Chapter 2826: Junior Sect Master of Xuantian Immortal Sect
The Grand Unity Immortal Sect, as one of the three great Immortal Sects of the Desolate Territory, has its own manor in this Pill Tao City of the Desolate Domain, and also owns a shop in the bustling district of Pill Tao City, where it can sell Pill Medicines and medicinal herbs.
Both the manor they live in and the shop for selling Pill Medicines and medicinal herbs are provided free of charge by Pill Tao City of the Desolate Domain.
Such treatment is only given to the top Sects of the Six Southeastern Regions.
As for the small Sects and small clans of the Six Southeastern Regions, as well as people from the various Immortal Kingdoms of the Six Southeastern Regions and Loose Cultivators, though Pill Tao City also arranges residences for them, those all require payment in Immortal Stones and Immortal Crystals.
The better the residence, the more Immortal Stones and Immortal Crystals it costs.
Of course, even the best of their residences can’t compare with the ones arranged for the top Sects of each region in the Six Southeastern Regions.
In addition, the stalls provided by Pill Tao City to the small Sects and small clans of the Six Southeastern Regions, as well as to people from the various Immortal Kingdoms of the Six Southeastern Regions, all require rent.
The better the location of the stall, the higher the rent.
Stalls near the bustling district have rent so exorbitant that ordinary people simply can’t afford them.
Even if they can afford the rent, they might not be able to earn it back.
Therefore, the ones who usually rent stalls near the bustling district are Sects and clans who have brought outstanding mid-grade Alchemy Heavenly Immortals with them, or Loose Cultivators who are outstanding mid-grade Alchemy Heavenly Immortals.
On occasion, one can even see Loose Cultivators who are top-grade Alchemy Heavenly Immortals.
Of course, Loose Cultivators who are top-grade Alchemy Heavenly Immortals are rarely seen in Pill Tao City.
The only reason is that, as long as a person is a top-grade Alchemy Heavenly Immortal, if he is willing, he can join any of the major top Sects of the Six Southeastern Regions at any time, receive extremely good Sacrificial Officer treatment, and the major Sects won’t restrict his freedom; he is completely free to come and go.
Of course, while serving as a Sacrificial Officer in a Sect, he still needs to refine some Pill Medicines for the Sect.
However, the medicinal herbs required for refining Pill Medicines are provided by the Sect, and the Sect will generally offer generous rewards, never shortchanging them.
Under such circumstances, aside from some top-grade Alchemy Heavenly Immortals with particularly odd temperaments who are extremely unsociable and are willing to remain Loose Cultivators, most top-grade Alchemy Heavenly Immortals choose to join one of the top Sects of the Six Southeastern Regions as Sacrificial Officers.
In this way, not only can they obtain better resources, they also gain a place to settle down and build a life.
"Brother Wyatt... there are so many people!"
Just after entering Pill Tao City, before Wyatt Barnes had time to carefully take in the scene within the city, Leilany’s pleasant, melodious exclamation sounded by his ear.
At this moment, Wyatt focused his gaze forward and also saw the scene within the city.
Outside Pill Tao City, he had already seen many people entering the city.
However, once he entered the city, it was a completely different feeling.
The world outside the city is boundless and vast; no matter how many people there are, once dispersed, a single glance won’t give much of an impression...
But inside the city, the flow of people gathers together like dragons of carriages and horses, ceaselessly surging, bringing a kind of visual impact.
Within Pill Tao City, right after passing through the city gate, even though they are still far from the actual bustling district, it is already as lively and crowded as the bustling districts of ordinary cities.
Right now, Leilany is holding onto Wyatt Barnes’s arm, walking side by side with Hunter Swayer, Russel Yorke, and Joshua Davies, following behind the Elder Ancestor of the Grand Unity Immortal Sect, being led by the Elder Ancestor toward the manor belonging to the Grand Unity Immortal Sect in Pill Tao City of the Desolate Domain.
Since this is not his first time here, the Elder Ancestor walks the route with practiced ease.
