Capítulo 1259: Chapter 1244: Who Says It’s Impossible

The Dragon Swimming Plain truly lives up to its name, a boundless plain stretching for miles!

From the moment you step onto the Dragon Swimming Plain, you can see the gigantic silhouette of Luoyi, the Imperial Capital.

The instant you emerge from the Ancient Teleportation Formation in the Dragon Swimming Plain, every breath brings a feeling of unprecedented comfort.

Just as Gu Kuang stated, the concentration of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi in the Dragon Swimming Plain is more than ten times that of the outside world.

Moreover, this increase in concentration of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi is not merely a change in quantity, but a change in quality.

The Primordial Qi on the Dragon Swimming Plain can be termed as Spiritual Power; without any cultivation technique, just inhaling it can directly enhance one’s cultivation.

Ye Zhen now somewhat understands why eunuchs like Hee Jin and Zhao Zhong possess cultivation at the Divine Communication Realm.

Putting aside the bottleneck of realms, even if a mere pig stayed on the Dragon Swimming Plain for several thousand years, its cultivation would likely reach the Divine Communication Realm. Furthermore, individuals like Zhao Zhong and Hee Jin, due to their status as close aides, mostly stay within Luoyi, where the concentration of Primordial Qi is dozens of times greater than that of the Dragon Swimming Plain.

The qualitative change in Primordial Qi also causes various miraculous transformations on the Dragon Swimming Plain.

Any ordinary herb planted on the Dragon Swimming Plain, upon harvest, will have a minimum age of ten years. Planting them for just a few years can produce hundred-year-old spiritual medicines effortlessly.

Even ordinary wheat and rice, when planted on the Dragon Swimming Plain, yield spiritual objects worth immense value, capable of enhancing cultivation and purifying the body.

Hence, despite the Dragon Head Plains covering a million-mile area, every inch of land is extremely valuable. Like Prince Yangling, who owns land on the Dragon Head Plains, possessing merely ten miles of land in radius.

However, most of the land on the Dragon Swimming Plain is still used to plant grains, passed down by the descendants of ancient relics who have owned the land for generations.

Next are the military camps.

The camps vary in size, belonging to different military corps. According to Gu Kuang, the elite troops stationed around the Dragon Swimming Plain exceed ten million.

If any state or enfeoffed nation shows any disloyalty, leveraging the Ancient Teleportation Formations spread across the continent, the Great Zhou’s army can reach any corner of the nation within ten days.

This is one of the reasons why the Great Zhou has stood tall for hundreds of thousands of years.

Ye Zhen found himself nearly awestruck and unknowingly arrived at the front of Luoyi, the Imperial Capital.

“Hey, Brother Ye, we can only escort Her Highness the Princess up to this point. We’re not qualified to enter Luoyi; the Princess’s safety will be entrusted to you!” With eyes full of envy, Gu Kuang glanced at Luoyi and then whispered, “Brother, listen to me, don’t get involved in the affairs of those princes and nobles. If there’s a chance, transfer to the Imperial Guard!”

Ye Zhen accepted Gu Kuang’s goodwill with a smile, as five hundred Personal Guards surrounded Princess Changle’s carriage and stepped through the majestic gateway of Luoyi.

The walls of Luoyi only stand ten zhang tall, but their thickness exceeds a hundred zhang.

Every generation of the Great Zhou Emperor has tirelessly reinforced the walls of Luoyi, casting Formation Runes and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures every year.

In Gu Kuang’s words, with his cultivation of the Divine Communication Realm, it is impossible to leave even a scratch on the walls of Luoyi.

And this is merely the defense of Luoyi’s outer city.

The walls of Luoyi are divided into three layers: outer city, inner city, and palace city, with each layer of defense stronger than the previous.

The concentration of Primordial Qi is thicker with each layer. In Gu Kuang’s words, the palace maids inside the palace city are bound to reach the Establishment Realm within ten years of entering the palace.

The long passage is filled with the heavily armored Imperial Guards of Great Zhou, whose imposing aura makes Princess Changle’s five hundred Personal Guard Army appear even more solemn.

The Law of Great Zhou, those who cause disturbances in key defensive areas of the city will be executed without mercy!

Shortly after the carriage entered the gate passage, it stopped, and a commander of the Imperial Guard came forward holding a fist-sized seal. Under Hee Jin’s guidance, the commander noted Ye Zhen and Xiao Mao as two outsiders and permitted them to pass.

As they advanced to the middle of the gate passage, Ye Zhen felt a hollow above and looked up to find an open space in the middle of the passage with a palm-sized mirror hovering there, emitting a faint gray mist.

Under the shine of that gray mist, Ye Zhen’s expression suddenly froze.

