Chapter 544
Chapter 544: A Perplexing Situation
Translator: StackThatCoin Editor: Hitesh_
Luo City was the capital city of the Mi Province . On the vast Pangu Continent, it was considered a fairly young city, with less than five hundred years of history . Its size was about thirty miles in circumference; it had about five hundred thousand inhabitants, three thousand regular soldiers from the Military Court, one thousand soldiers from the Punishment Court, and an unknown number of Oracles from the Directorate of Celestials, who were working in the dark .
Wu Qi was glancing left and right curiously as he walked down the wide and clean street in Luo City .
This was the first time he visited a province's capital city which was governed by Great Yu . It was the administrative center that managed all the affairs of an entire province, where the life and death of all the living beings in the vast land of the province were decided . If Great Yu's Imperial Court, as well as the Prefecture Overseer of He Province, the first-grade province who governed the Mi Province, did not interfere with the management, the Prefecture Overseer of Mi Province was the sovereign here .
The buildings in the city were all constructed in the typical style of the Great Yu Dynasty . Thick and heavy rocks were stacked on top of each other to form huge houses that looked like castles, while trees were planted and streams were dug between houses to serve as fences . Wearing black clothes and a tall crown on his head, an officer from the Punishment Court was walking down the street with some soldiers at his heels, their faces expressionless . They were maintaining the peace and order of the city .
The people of Luo City had relaxed and peaceful expressions, and most of the pedestrians were wearing friendly smiles on their faces . The atmosphere in the city was simple and honest . Some children were playing games on the street, among which, some were just ordinary children, while some had already begun cultivating the human race's basic cultivation technique . However, no matter how big the gap between their overall strength was, they were playing the game like ordinary children . There was no bullying or whatsoever .
And, there were no beggars or refugees to be found on the streets . In fact, since Wu Qi arrived at Pangu Continent, he had never seen even one beggar or refugee . This was a land with rich resources, and as long as one was willing to work hard, one would be able to fulfill his basic needs . Also, as the people here were simple and honest, even if there were some refugees caused by natural disasters, they would soon be absorbed by the nearby villages and cities .
Wu Qi glanced around at the people of Luo City, who were living a cozy life and whose faces were always smiling . He suddenly discovered that he had begun to like Pangu Continent .
Standing at a random street corner and wearing a smile on his face, Wu Qi was watching a group of kids playing a fighting game with wooden and bamboo sticks . After watching them for fifteen minutes, only then he nodded and strode towards the Prefecture Overseer's Mansion, which was situated in the center of the city . There, at the square in front of the mansion stood the teleportation formation officially constructed by Great Yu, which could be used to travel between the capital cities of various major provinces .
A strong light was radiating from the teleportation formation when Wu Qi arrived at the square, and he saw a few Great Yu's officers, who were clad in green clothes, walking out of it . A few Mi Province's officers who had been waiting for their arrival hurried up from beside the square . One of the green-clothed officers handed them an official paper and a medallion . The men from both sides exchanged a few words in whispers, then the Mi Province's officers smilingly led the visiting officers into a pavilion right next to the square .
After a brief moment of pondering, Wu Qi went before the few officers who were standing next to the teleportation formation . They were all clad in black clothes, and each had a jade crown atop their heads . He cleared his throat and asked, "Your Excellency, may I use the teleportation formation? I wish to visit the Zhong Province . "
The officers gave Wu Qi a glance as one of them produced a bone mirror and pointed it at him . A beam of white light shot out from it and landed on his body . Suddenly, a column of purple mist rushed out of his skin, and was made visible to the naked eyes under the white light . A warm smile emerged on the grim faces of the few officers, and the officer who held the bone mirror said, "Oh, a brave warrior of our race! You are welcome to use the formation . . . Haha, I thought you are one of those ignorant cultivators, and we were prepared to make things difficult for you!"
Wu Qi cupped his fist, gave them some energy stones as the fee, and walked straight into the teleportation formation .
When the officers discovered that Wu Qi was practicing a human race's cultivation technique and had already attained a very strong cultivation base, their attitude had become extremely friendly . They even activated the formation for him, without asking about his destination or purpose . It allowed Wu Qi to find the exact coordinate of Zhong Province and teleport himself away .
The reason why these officers were so friendly to him was that he had deliberately exposed the fact that he was practicing the True Body of Heaven and Earth Scripture . Wu Qi was well aware of that .
If it were an Immortal cultivator wished to use the teleportation formation officially constructed by Great Yu, he would either have to pay an extremely expensive price, or he would vanish completely from this world, never to be found again . That was unless he was supported by some formidable figure who was so strong that the officers of Great Yu would not dare to offend him, and had already obtained his identity certificate from the immortal pass operated by Great Yu .
Great Yu was able to freely move their troops between the provinces through these teleportation formations, but not Immortal cultivators . They were trapped where they were, allowing Great Yu to better manage and suppress them .
As the pressure that came from the operation of the formation receded, a bright light reached into Wu Qi's eyes . He had arrived, standing in the teleportation formation situated before the Prefecture Overseer Mansion of Zhong Ning City . A queer atmosphere was lingering in the city, and he could smell amok in the air .
Lines of armored soldiers were patrolling along the streets around the Prefecture Overseer Mansion . Aggressive glances were thrown at him from time to time . Nearly one hundred flying ships hovered above the mansion, each surrounded by dozens of Oracles who sat cross-legged in mid-air . The flying ships and Oracles formed a complicated formation that protected the mansion .
There were several dozens of extremely powerful auras hiding inside of the mansion, each emanating a stream of surging energy that towered into the sky and ripped the clouds into pieces . The auras joined the flying ships and the Oracles to put a complete lockdown on the void .
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