Tie Ruonan is a direct subordinate of the owner of Longjing Island, so the city they are going to is naturally the city where the owner is located...which is also the economic and cultural center of the island, the most important city.
Therefore, the pier they arrived at was the busiest pier on Longjing Island. It was afternoon, and it was a busy time. Qin Ran's ship was probably a daily patrol ship, not so important. They waited for a long time before there was space to enter the port.
During this time, the captain taught Qin Ran the basic qualities of a veteran driver. From beginning to end, he kept swearing and never repeated himself... Qin Ran was really amazed and felt the local culture of this foreign land on the sea. Probably pirate culture.
After getting off the boat and leaving the dock, the sailors on the boat either went home or went out to drink, eat, or whore. In short, they soon dispersed. Only the captain and Tie Ruonan led Qin Ran into the city.
The basic tone of the city is gray, damp and cold.
The reason for this is probably that the stones used to build the city were fished out of the sea, which is grayish in color and always has a lingering dampness.
Then the entire city, not only the walls but also the houses, were built with this stone.
As you can imagine, the color of the entire city is gray, then stone, and then damp, which always gives people a bad feeling.
"Whale Fall City."
Qin Ran learned the name of the city. He looked at the city wall, which looked cold and had some scary and mysterious patterns on it.
He could roughly guess that those patterns were all variations of array patterns, similar to the runes written on paper when making talismans. This kind of pattern should have the effect of reinforcement and bonding.
Perhaps if they were united, they would form a large-scale formation. Seeing that all the buildings in the city were of this style and had this kind of patterns, Qin Ran, who had a deep understanding of formations, naturally realized this.
The aesthetic design of this city did not suit him, and the architectural patterns made him feel dangerous... In short, this port city called Whale Falls City made him very uncomfortable.
Because it is a port city and because it is just an island, the buildings in the city are a bit small and the streets in the city are a bit narrow... Compared with national cities such as Wuyi City and Modu, it is a bit far behind.
The captain and Tie Ruonan led the way, passed through the outer city, and soon arrived at the inner city.
Perhaps it cannot be called the inner city. It should be referred to by the corresponding name of the imperial city. The place where the emperor lives is called the imperial city, so the place where the island owner lives should be called the island city.
This is an island city with a very unique style...or rather, the architecture.
In the past, there should have been a rather tall stone mountain here. But now the stone mountain has been hollowed out, and the entire mountain has been hollowed out into a building.
The principle is probably similar to the cave dwellings built by the monks in Lingnan. However, this pure stone gave Qin Ran a feeling of a dark Gothic castle in the West in his previous life. The castle was built, but this building was dug directly out of the rocks.
It's indeed somewhat unique.
Around the stone mountain, that is, around the "castle", some low buildings were built here and there, and walls were built, which roughly constituted the "imperial city"... the island city.
At the city gate, the captain stepped forward to explain the situation. Someone went in to report. After waiting for a long time, the man came out and led the three people into the city.
...It really feels like entering the palace to meet the emperor.
Following the person leading the way in front, the group of three walked through the twists and turns in the "island city" for a long time before arriving at a place that looked like a parade ground.
There were many knife-wielding guards around the training ground. Qin Ran took a look and found that the guards all had spiritual energy fluctuations, and they were all cultivators with cultivation.
Inside the training ground, a naked man was tossing a boulder. The boulder was a cube, much bigger than Qin Ran. He was probably trying to build up his strength... to exercise.
The three of them entered the training ground and stood aside waiting.
Qin Ran looked at the man who was throwing the boulder and had a guess in his mind: he was probably the owner of Longjing Island. It was just a guess, and it might not be correct.
**The man tossed the boulder several times, and when he felt it was about right, he threw it aside.
There were some huge rocks of different sizes but similar shapes. Qin Ran looked over and saw that there were weight markings in front of those rocks. The light ones weighed a thousand jin and ten thousand jin, while the heavy ones weighed two hundred thousand jin, five hundred thousand jin, and a million jin.
And there is an empty space in the middle, and the standard there is... 100,000 jin.
So the island owner is a body cultivator who throws hundreds of thousands of pounds of rocks for fun.
What level of cultivation should this be? Qin Ran secretly calculated that this was probably a third-grade body cultivator, which was equivalent to the Nascent Soul stage in Lingnan.
**The man had been working hard and was covered in sweat. A subordinate handed him a towel and he wiped his body while walking towards Qin Ran and the others.
Before the people arrived, a strong smell of sweat arrived first.
His sharp tiger eyes saw Qin Ran the first time, and he nodded his chin. He asked in a rough voice, "Who?!"
“My Lord, his name is Li Feiyu. He is a dual-cultivator of the Spiritual Refiner and the Qigong Practitioner. His alchemy skills are also very high.” Tie Ruonan clasped his fists and saluted, quickly introducing Qin Ran in the simplest terms. “This spatial fluctuation was caused by him.”
It turned out to be the island owner.
“Refine the spirit, refine the qi…” The man sneered and looked Qin Ran up and down. “You traveled so far and found him? How high can his alchemy skills be?”
The captain and Tie Ruonan actually didn’t know how to make pills, so they didn’t know how high Qin Ran’s level of alchemy was.
Seeing this, Qin Ran bowed and said calmly, "Third-grade elixirs are no problem."
According to his guess, the so-called first grade is probably the foundation building stage of Lingnan Realm, the second grade is the golden elixir, and the third grade is the Nascent Soul stage, and he can indeed refine elixirs related to the Nascent Soul stage.
“Third-grade elixir?!” The island master finally looked at Qin Ran and saw that he was not lying. He raised his hand and called over a subordinate, saying, “Go find Mr. Zhai and get some medicinal materials for the third-grade body-refining elixir.”
It looked like he was going to make pills himself again, so Qin Ran quickly said, "It would be best if we had a pill furnace and the strange fire of heaven and earth. I am used to making pills with fire."
"Okay!" The island owner waved his hand and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter if you are a water or fire practitioner, as long as you can make pills, it's fine."
Qin Ran's eyes changed. This island was short of alchemists... or rather, it was short of high-level alchemists like him.
The island owner personally led the way, and the group went directly to an alchemy room in the island city.
There was a middle-aged man in his forties with a goatee in the alchemy room. He had an elegant temperament. When the island owner saw him, he showed respect and called him "Mr. Zhai."
Qin Ran looked at him and knew that he was an alchemist, probably the island owner's personal alchemist.
He didn't say much. He took the herbs handed to him, tested their efficacy, walked forward, turned on the furnace directly, and was very familiar with it. He spent a short time and refined a furnace of body-refining pills.
The body-refining pill was shown to Mr. Zhai, whose face was full of approval. He then gave it to the island owner to try, and he also showed respect to Qin Ran.
He said to Qin Ran, “Mr. Li can live in my island master’s residence from now on. If you have any requests, just let me know.”
Qin Ran bowed and accepted the island owner's invitation without refusing.
"Thank you, Island Master." he said.
In this way, Qin Ran also has a "place" in this "island city".
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