Chapter 369 - 7 Becoming Her Aspiration
The inner city was divided into upper, middle, and lower sections, the top and bottom mainly consisting of residences and shops, while the middle hosted the City Lord Mansion and numerous small compartments dedicated to cultivation and seclusion, known as cave dwellings.
Rather than a City Lord Mansion, it resembled a unique kind of sect, where the mansion itself served as the sect’s gate.
Yet, Gu Wen felt it was more akin to a company because the Taiyi City Imperial Guards could freely join or leave, receiving treatment based solely on their cultivation levels, in an employer-employee relationship.
Walking along the wall of the City Lord Mansion, Gu Wen could see across the street were densely packed cave dwellings, their doorplates divided into categories: alpha, beta, gamma, delta.
Delta was a small, mound-like structure with just a door and a cushion, barely enough space for one person. One couldn’t stretch their arms, usually occupied by Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators sitting in meditation.
Gamma was slightly larger, taking the form of a house. However, only about three to four square meters in size, it resembled a small roadside temple mostly occupied by Foundation Establishment and sensing cultivators sitting in meditation.
Beta was the size of an ordinary civilian’s home, furnished with beds and chairs. A little investigation would reveal it belonged to Golden Core or Nascent Soul cultivators.
Alpha came with a small courtyard, inhabited by cultivators in the Divine Separation Stage.
The hierarchy was strict, from vestment robes to dwelling places, everything was determined by cultivation levels, with higher cultivation receiving all-around preferential treatment.
Lower-level cultivators could only sit in cramped mounds, and perhaps for them, these small mounds were not a permanent residence, while Foundation Establishment cultivators might struggle their entire lives for a mere three or four square meters to call home.