Legend of the Heavenly Swordsman
Ch.132 - Towards the Capital City

Su Anna seemed so happy that fate had reunited her with the young man. He really did not expect that his hope would come so soon.

But because this time he was with the people from the Village before, Su Anna chose to keep her attitude, at least it was to maintain her status as a Noble.

Fu Chen drew closer to the group as it was summoned by Su Anna. Actually Fu Chen did not expect this meeting, but suddenly an idea popped into his head.

"Is your business done?" su Anna asked him to start the conversation.

"Yes, this is faster than I thought." Fu Chen replied with a simple smile, "So this is the troupe rented out by the Village Chief?"

"Yes, what do you think?"

"Not bad, the Village Chief must have spent a lot of money to hire some third-rate swordsmen like them."

Su Anna only smiled faintly at him, Actually she was more curious about what Fu Chen was doing, because to her knowledge the former disciple of the Sacred Sword sect could not roam freely.

Su Anna then invited Fu Chen to chat for a moment, from there she learned that Fu Chen's next destination was the Capital. Whether it was a coincidence or not but Su Anna did not want to miss this opportunity to build a relationship with Fu Chen.

According to Su Anna, Fu Chen was a talented young man and had a strong stance, it would be very advantageous if this young man was on the side of the Su family as he matured later.

Fu Chen seemed to be pondering a little at Su Anna's offer, even though it was just a gimmick. Based on his experience with Xiao Jung, getting into the Capital City required a clear identification and Fu Chen intended to hitch a ride in Su Anna's entourage to avoid that.

"Alright, but we'll be separated when we get to the Capital." Fu Chen smiled gently.

"Hum, okay."

Not far from the position Fu Chen and Su Anna were chatting, some of the bodyguards hired by the Village Chief seemed to gather and whisper to each other. Their gaze occasionally glanced at the two young men.

"Who's the kid?"

"Does Miss Su have a strange illness? I didn't expect his taste to be that kind of kid."

"God! Take care of your mouth, that child has already saved Miss Su from the robbers, her abilities are definitely above yours."

"But I didn't expect Miss Su to be so friendly with him."

Fu Chen only smiled wryly hearing it, although he also noticed Su Anna's interest in him but Fu Chen did not take it in that direction.

They then continued on as the sun began to rise. Fu Chen volunteered to be the coachman of Su Anna's horse carriage, he didn't want to just hitchhike without doing anything.

From his conversation with Su Anna earlier, Fu Chen found that this woman was usually assigned directly by the Imperial Minister, which was quite clear why many soldiers escorted her while in Dianxi City.

Fu Chen felt that the pieces of his plan were starting to be neatly arranged. So far he had established good relations with the Xiao noble family, if he managed to get close to the Su noble then persuading the Ye family was not impossible.

Perhaps Fu Chen's mind was too naive to think that cooperating with a large family like them was easy, but the plan would not stop there.

Day after day they continued to go through without a hitch, from some of the events they went through, Su Anna got the fact that this Fu Chen was actually quite attentive but the young man was reluctant to show it.

As usual, the Capital is always crowded with visitors, they even need to queue for some time until they get a turn..

The gatekeepers then checked the horse carriage Fu Chen was carrying, how shocked the guards were when they found out the person inside the carriage was a noble.

"I-I'm sorry for my sassiness, Miss Su.." The guard who had just opened the curtain of the horse-drawn carriage bowed his head. Some of the other guards who heard that also delayed to check on the group.

"It's okay, I'll understand" Su Anna replied briefly, without turning her head towards the guard.

"Ah thanks! But where was the soldier escorting Miss Su before?" The guard was astonished because Miss Su's entourage this time was just ordinary people.

"It's none of your business, now let me in!"

"B-good…"

The group was then left to enter without going through the examination process or other procedures. The guard was still a little suspicious, but he did not have the right to know.

Fu Chen then stopped the pace of the horse carriage as they had reached the front gate of the noble family residence. Fu Chen quickly jumped up from the coachman's seat and walked towards the back.

"Where are you going? Didn't I promise to host you at home." asked Su Anna with slightly furrowed brows.

