Alien Hotel.

Chapter 392 A Completely Different Alien City

The silver nine-tailed fox, dragging a long fox-fire tail, plunged into the dense atmosphere of Shuji. Yuan Hao Zhenren and Xuan Che, flying on their swords, followed closely behind like meteors. They entered the deceleration phase near the equator and soon encountered thick clouds of astonishing scale.

The clouds came towards him like an endless curtain, getting darker as they got deeper. The sunlight gradually faded behind the clouds. The nine-tailed fox carried Yu Sheng through the depths of the cumulonimbus clouds rich in water vapor and tiny ice crystals. Irene held on to Yu Sheng's arm tightly, hanging on him like a koala, staring at the scenery beyond the fox's back with wide eyes - the wind was howling, bright arcs of electricity burst out from time to time in the clouds, and in the sudden light brought by lightning and thunder, heavy rain poured down, surging in the sky like an overturned ocean.

The planet's poles are cold and dry, while the equator is shrouded in an almost eternal rainy season. Thousands of years ago, pioneers came to this planet for the rich mineral deposits and built the first formations and mines in the pouring rain. Although many of those magnificent mining facilities have been decommissioned, their main frames still stand firmly and tenaciously in the heavy rain surrounding the equator, reaching into the sky like a monument.

Most of the cities that were subsequently built on the planet were built around those ancient giant mining stations, lurking like ant nests in the shadows provided by those refining towers and orbital elevators.

The fox rushed out from the bottom of the clouds, passed through the rain, and flew towards "Mo City", the largest city on the equator.

A magnificent structure as huge as a towering tower flew past rapidly nearby. On the tower, one could see the conveying mechanism and complex pipeline system that had been rusted by wind and rain. Many similar high towers could be seen, standing in a circular distribution between the mountains and plains. Cable structures and ancient transportation tracks of astonishing scale passed through the earth and the sky, connecting the towers with each other. Part of the tracks extended to the ground, connecting to the big city built between the twelve refining towers.

Most of the ancient refining towers still had lights on, supporting a stream of light connecting heaven and earth in the night-like rain. From time to time, one could see medium-sized fairy boats or strange-looking small aircraft passing through the rain, entering and exiting the airspace above the city along the routes indicated by the lights, and it looked quite busy.

Hu Li followed suit and entered the waterway at Yu Sheng's suggestion, approaching one of the "air crossings" leading into the city. There was a large-scale ring-shaped facility floating near the extended platform of one of the ancient refining towers. The ring itself was constructed of many glowing rune bricks and stones, floating loosely in the air. There were also monks wearing black straw raincoats standing in the air, watching vigilantly as large and small aircraft (as well as mobile immortals) passed through the ring and entered Mo City.

Those straw raincoat monks wore the insignia of the Mo City Air Traffic Control Department and wore exceptionally large black hats with a faint glow around the edges. The energy field they emitted blocked the exceptionally cold rain curtain in the sky. The ring-shaped facilities in the air near them could automatically record the flight units entering and leaving the Mo City airspace and conduct basic security checks - if they did not enter the city through these rings, they would trigger the city defense formation here and attract pursuit by officers and soldiers.

Yu Sheng and his party passed the test smoothly - although the combination of the nine-tailed silver fox and two sword-controlling immortals (one of them was controlling a chainsaw sword) attracted some attention from the straw raincoat monks, it did not cause any trouble.

Just as the group passed through the ring and were about to land in the city, some noisy noise made them stop.

A rune stone brick on the ring suddenly glowed, and a sharp alarm sounded. Two monks in straw raincoats immediately stepped forward and stopped a middle-aged man in a gray short shirt, with messy hair and a flying sword under his feet.

The middle-aged man who was stopped was making a lot of noise.

Irene immediately poked her head out from under Yu Sheng's arm and looked at the platform: "There are melons to eat!"

Yu Sheng also turned his head to look, and just in time he heard one of the raincoat monks interrupt the middle-aged man's quarrel in a stern tone: "Don't fly the sword when drinking, and don't drink when flying the sword - my fellow Taoist, the talisman has already detected that you have been drinking, and it is useless for you to argue, so come with us."

The middle-aged man in the grey shirt suddenly glared, looking extremely unconvinced: "I am the Drunken Sword Immortal! I am a Drunken Sword Immortal registered in the orthodox lineage of the Taixu Lingshu sect, do you understand? Drinking is part of my sect's practice! I have proof!"

The two straw raincoat monks looked at each other subconsciously. One of them hesitated for a moment and then said, "Then show us your ID."

The middle-aged man who called himself the Drunken Swordsman handed over a jade token.

The straw raincoat monk took the jade token, injected spiritual power into it to examine it, and immediately shook his head.

"That's even more wrong, fellow Daoist. The transportation tool you registered as the Drunken Sword Immortal is a purple gold gourd, not this flying sword."

"I was in a hurry to go out, and my daughter and I took the wrong things," the Drunken Sword Immortal scratched his head, a little embarrassed, "I was just about to go to her to get my gourd back..."

"Then you should go into the city by land," the straw raincoat monk shook his head, "Your means of transportation does not match what is allowed by your documents. My fellow Taoist, you must come with us."

