I don’t know whether it was out of self-confidence that they were not afraid of the coming wave of monsters, or because they believed that the wave of monsters traveling up the river would not be able to pass through Yishui City’s siege.
The entire Linjiang City was actually divided into two by the Meihua River, or it could be said that Linjiang City originally intended to build a city on both sides of the Meihua River.
Yiran was now far away, looking at this city without walls from a distance, and countless waves were in his heart.
This was the first time in this world that he saw such a city without walls.
This is the first time I have seen such a magnificent stone bridge built across the river.
This road has passed through many principalities and crossed many rivers. Except for those with good cultivation who can cross the water, most people still have to find ferries to cross the rivers.
But even when crossing the river by boat, there are occasionally huge river fish that sink the ferry.
For those who want to cross the river and live on the shore, there is always a sharp knife hanging in the hearts of those who want to cross the river and live on the shore.
But in Linjiang City, the Meihua River passes directly through the city, and there is no city wall surrounding it, making it look like a modern city.
Before stepping into Linjiang City, it showed its prosperous times before Yiran's eyes.
The official road leading to the city was full of business travelers coming and going. They looked in a hurry but couldn't hide the smiles on their brows.
Many young monks in robes or fancy attire were whispering among themselves to discuss martial arts, and from time to time they would find an open space to show off a few moves.
In the Meihua River, there are many young and old faces rising and falling on the water.
Only then did Yiran remember that he had walked out of Windfire City on ice and snow, and now it was already summer when he entered the empire.
As soon as he walked to the riverside and looked at the children floating in the river, three people immediately quietly came more than ten feet behind Yiran and stood there silently looking at the river without making a sound.
It seems that they also came here to enjoy the river view.
Ignoring the three people, they walked to the riverside and discovered that the children in the Meihua River were not playing around, but practicing water skills under the guidance of their elders and hunting big fish at the bottom of the water.
Every time they surface, they catch fish large or small.
Occasionally, there are children who are close to the warrior realm, and even the big fish they catch have reached the level of exotic beasts.
When he saw this place, Yiran immediately understood that this must be a place similar to an academy in Linjiang City, leading students to go out for training.
However, there must be a gap in status. Children born in big families may have famous teachers to guide them, and they may not care about the tutors or even the rewards in the academy.
But for those families with humble parents who are still struggling for survival, the growth of these children is inseparable from the teaching and training of the academy.
And for these families, it is a blessing to be able to send their children to college, and many families cannot afford the expensive tuition fees.
This kind of situation is bound to happen no matter where you are in the principality.
Just like Peng Xiao and his friends in Yishui City, they have already worked hard to gain a foothold in Yishui City.
It is really not an easy task to let yourself live a more comfortable life, and even let your wife and children live a comfortable life.
Looking at the mentor swimming in the water, Yiran thought of Goode who brought him to Windfire City and sent him to the First Martial Arts Academy, and also thought of his mentors Zhao Tianming and Huang Zhan, who regarded him as their juniors.
If it weren't for their guidance, when would I have embarked on the path of spiritual practice? Maybe I would have been able to get here smoothly, but I would have had to experience more ups and downs and hardships.
The families of these children may not be too outstanding, but they are all lucky.
Yiran saw the incomparable concern in the eyes of the teacher who was also floating in the river, and saw the light in the eyes of Zhao Tianming and Huang Zhan.
As for the three people behind him, it didn't take much thinking to know that they were mentors guarding the area, specializing in dealing with unexpected situations, just like his own appearance at this moment.
In perception, the three middle-aged instructors have all reached the fifth level of cultivation, and their auras are very calm, which is much better than Peng Xiao.
The three of them formed a cornering posture and surrounded Yiran, but they looked towards the river and dealt with the situation calmly, obviously not preparing to take the lead.
Yiran turned around, looked at the three of them, nodded with a smile, and then walked towards Lin Jiangcheng.
When Yi Ran turned around, the three of them finally saw his face clearly, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.
It wasn't until Yiran walked away that the three of them came together and murmured in a low voice:
"This man is so young, but his cultivation is so unpredictable to me!"
"That's right. The battle for supremacy between the youths of the two cities has just ended, and everyone in the city knows about it, but they don't know where this young man comes from."
"He seems to have come along the river. Isn't that the direction of Yishui City? Is he the genius of Yishui City? But I went to see the battle for hegemony, and there was no such a number one figure."
The three of them were silent for a long time, and the person among them lowered his voice and said quietly:
"The young people participating in the hegemony battle are all geniuses under the age of thirty. There are many sixth-level experts in this year's hegemony battle. They are infinitely stronger than us."
"But have you noticed that most of those geniuses are in their late twenties, but this young man looks too young!"
