Chapter 683 - 682: Only Recognize Money, Not People
The City of Southern Zhou is located in the southern province and has an exceptionally large land area with a dense population. Being situated at the southeasternmost part of the Saint Dragon Continent and far from the political center, the local customs here are relatively fierce; nearly everyone practices martial arts, and each person cultivates their qi.
Indeed, due to its proximity to the sea, Sea Monsters often cause chaos, so the people here place great emphasis on their own training. Even the common porters in the mountains have surpassed the Truth-Insight realm, and even small street vendors have reached the level of Foundation Establishment.
As such, the best-selling items on the main streets are also weapons, elixirs, and cultivation manuals.
Of course, those so-called cultivation manuals are only the lowest-level qi-cultivating methods, after all, no one would actually sell their real secret techniques.
It is under this atmosphere that the Heavenly Origin Sect in Southern Zhou is extremely famous. One could say, the words of the Sect Master of Heavenly Origin are more potent than those of the provincial judge. The status of the Heavenly Origin Sect in the hearts of the people of Southern Zhou is incomparably lofty. Therefore, the triennial recruiting event of the Heavenly Origin Sect is like the New Year for the people of Southern Zhou—on the day of recruitment, as long as there are boys over the age of twelve with enough registration fees, they will all go to sign up and take the test.
It seems to have become a convention, like parents earning money for the sole purpose of saving up sufficient registration fees for their children.
Furthermore, Southern Zhou is the richest among the thirteen provinces of the Saint Dragon Continent, with a standard of living that’s several times higher than the Mainland. The citizens of Southern Zhou are wealthy, truly wealthy, and one could tell just by looking at their clothing, food, housing, and transportation that the citizens here are not short on money.
Yusuf Zuck had already been in the City of Southern Zhou for two days. He had shrunk his body to under one meter sixty, making his stature appear short and sturdy. In his hand, he carried an Unsheathed Big Black Blade; he had left his Purple Light Sword on Skeward Mountain, which had been renamed.
Of course, his chest pocket was stuffed with a bunch of gold tickets. He had originally planned to carry a bag of Gold Leaves over, but it turned out that all his demon subordinates were quite wealthy, so after scraping together funds, he had accumulated more than two million Gold!
The big demons he’d subjugated were all coastal inhabitants, so it was normal for them to accumulate gold tickets.