Su Anna's mouth was slightly open, it seemed like she wanted to say something but the young man had already fused with the crowd. Su Anna only sighed softly while understanding Fu Chen, after all their meeting was only a coincidence.

Although Fu Chen had only once gone to the Capital City but he had already memorized most of the streets in this City. With the help of his sharp memory Fu Chen also came to one of the inns to rest his body.

Fu Chen chose a three-story inn, Fu Chen chose a third-floor room that had more facilities.

"Although quite expensive but it never hurts to enjoy something like this." Fu Chen sighed softly as he stuffed his body into a bathtub filled with warm water.

"After you've finished your break, you better help me find a map of the Eastern continent in this City, son."

The voice of Dou Huang again sounded in Fu Chen's head and it made him slightly knit his brows due to the question that Dou Huang had posed.

"The map of the Eastern continent? But for what? I think master already knows that we are now in the Song Empire."

"I know that, but I don't know where we are now. There's one place I want to go and you'll be training in that place to rise to the King's warrior level."

Dou Huang sighed softly, in fact he could see the direction through the eyes of the wind but the path Fu Chen was going through would be too dangerous.

The place that Dou Huang was referring to was actually on the outskirts of the Eastern continent, he himself was not sure if the place was still there or not considering this it had been 3000 years since he last visited it.

Fu Chen was silent for a while, his head kept thinking about the choice he was going to take. Fu Chen slightly rubbed his forehead, he could not miss his plan that had just started this, but at the same time he did require strength to execute that plan.

Dou Huang, who was aware of Fu Chen's worries, said that he could finish his business first and then went to the place Dou Huang said he was.

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Just as Dou Huang wanted, Fu Chen started to go to one by one the shops that he thought were selling maps. To facilitate his search Fu Chen was forced to wear disguise clothes, he was rejected several times because the place was not for small children.

Using an all-black suit with a hood covering part of his face, Fu Chen traced every corner of the City in search of the map Dou Huang wanted.

But after some time looking to and fro, Fu Chen still did not get anything. The map of the East continent is in fact a pretty thing that everyone is looking for, especially for those who do business in the field.

Even for the Song Empire map itself was quite difficult to find, this was because making a map was indeed quite complicated.

After visiting the 20th store Fu Chen finally found a map of the Song Empire, even he had to pay a few gold pieces to see it. And how shocked Fu Chen was when he found out the price of the map.

"10,000 gold coins?" Fu Chen gulped his saliva, maybe this map would be much more expensive if it was put into the auction, Fu Chen thought.

"Son, we should look elsewhere," Dou Huang said as he coughed softly, he himself did not expect that the price of the map would be that expensive.

"uh? What about the map?"

"It's okay, I've copied everything here." Dou Huang smiled faintly as he pointed at his head.

"Wait, what does guru-mean?"

"Shhh!" Dou Huang stuck his index finger to his lips, "Don't underestimate the ability of this teacher of yours. You better go find some paper and some painting tools to re-paint that map."

Fu Chen knitted his brows deeply enough, it was hard to believe that a Dou Huang could remember that intricate map in just such a short time.but Fu Chen was quite grateful for it, at least he didn't need to spend a lot of money to get that map.

Without thinking, Fu Chen left the shop and changed his clothes in a narrow alley. One gold coin used by Fu Chen turned out to be able to buy quite a lot of painting tools, maybe he had to exchange some gold coins for silver coins so as not to be too flashy in the future.

Fu Chen returned to the inn to see what Dou Huang would do to those painting tools. He was a little fascinated when Dou Huang started to scratch his brush, for Fu Chen it was not just painting, but a technique that Dou Huang might create by himself.

"Teacher is great, how can you do this?" Fu Chen was a little stunned, if he bought a paper of better quality maybe the result would be the same as the one in the store.

"Just calm down, I'll teach you this technique one day."

Dou Huang then noticed the map painting he had just made, he slightly sighed as this map was not what he wanted.

"Actually I was hoping to find a map of the Eastern continent, but for a while, I guess this was enough."

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Sorry if it's not good, Othor makes it a bit rushed. UAS Othor is finished so in the future it may be normal again updateya. Well, even though the internship is just counting Sunday anyway wkwk