Chapter 2245: Strolling Around
He entered the building.
Immediately, a middle-aged man with long ears approached.
"May I ask what you need, senior?"
Zhou Yu glanced at the man.
Just a Core Formation Realm cultivation.
Zhou Yu didn’t pay much attention, but began to observe the store.
The store was filled with various jade talismans and some ancient texts.
Zhou Yu said calmly:
"What do you sell here?"
The man quickly replied respectfully:
"Our shop specializes in selling ancient texts, maps, and some low-rank materials."
"I wonder what the senior needs?"
Zhou Yu said calmly:
"A map of Black Cloud City, fetch me one."
"Alright, please wait a moment, senior."
The man immediately took out a jade talisman and handed it to Zhou Yu.
"Senior, three hundred middle-grade Spirit Stones."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yu raised an eyebrow.
"So expensive?"
Zhou Yu had bought many maps before, except for some special ones, maps of the city like this usually sold for no more than a hundred low-grade Spirit Stones.
The man smiled bitterly:
"Senior, the war is impending, everything is expensive now."
Zhou Yu glanced at the man, said nothing more, and handed him five hundred middle-grade Spirit Stones.
"Senior, what is this for?"
Zhou Yu calmly said:
"The extra is for consultation. I have some questions to ask you."
The man was delighted, quickly said:
"Please tell, senior, I will answer without any reservation."
"Alright."
Following this, Zhou Yu asked about some issues regarding the city.
A moment later, Zhou Yu left the building.
Then, he set his mind on a direction and sped away.
About half an hour later, Zhou Yu arrived in front of a massive building.
This building towered a thousand feet high and was the tallest in the radius of a hundred miles.
Zhou Yu stepped inside immediately.
Through the questions with that middle-aged man, Zhou Yu already learned this was a moderately ranked residence in Black Cloud City.
Having just arrived in Black Cloud City, naturally, Zhou Yu planned to stay for some time.
So, he needed to find a place to settle down first.
He came to the lobby on the first floor of the building.
Zhou Yu headed straight to the rent-and-sell section.
"I want a residence."
In the rent-and-sell section, a white-haired old man was in charge.
After hearing Zhou Yu’s request, he glanced at Zhou Yu and displayed a slight hint of surprise in his eyes.
After all, the Human Race was very rare in Black Cloud City.
However, it was only surprising.
Then the old man took out a magic artifact.
It displayed different colors of glowing dots.
"The deeper the color, the more abundant the spiritual power, and the more expensive it is."
"Choose by yourself, just let me know which one you want."
Zhou Yu glanced casually and chose the darkest one.
He didn’t need a place with abundant spiritual power.
The old man looked at Zhou Yu’s choice and showed a hint of disdain in his eyes, but said nothing.
He simply said:
"Ten thousand middle-grade Spirit Stones a year."
Zhou Yu casually handed the old man fifty thousand middle-grade Spirit Stones.
The old man threw the token to open the residence to Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu took the token and went directly to the residence.
Upon entering, Zhou Yu skillfully arranged a set of defensive arrays.
Then he sat cross-legged and took out a jade talisman.
This jade talisman was the map of Black Cloud City he had just purchased.
Zhou Yu studied it carefully.
After spending a full day, Zhou Yu finally gained a rough understanding of Black Cloud City.
Then, he flipped his hand and took out another jade talisman.
This jade talisman was also bought from that middle-aged man.
It mainly recorded some special aspects of Black Cloud City.
From this jade talisman, Zhou Yu discovered that Black Cloud City indeed had a large transmission array.
However, this large transmission array was located in the Imperial City.
Moreover, during his inquiry with the middle-aged man, Zhou Yu learned indirectly.
In Black Cloud City, ordinary people are not qualified to enter the Imperial City.
And that large transmission array is not meant for ordinary people.
Even within the Imperial City, only a few are eligible to use it.
The lowest qualification is being in the Integration Realm and above.
Zhou Yu for the moment couldn’t think of any good solution.
He could only put this matter aside temporarily.
Then he approached the window and gazed at the distant giant Heaven-Reaching Pillars.
From the middle-aged man’s words, Zhou Yu learned that these ten Heaven-Reaching Pillars were engineered by the Heaven Puppet Clan of the Black Cloud Twenty-eight Clans.
These Heaven-Reaching Puppets were war machines stronger than the Giant Battle Spirit Boats of the Divine Horn Clan by a hundred times.
Speaking of the Heaven Puppet Clan, they are one of the top in puppet-making in the entire Heavenly Origin World, even in the Primordial Realm.
Originally, with such skills, the Heaven Puppet Clan should be strong.
But creating powerful puppets consumed too many materials, extremely expensive.
The Heaven Puppet Clan couldn’t afford such consumption and eventually became a subsidiary of other big clans.
Now it seems, Jia Chen’s two Void Refinement Realm puppets also must be made by the Heaven Puppet Clan.
Gazing at the giant Heaven-Reaching Pillars, Zhou Yu couldn’t imagine what it would be like when these pillars were fully activated.
However, there are only ten, which is a weakness.
If there were hundreds of them, the Divine Horn Clan would definitely not dare to invade.
Zhou Yu stared at the Heaven-Reaching Pillars for a long time, then returned to the room and sat cross-legged.
Three days later, Zhou Yu left the residence and came to the city.
This time, Zhou Yu specifically went to the busiest street in the city.
Here, the street was lined with shops, crowded with cultivators almost to the point of rubbing shoulders.
All kinds of shops, dazzling, with everything available.
As usual, Zhou Yu noticed a shop selling ancient texts among many others and entered.
This has always been Zhou Yu’s habit.
No matter where he went.
He would buy local ancient texts to read.
This greatly helped him quickly understand the local situation.
Most cultivators in the store were below the Nascent Soul Realm.
Therefore, as Zhou Yu entered, many of them instinctively looked at him with respect.
The shop owner quickly approached.
"Senior!"
This owner was a girl with rare silver skin.
Seeing this girl, Zhou Yu immediately recalled the Wood Silver Clan of the Black Cloud Twenty-eight Clans.
In the Black Cloud Twenty-eight Clans, the Wood Silver Clan is also a very famous existence.
The Wood Silver Clan is extremely skilled in Alchemy and Talismans.
Anyone proficient in these two paths is inevitably also skilled in Formation.
Therefore, especially at this crucial time, the Black Cloud Twenty-eight Clans have a greater demand for the Wood Silver Clan.
The girl quickly approached Zhou Yu.
"Senior, what do you need?"