Imperial Wing City

Chapter 153 Imperial Wing City

Just as Richard was planning to make money as soon as possible, something blocked his way.

Hey, here comes the money-giving guy.

In order to fish, he changed his exposed divine clone into a wind-type divine clone after flying for a short time.

In terms of speed, his wind-elemental god clone was not much slower than the death god clone at the upper god level, so it didn't delay his journey.

They caught a fish.

A group of more than ten god-level powerhouses surrounded them. The leader was a high-level god, the rest were mid-level gods, and there were two low-level gods.

This was a completely makeshift operation, a small gang.

These small gangs of robbers usually only rob those below the level of high gods, since they cannot sense the strength of high gods. If they were to rob a powerful high god, they would be doomed.

There are also bandit gangs that often have hundreds or even thousands of god-level experts, and their targets are usually large caravans.

Richard didn't wait for them to get close before launching an attack.

He took out a superior divine weapon that matched his attributes, and with a single slash, he covered all the enemies, even flattening a mountain tens of kilometers away that was ten thousand meters high.

However, this power is reduced by more than a thousand times compared to the material plane.

However, this is normal for a supreme god-level plane. If it weren't made more solid, how could it withstand the attacks of so many god-level powerhouses? Wouldn't the entire plane have been destroyed long ago?

It was destroyed by those god-level little guys just like that. Doesn't the HarmonyOS boss have any pride?

Therefore, it was made exceptionally sturdy from the very beginning, allowing even god-level powerhouses to torment it.

As for the main gods, I'm sorry, they are not allowed to fight in the divine plane and the material plane.

Want to fight? Go fight in the spatial turbulence.

If you accidentally destroy the material plane, you will be annihilated by the Supreme God.

Richard's attack wiped out more than ten god-level powerhouses on the opposing side, including that high-level god.

All that remained were a pile of divine essences and spatial rings, along with numerous damaged artifacts.

Richard picked and chose, collecting the divine essence and the spatial ring. As for the damaged artifacts? He only picked up two high-level artifacts, discarding the rest.

He tried to examine the high god's spatial ring to see if there was anything like a metallic life form, although he felt it was unlikely—this high god looked very poor.

The cheapest metallic lifeform costs several million inkstones, while better ones cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of inkstones. This guy probably can't afford it.

But you can always try your luck.

But to my surprise, I couldn't open his spatial ring at all.

Richard was taken aback. Did this guy still have a divine clone or his original body that wasn't dead?

Having spent a long time in the material plane, one gets used to the fact that almost all the clones of those powerful beings are together.

Forgot, the divine plane is vast and boundless, and most powerful beings will place their divine avatars far away as a precaution.

On the one hand, he wanted to save his own life; on the other hand, he wanted to ensure that he would not leave his property to his mortal enemy even after he died.

However, this is not a big problem for Richard.

The Dao of Space is one of the Great Daos he excels at. Even a wind-elemental divine avatar could, with a little time, locate the storage space of this spatial ring and retrieve the items.

Besides this ring, there are two others that also cannot be untied.

His journey became less boring after that, as he flew while taking stock of his spoils and trying to locate the storage spaces of several unopenable spatial rings.

After some time, before he had finished counting the spoils, he was stopped again.

Looking ahead, there were only three mid-level gods blocking the way. Richard was speechless; this was an even smaller, makeshift team.

Without even drawing his sword, he casually launched an attack, gaining three more divine cores and a spatial ring.

Continue on your way.

This time, we've finally finished counting the spoils.

Sure enough, they're all poor bastards.

Even that high-ranking god's entire fortune was less than ten million inkstones.

The others were even poorer, with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of inkstones.

Some even had only a pitiful few dozen or a few hundred inkstones; the fewest might be those two lower-level god space rings.

And so Richard continued on his way, robbing the robbers as he went.

But they were all small groups, and they didn't even encounter many high-ranking gods.

It wasn't until about a month later that they encountered a large gang.

The group consisted of about a hundred people, led by three high-ranking gods.

Richard finally managed to find two metallic beings on these guys.

Although they are all the most common low-grade metal life forms.

At least I don't have to fly by myself anymore.

He sent one of them to the Life God's clone using the chat group's red envelope function.

They were still wandering in the no-man's-land of the God of Life and urgently needed a metal life form for transportation.

Most importantly, the area is generally peaceful, and the Life God's clone only encountered one robbery after wandering around for so long.

Obviously, there's no way to get rich quickly over there.

If you want to get rich, you have to look to the god's clone on the hell side.

After turning the tables on the robbers, they looted tens of millions of inkstones worth of spoils.

Since he set off, he's almost earned over a hundred million inkstones. If you add the divine sparks of a few high-ranking gods, it'll easily be over a hundred million.

If you do this a few more times, you'll make a fortune!

With the addition of the metal life form, his speed increased significantly, allowing him to reach Emperor Wing City much faster.

After several more months of flying by the metallic lifeforms, Richard finally arrived at Imperial Wing City.

They encountered countless robbers along the way, and Richard even encountered a large gang of robbers with thousands of members.

Of course, in the end, most of these people became his gains.

This caused Richard's wealth to swell considerably, and he even replaced his metal life form with a better one.

There were even a few extra metallic lifeforms that sent messages to the main body, giving it a means of transportation.

This thing can be considered a local specialty of the Panlong world. It is a special life form nurtured by nature. Its body is metal, and it has intelligence, can recognize a master, and can grow.

