Douluo: I have a lucky magic dice

Chapter 27 Nanxing City!
Two days later, Nanxing City.

Nanxing City stands outside the Star Forest, like a magnificent giant beast. The city gate is tall and thick, built with huge stones. The city gate is covered with scars and looks like it has experienced countless wind and rain baptisms. There are also countless gun towers and watchtowers on the city wall. Obviously, this place is often attacked by soul beasts.

Cui Jing and Ji Xinghe walked into the city gate. There were endless streams of merchants coming and going. Ji Xinghe also found that these people had a calm aura and murderous eyes. They seemed to be soul masters. There were dense shops on both sides of the street. A wide variety of soul beast products were displayed in front of the shops. There were soul beast furs several meters long, giant snake shedding, and even some soul beast cubs locked in cages.

"This is the human city closest to the Xingdou Great Forest. It is not under the jurisdiction of any empire. Thousands of years ago, this was just a small town. Because soul masters entering the Xingdou Great Forest needed supplies and transit here, over time, this place became a city of considerable size."

Cui Jing explained to Ji Xinghe, who looked pale and tired, and then said, "Rest here for half a day, have a good meal, and then set off for the Xingdou Great Forest."

Ji Xinghe agreed, "Yes, teacher."

Originally according to the plan, they would be able to reach Nanxing City in one day, but Ji Xinghe's body couldn't take it, especially since he didn't bring enough dry food and had to travel on an empty stomach, which undoubtedly greatly reduced their efficiency.

Looking at the various restaurants around him, Ji Xinghe's stomach growled. He paused slightly. The gurgling sound made Cui Jing beside him glance sideways. "Don't worry, I'll take you somewhere." After Cui Jing said that, she strode forward. It seemed that she was very familiar with Nanxing City.

Ji Xinghe followed Cui Jing to the most prosperous street in the city center. When they arrived here, the first thing that caught their eyes was a black building. On the top of the building was a metal sign with a diameter of more than three meters, which was engraved with a mysterious monster pattern, which was particularly eye-catching.

"Shrek Chamber of Commerce." Ji Xinghe saw the large gold-plated characters on the brown plaque under the building.

Cui Jing said calmly: "This place is not under the jurisdiction of any empire, but it is directly managed by Shrek Academy."

Ji Xinghe swallowed his saliva and began to understand why the Empire wanted to suppress Shrek Academy. Even those powerful sects and academies could only co-govern the main city with the Empire, but when it came to Shrek, it was directly autonomous. With its mature laws, Shrek Academy could be called a country within a country.

Entering the Chamber of Commerce, one suddenly felt a sense of openness. Unlike the calm black and brown style outside, the decoration here was soft, giving people a feeling of being at home. Ji Xinghe even felt that all his fatigue was swept away.

"The floor of the Chamber of Commerce is made of warm jade, which can help soul masters quickly recover their soul and physical strength. In addition, the first floor lobby here is a buffet. A meal costs ten gold soul coins, so you can eat as much as you want. Similarly, this is also the most expensive place in Nanxing City."

After Cui Jing finished speaking, Ji Xinghe only heard the four big words "eat whatever you want". He looked at Cui Jing with wide eyes, as if he was going to treat her. Cui Jing simply handed over twenty gold soul coins, and then a waiter took the two of them to the dining area.

Each area of ​​the dining area has an exquisitely carved mahogany square table and four high-back chairs. The walls are covered with green plants that Ji Xinghe cannot name. In addition, various strange soul beast specimens are placed in the corners of the Chamber of Commerce.

"After ordering, press the red button at the table and a waiter will come to get the menu you wrote down."

Cui Jing pointed to the paper and pen on the table, as well as a menu as thick as a calculus book. "Teacher, you order first." Although he was already starving, Ji Xinghe still adhered to the principle of respecting teachers. Cui Jing looked at Ji Xinghe with a little surprise, wondering, this kid's upbringing really doesn't look like an orphan.

Cui Jing quickly wrote down the names of three dishes, and Ji Xinghe then took the menu and started to look through it. Fortunately, the Douluo World used Chinese characters, otherwise if it was any other alien world, Ji Xinghe, who had just studied for a few days, would really be stumped by the strange names of the soul beasts on it.

One pot of hundred-year-old black tiger bone soup, this is limited edition, three pounds of hundred-year-old thorn boar roast meat, one pound of hundred-year-old anaconda roast meat, half a pound of hundred-year-old wolverine tenderloin, two pounds of hundred-year-old black-horned lamb chops, and two pancakes...

Ji Xinghe didn't even look at the plant soul beasts. He just wanted to eat meat. Since Teacher Cui had ordered two plates of vegetables, he didn't hesitate.

"Okay teacher!"

At Cui Jing's instruction, Ji Xinghe pressed the red button on the table. In less than a minute, a waiter came and took away the menus the two had written down.

Ji Xinghe silently calculated the account, and when he failed in the final calculation, he turned his head and looked at Cui Jing and said, "Teacher, can we make back our investment?"

Cui Jing was amused by the simplicity in Ji Xinghe's eyes. She nodded and said, "If it were an ordinary person, he would not be able to make back his money. But for what you ordered, if you can finish it, you will not only make back your money, but you will also make a profit."

Ji Xinghe nodded thoughtfully and said, "It seems that the main currency in the soul master world is the gold soul coin, and the silver soul coins and bronze soul coins are mainly circulated in the circle of ordinary people."

Cui Jing nodded and said, "Of course, there is no ordinary person in Nanxing City. Even the people setting up stalls on the street are soul masters. The consumption level here is naturally terrifyingly high. You will know in the future that for powerful soul masters, it is easy to make money and spend money like water."

Cui Jing pointed at the black tiger bone soup that Ji Xinghe ordered just now and said, "If the complete corpse of a black tiger that has cultivated for a hundred years is sold to Shrek City, its price can reach thousands of gold soul coins. The Chamber of Commerce can also make a profit of thousands of gold soul coins by reprocessing the skin, flesh and bones and selling them, especially the black tiger fur. A coat made of this kind of fur can be sold for one or two thousand gold soul coins when the auction market is good."

Ji Xinghe nodded upon hearing this and said, "The soul beast industry, in two words, is huge profits."

Cui Jing laughed and said, "Similarly, to make this kind of money, you have to pay the price of blood. Every year, countless soul masters die in the Xingdou Great Forest. While they are hunting soul beasts, the soul beasts are also hunting them. Thousand-year soul beasts already have intelligence, and soul beasts with cultivation of more than 90,000 years can even speak. Beast kings after 100,000 years can even transform into human form. These high-level soul beasts are also obsessed with the flesh and blood of soul masters."

Ji Xinghe frowned slightly and said, "If the beast kings unite to actively hunt down soul masters, then the Xingdou Great Forest will be extremely dangerous."

Cui Jing smiled and said, "The situation you mentioned is unlikely to happen. There is already a fierce competition between beast kings. Some beast king races are even born in hostility. Moreover, beast kings do not have the racial concept of soul beasts and humans being in opposition. In the eyes of beast kings, their enemies can be anyone or any soul beast. They only care about the survival and development of their own race. They hate hostile soul beast races far more than humans. However, it is an indisputable fact that most beast kings hate humans."

(End of this chapter)