Who Brought Him into the Cultivation World?

Chapter 165: Chapter 142: Five Towers, Twelve Cities

Bai Yujing. This is no longer a State Prefecture.

Because no one can govern it.

This is also not a city!

Because of its vast expanse, far beyond any State Prefecture.

This place is the heart of the world, from where all decrees are issued.

It is also the pinnacle of secular power.

Within a ten-mile radius, there are five towers guarding it.

The first tower, Chongming, is situated in the central Wu Earth position.

The second tower, Light-shaking, is located in the east Azure Dragon Armor Wood position.

The third tower, Ascension, is in the west White Tiger Geng Metal position.

The fourth tower, Siantai, is in the south Vermilion Bird Bing Fire position.

The fifth tower, Spirit Realm, is located in the north Black Tortoise Ren Water position.

The five towers guard the Emperor, stretching over a hundred miles from east to west, where twelve cities are spread out.

Thus, Bai Yujing, five towers and twelve cities!

At this moment, an iron bird, like a stream of light, flew through the cities, heading towards Chongming Tower...

Half a two-hour later, an old man with white hair and beard stared intently at his desk, where besides a secret letter, there lay a map.

On the map, Quantai, Yujin, Minzhou, Shuzhou, Tianning, Ink Cloud, all the way to Misty Wave Prefecture were marked with a cinnabar pen. A route from south to north.

Isn’t this the path Han Yu traveled from start to finish?

”This pharmacist indeed headed north all the way.”

The old man heavily marked Zhanzhou City with the cinnabar pen. He sighed.

”This person is hard to discern as good or evil. Wherever he goes, chaos ensues. Exactly what is he plotting? What do you all say?”

At this moment, a burly man in his forties with a square face slowly approached the desk and spoke in a deep voice.

”What can I say, you’ve already said it all, Elder Feng, is it...”

Halfway through, he frowned and addressed the people beside him.

”Didn’t your Light-shaking Tower say you wanted to dissect his body to see what’s so amazing? Why send him here to Chongming Tower then? Our Chongming Tower Guardian Bureau doesn’t want this stuff.”

Beside him were a man and a woman. The man, about thirty years old, dressed in plain cloth, was handsome and named Luo Wushuang.

The woman, wearing a fire-red dress, had eyebrows like swords, exuding a heroic air, appearing to be about twenty-five or six years old. Her name was Luo Qingcheng.

Hearing this, the two felt a wave of embarrassment, but Luo Qingcheng eventually spoke with a face full of helplessness.

”Too many people want him dead, so Light-shaking Tower couldn’t withstand the pressure and wanted the Commander to keep him temporarily.”

Wasn’t this Elder Feng the same one from Tianning Prefecture, who could empathize with anyone!

He shrank back at the words, knowing his own troubles. Not long ago, people from Tianning Prefecture suddenly took him here. Moving between the five towers, he had almost offended everyone with just his mouth.

Luo Wushuang spoke with a strange expression to explain.

”The Ascension Tower Inspectorate oversees the world’s affairs. It’s said that the Tower Master took this Elder to tour the Imperial Court, capturing a few corrupt officials in the morning. Then in the afternoon, rumors spread that people were willing to pay a hefty price for his life.”

The burly man couldn’t contain his laughter and laughed heartily.

After laughing for a while, he remembered the important matter, scanning each location on the map and murmuring.

The legend of a male cultivator in Quantai Prefecture who turned into a female cultivator, and a hundred extreme cultivators that truly appeared in the Star Sect.

Yujin Prefecture has now become Joyful City.

The prominent Xiao Family in Minzhou Prefecture was suddenly destroyed. Young Master Xiao crossed to the Other Shore in less than a day, and then seemingly entered a vague Realm of Transcendence, using it to kill the Seeking Death Taoist of the Celestial Water Sect, with Lu Dayou as a witness.

These are confirmable matters.

The latter events become more elusive, such as the much-coveted Ginseng King in Ink Cloud Mansion, and the complete loss of self-care ability by all cultivators in Misty Wave Prefecture due to some unknown mental realm state.

Although these two events cannot be proven related to Han Yu, they did occur while he was passing by, certainly causing quite a stir.

With these incidents accumulating, and the Imperial Court taking interest, many of Han Yu’s actions gradually came into focus, and now many in the five towers are intrigued by this pharmacist.

”So, you two came here because your Light-shaking Tower’s Hundred Herbs Bureau wants to take this task?”

After pondering for a moment, the burly man asked in a deep voice.

”Originally, yes...”

Luo Wushuang sighed after speaking.

Luo Qingcheng reluctantly added.

”However, Spirit Realm Tower played unfairly. The Vice Tower Master took his disciple there first!”

”Damn it, that’s just too much. Don’t you realize in the five towers I’m the only Commander, while the rest are Tower Masters, so I’m supposed to command you, yet you all can’t behave, can you?”

Elder Feng jumped out, shouting angrily, and then recoiled, covering his head as he retreated to a corner.

The burly man was not particularly annoyed; he glanced at Elder Feng before looking at the two.

”He said it all for me; there’s nothing I can do. I can’t manage these Tower Masters. Since Spirit Realm Tower has gone, tell that fatty to wait for them to return.”

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”Master, shouldn’t this have been a matter for the Hundred Herbs Bureau? Why did we come?”

On a flying shuttle, an eleven or twelve-year-old girl with pigtails was sitting at the controls, turning to ask the old man behind her, who had a twitching mouth.

The old man’s eyes were fixed on the control stick in the girl’s hands, his spiritual power ready to save at any moment.

Upon hearing her, he dared to split his attention a little and replied.

”The Hundred Herbs Bureau has always been organizing the pharmacist system, now simply envious of that kid’s pills, but we’re after something different.”

Judging from the experiences of Xiao Shui and Lu Dayou, these pills seemed able to enhance strength by consuming Qi Fortune.

What is Qi Fortune? It’s what they’ve researched their whole lives, a thread bestowed by the Heavenly Dao, acting in the mortal world.

They were trying to trace the Heavenly Dao through the ebb and flow of Qi Fortune.

If someone could harness it, it implied a high comprehension of the Heavenly Dao.

Han Yu’s pills were indeed miraculous, but far less shocking than his ability to use Qi Fortune.

”Is it that important? Then I’ll go faster.”

The young girl said, then, to the old man’s disbelief, she pushed the control stick to the bottom.

He never understood why such a little girl was so obsessed with the flying shuttle. Was such a dangerous thing for a junior cultivator to play with?

”I must talk to Che Dapao about this when we get back, asking why he lent you such a dangerous thing.”

The old man said with a dark face.

”The Commander wouldn’t lend it, saying I couldn’t pay for damages, so I borrowed it in Master’s name.”

The little girl said with a mischievous grin.

The old man’s face darkened even more. Was everyone in Chongming Tower an idiot? Would an old man like him, a Transcendent Realm cultivator, use their broken flying shuttle?

They believed the words of a little girl?