Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!-Chapter 970 - 286: [City of No Return, Four Directions Tower, Heju Hall]
This creature doesn’t eat meat or grass but specializes in eating sand, especially fond of stones.
Its survival depends on consuming stones and extracting minerals from them.
Damn, it’s practically a living tunneling machine!
And it’s self-generating power, working while eating, no need to feed it at all.
The only thing necessary is, when a Stone-eating Beast is working, a team is needed to clean up after it—literally to clean up.
Because this creature works while it eats, it finishes the job as it consumes.
But... as it eats its way through, it also leaves a trail!
It consumes hard stones and excretes something soft, similar to clay.
Though it sounds gross, being the excrement of the Stone-eating Beast, it actually isn’t smelly, just has a faint rusty smell. It’s very useful as an adhesive for construction.
However, cultivators don’t use this stuff—after all, it’s waste, not exactly dignified to use.
But among the common people, it’s quite popular; in building houses, many welcome this material.
Rumor has it, in some places, people even use it to fire bricks, and it works very well.
Looking at the construction site cave, that Stone-eating Beast has already eaten several meters in depth, with a group of seven or eight people following behind, sweeping up the clay it excretes and bagging it, tossing it onto carts to be collected.
It’s evident these are all common people.
In the distance, two people in cultivators’ robes sit under a shade, overseeing the site—not because they distrust the commoners, but to supervise the Stone-eating Beast.
After all, it’s a beast and lacks human nature, so there’s concern it might become aggressive and cause havoc.
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"This Stone-eating Beast is really useful, but alas, it prefers warm and humid environments and isn’t resistant to cold, so it can only live in the Southern Border.
Many years ago, northern families tried to bring several batches of Stone-eating Beasts north, but once they reached the cold areas, they became lethargic, wouldn’t eat, and died within days.
It’s said that in recent years, beast-taming cultivators at the Immortal Platform have spent much effort trying to improve the Stone-eating Beast’s species, but progress has been very slow.
Such a great tool for mountain and tunnel projects, but usable only in the Southern Border—such a pity."
Looking at the Stone-eating Beast, Brother Yun Zhao sighed and couldn’t avert his gaze, clearly very envious.
Chen Yan figured it out, this young master of the Yun Family seems even more curious than I am; it’s his first time traveling so far, so everything he sees is new, everything he wants.
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The Four-direction Building, also known as the City of No Return’s North City’s version of the Wanda Center.
Upon arriving at this building, Chen Yan looked up and couldn’t help but sigh.
This Four-direction Building isn’t just about welcoming guests from all directions...
Truly worthy of its name!
The structure of the Four-direction Building is also square and solid!
Like it was carved with precise tools!
Unlike the ancient styles with flying eaves and upturned corners.
The building’s style reminded Chen Yan of those large, blocky structures in the real world.
Four-direction Building isn’t a single building, but a complex.
A large rectangular edifice sprawled over an entire street.
At one point along this road in the Critical Region, there’s a gap—where the carriages stop and enter the inner yard of the Four-direction Building.
The entire complex resembles a giant "凹" shape.
The gap in the middle is the inner yard of the Four-direction Building.
Once inside, this yard is very spacious, with the entire left side dedicated to tying horses and parking.
As the carriage stops, attendants promptly rush over. Liang shows a token to the attendant, then tosses over a Jade Coin.
The attendant, bending quickly to take it, addresses Liang as ’sir.’
Chen Yan noticed these attendants are all common people—this is something seemingly different about the City of No Return compared to other major Domain Realm cities.
For instance, in West Platform City, there’s a clear divide between immortals and mortals, and mortals generally aren’t allowed in the Inner City’s cultivator regions. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
But in the City of No Return, it seems mortals and cultivators coexist, with mortals taking on many of the city’s odd jobs.
After Liang tossed the Jade Coin into the attendant’s pocket, and Chen Yan and Brother Yun Zhao got off the carriage, Liang casually tapped the carriage, which turned into a ray of light and went into a metal ring on Liang’s finger—clearly another Storage Magical Artifact.
The dragon horse that pulled the carriage was skillfully handled by the attendant, who smiled and whispered, "No worries, sir, we’ll take excellent care of your steed!"
"Yes, put the cleaning and feeding costs on the Black Feathered Sparrow Tribe’s account."
Giving casual instructions, Liang turned to look at Brother Yun Zhao, then finally landed his gaze on Chen Yan.
Chen Yan was slightly stunned but quickly understood Liang’s gaze—the old man’s look was a bit unfriendly.
Probably annoyed that my conversations along the way might entice the young master Yun to go on adventures.
Of course, Chen Yan didn’t wish to be bothersome, so he laughed, "Now that we’re here, Brother Yun Zhao, let’s part ways for now. I still have to settle in at the store owned by my sect."
"Indeed." Brother Yun Zhao didn’t linger, nodding straightforwardly, "We’re all within the Four-direction Building, I’ll be at the store belonging to the Black Feathered Sparrow Tribe, and I can find your Joyful Sect’s store too.
We agreed to stay in touch! If there’s anything fun or tasty, I’ll come find you."
