Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

The Ancient City of the Southern Region is located in the central area of the Southern Region.

It is extremely far from the border of Great Zhou.

Great Zhou's geographical location is on the edge of the border between the Southern and Western Regions.

To get there, one must traverse thousands of mountains and rivers, and towering peaks.

When Jun Wuxie passed through the capital of a certain country, he changed to a more advanced vehicle.

Su Xiaoxiao had it delivered overnight through the Jubaosai located there; it was a five-star carriage pulled by three Rank Five Gale Horses.

Gale Horses are gentle, have outstanding endurance, and are as fast as the wind.

Rank Five is equivalent to the Star Celestial Realm for human martial practitioners.

Such Gale Horses are incredibly fast, more than ten times faster than the previous three-star carriage!

Even so, it took more than ten days of non-stop travel to reach the Ancient City of the Southern Region.

This was his first time seeing this ancient city.

Jun Wuxie was deeply shocked by the magnificent city before him.

Under the setting sun, the Ancient City of the Southern Region stood on the earth, shimmering with golden light, stretching as far as the eye could see.

He gazed at the city and estimated that it was thousands of miles in circumference!

The entire city's area was estimated to be hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.

The towering city walls were like an impassable chasm separating the world, requiring one to crane their neck to see the top, which was thousands of meters high!

Standing before the city, facing such a behemoth, he couldn't help but feel a sense of suffocation.

The ancient city walls were built of bluestone, covered with traces left by knives, axes, and swords, as well as sand eyes weathered by time. Some places were covered with moss and vines, bearing the vicissitudes of time.

"Shocking, isn't it?" Su Xiaoxiao leaned out of the carriage, saw Jun Wuxie's expression, and flicked her long silver hair, saying, "Look at you, acting like you've never seen the world. When we get to the city, don't say you know me, lest you embarrass yourself."

"Xiaoxiao, come sit here."

Jun Wuxie patted the seat next to him, not bothering to argue with her.

"What are you doing?" Su Xiaoxiao hesitantly sat down beside him, raised her round, delicate, and beautiful face, and looked at him warily, saying, "Are you going to bully me again?"

"I wouldn't dare bully you. I can't afford to offend you; you're my little ancestor."

"Ya ya ya, you're getting a bargain and still acting innocent! You spanked me so hard, and you say you wouldn't dare? What wouldn't you dare do!"

Su Xiaoxiao waved her small fist, glaring at him angrily.

The muscles on Jun Wuxie's face twitched slightly.

He really couldn't argue about this.

A few days ago, this girl was always arguing with him, which really annoyed him.

He wanted to teach her a lesson, so he held her on his lap and spanked her hard.

As a result, this girl actually cried and ignored him for several days.

Later, he thought about it and realized that he was wrong. He was too impulsive at the time.

She was, after all, the Holy Maiden of the Medicine King Sect, and she was actually spanked by him…

"Cough, that was just an impulse. Didn't you say you forgave me? Why are you still bringing it up?"

"Hmph! I didn't forgive you for nothing; there were conditions. If you dare to go back on your word, I'll let the whole world know that you're a scumbag who molests underage girls!"

Jun Wuxie almost spat out his drink.

What was all this about?

Molesting underage girls?

The muscles on his face twitched violently a few times.

"Alright, little ancestor, I'm really afraid of you. Can you please stop mentioning this?"

Jun Wuxie really regretted it. His momentary impulse led to him being blackmailed by this girl for another condition.

As of now, he owed her four things.

The key was that he didn't even know what those four things were.

Judging from this girl's personality, they probably wouldn't be easy to accomplish.

He vaguely felt like he had fallen into a trap and been sold.

"Tell me, what's wrong? Why did you call me over?"

Jun Wuxie looked at the magnificent city and said, "You understand the situation of the Ancient City of the Southern Region, right? Can you tell me about it?"

"The Ancient City of the Southern Region is different from other cities you've seen before. This place belongs to the cultivation world, so about half of the population in this city are martial practitioners."

"Yes, this city has a permanent population of 600 million. The city lord is named Qin Yuan, and he is a core member of the Hunter Guild headquarters. Therefore, this city can be considered the territory of the Hunter Guild."

"This place belongs to the Hunter Guild?"

Jun Wuxie was really shocked.

He didn't know how large the Hunter Guild was before.

Now he finally had a concept of it.

Such a huge city was just one of the Hunter Guild's territories.

"Of course, not everything in the city belongs to the Hunter Guild. It just means that they have the right to manage the ordinary industries here and the right to manage the order here."

"The biggest industries in the Ancient City of the Southern Region are the three major merchant guilds and the Archaic Stone Workshop." Speaking of the Archaic Stone Workshop, Su Xiaoxiao was very interested: "When the time comes, I'll take you to the Archaic Stone Workshop to broaden your horizons. It's so fun there, very interesting."

Jun Wuxie looked at her strangely: "Fun? The Archaic Stone Workshop isn't a children's playground, is it?"

"You're the child!" Su Xiaoxiao glared at him angrily, proudly puffing out her chest, and said, "Which eye of yours sees me as a child!"

Looking at the surging scene that rose and fell with her breathing.

Jun Wuxie was speechless for a moment.

Indeed, this didn't look like a child at all; it was almost a human weapon.

He quickly looked away and said, "What is that Archaic Stone Workshop?"

"Shh!"

Su Xiaoxiao was startled, looked around, and said very seriously, "Don't talk nonsense when you get to the city! Don't offend the Archaic Stone Workshop!"

She said that the Archaic Stone Workshop was very mysterious, and no one knew where their roots came from.

This Archaic Stone Workshop had existed for countless ages, longer than even the years that the Overlord-level forces had been in the world.

