Volume 1: Spring in Wulong Town Chapter 17: Purple Gold City, Treasure Pavilion
The light of the jade pendant has not completely dissipated.
Tang Zheng tried to communicate using star power, but he was really out of strength and could no longer control even a trace of star power.
If it weren't for Tian Meng's jade pendant that helped him condense the last bit of star power, he would definitely not be able to open the passage of the space belt today!
"Recover a little." Tang Zheng got out of bed with his shoes on.
Anyway, the star power cannot be used for the time being, and he cannot take out the purple gold for the time being. He might as well ask about the jade pendant first.
It's getting a little late.
Tang Zheng asked several people along the way before he found the house of Tang Xiaotang's father, Tang Boyuan.
Tang Boyuan was walking in the yard. When he saw Tang Zheng coming, he was quite surprised: "Master Tang, please take a seat."
"No, no." Tang Zheng had something else to do in the evening, so he tried to be brief. "I came here because I want to ask Lord Tang something."
"Sir, you are too polite. Please go ahead." Tang Boyuan said.
Tang Zheng took out Tian Meng's jade pendant and asked, "Master Tang, do you still remember this jade pendant?"
"Oh?" Tang Boyuan looked at it and said, "Isn't this the token of Tangjiabao that Tian Meng brought to you?"
"Hmm..." Tang Zheng slightly changed what happened just now, hiding some things about the purple gold belt. He told Tang Boyuan again, "So, I want to ask Lord Tang, what's going on?"
"Is there such a thing?" Tang Boyuan looked at it carefully again, "Looking at the formation engraved on the jade pendant, it should just be a formation that calls on the power of purple gold to assist in cultivating star power..."
Tang Boyuan went back into his room and took out several things.
Some are jade pendants, some are necklaces, and some are bracelets.
Tang Zheng also looked over and found that each of the items had patterns similar to or even identical to those on Hetian Meng's jade pendant.
According to Tang Boyuan, these engravings are formations.
As the saying goes, if jade is not polished, it will not become a useful object. The reason why the martial arts training ground in Tangjiabao uses so little purple gold but can improve the training effect by 10% is because of the effect of the formation.
There is a lot of purple gold in Tang Zheng’s purple gold belt, but without being carved or engraved with formations, they are not purple gold products that can greatly assist in cultivation!
"I can't tell." After comparing for a long time, Tang Boyuan shook his head and told Tang Zheng, "Although I don't know how to carve arrays, but from the comparison of the patterns carved on the array, this should just be an accessory to assist in cultivating star power..."
"What about Tian Meng, who doesn't know either?" Tang Zheng asked.
"Tian Meng has never even cultivated his star power, so it is unlikely that he would know." Tang Boyuan could only make a guess. "In the Jubao Pavilion on the West Street of Wulong Town, there is a master with excellent skills and vision, and a good reputation. However, the West Street is the territory of the Hidden Blue Villa... It is much more chaotic than the East Street."
"Aren't half of the shops on West Street going to be taken over by Tangjiabao?" Tang Zheng couldn't help but ask another question when he heard about the danger of Jubao Pavilion.
"That shop doesn't belong to us, nor to Yinlan Villa. All Jubao Pavilions in the world belong to Zijin City." Tang Boyuan still respected the reputation of Jubao Pavilion. "What I mean is, West Street has been in chaos recently. Yinlan Villa dug three feet deep in the ground but still couldn't find the person who burned their flower fields. It's a time of great anger. If you must go to Jubao Pavilion , you must be careful on the road."
Tang Zheng was with Tang Boyuan. Although he didn't figure out the matter of the jade pendant, he got more specific information about Jubao Pavilion.
Seeing that he didn't seem to know about Jubao Pavilion, Tang Boyuan told him some things about the Purple Gold City, one of the four famous cities on the mainland.
The Purple Gold City is the site of the last imperial capital of the extinct Purple Gold Empire, and is also the gathering place of all the world's wealth.
The saying "Of the 100% of purple gold in the world, 99% is in the Du family" that is often sung in taverns refers to the Purple Gold City. Although this statement is a bit exaggerated, in Tang Boyuan's opinion, 70% to 80% should be indispensable.
Jubao Pavilion is just one of the many industries that the Purple Gold City has opened across the continent.
What really makes people fearful is not only the financial resources of the Purple Gold City, but also the strength of the Purple Gold City!
Because they own the Purple Gold Mountains, the cultivation speed of the Du family's children is of course extraordinarily fast. Every generation of the Du family has a nine-star strongman, and there are dozens of strongmen above seven stars. This does not include the Du family's disciples and guests who use the Purple Gold Mountains to cultivate.
The powerful Purple Gold City is a giant on this continent.
Even some upper-class families will not be easily provoked if they have nothing to do. Only the seven top-level families may be able to fight with them. However, if it is not necessary, the top-level families will not easily offend the Purple Gold City.
This is because the Purple Gold City controls one thing, and that is the [Star Power List] that they publish once a year!
The Star Power List is divided into the Heavenly Star List, the Earthly Star List, and the Human Star List. The Heavenly Star List records the 100 strongest people in the world at that time, the Earthly Star List records the 1,000 strongest people under the age of 60, and the Human Star List records the 10,000 strongest people under the age of 30.
"No wonder, Yinlan Villa really doesn't dare to touch such a force." After listening to this, Tang Zheng once again confirmed the safety of Jubao Pavilion.
