Fang Yun flew the Pingbu Qingyun at a very low altitude, close to the tree branches, to avoid being discovered.
Fang Yun later planned to disguise himself as a person from Qicheng in the rear area. That place was very far away from the front-line city, and many people there had no experience fighting against the monsters, so it would not arouse suspicion.
Generally speaking, the relationship between the city lord in the rear and the city lord in the front-line city will not be very good, because the city lord in the rear city is often the university scholar who lost in the fight for the front-line city.
During the flight, Fang Yun thought about every aspect to avoid any problems.
Not long after, Fang Yun saw a city in the distance, standing in the red clouds and light red mist. In the center of the city stood a tall temple. Although it was the first time Fang Yun saw it, he guessed that it was the holy temple of the Xuemang Ancient Land.
The officials in the cities and countries of the Holy Temple in Shengyuan Continent only have the right to use their talents but not absolute control. The real power belongs to the Holy Academy, which is the fundamental reason why the Holy Academy is superior to the ten countries.
In the ancient land of Xuemang, the cities are loose alliances and the holy temples can be connected, but each holy temple is relatively independent.
Currently, no one in the Xuemang Ancient Land can "absolutely control" the Holy Temple. Even the extremely rare great Confucian city lords can only use the power of the Holy Temples in each city, and cannot let the Holy Temples do things against the will of the race, such as using the power of the Holy Temples to kill scholars for no reason, or helping monsters and barbarians. These are all impossible things.
Fang Yun lowered his altitude and speed again and passed through the woods. After he got close to the fields opened up by Juyun City, he put away his speed and walked out of the woods onto the official road.
Even though the cities in Shengyuan Continent are not prosperous, there are cars coming and going. However, there are very few horse-drawn carriages here. You can only see a convoy of hundreds of people in the distance, slowly driving towards Juyun City.
The walls and most of the buildings in Juyun City are made of gray-white stones. Under the red sky, it looks like a city made of clouds.
Outside Juyun City are large fields where a crop called "red wheat" is grown. The food made from flour is extremely strange, and Fang Yun cannot get used to it.
In addition to red wheat, there are some pastures in the distance, raising blood cattle and blood sheep. The taste of blood cattle is also very strange, Fang Yun can't get used to it, but blood sheep meat is the opposite, he likes it very much, and decides to buy more to take back, anyway, the things in the seashells can be guaranteed to not rot for a long time.
There are some areas outside the city surrounded by towering walls. Fang Yun knows that those are where the dragon-patterned rice is grown and they are heavily guarded.
Dragon Pattern Rice grows slowly. The yield of artificial cultivation is extremely low, and it requires a rare blood jade in the ancient land of Xuemang to cultivate.
However, wild dragon-patterned rice occasionally appears in the wild, and the yield of a single plant is much higher than that of artificial cultivation. The key is that it is possible to dig up blood jade.
If an ordinary person encounters a small dragon-patterned rice field, as long as he contributes it to the city lord, he can become a wealthy man in the city overnight, and his status in the city is at least equivalent to that of a Jinshi.
On the map is a small dragon-patterned rice field, where the dragon-patterned rice grows very well. There is a high probability that there are a lot of blood jades in the field.
After getting the map, Fang Yun hesitated. A small dragon-patterned rice field can harvest at least a thousand kilograms of dragon-patterned rice. In addition, the underground blood jade can also be exchanged for dragon-patterned rice. Not only can it support itself for three months, but it can also bring a large amount of dragon-patterned rice to Shengyuan Continent. Just like the semi-saints, they can eat dragon-patterned rice every day.
However, Fang Yun quickly abandoned this idea. If he had not met Yun Jie alive, but only met the bear monster and killed it to get the map, he could have taken the dragon-patterned rice field for himself. But he finally got the map after meeting Yun Jie. Not to mention being a scholar, even as an ordinary person, there must be a bottom line in doing things.
"This is a deal. I will kill all the monsters and use my conscience as collateral in exchange for half of the dragon-patterned rice fields!"
Fang Yun figured out the nature of the whole thing and smiled with relief.
"Be cautious when you are alone."
Fang Yun used the Jinshi's fast-paced poem to quickly walk forward, and slowed down after reaching the door.
There are hundreds of soldiers guarding the gate of Juyun City, which is something that could only happen when Ning'an City is under martial law.
Fang Yun knew that this was a common thing. After the soldiers saluted and greeted him, he nodded slightly and stepped into Juyun City.
Fang Yun took a quick glance and found that Nayun Town was far from comparable to this place. At first glance, this Juyun City was equivalent to an ordinary provincial capital, and the population seemed to be greater than that of the provincial capital of Jing State.
Fang Yun observed as he walked.
After a while, Fang Yun had a basic judgment. The clothes of the people here were more patched and dirtier. Most of them were thin, and their skin was white but dull. It seemed that in addition to poor diet, it was also related to the lack of sun in the sky. In this ancient land that was always covered by red clouds, the skin could not be very healthy.
Fang Yun first stayed in Juyun City for an hour, and after he had a basic understanding of the city, he went to the Holy Temple, took out a demon general Xiong Er, and exchanged it for a "Military Merit Plate", and obtained Yi Er's military merit. As long as he was in the city, he could check the military merits on the military merit plate at any time.
The military merit plate is a one-inch square piece of white jade, with a number on the front and north sides. The front side shows the total number of military merits ever obtained, while the back side shows the remaining number of military merits.
Since the holy temples in the Xuemang Ancient Land are relatively independent, different official seals are needed to mobilize talents in different holy temples. Fang Yun has no way of doing this now and decides to solve the issue of official seals later.
After finishing the basic things, Fang Yun asked for the direction of Changle Street. Then he asked the waiter at a pub near Changle Street about the specific situation of the Yun family in Changle Street.
The Yun family of Changle Street was originally a Hanlin family, but after the death of the Hanlin patriarch twelve years ago, they were downgraded to a Jinshi family five years later.
The Yun family has been very successful in recent years and has produced two Jinshi, one named Yun Jie and the other named Yun Ao. Both of them had the opportunity to be promoted to Hanlin and restore the Yun family's status as a Hanlin family. Therefore, the power of the Yun family in Changle has not been greatly affected.
However, Yun Jie is the son of the eldest branch of the Yun family, while Yun Ao is the son of the third branch of the Yun family, and the two branches have been fighting for a long time.
After listening to the waiter, Fang Yun slowly walked towards the Yun family on Changle Street. However, he was thinking about Yun Ao in his heart. Was he the one who spoke ill of him behind his back that he met in Yun Town
Among the five people in the Yunzhen Restaurant, the one named Yunao spoke the most rudely and was the most pretentious, while the one named Yundan, although he occasionally agreed, was relatively less arrogant and more intelligent.
Not long after, Fang Yun arrived at the Yun family's door and looked at the door carefully.
There are three-foot-one-inch-tall lions, four rows of door nails, four pairs of lanterns, and two xiezhi on the eaves of the main entrance. These are all standard etiquette for a Jinshi family. Even the positions of the four people standing at the door are very particular.
Some of the systems here are far more stringent than those in Shengyuan Continent.
Before Fang Yun could speak, someone from the left door bowed and said, "Greetings to the Master Jinshi."
As they spoke, the four guards half-knelt and then stood up.
.(To be continued..)