“If the price of accommodation is so high, why don’t you go out and pull people in? If we don’t enter here, won’t business be pulled away by others?” Ning Cheng asked in confusion.
The mate smiled, “Friend you have just come here, of course you don’t know the situation. There are twelve resting stacks here, which also represent twelve forces. Every day, two to three of them go out to meet the cultivators who have crossed the Heavenly Road and come to the Heavenly Stone, and today it was the turn of the Jia Xing Chamber of Commerce, the Fate and Destruction Starship Fleet and the Black City Dan Association.
But there is one stipulation, that is, if the cultivators who come have not agreed to these three themselves and have entered this area, then it is the case that any of them can take this business. Don’t worry, as long as you arrive at our Heavenly City Chamber of Commerce’s Rest Inn, they definitely won’t come looking for it, that’s the rule.”
It dawned on Ning Cheng and the others that spirit stones were best earned by the cultivators who had just arrived here. Since there were twelve powers that opened merchant buildings and resting stacks here, it meant that these twelve powers were also the most powerful in Rootless Black City. Otherwise it would not be possible to have the opportunity to open a merchant building in this place.
Ning Cheng also took a look at those merchant buildings just now, there were very few merchant buildings selling items, most of them were pawnshops and mortgage merchant buildings. It was estimated that once a cultivator came to this place with not enough spirit stones, they could take out their belongings to mortgage. As for those cultivators who lived here for a long time, it was estimated that they did not have enough spirit stones to go to Rootless Black City. For these cultivators who did not have enough spirit stones, Ning Cheng did not bother to ask them what methods they used to earn spirit stones here.
“The two of us are going to stay here, what about the four of you, Brother Lan?” Ning Cheng quickly decided to stay at the Heavenly City Rest Inn. He believed that this fellow would not ask for prices indiscriminately, as the competition here also seemed to be fierce.
“A few of us are staying here as well.” Lan Wenbin said without hesitation.
When the fellow heard that all six people were staying here, he was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly said, “Would a few of you like to exchange for some black coins first? Staying with us also comes with a survival manual for Rootless Black City.”
Ning Cheng exchanged 150,000 black coins and brought a survival manual and Ji Luofei to the room at the Rest Inn.
“Husband ……”
Ning Cheng interrupted Ji Luofei with a smile, “Just call me husband from now on, I feel a little awkward calling me husband every time.”
“Mm.” Ji Luofei had no idea what husband meant and called out without half a moment’s hesitation, “Husband, I don’t think those few people will rest in peace, we should also be more careful after we go to Rootless Black City.”
“They definitely won’t take it lying down, let’s wait until we get to know Rootless Black City first before we have a way to make a decision.” Ning Cheng took out his survival manual and flipped it open.
Ning Cheng quickly flipped through the manual in his hand, and then handed it to Ji Luofei.
The Rootless Black City was on top of a crumbling continent which was suspended in the void, and there was only one city in this crumbling continent, the Rootless Black City. Outside of Rootless Black City, there was dangerous emptiness everywhere. If you are not careful, you will be swallowed up by space.
Because of the huge population of the Rootless Black City, even though this city is also immense, it is still an inch of land.
All the cultivators who had gathered in Rootless Black City wanted to leave it. But the Void Ships heading to Rootless Black City only came once every ten years. And to leave Rootless Black City, a huge amount of black coins was needed.
The only thing one could do to survive in Rootless Black City was to cultivate and go out to earn black coins. When I say earning black coins, I am actually forming a team to leave Rootless Black City and search for black yuan stones in the void. The black yuan stones were the only material for refining black coins, and only after earning a certain amount of black coins would one have the chance to leave Rootless Black Stone City on a void ship.
The dangers in the void were so great that Ning Cheng could imagine how difficult it would be to earn a certain amount of black coins and then leave Rootless Black Stone City in such a place. Furthermore, according to the description above, one had to pay a certain amount of black coins every day to live in Rootless Black City as well. In other words, if one does not have a regular source of black coins, there is no place to stand in Rootless Black City.
Although the survival manual says that if one has top-notch treasures, one can also take them out and sell them in Rootless Black City in exchange for black coins. No matter what method one used, one could leave Rootless Black City as long as they earned a certain amount of black coins. However, Ning Cheng could also imagine that the black coins needed to leave Rootless Black City must be immense, and the equivalent treasures would not be able to raise these black coins at all.
He did have some treasures on him, the Nine Yin Earth Heart Marrow and the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree were things he would never dare to take out. The Underworld Soul Flower had already been placed on Mushroom Hanrui’s body, and he still wanted to help Mushroom Hanrui find out if the Yuan Shen could still be restored, and this thing could not be touched.
He still had one of the Heavenly Resurrection Flowers, but it was a useful one. As for the Wood Elf, he would not take it out even more.
Ning Cheng took out a black coin and looked at it in his hand, it was like the size of a penny note. It said it was a black coin, but it was actually grey. Ning Cheng tore it with his hand and surprisingly, only a small mark was torn out, which showed that the black coin was incredibly hard, and a black palace was printed on the top of the black coin. What was strange to Ning Cheng was that this black coin only had one denomination, a black coin unit was one.
Ji Luofei had also finished reading the manual and a hint of worry appeared on her face.
