489 Zhou Bao Enters Mountain City & Yan Family Patriarch (1/2)
”What benefit does it have? From what I know, it is precisely because Divine Wind Palace's lack of loyalty to their belief that the tracks of Azure Heaven of the 33 Heavens were lost. Plus, the Divine Wind Palace also tried to capture Taiyuan Heaven the last time. The benefits of these two incidents are seriously too significant. I can't think of anything else in this world that is more valuable than the sum of both the Taiyuan Heaven and the Azure Heaven!” A black-clothed man was sitting on a chair. This man was the manager of the Qin Family, Family Head Qin Zheng.
”Hmph. The things you are ignorant about in this world far exceeds that! Although the 33 Heavens are valuable, they are not unique!”
”Do you mean that they have found one of the 33 Heavens?!”
”Not sure!” The Elder spoke, ”After all we are only a well-known family in the Jin Dynasty. From the time this family was established, there has only been about a history of three thousand years. Although it seems that we have a longer history when compared to other well-known families, but in fact, it's insignificant when compared to these powerful families. There are so many secrets in this world that we don't know!”
”Then are we really going to let this go? We have really broken relations with the Yan Family this time round!” an Elder grumbled.
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Black ragged mountains stood amidst the leisurely drifting clouds.
The Mountain City of the Qin Family stood at the foot of the South Mountains and in the heart of Leizhou. The whole mountain city was built along the mountains and winds up from the bottom of the mountains to the very peak.
3000 years ago, these mountains were called Toutuo Ridge. Each ridge was 5780 feet tall. At present, it has long been concentrated with buildings. For a mountain city to emerge from such an uncivilized place was indeed shocking.
3000 years, hehe, a well-known family with a history of 3000 years! Based on the average man's capabilities, this seemed like the furthest it could go to have such a strong foundation and to build such a sprawling big mountain city!”
Today, a cyan-clothed man appeared in front of the ten feet tall city gate of the Mountain City of the Qin Family. This cyan-clothed man was about eighteen or nineteen years old. He had a pleasant and refined look. If he had held a folding fan or a book in his hand, he would surely have been perceived as a scholar on his way to take his exam in the Western Capital. However, for a man poor in the humanities, it was doubtful whether he would be able to make it to the Western Capital.
As he ambled his way to that city gate, he saw that along the fringes of the gate stood a line of soldiers. Two of them stood by the two sides of the city gate, each holding a gun looking powerful. There was another team of about ten soldiers that was patrolling around the city gate. One of the soldiers among them was of a Level Three cultivation even though he was rather young. Plus, he looked like he was about to transcend Level Three to become a Level Four master of martial arts already.
Originally, they did not care about this cyan-clothed scholar. It was only that soldier who, after laying his eyes on the scholar, immediately froze and grew suspicious of this scholar.
”Freeze!” The cyan-clothed scholar stopped in his tracks obediently and looked at that soldier.
”Who are you? Why are you trying to enter the city?!”
The cyan-clothed scholar smiled faintly. ”I am only a passer-by. I have heard that the Mountain City of the Qin Family is incomparably majestic. I was curious so I dropped by to take a look. Is there something wrong with that?”
After hearing those hearing those words, the soldier furrowed his eyebrows.
This was the Mountain City of the Qin Family. It was the center of politics and governance in the South Mountains. There has never been anyone who dared to create trouble here. This soldier could be considered experienced. He had been around for about seven or eight years. He had definitely seen many types of people and never once had he come across someone who answered in the same way as the cyan-clothed man. He immediately felt that something was amiss. As he was getting ready to shoot him, he suddenly came into eye contact with the man and immediately panicked.
On the other hand, the cyan-clothed man only smiled. He nodded politely and walked past him. The surrounding soldiers thought the situation was a little odd and cast their gaze on that particular soldier. However, that soldier only looked apprehensively at that cyan-clothed man. It was only until he lost sight of the cyan-clothed man among the officers and soldiers that he regained his composure.
”Leader Lin, what's wrong? Just now that cyan-clothed guy...!”
”What cyan-clothed man? What are you guys lazing around here doing, stand straight immediately!” After Leader Lin regained his composure, he saw that the subordinates around him had all surrounded him. With a change of his expression and his shout, he immediately scared the crowd of people back to their stations, scurrying back fearfully as mice would.
”This Mountain City of the Qin Family is indeed solid!” Walking along a spacious road in the mountain city, an eccentric smile spread across the cyan-clothed scholar's face. In his spiritual mind, he already had some telepathic sensing of strong messages that were hidden in numerous obscure corners of this city.
”Six experts. This is much more than the average millennium families! Seems like this Qin Family of the South Mountains is well-armed. I just don't know what kind of men they are hiding as back-up. They even had the audacity to mess with the north-west!”
This cyan-clothed scholar was actually Zhou Bao. This time round, he left his home in the northwest precisely because he wanted to take revenge on the Qin Family. However, he was no savage man. Since the Qin Family dared to mess with the northwest region, they must have a plan. Hence, he did not directly knock on their door like the previous time. Instead, he took his time to understand.