Chapter 1337: Eccentric Merchant
Moving towards the massive city in the distance with the goal of finding a way to safely traverse the mountain range and enter the large neutral territory between the Blue Sea Empire and the Wei Empire, Chu Yang didn’t dare to be careless, as he landed on the ground and travelled on foot instead of flying like he had been doing so far.
The reason being that he didn’t want to stand out when entering the city, as he understood from past Domain Lord Realm cultivators he had encountered, that someone at his age reaching the Domain Lord Realm was something unheard of to them and might not just draw the attention of the powerful figures inside the border city, but also had the chance of drawing the attention of the more powerful Blue Sea Empire and the Wei Empire who were still constantly monitoring the situation inside the neutral territory.
Although attention might be a good thing in some circumstances, Chu Yang understood full well that it wouldn’t be a good thing for him to draw attention from massive powers like the Blue Sea Empire and the Wei Empire.
After all, even if they might try and approach him with good intentions, planning to recruit him into their empire, there was also a chance they would try and kill him if they suspected he might have already allied or was planning to ally with their opponent.
With that in mind, Chu Yang intended to try and hide his cultivation realm, but considering that it would be difficult to do so in front of someone in the Soul Ascension Realm, he had also come up with another disguise… And that was to fake his own age. Making himself look a bit older than he actually was, as he looked far too young for someone in the Domain Lord Realm at the moment.
Not that those who reached the Domain Lord Realm couldn’t make themselves look younger, but it was just difficult to make oneself look below a certain age, something that only became harder the older one got.
In turn, this was also the main reason why most cultivators at the Domain Lord Realm or above looked to be at least in their thirties or older.
Only a few cultivators obsessed with their appearance or prominent alchemists who had the ability to refine beauty pills would normally look younger than thirty.
Of course, the exception to this was that the cultivator was a genius who had managed to break through to the Domain Lord Realm at a young age. Allowing the cultivator in question to retain a youthful appearance for a longer period of time.
“But… Even if I try to disguise my appearance, it will at most avoid my age being noticed when someone casually sweeps over me with their divine sense. If someone focuses their attention, it won’t take long to pick up the flaws in the disguise…” Muttering this to himself as he looked at his new appearance through a simple water mirror, he had casual created in front of himself, Chu Yang could not help feeling a bit nervous as he saw the middle-aged man that appeared in the water mirror.
Outside of not accidentally offending any powerful cultivators who might be residing inside the city, Chu Yang also wanted to go on foot so he would avoid getting inspected by the divine sense of those in the Domain Lord Realm and above inside the city. Understanding that if something like that happened, his little disguise would almost instantly get seen through.
So, with a somewhat nervous expression on his face, Chu Yang dispelled the water mirror in front of him before starting to make his way towards the city in the distance.
Before long, he soon found himself walking on a large road leading directly up to the city. During which he encountered quite a few other cultivators who were similarly making their way towards the city, though, all of them were either in the Nascent Soul Realm or below. Most of them being in the Core Formation Realm or the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Those in the Domain Lord Realm and above clearly didn’t bother walking on the ground and would instead just fly directly into the city itself…
During the trip to the city that would now take half a day to complete on foot, Chu Yang ended up running into a rather eccentric merchant who happily allowed him to join the caravan he was part of before he began eagerly talking about himself before noticing how Chu Yang had close to no knowledge about the city they were heading towards.
“Your first time visiting the Demon Mountain City?” With that in mind, it didn’t take long for the chatty merchant to ask him about it.
“Yes.” Nodding his head in response, Chu Yang didn’t intend to pretend he had been to the city before. Especially considering that the chatty merchant seemed to know a lot about the city that was called the Demon Mountain City according to what the merchant had told him, and Chu Yang wanted to learn more about the city before entering it if possible.”
“Hehe, there are countless Nascent Soul Realm cultivators and no lack of Domain Lord Realm cultivators. Even those mythical figures at the Soul Ascension Realm sometimes appear! I’m sure you will be surprised when we get there! Smiling knowingly as he said this, the merchant paused for a second. “But I have to warn you, those powerful cultivators are not easy to get along with, better to stay away from the central part of the city if you ask me. Outside of that, you also have to…”
And not second later, Chu Yang suddenly found himself being lectured by the merchant about the dangers of interacting with powerful cultivators and what to do in case he ended up finding himself faced with one.
All things considered, the merchant was only at the Peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm and he himself only appeared at the Core Formation Realm. So, it was understandable that the merchant cautioned him about interacting with those in the Nascent Soul Realm and above, as they were indeed extremely dangerous for someone in the Core Formation Realm.
With that in mind, Chu Yang made sure to carefully nod his head every now and then while listening to the merchant talking about how to avoid running into problems with powerful cultivators.
During which, Chu Yang couldn’t help feeling that the merchant was far smarter than he let on, as his advice for avoiding trouble seemed to not only fit with those in the Soul Ascension Realm but seemed to be universally good advice for avoiding attention and trouble when entering a new and unknown place.
If not for the fact that the merchant was only in the Foundation Establishment Realm, Chu Yang would have seriously doubted his cultivation realm, as the advice he gave was far beyond what someone in the Foundation Establishment should been able to give. Especially considering that some of the advice seemed to pertain to in depth knowledge on how people in different cultivation realms normally looked at their surroundings.
In the end, he could only put it down to the fact that the merchant had been to the city a lot and encountered all sorts of cultivators and learnt from them and thus developed this kind of in-depth knowledge on how to lay low and avoid drawing unwanted attention to himself.
Maybe I should inform the sect about this merchant and have them try to recruit him… After all, someone like this should be extremely useful to Elder Dust Fairy and the information network she is trying to build…
With these thoughts appearing in his head while listening to the merchant, Chu Yang secretly pulled out his communication talisman before sending a message back to the sect. informing them of the merchant and his potential talent when it came to secretly infiltrating new areas.
No matter how low his cultivation realm was at the moment, it wasn’t really that much of a problem, as the current Star Shattering Sect had more than enough resources to help him reach the Core Formation Realm without any problems. Increasing his lifespan by a few hundred years. Giving him a chance to continue helping the sect for a longer time, while also giving the sect time to grow strong and potentially also get the ability to more easily produce Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.
Maybe even getting the ability to help someone forcibly reach the Nascent Soul Realm through different techniques and methods that involved the burning of the body’s potential. Methods useful to those about to die of old age and without any other way to breakthrough. Giving those without talent to reach the Nascent Soul Realm under normal circumstances, a rare opportunity to overcome their natural limitations and possibly even show a strong enough comprehension for them to reach the Domain Lord Realm.
Although, such techniques were normally only found inside the larger powers of the continent and was out of the scope of the current Star Shattering Sect…
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Edit: Was a repeat sentence at the end. Fixed it