“Don’t worry, if others can live on in Rootless Black City, we can survive there too.” Ning Cheng comforted Ji Luofei, maybe he would have had enough spirit stones to leave Rootless Black City by boat.
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For three days Ning Cheng did not leave the resting inn, more was better than less, there were too many forces in this place, intertwined and mingled. He had already offended the Jia Xing Chamber of Commerce before he had even entered the Rootless Black City.
What’s more, Ning Cheng found that although this place was just a rock in the void, it felt a little better to cultivate than the Sky Continent. This showed that even in this kind of void, the rules of heaven and earth were stronger than those of the Heavenly Continent.
On the third day, the fellow from the Heavenly City Chamber of Commerce took the initiative to come to the door, “Two valued guests, the boat to Rootless Black City is about to depart, you two please follow me to the void boat.”
Ning Cheng took out a stack of about a hundred or so black coins and handed them to the fellow, “It’s been hard on you these days.”
This was tantamount to a tip, although he was cultivating, his powerful divine sense had already swept up that someone had come to inquire about him. But this fellow was also kind enough to wave his hand and say he didn’t know.
The fellow did not expect Ning Cheng to be so generous and hurriedly took it and thanked him, “Many thanks to this friend ……”
Probably because he had taken Ning Cheng’s money, after thanking him, the fellow hesitated for a moment and said, “Friend, I have a comment that might be a little offensive to you, but I really don’t mean any harm, I don’t know ……”
Ning Cheng smiled, “It’s alright, if you don’t have any malice it’s not an offense to me, feel free to say it.”
“Yes, my friend, when you arrive at Rootless Black City, you must pay attention to that Rootless Black City’s Young City Lord, Sequence of Wisdom. This person cultivates the Extreme Yang Technique, so he is incomparably sexually yin and has brutalised countless foreign female cultivators ……”
When this fellow said this, he subconsciously looked at Ji Luofei who was beside Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng obviously understood what he meant, which was that if his wife was so beautiful and brought to the Rootless Black City, it would be extremely dangerous once that Sequence of Wisdom saw her.
“Thank you for the reminder, I understand.” Ning Cheng nodded his head, still thanking this fellow in his heart.
However, the mate continued, “The friend in front of you killed that Cecil of the Jiaxing Chamber of Commerce, so I think there will be a way to keep from being held accountable by the Jiaxing Chamber of Commerce. But you must be careful of that Gary from the Karmic Star Fleet, this person has a sinister nature, he won’t dare to do anything to you, but he is likely to tell the young lord of Rootless Black City to continue the amount of wisdom ……”
The latter words, which the fellow did not say, Ning Cheng already understood. That was that Gary might tell the news of Ji Luofei’s arrival in Rootless Black City to Sequence Quantum of Wisdom.
Ning Cheng frowned, this fellow definitely wouldn’t say so without any reason, there must have been such a thing that had happened before. If this was really the case, then it would indeed be troublesome for him.
“A few years ago, such an incident happened here. At the beginning, a stunning female cultivator also came to the Receiving Heavenly Stone, no less than senior’s daoist couple in terms of looks, and on the contrary, this female cultivator was alone. The people on duty at that time were from the Silver Thunder Chamber of Commerce, the Gale Void Alliance and the City Lord’s Palace. The Gou Gou Yishan of the Silver Thunder Chamber of Commerce took a glance at the woman, and he could not resist taking her away on the spot. But at that time, the young city lord, Sequan Zhi, also happened to be here, and he also took a fancy to that female cultivator ……”
The man sighed, “Rootless Black City’s City Lord’s House is more powerful than the Silver Thunder Chamber of Commerce, Gou Gao Yishan was very opportunistic and helped the young city lord to give this female cultivator to Sequanzhi. Unexpectedly, this female cultivator was incredibly chaste and refused to be captured by fighting for her life in a frenzied manner. Just at this time, three more people came on the catching stone. It was a couple with a little girl of only seven or eight years old. This couple was very unhappy with what Sequanzhi and Gou Kouyanshan had done, and they struck out on the spot.”
“What happened afterwards?” Ning Cheng asked.
“If it wasn’t for Young City Lord Sequanzhi being here, Gou Gou Yishan would definitely not have been a match for this couple. Even if this couple had killed Gou Kou Yishan, no one would have bothered them for some time, just like when their friend killed Cecil. It’s just that that Sequanzhi was followed by a group of people, and the couple plus the three female cultivators were no match for these people and were forced out of the receiving stone ……”
The mate shook his head as he said this. Obviously knowing that after being forced out of the Heaven Catching Stone, it was a life of nine deaths. All around the Heaven Catching Stone were natural prohibitions, and these prohibitions made it impossible for those countless spatial wind blades and spatial cracks to get close to the Heaven Catching Stone. But getting out from inside the Sky Catcher Stone was easy, and it didn’t take any effort at all. It would be strange if good things could happen to this couple and the stunning woman when they got out of the Sky Catcher Stone and into the endless void.
“Do you know the name of that female cultivator?” Ning Cheng was a little worried when he thought of so many cultivators from the Lok Hong Sword Sect coming over a few years ago. However, he also knew that at that time, the Heavenly Continent was a group of thirty Cultivators of the Transformation Tripod who had come over together. It was reasonable to say that it was impossible for one to appear here.
The mate immediately said, “I know, it’s called Yan Ji.”