Chapter 390: Gif (1/2)

Chapter 390: Gift

After stepping out of the shabby courtyard, Luo Xin led Nie Tian down the extended street.

The end of the street connected to a craggy stone path. Towering, ancient trees could be seen on both sides of the path.

Nie Tian noticed that there were indeed no walls surrounding Water Moon City. Anyone would be free to enter and exit the city.

He asked Luo Xin about the city, and she told him that people didn’t need to pay a single spirit stone to enter Water Moon City.

Almost every pavilion and building in Water Moon City was for lease. The Water Moon Chamber of Commerce would take more than half of the rental income.

The rest would be split equally between the Dong Clan, Cao Clan, Gu Clan, and Pill Pavilion Sect. Every ten years, the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce would distribute their shares to them.

The headquarters of the Dong Clan, Cao Clan, Gu Clan, and Pill Pavilion Sect all sat in areas roamed by powerful spirit beasts.

Ever since they had assumed their foothold in the Realm of a Hundred Battles, they had never stopped exploring and expanding.

Of course, the four powers each had their own industries in Water Moon City, which was considered one of the most important trading centers in the Domain of the Falling Stars.

The four teleportation portals in the square in the center of the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce led to the Dong Clan, Cao Clan, Gu Clan, and Pill Pavilion Sect.

Any Qi warrior would be allowed to use those teleportation portals as long as they paid the required amount of spirit stones, so that they could explore or hunt in those regions.

Only members of the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce and the four powers would be able to use the teleportation portals free of charge.

The destination of Nie Donghai’s exploration team was in the Dong Clan’s territory. The fastest and most convenient way to get there would be to pay the price and teleport to the Dong Clan via the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce’s teleportation portal.

However, in Luo Xin’s opinion, the price was too high, and the path to the Dong Clan’s territory was fairly safe, so she chose to march there on foot.

By the time Nie Tian learned that they could have saved time and trouble by teleporting directly to the Dong Clan from the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce, and all it would cost were spirit stones, they were already far down the road.

Therefore, Nie Tian, who had abundant spirit stones in his possession, gave up on the idea of returning to Water Moon City to use their portals.

Along the way, they ran into quite a few Qi warriors.

Those who were returning from their trip with substantial gains would usually talk to each other with faces filled with smiles.

Those who hadn’t gained anything valuable from their trip would usually seem rather crestfallen.

Nie Tian noticed that, either way, those Qi warriors were in a light mood, which was completely different from what he had seen in the Realm of Split Void.

Each and every Qi warrior who had come and gone between Shatter City and the Void Illusion Mountain Range traveled with great caution, as if they had been traveling on thin ice.

Part of the reason had been that numerous vicious outlaws and Hunters had been wandering outside Shatter City.

On the other hand, if the explorers came across others with inferior cultivation bases along the way, they wouldn’t mind killing and robbing them.

In general, after his experience in the Realm of Split Void, Nie Tian found the atmosphere in the Realm of a Hundred Battles to be very friendly. “Is my master in the Realm of a Hundred Battles?” Nie Tian asked.

“Martial granduncle rushed back as soon as he heard that you’d returned to the Realm of Flame Heaven.” Luo Xin seemed surprised as she asked, “What? Didn’t you see him in the Realm of Flame Heaven?”

Nie Tian seemed rather disappointed. “I see, so he’s gone back.”

Apart from his desire to see Nie Donghai and Nie Qian, the other reason why he had come to the Realm of a Hundred Battles, regardless of the threat from the Heaven Palace Sect and Li Muyang and Xing Huanyue’s desire for him to stay, was that he also wanted to visit Wu Ji.

He hadn’t expected that Wu Ji had actually returned to the Realm of Flame Heaven upon learning about his return.

However, he had spent too short a time in the Realm of Flame Heaven. Even before the spatial rift had been fully sealed, Hua Mu had urged Huang Fan to take him to the Realm of Mystic Heaven.

“Where have you been over the past two years, Nie Tian?” Luo Xin asked curiously.

“I had to hole up somewhere after obtaining those fragmentary star marks.” Nie Tian gave an secretive answer.

Luo Xin nodded and didn’t pursue the answer, knowing that the topic was a bit sensitive. “You’ve become more and more mysterious over the years. There are only so many inter-realm teleportation portals in the entire Realm of Flame Heaven. After you left, those who owned them all said that you hadn’t left via their teleportation portals.

“The seven sects helped the Heaven Palace Sect search through the entire Realm of Flame Heaven, but they still failed to find you.

“Then, people suspected that you had already left the Realm of Flame Heaven.

“After that, all the powerful sects in the Domain of the Falling Stars joined the search for you, yet none of them had any clue about your whereabouts.

“I simply can’t imagine what kind of method you used to hide from so many people.”

Luo Xin sighed, her heart filled with mixed emotions.