Of course, even Hunter Swayer, Russel Yorke, and Joshua Davies are familiar with the way, because none of them have only come here once.
Because the manors arranged by Pill Tao City of the Desolate Domain for the major top Sects of the Six Southeastern Regions are fixed, the three great Immortal Sects of the Desolate Domain do not bother to arrange people to receive the members of the various major Sects of the Six Southeastern Regions.
The people of each Sect can head on their own to the manor where their Sect has always resided.
The manors of the major top Sects of the Six Southeastern Regions in Pill Tao City of the Desolate Domain, even if only furnished with some soundproof formations and Spirit Gathering Arrays, without any defensive restriction formations, still are places no one dares to casually enter and seize.
After all, the major top Sects of the Six Southeastern Regions represent the supreme martial power of the Six Southeastern Regions; ordinary people don’t dare to provoke them without reason.
Unless they’re seeking death!
All of this Wyatt Barnes learned from Hunter Swayer.
"So many mid-grade Alchemy Heavenly Immortals!"
Along the way, many figures in black robes appeared in Wyatt Barnes’s field of vision. On those black robes were embroidered clusters of flames, and those flames combined to form one ’Qian’ character after another.
These ’Qian’ characters, outlined by flames, at a glance seem as if they are burning at every moment, dazzling and eye-catching.
And this is precisely the ’Immortal Master Robe’ of the myriad heavenly planes.
Immortal Master Robes are standard garments specially crafted by the ’Immortal Master Alliance’ of the myriad heavenly planes, and only Alchemy Immortals and Artifact Refining Immortals are allowed to receive Immortal Master Robes at Immortal Master Alliance strongholds after proving their Immortal Master status.
Very few people dare to counterfeit Immortal Master Robes, because if anyone dares wear a fake Immortal Master Robe, or manufactures fake Immortal Master Robes, once discovered, they will be hunted down by the Immortal Master Alliance.
Thus, throughout the history of the myriad heavenly planes, very few have dared to counterfeit Immortal Master Robes or wear counterfeits.
Immortal Master Robes are divided into four ranks.
They are the ’Heaven-character Immortal Master Robe’, ’Earth-character Immortal Master Robe’, ’Qian-character Immortal Master Robe’, and ’Kun-character Immortal Master Robe’ respectively.
Among them, only top-grade Alchemy Immortal Masters and top-grade Artifact Refining Immortal Masters are qualified to receive the Heaven-character Immortal Master Robe; only upper-grade Alchemy Immortal Masters and upper-grade Artifact Refining Immortal Masters can receive the Earth-character Immortal Master Robe; only mid-grade Alchemy Immortal Masters and mid-grade Artifact Refining Immortal Masters can receive the Qian-character Immortal Master Robe.
As for the remaining Kun-character Immortal Master Robes, as long as one is a lower-grade Alchemy Immortal Master or lower-grade Alchemy Immortal Master, once they prove their identity at a stronghold of the Immortal Master Alliance, they can smoothly receive one.
And now, the group of people wearing Kun-character Immortal Master Robes appearing in front of Wyatt Barnes are all ’mid-grade Alchemy Immortal Masters’.
Because this is Pill Tao City, and Pill Tao City has been opened specifically for the ’Pill Tao Grand Assembly’ jointly held by the Southeastern Six Regions, those appearing here in Immortal Master Robes are over ninety-nine percent Alchemy Immortal Masters, with almost no Artifact Refining Immortal Masters.
Of course, those within Wyatt’s line of sight aren’t all mid-grade Alchemy Immortal Masters in Qian-character Immortal Master Robes; there are also some lower-grade Alchemy Immortal Masters in Kun-character Immortal Master Robes.
However, the number of these lower-grade Alchemy Immortal Masters is far fewer than that of the mid-grade Alchemy Immortal Masters.
"Alchemist Swayer, you all... usually don’t have the habit of wearing Immortal Master Robes?"
