The Heavenly Tiger Swordsman
The Treasure Lantern Sect

Hao Zhao had just stepped foot in the inner area of the city when the sparkling lights of the city greeted him, Hao Zhao was immediately amazed to see it because he almost never saw it in every city he had visited.

“The only thing I have seen before is the illumination of the flame that devours a building, the result of the relentless warfare that is always going on. Who would have thought that two hundred years after the chaos I could see something like this" Hao Zhao muttered with a thump around his chest as he was excited.

Hao Zhao walked down the streets of the city that night that still seemed crowded, where most of the townspeople still had something to do different to the atmosphere of the two villages where Hao Zhao had lived the last few times.

Hao Zhao, who was tired from his full day trip to get there, chose to immediately look for an inn as his overnight stay.

One luxurious and magnificent inn became Hao Zhao's goal, not because Hao Zhao liked luxury but because it was the inn that Hao Zhao first saw.

Hao Zhao entered the luxurious inn where there were rarely people staying there due to the exorbitant price for ordinary people, making most of the stay is just a rich merchant or a swordsman who is stopping in the city.

“Goodnight Young Master, can I help you?" The receptionist immediately greeted Hao Zhao with a sweet smile on his face, seeing that the luxurious Hao Zhao attire made the receptionist not doubt Hao Zhao's ability to stay there.

“I want to stay overnight, can I?" Hao Zhao with a flat face impressed coldly, creating an arrogant impression even though Hao Zhao did not intend to.

“T— can of course Young Master, after all this is an inn where people do come to stay." The receptionist was nervous, so stunned by how Hao Zhao's face looked at the same time was also afraid that his words offended Hao Zhao who was like he was in a bad mood if judging from his flat expression.

“Then I want to book one room, can you prepare that?" Hao Zhao who was already feeling so tired, did not want to waste much time talking any further.

“Sure, there are three types of rooms that our lodging has. The second floor had the price of one gold coin per night, while the third floor had the price of three gold coins. For the last and most luxurious floor to have a price of five gold coins, the Young Master chose which type of room was among the three?" The guest with his smile.

Hao Zhao heard the price of staying at the inn was immediately startled, never thinking there would be such an expensive inn there.

One gold coin is equivalent to one hundred silver coins and one silver coin is equivalent to one hundred bronze coins, where as Hao Zhao remembered the income of a farmer in two villages that he had lived was only a few silver coins per year.

Where that meant one gold coin could be used by ordinary people to prosper without working for several years, which if Hao Zhao stayed there was the same as Hao Zhao squandered his money.

“What's Young Master? Is something wrong?" The receptionist when Hao Zhao was only silent for quite a while as if engrossed in his own thoughts.

“Oh no, then just give me a room on the second floor." Hao Zhao immediately, did not stop to think why he was bothering some money if what he had was so much.

“What is this because I keep living around ordinary people until I think of this amount of money?" Hao Zhao wondered to himself, because normally for a swordsman a sum of one gold coin was nothing but a high-ranking swordsman like Hao Zhao.

“Then it costs one Young Master gold coin, please pay first before our waiter takes you to the room you will live in." The guests are friendly.

Hao Zhao immediately reached into the pocket of his cloak as if taking his money from there, although the fact is not at all because the Space ring is where he keeps all the objects and money he has.

Hao Zhao immediately gave one gold coin to the receptionist of the inn, where the receptionist's face immediately turned questionable.

“Young Master, are you a foreigner who came from outside the empire?" asked the receptionist, as she did not recognize the gold coins Hao Zhao had given her.

“No, I am a native of this empire. Why ask like that?" ask Hao Zhao.

“No Young Master, but the gold coins you use are not common in the empire. Because of that our inn cannot accept you to stay here, if you have the time to try to exchange these gold coins in the Treasure Lantern, after that I just came back here to stay here." The receptionist explained the courtesy as possible, so unwilling to make Hao Zhao offended.

“Hare Lantern? What's that place?" Hao Zhao who had only just first heard there was something like that in the empire.

“It was a Young Master's martial sect, where unlike most other sects they focused more on trading resources, they also received this kind of money exchange from what I heard." The guest explained.

Hao Zhao heard that immediately felt enthusiastic, already so curious about the existence of resources in the present. So of course the desire to make sure it was so high felt Hao Zhao.

“It just so happens, the Treasure Lantern is also the place I am looking for," muttered Hao Zhao who recalled the words of the plontos-headed bandit regarding the buying and selling of resources in each city.

“If Young Master wants to go there can obey the road ahead, not far should be from here already can see the magnificent building where it is located." The receptionist tried to describe what the Treasure Lantern looked like in order for the younger Hao Zhao to find it.

“Alright, then thank you for the information." Hao Zhao before moving away from there towards the place in question.

Hao Zhao only walked for a short time when a multi-storey building was visible, so luxurious that the previous inn alone could not be compared with the luxury of the building.

“What is this Treasure Lantern? How could their sect make a building this grand?" mumbled Hao Zhao full of question marks, not thinking that the building was the main location of the sect where it should only be a branch building.

The branch building alone was that grand especially the main building of the sect, that was what Hao Zhao had in mind. Where Hao Zhao even came to suspect if it could be that this Treasure Lantern sect was probably one of the most powerful groups in the Two Stars continent right now.

Hao Zhao was still engrossed in his own thoughts when he felt a slight blow from behind him, making Hao Zhao immediately turn his head to find out what was happening.

“Oh sorry, I was wrong not to pay attention to the road until it could hit you." A woman with her face covered in cloth, her dress was so beautiful that Hao Zhao was stunned when he saw her.

The woman herself did not turn at all towards Hao Zhao after she had bowed in apology, where she simply left without waiting for Hao Zhao to answer her apology.

“Not polite." Hao Zhao, who was somehow upset, questioned where the woman's guilt had gone until Hao Zhao realized she had entered the same building she had been in.

“I hope we don't have to meet again inside." Hao Zhao muttered softly as he stepped into the Treasure Lantern building.