They did not participate in the disputes of the cultivation world, but only opened their doors to do business, selling original spirit stones.

"What are original spirit stones?"

"Original spirit stones are stones that may contain spirit crystals inside, don't you even know that?"

Su Xiaoxiao gave him a disgusted look.

Jun Wuxie's face darkened. He was despised by this girl again.

She said that the Archaic Stone Workshop occupied the two most ancient mineral veins in the world: the Ancient Phoenix Mineral Vein and the Golden Ancient Mineral Vein, and every year they would mine many original spirit stones and sell them in major cities around the world.

People go to the Archaic Stone Workshop to buy original spirit stones. If they can cut out a sufficient amount of spirit crystals from them, they will make a big profit.

This is called gambling on stones.

There are people who specialize in studying the field of gambling on stones, and they are called Original Spirit Masters.

Jun Wuxie became interested when he heard this.

Spirit crystals, ah, that's a very precious cultivation resource.

As the cultivation realm continues to improve, the grade of resources to be used later will continue to rise.

Spirit crystals are very high-quality resources among these advanced cultivation resources.

"Under normal circumstances, is the chance of cutting out spirit crystals high?"

"Of course not, otherwise, wouldn't the Archaic Stone Workshop lose money?" Speaking of this, Su Xiaoxiao said again: "However, there have been powerful Original Spirit Masters who have cut out superb spirit crystals, and even mutated spirit crystals!"

"There are mutated spirit crystals?"

Jun Wuxie was stunned. He only knew about the five grades: low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, top-grade, and superb.

"Yes, ah, but usually, there are only these five grades of spirit crystals, from low-grade to superb. Mutated spirit crystals are too rare. The so-called mutated spirit crystals are spirit crystals that have sealed some rare plants, metals, jade, or other resources inside. Generally speaking, the value of mutated spirit crystals is immeasurable, but some mutated spirit crystals are very ordinary and worthless, such as if they seal ordinary spirit essence inside, then they are worthless."

Hearing this, Jun Wuxie couldn't help but feel a little tempted.

However, he was very clear that this stone gambling was definitely not that easy. If he rashly went to gamble on stones, he would probably lose everything.

It would be great if he could learn Original Spirit Techniques and become an Original Spirit Master.

In that case, stone gambling would have a much better chance of success.

They came to the city gate, and a team of soldiers stopped them.

"Show your proof of residence!"

The soldiers' eyes were very indifferent, wearing black iron armor, and the spears they held exuded a cold, dark light, with a sense of iron-blooded killing intent.

"We are outsiders and do not have proof of residence."

Jun Wuxie said this.

The soldier looked them up and down, looked at their carriage, and said lightly: "Outsiders, each person must pay a hundred spirit coins as an entrance fee to enter the city."

"One hundred spirit coins, isn't it ten spirit coins?" Su Xiaoxiao was immediately unhappy, pointing to the others entering the city and saying: "Why are they all ten spirit coins?"

Jun Wuxie looked in the direction she was pointing. The other city entrants were paying the entrance fee, ten nail-sized green metal coins.

"Why are there so many whys?" A captain walked up, coldly looked at them, and said: "One hundred per person, pay the fee to enter the city, otherwise, get lost! Don't hinder us from maintaining order here, or we will throw you out!"

"Want to try?"

Jun Wuxie was a little angry.

These soldiers were clearly deliberately extorting money.

It was estimated that they saw that their carriage was not bad, but not very good, in the middle.

Just right, they felt that they could afford to offend them and could bully them.

"You are courting death, daring to run to the Ancient City of the Southern Region to run wild!" The captain said to the two soldiers: "Break the man's legs and throw him out, and capture the woman to the city lord's mansion to interrogate her properly to see who sent them to make trouble!"

"Yes!"

The two soldiers immediately rushed towards Jun Wuxie.

With a bang!

Just as they rushed in front of Jun Wuxie, a golden palm instantly slapped them away, heavily hitting the city wall, causing a burst of bone cracking and screams.

"It seems you really don't want to live!"

The captain's eyes were cold. The battle spear in his hand thrust forward like a dragon emerging from its lair, emitting a buzzing tremor, its speed extremely fast.

Jun Wuxie was about to make a move.

Su Xiaoxiao, who was beside him, snorted coldly. A flash of green light appeared in her hand, and she held a green-gold hammer, a little over a foot long and the size of a fist. She swung it and smashed it towards the captain.

A small green-gold hammer.

In the instant it was swung, the hammer handle extended to seven or eight meters, and the hammer itself swelled to the size of a house.

A hammer the size of a house smashed towards the captain just like that.

The captain's pupils contracted violently, and he retreated explosively.

Boom!

His speed was not faster than the hammer. He was hit on the spot, and his entire body was smashed deep into the ground.

The people coming and going here stared blankly at the scene.

Jun Wuxie also stared blankly at Su Xiaoxiao, whose silver hair cascaded down her back, looking lively and adorable.

Good heavens, she's simply a violent loli!

The hammer shrank. On the ground was a deep pit, and the captain had become a meat patty, thinly pasted into the pit. The surrounding area was stained red with blood.

The corners of Jun Wuxie's mouth twitched a couple of times.

"Ah, what are you still standing there for? Hurry up and run!"

Su Xiaoxiao pushed Jun Wuxie vigorously.

He reacted and immediately drove the chariot, rumbling down the long street, instantly rushing far away.

By the time the city-guarding soldiers reacted, their backs had already disappeared at the end of the street.

"Come on, chase them!"

A general's eyes were icy cold. They actually dared to kill a law enforcer of the Southern Domain Ancient City here. They had the audacity of a bear and the gall of a leopard!