Retracting his gaze, Wyatt looked toward Hunter Swayer, Russel Yorke, and Joshua Davies, and asked curiously.
Although he is now an upper-grade Alchemy Immortal Master, and City of Grand Unity also has a stronghold of the Immortal Master Alliance where Immortal Master Robes can be collected, he has never gone to collect one, since there was never any place or occasion where he had to wear an Immortal Master Robe.
"We usually only wear our Immortal Master Robes in situations where we need to prove our identity... for example, at the Pill Tao Grand Assembly a month from now, we’ll change into our Immortal Master Robes."
Hunter Swayer explained with a smile.
"So that’s how it is."
Wyatt came to a sudden realization, then gave a wry smile and said, "I really didn’t expect that the Pill Tao Grand Assembly would require wearing Immortal Master Robes... otherwise, I’d have gone to the Immortal Master Alliance stronghold in City of Grand Unity before we set out and picked up a robe."
"There shouldn’t be a stronghold of the Immortal Master Alliance here in Pill Tao City, right?"
Speaking to this point, Wyatt asked again.
"No."
Hunter Swayer shook his head.
"Alchemist Barnes, although Pill Tao City doesn’t have a stronghold of the Immortal Master Alliance, the cities under the three great Immortal Sects of the Desolate Domain around Pill Tao City each have a stronghold of the Immortal Master Alliance... if you wish to collect an Immortal Master Robe, I can accompany you there."
At the same time, the Elder Ancestor of Grand Unity also heard Wyatt’s words and timely spoke to him.
"Alchemist Barnes, if you don’t mind, I actually have an extra ’Earth-character Immortal Master Robe’ that I’ve only worn once."
Joshua Davies looked at Wyatt and said.
"Of course I don’t mind."
Wyatt shook his head. "In that case, many thanks, Alchemist Davies."
Not to mention that Wyatt himself doesn’t have any particular obsession with cleanliness.
Even if he did, cleaning thoroughly the Immortal Master Robe given by Joshua Davies would be an extremely easy matter.
"What a beautiful woman!"
"Such an incomparably stunning woman—I’ve hardly seen the like in my entire life... if I could share a night of spring with her, how happy a thing that would be."
"Don’t even think about it... Didn’t you notice the flower already has a master? That purple-clothed young man beside her has an extraordinary bearing; at a glance you can tell he’s no simple character."
"It’s not just that purple-clothed young man at her side whose bearing is extraordinary and who doesn’t look simple... even the other four don’t look like ordinary people. Especially that old man in the lead—he looks like a common old man, not showing off any sharpness or presence, but it’s precisely people like that who are usually the most terrifying."
"Whether it’s their conversation and mannerisms, or their bearing, they don’t look like people from the usual powers of the Southeastern Six Regions... I wonder, from which region of the Southeastern Six Regions, and which top sect, do they come?"
...
Wherever Wyatt’s group passed, Leilany—without a veil or gauze hat—became the focal point of everyone’s attention.
As the passersby whispered among themselves, while sighing over Leilany’s flawlessly peerless beauty, they also vaguely saw the extraordinary nature of Wyatt’s group...
So even though many were drooling over Leilany’s beauty, itching to rush up and snatch her away, none of them dared act rashly.
"Make way, make way!"
"Do you lot know who my Young Master is? My Young Master is the Junior Sect Master of the Xuan Heaven Immortal Sect—if you don’t want to die, hurry up and get lost!"
...
Accompanied by bursts of arrogant shouts, the flow of people ahead on the road Wyatt’s group was walking surged for a moment, then automatically parted to open up a path.
A moment later, a white-clothed young man riding a giant tiger about two meters tall appeared in the sight of Wyatt and the others, and in front of this white-clothed young man’s mount were three burly men, bare-chested on their upper halves, opening the way for him.
"Junior Sect Master of the Xuan Heaven Immortal Sect?"
"The Xuan Heaven Immortal Sect of the Crossing Region? The number one sect of our Southeastern Six Regions?"
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