Zhou Yang heard from Uncle Zhong that there were three thousand cities in the northern part of the Hezhou continent alone, and Tu Yan City was only a very small one. The largest of them is called Suiling City, which is extremely far away from here. Anping City can only be regarded as a middle-lower city in the northern part of Hezhou, belonging to the level of an attached city.
As for how big Hezhou Continent is, not even him, even the masters of Tianyuan Realm can't tell clearly. I heard that ordinary cultivators will never reach the end of their lives, and this is only one continent. There are different opinions on how many continents there are in the world.
There are nine states and four seas in the world, and there are eighteen states in the world. Some people even say that there are not only eighteen states in the world, but thirty-six states, and there are three boundless seas.
As for which one is right, no one can tell, because no one has ever walked through the world. Zhou Yang had seen the most extensive map, and it only roughly showed a few cities in the northernmost part of the Hezhou continent.
However, with the teleportation array, communication between cities on the Hezhou continent has become more convenient, but the cost is too high. There is a super long teleportation array in the big city, and even one spent spiritual stone can scare Zhou Yang to death.
"I don't know which masters built these teleportation arrays." Zhou Yang sighed secretly.
There is also some discussion about teleportation arrays in the Alchemy Essentials, but the content is not much and he can't understand it yet.
It's evening now, and we can't enter the city yet, so we can only sleep outside the city. They found an open space not far from the teleportation array and meditated on the spot. Chihu lay quietly next to Zhou Yang and took a nap on his own.
Early the next morning, the city gates were opened.
Two people and one tiger arrived at the city gate, but were stopped by the guards. They knew that they had to pay city fees.
Non-residents of Anping City must pay a city entrance fee of one spiritual stone, and must pay it every time they enter the city.
Zhou Yang took two first-grade spiritual stones, and the two of them entered this strange but expectant city.
Anping City is very large, at least equivalent to eight or nine Tu Yan. The entire city is square and flat. There are no peaks in the city. Outside the city, there are wastelands and dense forests. There is only one big mountain more than two thousand miles to the west, called Cangshou Mountain. There are many monsters and monsters in the mountain. Many high-level monsters are rampant.
There is also a spirit stone vein in Cangshou Mountain, which is controlled by several sects in the city.
The streets in Anping City are very wide, with many pavilions and pavilions, all of the same style. There is a constant flow of people coming and going on the street. Various shops are lined up in rows and are very lively. Lingtai realm cultivators can be seen everywhere, and occasionally Tianyuan masters can be encountered.
In Tu Yan City, Tianyuan masters rarely show up, and those who move around on weekdays are mostly low-level cultivators of the Kaiyuan realm, and there are not many Lingtai realms. This shows the strength of Anping City.
Zhou Yang originally thought that Tianyuan realm masters would fly their weapons in the city, so naturally he wanted to open his eyes. But what disappointed him was that he didn't see a single flying cultivator along the way.
The two of them had just entered Anping, so they didn't know that flying at low altitudes was not allowed in Anping City. In other words, it is allowed to fly at high altitudes on flying spiritual beasts or flying magical instruments, but it is absolutely forbidden to fly below a hundred feet.
However, there are not many Tianyuan cultivators in Tuyan City, and it is difficult to see them on weekdays, so there is no such thing as a ban.
Of course, the powerful aura of the Tianyuan cultivators was very intimidating, and they only dared to take a look at it from a distance.
Zhou Yang didn't find Freefang City here, so he asked Tiehu. Tiehu said that Free Square might be in the West City, but their current location is in the north of the city, so they are far apart.
Zhou Yang did not dare to stay on the street for a long time. They wanted to find a remote place to live and learn more about the situation in Anping City before making a decision.
They walked along a wide street for about two sticks of incense. Feeling hungry, they found a street tea stall and ordered two cups of tea and some snacks to eat and drink.
Zhou Yang took out some remaining pork from the skin bag and threw it to Chi Hu, who also started to devour it.
After delivering the tea, the waiter was about to leave when Zhou Yang stopped him and asked, "Brother, we want to find a cheaper place to live. It doesn't matter if it's far away. Can you give me some advice?"
The waiter glanced at the two of them and said, "You two must be new to Anping, right? To be honest, the inns here are more expensive, and the inns in Xicheng are cheaper."
"Oh. How many spiritual stones are there approximately per month?" Zhou Yang nodded and asked again.
"The cheapest one is seventy or eighty yuan a month for a first-grade spiritual stone. It's hard to say if it's more expensive."
Zhou Yang was speechless. Calculated in this way, the one with earth fire is even more expensive, and it costs less than 100 spiritual stones a month! Much more expensive than Tu Yancheng.
"Excuse me, brother, is Free Square City in the West City? How can I get closer?"
"Exactly, follow this street south to the end, then go west and cross three streets."
"Thank you very much, brother." Zhou Yang nodded in thanks.
West City is probably where low-level cultivators gather, so it’s cheap. It's much more convenient to buy things when you have Free Trade Market there.
Zhou Yang doesn't want to enter the store now. He doesn't have many spiritual stones anymore. There are only more than 120 yuan left in the spiritual stone bag, and Tie Hu doesn't have more than 20 yuan left.
Leaving aside Lingshi, if you rent a quiet room with earth fire to refine elixirs, who will the elixirs be sold to? If a situation like Jubaozhai happens again, he will really be desperate. But how can we live without selling elixirs?
