Chapter 420: Oppression
Chapter 420 – Oppression
The sea was like a flat surface for Chen Fei as he sped along, not causing any obstacles. Chen Fei was nearly in a straight line, heading towards Sea Winding City.
Only when he passed by some sea islands that had forces stationed on them, Chen Fei would slightly avoid them, lest he cause some unnecessary misunderstandings.
After spending several hours and crossing a dozen or so islands midway, Chen Fei finally saw the huge walls of Sea Winding City from afar.
At the same time when he arrived here, the number of incoming and outgoing Flesh Practicing Realms as well as ships had significantly increased, and the hustle and bustle was overwhelming.
There were not too many privileges for the Aperture Practicing Realm in Sea Winding City, Chen Fei stood amongst the crowd and slowly entered the Sea Winding City along with the flow of people.
Compared to the last time he arrived, Sea Winding City did not seem to have changed in the slightest, it was still as prosperous as ever.
Hailing sounds were endless, and martial artists at the Orifice Realm could be seen everywhere, with the early and middle stages of the Orifice Realm being the majority, and the late stages of the Orifice Realm being a bit less common.
As for the peak of the Aperture Realm, only a few could be glimpsed once in a while.
As the seed of the Harmonization Realm, the peak of the Orifice Training Realm still belonged to the minority of the minority.
“This gentleman, is this your first time in Sea Winding City? Do you need a guide, for only ten taels of silver, I can take you all over Sea Winding City.”
A skinny and small girl carefully walked up to Chen Fei’s face, her clothes carried quite a few patches and were washed white, but extremely neat.
Although her body looked weak, her eyes looked extremely bright, and with just a glance, one could memorize those eyes.
“What’s your name?” Chen Fei looked at the girl, a hint of a smile appearing on his face.
Sea Winding City was the largest city in the vicinity, but it wasn’t the case that everyone living within such a city would be well-dressed and well-fed. Anywhere, there would be a gap between the rich and the poor, and in Sea Winding City, the same was true.
“Master, my name is Mi Amaranth.” Hearing Chen Fei ask his name, a bright smile appeared on Mi Amaranth’s face.
“Do you know about the Tower of Enlightenment?” Chen Fei casually took out ten taels of silver and tossed it over.
“Master, there’s no one in Sea Winding City who doesn’t know about the Tower of Enlightenment.”
Mi Amaranth subconsciously caught the silver taels, and when he saw the amount of silver, he hurriedly said, “Master, you don’t have to give all of it now, you can wait until the end of the day, then you can just give it to me.”
“Take it, go to the Enlightenment Tower first.” Chen Fei waved his hand and said.
“Okay, master!” Mi Amaranth smiled, his two eyes narrowing into a crescent shape as he bounced around and started leading the way in front.
“Within Sea Winding City, the most famous restaurant is the Drunken Moon Pavilion, but the most delicious ones are actually elsewhere.”
Seemingly sensing that Chen Fei was very good at talking, along the way, Mi Amaranth continuously introduced Chen Fei to the various situations of Sea Winding City, from the distribution of forces within the city to the smallest food, drink, housing and transportation.
Mi Amaranth would explain to Chen Fei one by one as long as she knew.
Chen Fei nodded from time to time, but also listened with great interest.
Chen Fei didn’t expect to spend ten taels of silver and actually hear quite a few useful things.
“Your roots and bones, although not very good, but if you persist in practicing martial arts, you can still gain a certain level of cultivation. There should be many places to practice martial arts in Sea Winding City, why haven’t you gone there?”
Turning through a street, he came to the square at the very center of Sea Winding City, where a huge pagoda towered over it, precisely the Pagoda of Enlightenment. Glancing at the Tower of Enlightenment from afar, Chen Fei turned his head to look at Mi Amaranth.
“My brother is practicing martial arts right now, he’s in the largest martial arts school within Sea Winding City, the Flying Cloud Pavilion, and he’s very highly regarded by the director and the others.”
A happy smile appeared on Mi Amaranth’s face as she said, “When my brother learns something, our family’s life will change for the better.”