The other two people heard this and looked at each other with shock in their eyes.
I took the little guys out to experience a small actual battle scene, but I didn't expect to meet a guy who was more terrifying than those geniuses.
If this young man really wants to do something, I'm afraid their mentors don't know enough about it.
Fortunately, this kind of scene did not happen, but they were cautious and used to looking at people's imagination with the worst eyes.
It is the experience they have accumulated as mentors for decades, or it is instinct.
Continuing to walk towards Linjiang City, the crowds on the streets became turbulent. Whether they were traffickers or martial arts magicians, they could be seen everywhere.
Even before the entire Linjiang City has been seen, it is already more friendly to the people than Yishui City.
This is no longer a place that the general wave of monsters can reach, so the city does not have the chilling feeling in Yishui City, nor does it have the rules like that in Yishui City that only the strong can gain a foothold in the city.
At least according to Yiran's rough inspection, most of the traders and thugs were only at level three, and it would be impossible to survive in Yishui City.
As he walked straight into the city, the faces of those who came his way were all filled with happy smiles, and those traveling with him did not shy away from talking about what they thought were interesting stories of the past few days.
Among them, the one that Yiran heard about the most was the so-called "Youth Battle between Two Cities".
From the words of those people, I suddenly understood that the youth competition is an arena battle held every year between Linjiang City and Yishui City.
The purpose on the surface is naturally the exchange of spiritual practice between the young monks of the two cities. As for the secret purpose, there is at least one thing that needs no thought, and that is the secret competition between the young people of the two cities.
In previous years, youth hegemony battles almost always ended in Yishui City's victory, because Yishui City's martial culture was engraved in their bones.
Those geniuses at the bottom are like this, and those geniuses born in aristocratic families will only be even more like this.
But this year they lost to Lin Jiangcheng, because there was a guy in Lin Jiangcheng who was extremely talented and had an earth-level spiritual mansion. He finally entered the sixth level when he was twenty-six years old!
He was two or three years older than the young men who participated in the war in previous years, but he had never appeared in Yishui City's sight until he became famous in this competition, causing the geniuses in Yishui City to lose miserably.
As for other major events that make everyone in Linjiang City extremely excited, there is another big competition that will continue to unfold after the youth competition.
That is alchemy. The maximum age for the alchemy competition is no more than forty years old.
Because generally speaking, people in their twenties and thirties don't even have time to practice, so there is no spare time to study alchemy.
There may be geniuses who can distract themselves and embark on the path of refining medicine, but just like practicing magic and martial arts, it is still extremely difficult. There are not many such geniuses even in the empire.
As for alchemists under the age of forty, even if they have monster-level talents, their cultivation level is still at the level of a great mage. As for alchemy skills, most of them are only at the fourth level, and very few are at the fifth level.
Those masters who are famous for their alchemy skills have not been immersed in this way for decades.
There are tens of thousands of elixirs in the world. Without a long period of accumulation, who can keep all the medicinal properties and prescriptions of countless elixirs in mind.
Even Gude, as the only direct descendant of Luo Yifeng, although his cultivation talent is not very strong, but his medicine refining talent is not bad, he still became a fifth-level alchemist at the age of thirty, and later became a sixth-level alchemist. Over forty years old.
As for becoming a spiritual alchemist, he was already over eighty years old, and he could only do it by chance after traveling to the Principality of Wind and Fire.
The reason is simple. Every powerful alchemist is fed countless precious elixirs.
Without a large amount of elixirs for practicing, no matter how powerful the talent is, it is impossible to become a powerful alchemist.
So where do these large amounts of elixirs come from?
A first-, second-, or even third-level elixir is fine, but what about fourth- and fifth-level elixirs?
Even some smaller families cannot afford endless squandering, let alone those little people without a backing.
After all, whether it is cultivation or refining medicine, it requires a lot of resources to supply, so it is not an easy task.
As for Yudie being able to become a fifth-level alchemist at such an age, it is naturally due to Gude's training since childhood, his indoctrination in medicinal properties and pharmacology, and the countless elixirs that Gude has accumulated over the years for his practice.
Good, who had regarded Yudie as his entire hope in the past six months, even took out all the elixirs he had accumulated over the years to refine potions for Yudie regardless of the cost.
How is this a condition that ordinary people can have?
As for someone like Yi Ran who can easily control his mental power and control the heat, control the amount of medicine, and activate the magic formula to make elixirs, there is no guarantee that he can find another one in the entire Lingxu Continent.
Hearing that Linjiang City was going to hold a medicine refining competition, Yiran, who was planning to go directly through Linjiang City and continue heading northeast, also stopped and prepared to compete with the empire's alchemists in Linjiang City.
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