168 Bone Spirit Town 2 (1/2)

There were five principal streets within Bone Spirit Town, each responsible for a specialized sector maintaining the integral components of the town.

The expansion of each street was equivalent, albeit the quality of services offered or influence over the rest of the city were poles apart from one another.

The Providence Road An Fei had toured could be considered the commoners' district, possessing the greatest number of street-side stalls and small scaled restaurants and stores.

The paving of the road was mediocre at best, with minimal effort placed into maintenance or elevating productivity.

The next street with regards to quality and influence, was the Harmony Road, catering to the whims of the town's clans and business owners.

There, the numerous clans of Bone Spirit Town established their ventures with impunity, with luxury restaurants and pavilions standing on either side of the road.

The Peaceful Road belonged to the reclusive society of cultivators within the town, and An Fei had not been able to gather much information regarding their operations or purpose.

Other than the fact that the street appeared in a format not unlike that of the Providence Road and catered to rogue cultivators, the young girl had not been able to glean anything else from the passerby's conversations.

The Purity Road belonged to the expansive clans whose influence stretched over Bone Spirit Town and the nearby cities.

From the words of the young male and female couple, the Long Yu Pavilion served as the most prominent pavilion within the street, and even the town itself.

The Residential Road was the fifth and most important street within Bone Spirit Town, for it housed almost all of the town's residents who possessed a significance slightly above that of the gatherers.

An Fei discovered that the town possessed an odd legislative that prevented the ownership of private residential areas, causing her to spend the next few moments scratching her head in confusion.

”Five streets, and they all possess a unique feature… huh?”

The young girl sighed and gazed towards the sky, her plain countenance devoid of the excitement she had once anticipated after leaving the Wu Ji Forest.

Even on her first few hours in the Bone Spirit Town, An Fei felt an unquestionable sense of unease rack through her entire body, as though she didn't wish to remain for long.

Sometimes, just sometimes, she even sported the thought of returning to the Wu Ji Forest, for it was peaceful compared to the town in the fertile plains.

An Fei was currently sitting atop the clay tiled roof of a particularly tall house within the Providence Road, her back leaning against the sloped incline of the structure.

When the young girl glanced downwards, she could still spot numerous people dressed in everyday clothes roaming around the street although the sun had clearly fallen.

Night was already approaching without solace, and these people dared to continue roaming around without any lights.

”Xiao Hei, what do you think of this Bone Spirit Town?”

An Fei suddenly asked, adjusting her body to a more comfortable position and placing the leather bag on her abdomen.

The young girl then extended her hands into the bag, her fingers playing with the silky fur of the seven-tailed fox.

Caw!

”I thought so too,” the young girl whispered, the pair of scarlet irises flashing with a hint of disdain.

”This Bone Spirit Town isn't welcoming to poor folk, ah.”

The little raven ruffled the feathers on its body, its crimson eyes glancing at the young girl with a tinge of curiosity.

After obtaining no reaction, the little creature tapped the clay tiles below its body with a claw, before clambering onto the softer leather bag.

Caw!

An Fei glanced at the night sky brimming with the dazzling flecks of starlight, her heart slightly unsettled at the uncertainties of the future.

Her consciousness promised to obtain a map of the region, and swiftly depart from such a place as to not become involved in its troubles.

The Bone Spirit Town… although the residents called it a town, the young girl considered it akin to a minor city.

The inhabitants along equated to four hundred thousand within a restricted area boxed in by stone walls, and the necessary social hierarchies for a city had already been established.

The existence of the five central streets and their specializations sufficed as evidence of such a phenomenon.

It was only that as a city, the Bone Spirit Town was developing in the wrong direction.

The town's social hierarchy and plane of influence promoted the clans instead of the common people, thus retaining the foundations of family monarchism.

The young masters and mistresses of a clan would develop greatly in their influence over the town and its inhabitants, and become the sole proprietors of the path of cultivation, seizing the Shattered Star Continent's most valuable resource and hoarding it without any remorse…