“How long has your brother been learning martial arts? What cultivation level now?”
Chen Fei walked towards the Enlightenment Pagoda, and as he continued to get closer, an aura of tranquility began to permeate his heart.
This square was very large, and at this moment, there were many people just sitting on their knees in the square, constantly running their gong methods. From time to time, there were people who came to a sudden realization, and from time to time, there were people who frowned and thought hard, but gained nothing.
Under the aura of this spiritual treasure, the Dao Enlightenment Pagoda, whether it was cultivation or enlightenment techniques, one could get twice the result with half the effort, and there was no need to pay any yuan stones.
“Junior brother has been practicing martial arts for six years, and now he is already at the cultivation level of the Flesh Practicing Realm.” Mi Amaranth said with a smile.
“Six years of practicing flesh realm?”
Chen Fei’s footsteps couldn’t help but give a slight lurch as he turned his head to take a serious look at Mi Amaranth and said, “If you’ve been practicing for six years, you should have reached the Bone Calcination Realm by now.”
“Ah?” Mi Amaranth was somewhat stunned when she heard Chen Fei’s words.
“You wait for me here, if it’s more than a day and I haven’t come out, you can leave on your own.” Chen Fei left behind a sentence and started walking towards the Enlightenment Tower.
Mi Amaranth looked at Chen Fei’s back in a daze, thinking of Chen Fei’s words just now, her eyes brightened slightly, but immediately, Mi Amaranth thought of her own family’s situation, there was simply no longer any spare capacity left to provide for another person to go to the martial arts center.
Nowadays, even if only one person is supplied to the Fei Yun Pavilion, it is an extremely reluctant thing to do.
And the martial arts hall learned, without consent, may not privately teach others, once discovered, not only to teach the person to be abolished cultivation, to steal the learning of the person, the same will also have to suffer severe punishment.
Mi Amaranth’s eyes became despondent again, touching the ten taels of silver in his sleeve, and slowly lowered his head.
“Come on people stop!” In front of the Enlightenment Tower, the deacon disciple stopped Chen Fei in his tracks.
“I want to enter the Tower of Enlightenment.” Chen Fei looked at the deacon disciple and said.
“What level of power?” The deacon disciple asked in a low voice.
“Sixth level.” “Fifty lower-grade Yuan Stones.”
“Good!” Chen Fei nodded and handed over the package behind him.
Entering the Tower of Enlightenment required Yuan Stones, this was something Chen Fei had understood before. However, not everyone needed to spend Yuan Stones to enter the Tower of Enlightenment.
If the rank of the power one was in was high enough, there were free slots to enter the tower every year, and the higher the rank, the more slots there were.
Like the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, which only had a maximum of late stage practitioners at the Orifice Training Realm, it was a rank six power. If you are at the peak of the Orifice Practicing Realm, you can change to a Level 5 power.
If one had a strong martial artist at the early stage of the Harmonization Realm, like the Xian Yun Sword Faction, then it would automatically change to a fourth level power.
Moving upwards from there, if one possessed a peak Harmonization Realm powerhouse, then it would be a first level power of the Thousand Feathers Alliance.
From the fourth level, there are various resources within the Thousand Feathers Alliance that will favor them, and the Dao Enlightenment Pagoda is considered to be one of them. There is also an extremely important one, every year each power has to send out people to the outskirts of the Thousand Feathers Alliance to participate in the strangulation of demonic beasts.
This is an obligation that every power within the Thousand Feathers Alliance has to fulfill. The higher the rank of the power, the fewer the people who go out, and the more things they get.
This may sound a bit unreasonable, but the reality is like this. The stronger the person is, the less responsibility they have. On the contrary, it was the weak who had to take on more and got the least.
You either work your way up the ladder, or you wait for others to continue to squeeze you.
The Yuan Chen Sword Sect and the Sinking Water Pavilion, after half a year, were going to send people to the outskirts of the Thousand Feathers Alliance. The Thousand Feathers Alliance only had a one year adaptation period for newly joined forces.