At that moment, Ye Zhen felt an exposed sensation, as if standing naked in public under broad daylight.

This exposed sensation encompassed not just the body, but his Spirit Palace and even his Divine Soul, all indescribably bare.

Before the gray mist of the mirror, Ye Zhen felt he had no secrets left.

“What is this?” Ye Zhen instinctively asked one of his Personal Guards.

These last few days, the one hundred fifty Personal Guards under Ye Zhen’s command have been quite indifferent toward Ye Zhen, looking at him mostly with contempt and disdain.

Ye Zhen reckoned that without the Military Law of Great Zhou pressing down and being constantly by Princess Changle’s side for protection, these fellows likely would have acted against him long ago.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as this Personal Guard named Gu Tieqi, who barely accepted Ye Zhen as the Capital Guard, willing to have a little communication with him, which is influenced by Gu Kuang.

According to Gu Kuang, Gu Tieqi is a direct descendant of their Gu family.

“The Celestial Spirit Mirror!”

“This mirror is said to be an incredibly powerful Innate Spiritual Treasure. Regardless of the martial artist’s cultivation level, once illuminated by the Celestial Spirit Mirror, their true bloodline form will appear within the mirror, including the manifestation of their Divine Soul.

Currently suspended at the four gates of Luoyi to prevent the infiltration of demons and monsters.”

“However, we prefer to call it the Demon Mirror. Once illuminated, all demons and monsters will reveal themselves,” Gu Tieqi whispered.

Quickly passing through the illumination range of the Celestial Spirit Mirror’s light, Ye Zhen’s heart slightly relaxed, as the unbearable naked feeling disappeared.

Walking through the long passage and stepping out of the gate, faint ripples occurred in the void, making Ye Zhen feel as if passing through a spatial barrier.

A dense surge of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power immediately rushed toward his face, feeling as if transitioning from water to air, with every pore in his body seemingly cheering.

With just one breath, Ye Zhen clearly felt the spiritual power in his Dantian grow significantly.

Ye Zhen felt that the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power he absorbed within Luoyi was as pure as the spiritual power refined countless times by Vein Forging Realm Martial Artists.

In terms of concentration, it’s similar to the concentration of Primordial Qi in Immortal Light Mountain within the True Profound Continent, but the quality is worlds apart.

The feeling is akin to the difference between smog and pure oxygen.

The outer city of Luoyi is mainly home to the heavy ministers’ mansions, prince mansions, various businesses, and representatives of various little worlds stationed here.

Basically, whatever architectural facilities exist within a state city can also be found in the outer city of Luoyi, including brothels.

However, those who can open a brothel here are individuals with connections reaching the sky, and the beauties within the brothel are all stunning enough to captivate the nation.

Passing by a brothel named Warm Jade Pavilion, Gu Tieqi glanced fiercely and muttered, “Once I have money, I definitely want to spend a few nights at Warm Jade Pavilion. It’s said that the women here can make you thrill beyond imagination.”

“Is it very expensive?” Ye Zhen asked in surprise.

“Expensive?”

Gu Tieqi shook his head in surprise, “How can we use ‘expensive’ to describe this place?”

“This place is essentially a money-squandering cave, no, a spirit stone shredder! With my current military salary, if I save up every penny for a year without eating or drinking, I can enjoy this place once!”

“Sometimes I really wonder if the women in Warm Jade Pavilion have diamonds embedded below!” He grumbled with a look of regret, “It’s a pity that I was kicked out by my family early on and lost my allowance. Otherwise, I could have gone to Warm Jade Pavilion once or twice a year!”

This statement surprised even Ye Zhen, who was well-versed in the world.

Princess Changle’s personal guards actually have quite a high salary.

Princess Changle’s Imperial Guard receives a yearly salary of a thousand mid-grade spirit stones, while the personal guards have a yearly salary of five thousand mid-grade spirit stones, according to Gu Tieqi, it takes sixty thousand mid-grade spirit stones to qualify for the Warm Jade Pavilion.

Sixty thousand mid-grade spirit stones, which is equivalent to seven million low-grade spirit stones, and visiting once would wipe out Ye Zhen’s current wealth.

As for the Psychic Spirit Pill obtained by virtue, except for the Prince and nobles, ordinary martial artists wouldn’t dare to spend it frivolously.

They can’t do without it for their own cultivation, how dare they use it wantonly.

After all, everyone understands that strength is the first priority.

Of course, it’s not all, there are exceptions.

Compared to the prosperity and chaos of the Outer City, the Inner City was very calm.

In the Inner City of Luoyi, the residents are essentially favored Princes and Princesses, high-ranking officials with power, and princes.

Basically, all major government institutions of Great Zhou are concentrated in the Inner City.

