Dragon's Origin

Chapter 76: Disguised Demon Beasts (Part 1)

Worry-Free City isn't very big, just a bit larger than places like Shanglin City and Linchuan City, but not by much. Although it's a main city, only slightly lower in rank than the imperial city, maintaining respect for the royal family and the court, its size is definitely not large.

Unlike the main cities of the various major families, which are typically large cities with at least a million people, bustling with activity, Worry-Free City is different.

Prosperity is out of the question, at least you can't see it in the outer city. There are only two large commercial firms in the entire city that can connect with the outside world: Baoqing Yutang and Yu Baozhai. These two stores are the largest and have the most foot traffic. Besides these, there are only some small shops, all opened by people from Worry-Free City, which are not only small in scale but also lack a full range of goods.

People in Worry-Free City can't enjoy life in their spare time like people in other places. They are basically either cultivating, making money, or on the way to making money. The pressure of life is much higher than outside.

However, no matter how hard you work, as long as you can live, anything is possible, isn't it? That's basically what people in Worry-Free City think.

Worry-Free City has city walls, but the walls are very thin, basically just a high wall. Whether people inside want to come out or people outside want to go in, a city wall can't stop them. So the city wall is just symbolic.

However, the city wall in one direction is at least twice as thick and more than twice as high as ordinary city walls. The giant stones used to build the city wall are the best and hardest, with each piece weighing several tons. If Wang Sheng were to evaluate, these would definitely be the materials used to build the pyramids on Earth, but here they are used to build city walls.

Leaving aside how they were built, the sturdiness of this part of the city wall alone is enough to make people gape.

There is a city gate in the giant wall. This city gate is also unique, only allowing one person to enter and exit, more than two meters high and one meter wide. A normal, strong, tall person can block the city gate, and a larger demon beast will be directly trapped. In case of emergency, this narrow city gate can be closed with thirteen powerful metal doors at any time. In short, everything is considered from a safety perspective.

The direction of the city gate faces a forest. In this forest, a powerful aura is faintly revealed, and people with lower cultivation levels will unconsciously tremble when they feel this aura from a distance.

"Old Liu, is this the Thousand Absolutes Land?" A young man whose cultivation seemed to be at most at the second level of the realm, and a middle-aged man were sitting on chairs outside the city gate. The young man was facing the forest, feeling the aura coming from there, and asked a little uneasily.

"Yes!" Old Liu was a middle-aged man with some shallow wrinkles on his face. His cultivation was about the middle stage of the third level of the realm. He was sitting with his back to the forest, answering slowly, "Little Yang, it's your first day on duty here, get familiar with the aura here!"

"What's there to guard in this gloomy and terrifying place?" Little Yang was really a bit restless now. He didn't expect that the first task he received after entering Worry-Free City would be to guard this gate. At that time, he thought it was an ordinary city gate like the one he entered the city through, but it turned out to be facing the Thousand Absolutes Land.

"Maybe some powerful demon beasts will rush over?" Old Liu was experienced and not as uneasy as Little Yang. He replied with a smile, "Once a demon beast rushes over, we have to immediately warn, and then the experts of Worry-Free City will come out to defend. Any demon beast from the Thousand Absolutes Land is not simple. Believe me, you would never want any demon beast from this direction to rush into the city."

Little Yang shivered, probably thinking about the consequences of a demon beast rushing into the city. A demon beast from the Thousand Absolutes Land would definitely slaughter the city if it rushed in. He had escaped to Worry-Free City after surviving nine deaths, and he didn't want to die in the mouth of a demon beast for no reason.

"Old Liu, Uncle Old Liu, how could the demon beasts in the Thousand Absolutes Land leave the Thousand Absolutes Land?" Little Yang couldn't figure this out. Demon beasts never rushed out of the Thousand Absolutes Land in other directions, so why would they in this direction?

"Because this small half of our Worry-Free City is built in the Thousand Absolutes Land." Old Liu was very satisfied with Little Yang's address of Uncle Old Liu, and didn't hesitate to give this kid some pointers, "Remember the street in the city with a red line painted on the ground? That line is the edge of the Thousand Absolutes Land."

Little Yang really remembered this street, because that street was too special. On one side of the street were two large commercial firms, and on the other side was a large pile of simple-looking houses, especially the red line, more than a foot wide, with a color as bright as fresh blood, making people feel frightened at first glance, so it was hard not to remember.

He had always thought that it was a line drawn by some big shot to warn some people not to cross the line. Little Yang had never thought that the line was the boundary line of the Thousand Absolutes Land, and suddenly showed a shocked look.

"We people who have entered Worry-Free City, even if no one outside dares to touch us, we have to be tense every day." Old Liu enjoyed Little Yang's shocked eyes, and even more enjoyed the process of guiding newcomers, "A small half of Worry-Free City is built in the Thousand Absolutes Land, just to keep us vigilant at all times and not relax."

Little Yang nodded repeatedly, he didn't know what to say about the Worry-Free City Lord's arrangement. He had just entered Worry-Free City and didn't know many things.

"See the marks on this?" Old Liu proudly raised his head and pointed to several terrifying marks on the city wall, and said with a smile, "These were left by the demon beasts from the Thousand Absolutes Land, and almost all of them were driven away by the experts in the city."

"Almost?" Little Yang grasped the sensitive words in Old Liu's mouth, and at the same time, the light of serious worship was even stronger.

"Only a very few were killed." Old Liu smiled and looked at him, answering, "Demon beasts with lower levels, when they encounter experts in the city, also have no way back."

Little Yang became more and more worshipful. Killing the demon beasts in the Thousand Absolutes Land, if this news were released outside, it would definitely make many people drop their jaws.

However, as soon as he thought that the demon beasts in the Thousand Absolutes Land might rush out of the forest of the Thousand Absolutes Land at any time, Little Yang had the urge to turn around and run away.

"Then we are still watching the gate here?" Little Yang almost cried. Even when facing the pursuit of his enemies, Little Yang had never been so fragile. He was so anxious just after hearing Old Liu's words. The fierce reputation of the Thousand Absolutes Land was naturally the credit for this.