After a year, all the responsibilities and obligations would fall on the head one by one.
“If you can’t carry it, don’t force it, you can drop down a layer, the pressure will be much less.”
The deacon disciple looked at Chen Fei and kindly reminded, “Inside, as time goes by, the pressure will increase, and it’s possible to injure the orifices by resisting hard.”
“Thanks a lot!” Chen Fei arched his hand and walked inside the Enlightenment Tower.
The Tower of Enlightenment was already very large when viewed from the outside, and it was only when he actually went inside that Chen Fei realized that the space inside was much larger than what he saw from the outside.
“Space?”
Chen Fei’s heart moved slightly, feeling the pressure brought about by the first layer of the Tower of Enlightenment, there was nothing to feel. And on the first floor, there were quite a few people seated at the moment, each and every one of them practicing hard.
Chen Fei followed the stairs and entered the second level.
Compared to the first level, the second level of the Tower of Enlightenment had a lot less people, and the pressure given by the second level had directly doubled by several percent on top of the first level.
However, this pressure was still not too great for Chen Fei, who continued to walk towards the top.
Third layer, fourth layer, fifth layer!
Chen Fei went up three layers in a row, and the pressure given by each layer of the Enlightenment Pagoda was multiplied by tens of percents on top of that of the previous layer. Thus, by the time he reached the fifth layer, the pressure was already nearly ten times that of the first layer.
This pressure not only came from the physical body, but the pressure on the mind was also particularly severe, and if the mind power was insufficient, it was feared that it would be pressed to the point that it would not even have the ability to think, and that was even more so when it came to perceiving the gongfu.
Chen Fei stood quietly for a moment, feeling that there was not much of a problem, and continued to walk towards the upper floor of the Enlightenment Tower.
The sixth floor!
By the time he reached here, there were only a few people left, and each one of them had a cultivation level at the late stage of the Orifice Practicing Realm. Chen Fei looked for a few moments, the breath of these people was extremely condensed, and it was obvious that the orifices they had opened were not many, at least around a hundred.
Chen Fei followed the stairs and continued walking towards the upper floor.
Two people opened their eyes and looked at Chen Fei, looking at Chen Fei’s expression without any reluctance, they couldn’t help but feel some surprise in their eyes.
Although on the first day of coming to the Tower of Enlightenment, the pressure on the various floors was the smallest, and the pressure would only continue to rise as time went on. But to be able to be on the sixth floor without changing his expression was indeed already much stronger than most of the late stage of the Orifice Practicing Realm.
“There are some faces, when really, the latter waves push the former waves!” Someone lamented.
“That’s a bit early to say, maybe they’ll come down later.”
“Hahaha, that’s right, the seventh floor, the pressure is too much.”
Chen Fei didn’t hear the discussion of the people below, at this moment, the person had already arrived at the seventh level.
Here, the pressure of both the physical body and the mind had reached tens of times the level of the first layer. It was a rather terrifying value, and at this moment, on the seventh level, there was only one person who was cross-legged there.
Majestic and condensed, and even more crucial was the intent of Yuan Power as one, this only person was a peak Orifice Practicing Realm powerhouse. Only a hundred and eight orifices forming a whole, for this kind of pressure, could resist.
Yan Zesong opened his eyes and looked at Chen Fei, when he realized that Chen Fei was only at the late stage of the Orifice Practicing Realm cultivation, there was some surprise in his eyes.
However, Yan Zesong did not say anything and closed his eyes again, sensing and deducing the wonders of the gong method.
Chen Fei felt the pressure of the seventh floor of the Enlightenment Tower, which was acceptable. However, it was necessary to try to see if it was possible to deduce the gong methods normally in this environment.
Chen Fei chose a location to sit down on his knees and began to deduce the Yuan Chen Sword Body.
After a quarter of an hour, Chen Fei got up and walked towards the eighth floor.
The soles of his shoes stepped on the stairs, making a subtle sound, while Yan Zesong’s eyes opened at once, looking at Chen Fei’s back.
(End of chapter)