For example, the most basic of the Six Ministries like the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, other offices within the various departments, and all kinds of secret institutions of Great Zhou are located in the Inner City.

As for the Imperial Palace, it is the place where the Holy Emperor of Great Zhou handles state affairs and resides, and some extremely important institutions are also located within the palace.

Such as the Ancestor God Temple, War Soul Hall, and so on.

And Princess Changle, she resides in the Inner City, just three miles away from the strict Imperial Palace, in a mansion.

Because the land is so precious, even Princess Changle’s mansion appears narrow from the outside, only one li in size.

But when you step into the Changle Princess Mansion, you will find another world.

When it was built, the master builder from the Ministry of Industry used countless Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, along with extremely precious formation materials, to set up a very mysterious spatial overlapping grand formation, expanding the space within Princess Changle’s mansion a hundredfold.

A mansion with a radius of a hundred li, allowing free galloping of horses!

A normal maid who has just entered the Princess Mansion would need a day’s time to reach the Princess’s sleeping quarters from the entrance if unaided.

Basically, the entire mansion and various buildings within Luoyi are built with such mysterious spatial overlapping grand formations, though the majority are not as strong as the one in Changle Princess Mansion.

The spatial overlap of most buildings is around twenty times, and those with fifty times overlap are incredibly wealthy.

The rules in the Princess Mansion are extremely strict, upon entering the Princess Mansion, Ye Zhen and his cohort of personal guards were placed in the outer courtyard and took turns patrolling with the remaining Princess Mansion Guards.

As for the inner courtyard of the Princess Mansion, aside from palace maids and eunuchs, no man is to be seen.

Any personal guard not summoned inside, will be executed without mercy!

This is the law of Great Zhou, without any twists and turns. If you violate certain things, it’s three words—execute without mercy!

There’s also a small military camp within the Princess Mansion, it’s the station and cultivation place for personal guards like Ye Zhen; a square military camp with a large open training ground in the middle.

Being the commander of 150 personal guards, Ye Zhen is fortunate to have an independent barracks.

In fact, the personal guards of the Changle Princess Mansion, except for the division that is on duty, rarely live in the military camp within the Princess Mansion.

Over ninety percent of the personal guards have residences within Luoyi.

According to the Military Law of Great Zhou, Ye Zhen’s division of personal guards, after escorting the Princess’s carriage, can take a month off.

Upon returning to the Princess Mansion Guard, Ye Zhen’s direct superior General-in-chief Wangg Yao handed over the defense to the Second Division Personal Guard, and then most of the First Division guards changed into civilian clothes and left the Princess Mansion.

Guarding the carriage wasn’t particularly dangerous, but the military discipline was strict, and they urgently needed relaxation.

These sons of the Prince and nobles, in Luoyi, either have wives and children or have all kinds of clandestine relationships with the noblewomen of various mansions.

“Why aren’t you going home?” Seeing that Gu Tieqi hadn’t left, Ye Zhen, who was about to enter his barracks to rest, asked.

“My uncle ordered me to, so I won’t watch you get beaten to death! Before you get beaten to death, I have to save your life!” Gu Tieqi solemnly said something that made Ye Zhen want to laugh.

“I get beaten to death?”

“Pretty much, look over there!” Gu Tieqi pointed his mouth toward the west side of the military camp, with a somewhat strange expression, “It seems you unknowingly offended Eunuch Jin, I suggest you listen to my uncle and transfer to the Imperial Guard, or even out of Princess Changle’s retinue altogether!”

On the west side of the camp, Eunuch Jin Hee Jin, who had just returned, was huddled with the leaders of the Second Division Personal Guard, whispering and occasionally glancing at Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen could feel the resentment in Hee Jin’s eyes and could imagine Hee Jin’s intent.

A few breaths later, the General-in-chief of the Second Division who had just spoken with Hee Jin gave a hand signal and led dozens of personal guards toward Ye Zhen.

Seeing this scene, Hee Jin, whose hands were folded in his sleeves, squinted his eyes, a look full of anticipation on his face.

At the same moment, Gu Tieqi hurriedly distanced himself a hundred meters from Ye Zhen, “Capital Guard Ye, it’s not that I’m not loyal, it’s just that these guys are too troublesome.

Moreover, with my little face, at most, at most, I can only plead with them to spare your life before they beat you to death!”

“Beat me to death?”

Ye Zhen chuckled coldly, “Can they just walk away scot-free after beating me to death?”

Gu Tieqi shook his head silently, “Great Zhou reveres martial prowess, reporting a death from martial arts duel is quite commonplace.”

“And what if I beat them to death?”

Gu Tieqi was stunned, then looked at Ye Zhen as if he were a fool, “How is that possible?”

“Who says it’s not possible?”

With a cold snort, Ye Zhen strode boldly towards them!