Chapter 1623: Chapter 74: Bustling

Rumors suggest that gaining momentum requires the support of great wealth, but some news, no money is needed as Wind Media will rush to spread it, just to prove their keenness on information.

For instance, the Linchuan Sky Demon, the Yin-Yang Imperial Palace, the Starry Sky Great Array, and suddenly on Red Cloud Mountain, an academy offering Soul Casting services appears.

Without expending much in the way of resources, the news about Unparalleled Academy spread throughout Longzhou like it had grown wings, and the first to become unsettled were the various clans in Western Longzhou.

For a thousand years during the martial prosperity of the Chaochang era, why the warriors of the Fierce Realm can still be regarded as high-level martial forces is partly due to the Fierce Realm’s need for an enormous accumulation of Spiritual Power, but more so it’s because the method of Soul Casting has never truly proliferated.

Mirroring Spirits, Visualizing, Rectification, just find a martial arts gym in any village or town, there will be a master to tell you these three paths to higher realms, but how to take the first step and reach them, few can explain clearly.

Frankly speaking, even giving an ordinary freelance cultivator a genuine, profound method that could cultivate up to the Fierce Realm, breaking through is not easy.

After all, it pertains to the Three Souls and Seven Spirits, and the steps of how to condense the soul involve too much professional martial arts theory, which ordinary people see as though a heavenly book, blind practice can easily lead to demonic deviation, which is why breaking through often requires someone to guard the path.

The geniuses who can directly read books and get every step right are after all in the minority; most ordinary martial artists still need pointers from their predecessors to avoid detours.

Even with a true method it is so, without a detailed true method or a predecessor to guard the path, even with great talent and determination, one would eventually hit a bottleneck somewhere, and over time, it would become a demon in the heart.

Out of a hundred freelance martial artists, at least three or five are steadfast enough to treat boring cultivation as a routine, but their ultimate achievements can at most be like Longchang’s Meng Jiao or Xiling’s well-known figure Shen Dafa, only able to accumulate Spiritual Energy in their bodies and strengthen their skills, and that’s exactly why they can’t advance an inch further.

However, such people are mostly already somewhat famous locally, with followers no weaker than the Righteous Gang once in Xiling. In some villages and towns, if there are martial artists with unity of spirit and intent, they could almost be considered as local emperors.

Therefore, when they heard that Unparalleled Academy could provide Soul Casting services, they immediately dispatched their trusted subordinates to Unparalleled City to gather information.

Consequently, the originally quiet docks of Unparalleled City suddenly became incredibly bustling, and what’s absurd is that the mooring fees at this secluded dock are even higher than those in top-tier cities like Chaochang and Kunwu…

“Like mooring, moor; if not, scram!”

The ferryman at Red Cloud Port, a middle-aged man with a full beard, bare-chested in shorts, said brazenly with arms akimbo: “There are altogether five hundred mooring spots in Red Cloud Port, if you don’t stop, there are plenty of others willing to!”

On the boat were the trusted subordinates of landlords and gentry, who were influential figures in their own territories, seeing such arrogance at the ferry, how could they not be angry.

Several people on the deck rolled up their sleeves and wanted to teach the brash ferryman a lesson, but after Elder Nian released his spiritual pressure, they all subdued their hostility.

Who would have thought that a ferryman in Red Cloud Port would actually be a Fierce Realm warrior…

Looking at his robust and rugged appearance, and the taunting that could not be hidden in his eyes, rushing forward now would surely not end well.

“Damn it, I can’t swallow this insult!”

Some people from small places always see face as more important than anything else, even knowing they can’t win, they still want to give the other side a hard time.

“We won’t moor then, we’ll stop the boat in the lake and swim to the city!”

Someone’s lips turned purple with anger, shouting loudly, as if worried that the people on the dock couldn’t hear.

“Ha ha ha!”

Elder Nian, with his keen hearing, laughed and said: “Gentlemen, please, but without the ferryman’s token, you will be stopped at the city gate, and if you force your way through…”

Like a butcher eyeing the best cut on the chopping block, Elder Nian’s aggressive gaze swept over the boat, then he waved his hand and said: “Judging by the looks, you gents are exceptional talents, the little Unparalleled City certainly can’t confine you, haha, hahaha.”

“Bastard… I’ve wandered north and south for twenty years, never seeing such an arrogant ferryman!”

A middle-aged man on the deck pointed at Elder Nian, shaking with rage.

“That’s because you lack experience!”

Elder Nian nonchalantly picked his nose with his little finger and said disdainfully: “To moor or not, if not, don’t block the way!”

“I… will moor!”

“How much better it is to be decisive early?”

Elder Nian lazily waved his hand and told his subordinates behind him: “Guide our esteemed guests’ merchant ship to moor properly!”

The ship entered the port and received the token, finally allowing those aboard to qualify for entry to Unparalleled City.

Upon leaving the dock and making their way up the mountain road, the man previously purple with anger quickly returned to his normal complexion, and whispered to the middle-aged man a few meters behind in the convoy: “My lord, that ferryman’s cultivation doesn’t seem like that of a mere dockworker, but rather like a bandit or a thug, this Unparalleled City might not be a place of good, how about you stay outside the city, and I go alone?”

“This place is the fief of the Void Grandmaster.”

Feng Shixing looked at his loyal servant, his face calm: “If there’s really ill intent, we wouldn’t have gotten past that checkpoint on the docks.”

“But just a single Fierce Realm warrior, could he really hold my lord back?”

The servant, who regarded the middle-aged man as a deity in his heart, retorted.

“You only noticed the ferryman’s cultivation, but didn’t pay attention to those dockside guards and the workers handling logistics and control. Each one moves with agility, inner Spiritual Energy, all are extraordinary hands!”