You Have Science, I Have Martial Arts-Chapter 419 - 211: Faking an Accident Is the Fastest Way to Get Famous

After paying the fee, Ye Qingzhou and Huang Liwen were allowed to pass through the city gate and enter the outer city area.

Huajian City is divided into two main areas, the inner city and the outer city. The outer city is organized into neat marketplaces, varying in size, some offering accommodation, others offering food. All the basic functions a city should have are present here.

Along the streets, the shops are bustling with activity, with the shopkeepers calling out in a traditional manner to attract business.

The Ironwork Market is particularly bustling and lively because the Rakshasa Woman Kingdom is rich in heavy iron. This forging material is extremely popular, attracting trade caravans from many other races.

The language here is ancient Dongji language, with a different accent from today’s Dongji Kingdom, but thankfully, Ye Qingzhou and Huang Liwen can use thought transmitting sound, so there is no worry about language barriers.

Huang Liwen lamented: "It seems because of the development of martial arts, the civilization level here is very low, technology cannot develop at all."

The situation in the outer city is relatively better. The area beyond the city walls is a true human purgatory, with mountains of garbage, even corpses on the streets. The living environment is extremely harsh, practically a breeding ground for disease and plague.

The lower-class citizens of the Rakshasa Woman Kingdom have a very low standard of living, many Rakshasa males are emaciated and expressionless, barely managing to make a living by working hard at the dock area.

As for the Rakshasa females, their living conditions are slightly better, but that’s only because they trade their bodies for survival.

The scene before them perfectly illustrates what it means for all beings to suffer.

Even someone as cold-hearted as Ye Qingzhou feels moved when stepping from a civilized world into a feudal society: "The gap in combat power between the lower and upper classes in the Rakshasa Woman Kingdom is too great, making any social change difficult to happen. Therefore, the class stagnation over thousands of years remains unbroken, creating the current situation before us."

Although Blue Star’s technological development is still far inferior to the martial arts powerhouses within Kunlun Grotto Heaven in terms of high-end combat power, the advanced productivity directly widens the living disparity among the lower-class people.

Especially in Dongji Kingdom, the livelihood guarantee is unmatched across Blue Star. For ordinary people, being born in Dongji Kingdom means you’ve already outpaced most other people across Blue Star.

"Let’s find a place to stay first."

Ye Qingzhou, being kind-hearted, turns a blind eye to the miserable circumstances of the lower-class citizens outside the Rakshasa Woman Kingdom, so he closes his eyes and quickens his pace to leave the area near the city gate.

One Blade Coin entry fee is enough to block all the extremely poor.

Subsequently, Ye Qingzhou rented a house with a small courtyard in the city, the rent collected by the day, one Blade Coin a day, expensive enough to make one’s scalp tingle.

"Ten thousand a day, are we staying in a presidential suite or something?"

Huang Liwen glanced at the dilapidated house in the courtyard, bemoaning the lack of a color TV, refrigerator, and air conditioner, not to mention the absence of tap water, necessitating fetching water from a public well with a fee per bucket.

The most troublesome part is the toilet; this house doesn’t even have a latrine, not even a pit privy!

It uses wooden buckets!

Ye Qingzhou seemed quite open-minded: "It’s not like you have to pay for it, and the purchasing power of currency is different in various places. For many professional martial artists, being able to spend ten thousand to stay here, they are quite willing."

It must be said, though the living conditions in Huajian City are somewhat poor, the primordial Qi here is extremely dense, beneficial for martial dao cultivation.

If one can settle here long-term, the speed of cultivation improvement is very fast, so ten thousand isn’t expensive; it’s just the price for twenty Iron Feather Chickens.

"Brother Wen, quickly sense the location of the artifacts."

"Give me the Jade Soldier Scepter and Dou Character Seal."

Ye Qingzhou took the artifacts out from the gilded jade gourd and handed them to Huang Liwen.

Huang Liwen, although unable to understand the profound mathematical knowledge in "Qimen Dunjia," still relied on his identity as a descendant of Yellow Emperor’s bloodline to obtain a mysterious sense, allowing him to "calculate" the positions of the other Nine-Character Seals.

"I sensed it!"

Huang Liwen clutched the Jade Soldier Scepter with his right hand and the Dou Character Seal with his left, and after meditating cross-legged for a moment, he showed a joyful expression and then pointed to the northwest direction.

"..."

Ye Qingzhou was somewhat speechless: "Are you sure?"

"Absolutely sure and certain!"

"This is troublesome."

Ye Qingzhou felt a headache coming: "That’s the inner city. With our current identities, we are likely unable to enter."

The inner city of Huajian City is the Noble District, where only the nobility and their families and servants can reside.

As for sneaking in? 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

The inner city is heavily guarded, with over a hundred master-level martial artists, and even the regular soldiers have professional-level strength, numbering over two thousand.

Moreover, the city’s high officials are basically grandmaster-level powerhouses, and the city lord himself is rumored to have martial saint cultivation, capable of cutting a river ten miles wide with one blade.

With such a lineup, Ye Qingzhou wouldn’t dare to sneak in unless he’s tired of living.

It should be noted that although the Rakshasa Woman Kingdom respects females, it is indeed a true combat race, with soldiers everywhere and masters innumerable as cattle hair.

Ye Qingzhou could only abandon the idea of forcefully storming in to seize the treasures, as he’s still young and doesn’t want to die prematurely.

Huang Liwen then said: "I have a vague feeling that once all True Words Nine-Character Seals are gathered, the authority of the Jade Soldier Scepter can be activated, allowing us to sense the location of the Xuanyuan Sword."

"Brother Wen, I only need to collect seven Dragon Pearls to make a wish to the Divine Dragon, yet you want me to gather True Words Nine-Character Seals? That’s a bad rating!"