As long as he took advantage of the night and crossed West Street carefully, nothing would happen on the way to Jubao Pavilion.
Considering his skills as an assassin, it shouldn't be a big problem.
…
Because he was going to Wulong Town, Tang Boyuan arranged a carriage for him and waited for him at the gate of Tangjiabao half an hour later.
After returning from Tang Boyuan, Tang Zheng's strength was restored a lot. He sat down again and easily opened the space channel that had been opened.
Call upon the star power and take out the purple gold...
It was originally a very logical thing to do, but Tang Zheng was stuck on a very minor issue.
That space channel is only as thick as a thumb.
However, a piece of purple gold is as big as a brick!
Moreover, purple gold is very heavy. Tang Zheng used dozens of strands of star power to move it up and down for a long time, but he couldn't even move a piece of purple gold, let alone move it out of the space!
Fortunately, the space channel has been opened.
Now all that was left was how to get the stuff out.
Tang Zheng quickly sorted out the known conditions and read the situation.
"The passage is too small to move. The problem is that the piece of purple gold is too big."
"Now, there are two solutions!"
In just a few breaths, Tang Zheng had come up with two solutions.
This is the on-the-spot reading ability that I developed through repeated game copies and mission levels in my previous life!
The first solution, of course, is to continue practicing.
As long as I can refine a few dozen more strands of star power and expand the space channel a little bit, the problem will of course be solved.
However, the problem with this solution is time!
How many more star powers could he cultivate in a short period of time? And how big could he open the space channel?
Therefore, Tang Zheng decisively chose the second solution!
Cut!
As long as you find a piece of purple gold in the belt space and cut off a small piece, no matter the weight or size, it should be able to be smoothly transported out of the thumb-sized space channel .
Tang Zheng gathered the star power and smashed it on the purple gold like a knife!
"Uh..." He thought it would take a lot of chopping to chip off a small piece, but he didn't expect the texture of purple gold to be so soft. He almost chipped off a corner with just one cut.
However, using star power to perform such delicate operations in an independent space consumed more energy than knocking out a channel. Just by cutting off such a small corner, he was almost exhausted.
Tang Zheng didn't dare to move again. After a short rest, he took out the small piece of purple gold!
The purple gold was still a little warm when I got it...
"It's out!" Tang Zheng was holding the triangular piece of purple gold that was only the size of a thumb, and he was almost in tears.
It’s not easy!
He came to this strange world without any skills, equipment, materials, or NPCs. He was so poor that he only had money left...
And to get such a pitiful amount of money, he cultivated star power and opened a space channel, and it took him a lot of effort to come up with it.
"Okay, let's go." Tang Zheng carefully put the small piece of purple gold into his inner pocket.
Although purple gold is soft in texture, it is not light in weight.
This thumb-sized bit of purple gold, according to the measurement system of Xingyao Continent, weighs at least two taels.
Although he didn't know if it was enough, this was all he could take out. He took Tian Meng's jade pendant and went to Jubao Pavilion to take a look first.
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The carriage from Tangjiabao went all the way from Tangjiabao to Wulong Town, and finally stopped at the East Street of Wulong Town.
It’s not that they were unwilling to go to West Street, but during this special period, if the carriage from Tangjiabao stopped at West Street, it would almost be tantamount to asking for trouble.
If the people in the car were the talented young men from Tangjiabao, the driver would not be afraid of causing trouble, but since the people in the car were the teacher from Tangjiabao, he decided to be cautious.
It just so happened that Tang Zheng was going to Jubao Pavilion. Not only did he have to identify Tian Meng's jade pendant on the first floor, he also had to go to the first and a half floors to deal with the issue of the identity plate. It would not be good if someone from Tangjiabao followed him.
It was night on West Street, and there were not too few people there. Tang Zheng blended into the crowd and it didn't take him too long to reach the first floor of Jubao Pavilion.
The lights lit in Jubao Pavilion were not the oil lamps that he often saw in Tangjiabao, nor were they candles, but rather, they were all night-shining pearl palace lanterns!
There are two rows of twelve in total, and the entire Jubao Pavilion is bright and bright, just like daylight.
However, at this time, there were not many people in Jubao Pavilion, and there was no waiter to serve. There was only an old man with half-closed eyes sitting behind the counter, repairing something with a jingling sound.
Tang Zheng stood by and waited for a long time.
He had worked as a professional in his previous life and knew that repair skills were more difficult to master than forging skills. If some delicate operations were interrupted, it might cause irreparable losses.
So, he kept waiting...waiting...
After waiting for about half an hour, the old man behind the counter finally looked up and said, "Young man, you've been waiting for a long time, right?"
Tang Zheng was not polite: "That's right, it's been half an hour."
"Haha, the young people in Wulong Town are so straightforward." The old man put down the things in his hands, "What do you want to buy? I can make the decision and sell it to you at a lower price."
"Oh, no." Tang Zheng shook his head and took out Tian Meng's jade pendant. "I came here specially to see if anyone recognizes this jade pendant..."
"What's wrong with the jade pendant with the word loyalty from the Tianqin family?" The old man just glanced at it without touching it.
"Can you... take a closer look?" Tang Zheng pushed the jade pendant a little closer.
"Hmm?" The old man picked up the jade pendant, and as he did so, his fingers rubbed the lines of the formation one by one. His brows slowly furrowed, and his hoarse voice seemed to come from another time and space, "Where did you get this thing?"
