Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!-Chapter 968 - 286: [City of No Return, Four-direction Building, Heju Hall]

Chapter 968: Chapter 286: [City of No Return, Four-direction Building, Heju Hall]

Chapter 286 [City of No Return, Four Directions Building, Heju Hall] (7200)

Cloud Zhao has come to the Southern Border, and the title he carries is: Tributor of the ancestral hall affairs for the Demon Race’s Black Feathered Lark Tribe, also serving as a patrol envoy inspecting clan assets.

It is said that Cloud Zhao was bored at home and wanted to travel, so he requested this task of inspecting clan assets from the clan leader.

He now holds a high status within the tribe—although he doesn’t have real power in his hands, as the clan leader, while wanting to curry favor with the patriarch, isn’t mindlessly flattering him.

After understanding Cloud Zhao’s background and realizing that the young man’s cultivation was quite behind, the clan leader personally spent several years teaching him and eventually laid a solid foundation, allowing Cloud Zhao to embark on the fast track of cultivation.

Nevertheless, a solid thirty years were wasted. After Cloud Zhao returned from the mountains to the tribe, he has only cultivated for ten odd years, and he barely stepped into the Third Realm.

However, carrying the title of a tributor of the ancestral hall, although it’s a prestigious yet hollow position without concrete responsibilities, he holds an elevated status within the tribe, and even facing the clan leader, he doesn’t need to bow.

Nominally, he can participate in discussions about all matters, big or small, within the tribe.

But the clan leader knows the actual capability of this guy; although his status is high, in reality, he is the most idle within the tribe.

The patriarch once said he should live freely, and this point was fully fulfilled.

Yet Cloud Zhao, bored from being still, couldn’t resist the desire to explore the world after wandering around the Black Feathered Lark Tribe’s territory for several years, and eventually won a task to travel outside.

Initially, the clan leader was uneasy about letting Cloud Zhao go far away—although Cloud Zhao possessed some cultivation, he was not actually dumb, just vexed into this personality fixation.

But since he is the precious gem that even the patriarch mentioned as needing careful oversight, in case he encountered misfortune while outside, how would the clan leader explain it to the patriarch?

Cloud Zhao was denied several times before he couldn’t hold back and got angry.

"Not allowed to do this, not allowed to do that, what’s the point of being a tributor, it’s suffocating, no freedom at all, it’s like being confined within these 800 miles of tribal land! I might as well give up my position and go to the mountains to be a wild demon!"

Suffocating, no freedom, confinement...

These words bombarded one after another, and the clan leader couldn’t fend them off.

If this young master ran to the back mountain, cried outside the patriarch’s secluded cave, what if he made the patriarch unhappy?

Well, his position as clan leader would be at its end!

He had to carefully select a task without difficulty for travel and even sent a cultivator from the tribe to accompany him as a guardian.

·

"In the City of No Return, we have a tribal asset located in the Four Directions Building in the North City, opening a storefront selling special products from the Northern Frontier’s Yin Mountain. Besides, it also undertakes the task of collecting rare materials.

After the previous steward resigned last year, they elected a new steward to succeed him, and I am also ordered to come and inspect, check the accounts.

Additionally, I brought a list to gather a batch of goods to take back." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Cloud Zhao slowly said.

Chen Yan nodded — Understood! This is a public-funded tour.

"Although the City of No Return is bustling, our Black Feathered Lark Tribe has always maintained good relations with the Ghost Race; we have business interactions, and with the local Demon Race in the Southern Border, we share the same race, so there’s always been some business dealings.

Calculated, both sides have connections, and both must be given due consideration.

So I came here, without fearing encountering any danger."

After Cloud Zhao said this, he looked at Chen Yan and smiled, "Since you, Fellow Daoist, are a disciple of the Joyful Sect, you should be staying at the Joyful Sect’s storefront in North City this time, right? We hit it off so well, we may walk around together more when we have time."

Saying this, Cloud Zhao started introducing some fun and interesting stories and places about the City of No Return to Chen Yan.

It’s apparent that this guy must have been cooped up too long, his eyes longing for the outside world. Though it’s his first time in the Southern Border, he’s done plenty of homework and has asked around about the customs and culture of the City of No Return.

Especially that "Four Directions City," originally a well-known place in the North City District of the City of No Return.

Built by the official government of the original City of No Return, it can accommodate institutions from various sects and tribes from all four directions of the Domain Realm; it’s a hub for Southern and Northern interactions, Eastern goods selling to the West.

Furthermore, some restaurants and inns also host guests from all directions, whether they are loose cultivators or wild demons, or disciples from noble sects traveling outside, they can lodge in the Four Directions Building.

Chen Yan understood immediately.

The Domain Realm’s version of a commercial plaza!

Downstairs are various shops and commercial areas, while upstairs are hotels.

Isn’t this a perfect replica of a Wanda Center?

Fortunately, Chen Yan heard from the steward on the ship when coming here.

The Joyful Sect’s storefront is also in the Four Directions Building, so the destination for both aligns.

·

The two drank tea again for a while; Cloud Zhao, being a curious one, led Chen Yan to casually mention some of his background.

Talking about how he came back as a loose cultivator from Snow Cliff Pass, Cloud Zhao listened with fascination, his face full of envious expressions, unable to contain his curiosity and questions.

"Is the Fierce Beast Race really as the rumors say, having unparalleled strength comparable to body cultivators?"

"Primordial Qi is exhausted at the Evil Land Mountain, even the most powerful cultivator, when reaching the Evil Land Mountain, can’t wield their cultivation at all and can’t even match the young of the Fierce Beast Race?"

"Is it true that the Fierce Beast Race excels at taming wild beasts?"

"I heard they eat raw flesh, consuming blood and fur?"