1348 Intriguing and Perplexing (2/2)
Suddenly, his eyes lit up when his sight fell on the finely-dressed handsome young man and then shifted to the young men behind him several seconds after. He thought for a moment and then decided to greet them. He respectfully said with an obsequious smile, ”Senior Immortal really has extraordinary demeanor. You look so handsome, dazzling, and rich! May I know whether you're new to the city?”
Tang Xiu smiled and nodded. ”You work as a guide here?”
The youth raised his thumbs up and praised. ”You also have keen eyes, Senior Immortal. Just like a dragon among Immortals, you make this unworthy one admire you! This little one has been living in Boundless City for 18 years indeed. It's safe to say that this one knows this city well. Especially in the recent years since the Secret Palace of Drunken Immortal Supreme in the Boundless Mountain Range is about to open, so countless forces and powerful people with great supernatural abilities arrived here, letting me learn about quite a lot of special circumstances.”
Tang Xiu threw an Immortal Crystal to him and saw the youth take it with a surprised look. Then, he nodded and smiled. ”I'll reward you more if you don't deceive me. But don't blame me for killing you if you dare to brag yet can't answer my questions later.”
”Yes, yes, yes. This little one absolutely knows everything here,” replied Yue Tian hurriedly with a tense and prudent expression.
”Well, does the city still have some unoccupied places to stay?” asked Tang Xiu.
”No, all the taverns, restaurants, and inns are fully occupied, Sir. Let alone those places, even most of the natives here have been driven out of the city and their homes have been occupied.”
Tang Xiu squinted his eyes and nodded. Then, he slowly said, ”Accompany us to stroll around Boundless City! Let's just walk and not fly.”
Stroll around on foot?
Yue Tian was surprised. ”Senior Immortal, even if the Boundless City is not very big, it will still take us at least a year to completely traverse all the streets here by foot!”
After thinking for a while, Tang Xiu then said, ”Then find something to ride. Take these 20 Immortal Crystals to rent them. You can have the remaining Immortal Crystals as the reward for your hard work.”
Yue Tian's eyes lit up and he asked quickly, ”How long would you like to rent it, Senior Immortal?”
Tang Xiu thought for a mile and answered, ”10 days! I think we can fully circle around Boundless City in 10 days.”
”No problem,” said Yue Tian hurriedly. ”I'll go immediately.”
Quickly after, the youth came back riding two popular beasts that pulled a luxurious coach. After Tang Xiu, Star Luminous, and Star Peng boarded the coach, Tang Xiu said, ”You take the reins and drive. Calculate in your head how to fully tour the Boundless City within 10 days. Remember, don't drive too slow or too fast, just enough to stroll around for 10 days.”
”No problem, Sir!”
Yue Tian was so happy. Renting this popular beast coach only cost 1 Immortal Crystal a day. 10 days would be 10 Immortal Crystals, so the remaining 10 would enter his pocket. Adding them with the other one Tang Xiu gave him before, he earned 11 Immortal Crystals in 10 days.
While observing both sides of the street, Tang Xiu said, ”While strolling, brief us about the surroundings. The name of the place and the people who occupied it as well as their origins. If you've run into some Immortals and some interesting events in recent years, you can also tell us about them. I'll give you 10 Immortal Crystals more 10 days later should your service make me satisfied.”
He'll reward me… another 10 Immortal Crystals?
Yue Tian gulped and repeatedly nodded with gleaming eyes. Afterward, he began narrating about the buildings and many Immortals who occupied them along the route they traversed.
This fella really had great communication skills and was also very familiar with the situations of Boundless City. Tang Xiu was able to gradually learn the city's forces and the forces who had come here. He even heard of a large number of forces he had never heard of before.
”Ahead of us is the Hundred Joyous Mansion that used to be a red-light pavilion for those wild flowers. It was eventually given to the Everlasting Palace to occupy now. I heard that the mansion kept all the good-looking girls to serve those people, whereas the average-looking ones were sent home with money.
”In the past 2 years, tens of powerhouses from several forces have visited this Hundred Joyous Mansion to seek pleasure with the girls here. They then clashed with the Everlasting Palace's people. In the end, those who came late lost and left.
”I also heard that some Supremes are staying in the Hundred Joyous Mansion, but as for who the person is and what he looks like, I've never seen the person myself.”
Hundred Joyous Mansion?
A cold light flashed in Tang Xiu's eyes.
Everlasting Sect was the sect Zither Demon Jiuyao belonged to. Although it used to be inferior to the Vermilion Bird Holy Sect, the gap of power between the two was not as big as that sect was considered as a top sect in the Immortal World. 800 years ago, the entire Everlasting Palace had two Supreme experts, albeit losing Myriad Thunder Supreme at the moment.