurriedly said, “Miss Rong has helped us greatly. We are very grateful, you should hurry! We will just walk around by ourselves!”

Worried about the internal situation of the house, Rong Wei left.

The procession of people hadn’t walked around for long when Zuo Mo’s expression changed and suddenly stopped walking. Someone was following them!

Translator Rambings: Sometimes I find wordpress painful. Because I can’t find the comments, I’ll reply to some here.

One person was right on the dot regarding why Zuo Mo is letting the people go, he doesn’t have the money to support all those people. To the person who offered donations, I’m happy that you like the translation so much but I won’t be accepting any donations at this point. To the reader who mentioned Chun Yu Cheng, he’s alive and still being a mad animal farmer. It would be funny if Zuo Mo and Gongsun Cha just forgot about him but they’ve been together for at least a year so that’s not likely. I know my ramblings are long sometimes but you guys actually get the condensed version. I end up deleting non-essential stuff.

Zuo Mo does something to save money and people are thinking too highly of his “wisdom.” The increased unity is just a side effective of Zuo Mo’s miserly nature and pragmatism. Rong Wei who thinks of him like this extremely violent person that is extremely intelligent and can be set off easily, which I guess is not an improvement over thinking of him as a lecherous person.