Chapter 479 - 478: Barbarians!
Among them were even some tall figures with abundant body hair, and their skin was dark, bronze-toned, embodying a rough barbaric aura, reeking with the murderous intent. They hung coarse yet blood-scented large axes, short spears, and iron whips at their waists as weapons.
Moreover, the qi and blood of these barbarians were extremely strong, evidently somewhat similar to body cultivators.
Gu Yuan also saw an old barbarian.
This old barbarian was scrawny, not as tall and robust as the other barbarians. The once towering figure now appeared hunched, with a slightly bent back.
The sparse hair on his head was braided into several small braids, swaying in the wind.
The old barbarian was at that moment leaning on a ebony cane taller than others in line before Gu Yuan, waiting to enter the city.
Seemingly aged and trembling, even needing the support of nearby barbarians, yet Gu Yuan could feel the deeply hidden and terrifying qi and blood power within this old barbarian’s body.
He was a long-standing body cultivator, comparable to a Golden Core Great Cultivator, and furthermore, was also a gu technique-skilled gu cultivator.
For Gu Yuan clearly saw, in the old man’s clothes, occasionally emerged some tentacles like insects.
Moreover, Gu Yuan himself was also considered half a gu cultivator, having raised several formidable spiritual insects, naturally had some sensitivity to gu insects.
However, the barbarians are mostly concentrated in the deep mountains and old forests of the Southern Border, making them somewhat like old hometown folks to Gu Yuan. It was indeed quite peculiar that they came to this East Sea side.
Also, the barbarian tribe has always lived in deep mountains, uninvolved with worldly outside affairs, and it’s not known why they came to the East Sea.
As if sensing Gu Yuan’s gaze, the old barbarian slowly turned, and exchanged a glance with Gu Yuan.
The old barbarian’s eyes were somewhat cloudy, yet there was an inherent ferocity that shook the mind.
Ordinary cultivators might be mentally scarred from just a glance and even damage their divine spirit.
However, Gu Yuan seemed unaffected, his expression calm, merely nodding quietly in acknowledgment.
The old barbarian hesitated, then likewise nodded, and turned back.
Out here, you can act arrogantly and recklessly, but you absolutely shouldn’t lack strength or discerning eyes.
The old barbarian appeared aged and frail, but this was merely his outward appearance.
In reality, he possessed high discernment, knowing whom he could provoke and whom he couldn’t, thus avoiding much trouble.
Given Gu Yuan’s hidden ability, the old barbarian naturally couldn’t perceive much, yet precisely because of this, he sensed Gu Yuan’s complexity and refrained from entanglement, rather released a thread of goodwill.
Besides a few barbarians, Gu Yuan also discovered several peculiar beings.
For example, ahead and slightly to his left, there was actually a unique demon.
This was a man, rather handsome in appearance, with extraordinary cultivation, yet on his forehead and cheeks were several pale blue scales, resembling some sort of sea fish.
Gu Yuan’s keen sense of smell detected a faint fishy scent emanating from this person.
"So it’s a sea tribe..."
Gu Yuan suddenly realized this person’s identity.
The so-called sea tribe were actually also the demon race.
More accurately, the sea tribe were creatures like sea beasts, sea fish and other oceanic fish, shrimps, crabs, turtles, and beasts that after forming scales, took human shapes and gathered into a race.
Such races, over time, would form intelligent species.
Though of demonic identity, because they differed from other land and sky demons, these oceanic demons no longer saw themselves as demons, but self-titled as the sea tribe.
Previously, the Yan Xi whom Gu Yuan slew, was actually of mixed human and demon blood, and the other half of his demon race bloodline was also of the sea tribe.
Apart from this person before him, there were quite a few other sea tribes around.
For instance, Gu Yuan saw a woman, her figure tall and curvaceous, yet her hands and feet resembled octopus tentacles.
This woman was clearly an octopus demon transformed into human shape, but due to lesser cultivation, hadn’t fully become human.
The people entering the city were gradually trickling in, and when it was Gu Yuan’s turn, he was stopped by two cultivators.
These were ordinary cultivators, clad in standard white robes, with a peculiar beast embroidered on their chests with golden thread, resembling neither fish nor bird, exuding a leisurely aura.
"Kunpeng?!"
Gu Yuan was surprised, but he remained internally calm.
Kunpeng was an ancient divine beast, its status comparable to True Dragon and Divine Phoenix.
Its status was even above Ba Snake and other divine beasts like the Green Luan.
These two before him were clearly just ordinary disciples of Luofu Immortal Island, tasked with guarding the Immortal City gates, with Kunpeng embroidered on their clothes, which was obviously strange.
"Senior, is this your first time visiting Luofu Immortal Island?"
One of the Luofu Immortal Island disciples, holding a copper plate magical artifact, seemed to have sensed something, asked in a deep voice.
Although Gu Yuan was a Golden Core Great Cultivator, yet looking at his demeanor showed no fear or reverence, and he spoke with confidence, revealing the confidence from Luofu Immortal Island behind them.
"Yes, it is."
Gu Yuan’s expression remained unchanged.
"May I ask the senior’s name?"
"Chu He. Chu of Chuzhou, and He of river."
Gu Yuan replied.
The disciple nodded, taking out an iron token from his storage pouch, muttering under his breath, and performed some spell.
After a short while, there was a flash of light, and a layer of spiritual light appeared on the surface of the iron token.
The disciple handed the iron token to Gu Yuan, saying, "This is your identity token. Remember, it must not leave your side, or else you will be expelled from the city. Moreover, it can only be used for three months; after which, a renewal will be needed. Additionally, Senior, you need to pay a hundred spirit stones as entry fee."
Gu Yuan calmly nodded, took the iron token. On its front were the two characters "Chu He," and seemingly, there was a rather complex restriction within, which Gu Yuan couldn’t replicate.
Moreover, this iron token seemed to have a mysterious connection with the great array above.
Gu Yuan found this unsurprising, directly storing the item away and then paid the spirit stones.
Once the person behind, Yu Qiubai, completed his identity token process, the two of them went into the city.
As they entered the city, a cacophony of noise immediately filled the surroundings, as if transitioning from stillness to activity, entering a completely different world altogether.
Looking ahead, there was a broad, long street, bustling with people coming and going, teeming with life and extremely lively.
There were both cultivators and sea tribe members, and barbarians.
Looking afar, the entire long street seemed to stretch endlessly, with various shops and inns on both sides, people entering and exiting, accompanied by the constant sound of chatter, making it extraordinarily lively.
Cultivators in the Celestial Human Realm and Golden Core Great Cultivators, rare in ordinary times, were commonplace here.
As the saying goes, Gu Yuan could casually throw a brick into the street and it could hit five or six Celestial Human Realm cultivators, one of whom might just be a Golden Core Great Cultivator.