Towards Eternity
Ch 381's. City of Hundan (III)
Hundan City, is one of the 3 largest cities in the Central Region in the west.
As one of the three largest cities, Hundan City is far from safe. Every day evil happens in it. From theft to murder, every day there is a crime.
This was inseparable from the overall influence of the Central Region which had rules far different from the Western Region where Weng Lou and the others came from.
The central region has a ruling system, namely the kingdom. But this kingdom is not like the kingdoms in general where the reigning King is usually chosen by generations each of the descendants of the previous king, the kingdom in the Middle Region is not like that.
For the election of a king, every few years a tournament is held which is attended by all the Martial Practitioners in the Central Region. Only the strongest can become a king. Therefore, the strongest person in the Central Region was the King of the Central Region himself.
To strengthen the foundation as a king, every Middle Region King invited anyone Martial Practitioner who was in the Middle Region who wanted to be a part of it, without exception. Therefore even criminals are free to roam in this Central Region.
But the story is different if the criminal was caught by the victims.
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Just when it was almost eleven o'clock, the group of Weng Lou and the others finally arrived in front of the gates of Hundan City which was almost twenty meters high and made of a kind of very hard rock.
The Weng Lou group and also the Weng Baohu Zhe group queued long enough to be able to get in front of this gate.
An hour ago, they had actually arrived, only that any visitor or entrant who wanted to enter into this Hundan City had to give their identity, he said, and also the entrance money amounted to ten gold coins per person.
It might sound absurd for an incoming one, but given that almost all of the inhabitants of this Central Region were Martial Practitioners, the price was arguably small.
"Show me your identity!"
A burly guard with a height of over two meters and a fierce and terrifying face spoke to Weng Baohu Zhe who was walking ahead.
He took out a jade tablet with the emblem of the Weng Ancestral Family from behind his clothes and showed it to the guard.
The guard did not immediately recognize the jade tablet and chose to call out to someone whose standing was one level above that of a man in his early thirties who had an ordinary appearance, looking different from the previous guard.
The man who was carried by the guard was stunned to see the Weng Ancestral Family emblem on the jade tablet shown by Weng Baohu Zhe before then smiling kindly at him.
"Aih, the people from the Weng Ancestral Family turned out. Do you want to participate in the Free Martial Tournament held in this city?" asked the man while still putting on his friendly smile.
Weng Baohu Zhe nodded, then reinserted his jade tablet and retrieved the bag containing the gold coins from within his storage room. He threw the bag of gold coins at the man.
"That is, eighty gold coins," he said who then had Weng Tie and the other Weng Ancestral Family disciples follow him into the city.
The man thanked him and then told the next line to come forward, we are a group of Weng Lou with the addition of Weng Wan, Weng Hua and Weng Ning with them. Weng Baohu Zhe did not protest the behavior of the three, instead he felt quite helped because he had benefited thirty gold coins from them.
"Show me your identity!" the man exclaimed to Weng Lou's group.
He only saw Pang Baicha and Shan Hu who were only at the Soul Cleansing realm, without knowing the whereabouts of Jian Qiang being with them.
Pang Baicha seemed ordinary to hear the man exclaiming to his face, even though this man was only at the 8th stage of the Soul Cleansing realm, he was part of the Middle Region realm, himself, so he couldn't carelessly act.
He turned his head towards Jian Qiang who was just sitting still and closed his eyes, then moved to look at Weng Lou and his friends who were sitting at the back of the carriage were having a light conversation. Pang Baicha sighed and then took out his identity tablet which was his membership tablet as a member of the Dragon Swordsman Group, more precisely the former because the Dragon Swordsman Group now no longer existed.
The man stared for a moment at the tablet and stroked his chin. He looked at the tablet and Pang Baicha's face alternately then thrust his hand out.
"Twenty gold coins per person" he said indifferently.
Pang Baicha choked on his own breath hearing that. This guy just doubled the money in! Clearly it was even more cruel than robbery!
Everyone on the carriage currently numbered 10 people, twenty gold coins per person that meant two hundred gold coins, that was truly a price that was already crossed the line!
But before Pang Baicha could make his protest, Shan Hu had already thrown a bag of money at the man.
Pang Baicha was surprised to see that and turned his head towards him. Where did he get the money?
Shan Hu understood the meaning of that gaze and pointed at Jian Qiang who was sitting quietly inside the carriage. When they were still on their way to Hundan City, Jian Qiang had already given him money for their entrance fee later amounting to two hundred gold coins.
He did not know how Jian Qiang could estimate that their entrance fee was currently, but regardless, it was a good thing, though, because Pang Baicha did not have to spend his own money to pay two hundred gold coins.
The man stared at the sack containing the gold coins thrown by Shan Hu he could estimate the number of gold coins inside without having to open it. The man also signaled them to enter the city immediately.
Pang Baicha blinked a few times before nodding, he made the carriage move again and entered the city.
As soon as they entered the city, magnificent buildings greeted them when they had just passed through the city gates.
People passed by, the voices of people talking heard like bees in their hives, so crowded that the whole place was filled with people's voices.
If you want to compare it with Red Jade City where the atmosphere there is very crowded and crowded, eating Hundan City is much more crowded. Just because the area of his city which was many times larger than the Red Jade City made the people inside not to jostle.
If if the area of Hundan City was the same as Kita Giok Merah, then there would be a lot of fights going on everywhere.
This is because more than half of the population of this city are Martial Practitioners.
Banging them a little, then the fight is what happens next.