Drunken Swordsman: “…”

The chaos at the checkpoint soon ended, and Yu Sheng and Irene both stopped watching. "You guys are pretty strict here," Yu Sheng couldn't help but turn his head and say to the two gods beside him as they continued to fly towards Mo City, "I was wondering what to do if I encounter a Drunken Sword Immortal under the rule of 'no drunken sword flying'. Does it mean that a Drunken Sword Immortal needs a certificate here?"

"Of course you need a certificate," Yuan Hao, who was floating in the air on his chainsaw sword, laughed when he heard this. "Otherwise, some monks who love alcohol will get drunk all day and ride their swords recklessly. When they are checked, they will say that they are drunken sword immortals. Wouldn't that be a mess?"

Xuan Che on the other side also echoed, "That's right. As the saying goes, there are thousands of great ways, and everything in the world can be included in the way. The Drunken Sword Immortal is originally an ancient and upright inheritance. But then again, it's not easy to take this path - you need to have a high level of understanding, a suitable nature, a bit of luck in the mortal world, and finally, you need to have a good body..."

Yu Sheng was stunned: "In good health?"

Xuan Che nodded: "Yes, otherwise it would be easy to drink yourself to death before building your foundation."

"...After building the foundation, you are no longer afraid?"

"After building the foundation, they can drink themselves to death - but usually they can be cured in time with elixirs," Xuan Che said seriously, "My 'Jiu Shen San', a specialty of Qianfeng Lingshan, is specially used to treat this kind of disease. We have long-term cooperation with major immortal wine breweries in the world - they sell wine, we sell medicine, and all the cultivators who use wine to enter the Tao are our customers."

Yu Sheng was stunned: "Ah, this, is this reasonable? No, the Drunken Swordsman, in my impression, shouldn't he be the kind of unrestrained and free-spirited person who naturally settles down after being washed by the worldly world... the kind of master who sees through the world? How can this be the case here..."

He spent a long time trying to organize his words to express his confusion, but it was obvious that Master Yuan Hao had understood what he meant. The old commander just smiled and said calmly: "Yes, 'the first' is right."

Yu Sheng: “…”

"But when the first person spent his whole life to realize this 'Tao', it was no longer the case from the second person onwards," Yuan Hao Zhenren shook his head gently, as if he was sighing, but with a kind of calmness and composure. "'Tao' is mysterious and mysterious, 'realization' depends heavily on chance, but 'cultivation' is reproducible... Daoist Yu, what you are talking about is the original and simple pastoral time, but the pastoral time of my Taixu-Feiyu civilization circle... ended thousands of years ago."

Yu Sheng didn't say anything, but just raised his head thoughtfully and looked at the alien scenery in the heavy rain before him.

The spiritual ore refining tower built thousands of years ago rises into the clouds, a huge city with bright lights lies prostrate on the ground, a fairy boat with the star express logo hanging on it descends from the clouds, loaded with alien handicrafts from the Algrade star field, and the scenery of fairy mountains and auspicious clouds is projected in the misty illusion above the city. It is a tourism promotion video released by the distant capital planet.

Yu Sheng felt some emotion in his heart, but he didn't know what he was feeling.

They landed in the big city - there were large and small "Xianzhoutai" built between the towering buildings. Hu Li picked one at random and landed on it, then walked from the Xianzhoutai to the block with a mouthful of advertising papers in his mouth.

There were advertisements promoting hotels, duty-free shopping malls, supermarkets, and even one that specialized in fur care for fairy beasts. The last one was posted by a young girl. She was shocked to see a silly nine-tailed silver fox walking down from the high platform, and then she boldly came over and stuffed a flyer into Hu Li. The flyer said that the store had recently launched a tail care promotion, and each customer would only be charged the price of one, no matter how many tails they had...

Hu Li wanted to go there immediately after hearing this, but fortunately Yu Sheng persuaded him to go back - after all, it's not easy for a small business like that, and if a stupid fox went there and there were ten thousand tails paying homage to the emperor, the family would probably go bankrupt directly...

"This is really different from Qianfeng Lingshan, from the painting style to the atmosphere," Yu Sheng said while standing on the streets of Mocheng, looking at the busy streets in the rain and the hazy high-rise buildings in the distance. "If you don't consider the style of some architectural details, this place even reminds me of Jiecheng... There are flyers near the 'parking lot'."

“If I must say, the ‘sect headquarters’ like Qianfeng Lingshan are special,” Yuan Hao smiled and shook his head. “All the people gathered there are cultivators. Even in the Enlightenment Hall, there are all practitioners who have entered the sect. But in Feiyu Star Region, most of them are ordinary people who have only practiced basic cultivation and have weak magic power. Although according to the standards of the outside world, the ordinary people here are more or less extraordinary, but after all, the city where they gather is still different from the ‘immortal mountain’.”

"Where are we going next? Benefactor, I'm hungry." Hu Li mumbled, and because she had a lot of flyers in her mouth, her words were unclear.

"Master has arranged accommodation for us," Xuan Che said immediately, "It's near the center of the city - there are also meals there."

Hu Li immediately tilted his head back, swallowed the pile of flyers into his mouth, chewed and swallowed, and said happily: "Okay, okay, let's go eat first!"

(End of this chapter)