Zhou Yang was drinking tea and thinking about his future livelihood.
After breakfast, the two led Chihu towards the west city.
Xicheng is really not close to here. They walked for more than an hour before they reached their destination.
Compared with Beicheng, this place is quite different. The streets are obviously smaller, and there are many fewer shops. Most of the cultivators in the past were below Tianyuan, mainly in Lingtai and Kaiyuan realm. But there is one difference, that is, the area is much larger than Beicheng.
After crossing two more streets, they came to an open space. The layout of this place is similar to that of Tu Yancheng's Free Square City, except that it is much larger. This is the Free Square City of Xicheng.
However, as soon as Zhou Yang entered Free Square City, he subconsciously raised his head and looked around because he felt a gaze sweeping over him, but after looking around, he didn't find anyone paying attention to him.
Shaking his head, he thought to himself: "This is my first time back to Anping Xicheng. I will never have any acquaintances. I am too worried."
In Fang City, Zhou Yang found that the materials here were much more complete than those in Tu Yancheng. They were not at the same level in terms of type and quantity. Materials that could not be seen in Tu Yancheng could be seen here.
According to his experience, there should be many uncommon materials in the shop, not to mention elixirs, magic weapons, etc. The overall strength of Anping City is indeed much higher than that of Tu Yan.
Free Trade City has a large flow of people. There are many more people buying things than selling things, and the transactions are very hot. Zhou Yang estimated that there should be many buyers from other cities coming here to trade.
There are also mortal activities in the city. Those mortals drove carriages loaded with goods through the streets, but carefully avoided other vehicles and cultivators.
Carriages are reserved for mortals and are generally not used by cultivators because the speed and endurance of horses cannot keep up with the pace of cultivators, especially in the wilderness, where horses are even less capable.
Zhou Yang and his entourage looked around in Ziyoufang City, lingering and eye-opening.
There are also many stalls in the market selling various spiritual herbs and elixirs, mainly food for spiritual animals. Zhou Yang didn't come into contact with many spiritual beasts, and he didn't know which ones ate grass and which ones ate meat. The Red Flame Horned Tiger definitely eats meat, and its appetite is quite large.
In fact, most of the raised spirit beasts eat grass. Different levels eat different grass. Spiritual beasts of level three or above need to provide spiritual grass or low-level spiritual beasts as spiritual food, such as the blue bird, Yaoli bird, monitor lizard, earth-walking dragon, etc. that Zhou Yang has seen.
First- and second-level spirit beasts or low-level spirit beasts that cannot be upgraded do not need to feed spiritual grass. Ordinary grass can be used, such as rock grass, yellow grass, wild mountain grass, etc., and most of these low-level spirit beasts are also mid-level and middle-level. The spiritual food of high-level spiritual beasts.
Some of the elixirs on the stalls are also specifically for spiritual beasts to eat, such as fire dragon grass that improves the physical strength of spiritual beasts, earth fairy flowers that assist spiritual beasts in upgrading, and moon-gazing golden orchid that speeds up their growth, etc.
Zhou Yang also discovered that some stalls purchased large amounts of spiritual herbs and elixirs for a long time, and even purchased Yanzhongcao in large quantities.
Grass in the rocks only exists in the mountains, and it grows on rocks.
Anping is a plain city. There are only large mountains more than 2,000 miles away in the west, where the grass in the rock is produced. However, because it is far away from the city, it is extremely dangerous for low-level cultivators to go to Cangshou Mountain. In addition, the grass in the rock is not expensive. , high-level cultivators don't bother to collect it, so the supply of grass in the rocks in Anping City exceeds demand.
"There are plenty of grasses in the rocks on Daqing Mountain, why not trade here?" Zhou Yang's eyes lit up, but then he was disappointed again. Because the cost of the teleportation array is too high, the grass in the rock brought every time may not be sold for the teleportation fee.
If you use a space storage bag, you can carry a larger amount each time. Who among the cultivators who can afford a storage bag will earn these spiritual stones.
For a while, Zhou Yang couldn't think of a better way.
The mounts used by cultivators here are mainly low-level spiritual beasts, and earth-moving dragons are used to transport goods. Earth dragons are not of high rank, but they are huge and can carry people and cargo. Occasionally, high-level cultivators ride giant lizards and other spiritual beasts here to purchase goods.
The two of them walked around for more than two hours, turning from east to west. The entire west side was actually a trading area for spiritual beasts.
There are many kinds of spiritual beasts, big and small. There are flying spirit beasts, traveling spirit beasts, treasure hunting beasts, pet beasts, and monster beasts that are used as food for high-level spirit beasts. Whatever kind of spirit beast you need, this place seems to be able to satisfy you, as long as you have spirit stones. If you can't afford it, you can rent it.
Zhou Yang even discovered a green wolf, but this green wolf was of a higher grade than the green wolf that originally attacked him. Most of them were above level three, and their coat color was not pure blue, but green.
When he first saw these green wolves, he was really frightened. He almost died under the claws of the green wolf before, once he was attacked by a snake, and for ten years he was afraid of well ropes, so he couldn't help but avoid them.
However, these green wolves are very docile and have no intention of attacking people. Zhou Yang then carefully moved forward, but the green wolves had no reaction.
After some embarrassing questioning, he learned that these green wolves had been tamed and were the mounts used by cultivators. They could be rented or sold here, which was very convenient. After hearing this, he was relieved.