It is the primary long-distance flying vehicle in all the divine planes, replacing the self-flying of god-level powerhouses, saving divine power and increasing speed.

Of course, this thing is relatively weak in both attack and defense. Don't expect it to be very durable.

Richard put away his metal lifeform and paid the city entrance fee.

Cities in Hell all have entrance fees, and it's not just Hell that has them; all the major divine planes have them too.

Not only is there an entrance fee, but you are also not allowed to walk on the streets after nightfall.

In other words, you must have a place to live. You either need to own property or find a place to rent. Otherwise, you will be evicted from the city.

As for why there is such an absurd rule, it is because the city is absolutely safe and fighting is not allowed.

This is an ironclad rule; anyone who violates it will be apprehended by the city guards, facing penalties ranging from fines to execution.

Generally, no one violates this rule, because it is a rule set by the main god, not just a private rule set by a certain city lord.

If the city guards can't take it down, the city lord will personally intervene. In a large city like Imperial Wing City, the city lord usually possesses strength of at least a seven-star demon.

The city also operates on a system where the strong rise and the mediocre fall. Becoming the city lord is simple: just challenge the current city lord, and the winner becomes the new city lord.

This system applies not only to city lords but also to the lords of the 108 prefectures of Hell.

However, the prefectural lord is much stronger than the city lord; both are Hell Asura-level powerhouses.

No one would dare to provoke them easily.

That's getting off-topic. If it weren't for such an absurd rule, all the lower and middle-level gods would have flooded into the city and never left, causing it to burst into chaos.

Richard came to the city to exchange his metal lifeform for something better, and he also needed a detailed map to the Amethyst Mountains.

Arriving at the Bauhinia Castle located in the city center, this is an official trading institution that exists in all major cities of the Bauhinia Continent, and it is clearly an industry under the control of the Bauhinia God.

Prices here are indeed a bit higher than elsewhere, but the goods are guaranteed authentic. You don't need to worry about being ripped off.

Therefore, Richard still prefers to buy what he needs here.

At the same time, they also cleared out their spoils.

All sorts of miscellaneous spoils of war, including divine essences, broken artifacts, unusable divine poisons, and secret medicines, were cleared out.

In total, he received nearly one billion inkstones, and with the inkstones sponsored by various heroes along the way, his net worth is now close to five billion.

As for why there are so many inkstones, the leader of that large robbery gang contributed the vast majority of them.

That guy has the strength of a five-star demon, which is quite good even among five-star demons. He alone contributed more than 3 billion to Richard.

This allowed Richard to achieve relative financial freedom, at least enough to buy a few more high-end metal lifeforms.

After all, he has many clones. Even if not all of them are equipped with advanced metal life forms, he must have several main clones, right?

The other clones should also be equipped with a few intermediate metal life forms, right?

And so, Richard spent over a billion inkstones at the Bauhinia Castle to purchase several high-grade metal lifeforms.

Advanced metal life forms typically possess over 100 million inkstones, sometimes even 200-300 million, or even 300-500 million.

They bought more than ten intermediate-level metal lifeforms.

Such a generous gesture made the reception staff beam with joy.

Then he bought a few more maps, including a simple map of the entire underworld, showing the distribution of major factions.

There are also a few more detailed maps of the five continents and two seas.

At the same time, detailed maps of the God of Life Realm and the area where the God of Life's avatar was located were purchased for the God of Life's avatar.

As a force under the command of the main god, they can actually produce maps of other supreme god planes.

Although it may not have been updated for many years, and the distribution of power may not be as accurate, the general terrain is correct.

These maps combined are even more expensive than a high-level metallic lifeform. But I have to buy them no matter how expensive they are, otherwise what if I accidentally wander into some restricted area?

Many forbidden zones are actually secluded places for powerful individuals, and he didn't want to get into a fight for no reason and gain nothing from it.

The main problem is that it's very likely we won't win.

In Hell, many of the experts above the Seven-Star Demon level have accumulated the power of a main god, and at this stage, he simply cannot afford to offend them.

Then I bought some specialties from Hell, such as rare minerals and plants.

As for soul defense artifacts, he looked at them and found none were cheap; they were all worth at least a hundred million, and their quality was very average. They were practically useless against the opponents he was facing now.

If you want to buy a high-quality item that can defend against soul attacks from powerful beings among the higher gods, you basically have to find a master who specializes in soul-related matters to customize it.

Putting aside the price of hundreds of billions or even trillions, the time required to forge such a top-tier soul defense artifact is at least tens of thousands of years or even longer.

He could have refined it directly in that time.

That's right, he can now also forge soul defense artifacts, but it takes too much time and isn't cost-effective.

He then stayed in Imperial Wing City for a while, explored the entire city, and sampled the local delicacies of Hell.

I saw the infamous Devil's Castle.

That's where star-level demon assessments are conducted, and where missions are issued and accepted.

Richard had no intention of becoming a demon.

Participating in the demon test when he was weak would have been a viable option, but now that he has grown up and has plenty of ways to make money, he's too lazy to take the troublesome test.

A few days later, Richard set off again, preparing to head to the Bauhinia Mountains in the heart of the continent.

This journey is long, and even with advanced metallic lifeforms that fly much faster than he could, it would still take several decades.

"Are you sure he left the city?" a god-level expert asked.

"Yes, I've been watching it the whole time," the other replied.

"Alright, let's chase after it then. This is a big, fat sheep; we can't let it get away," another person said.

It's obvious that someone has their eye on Richard. After all, he only appears to be a mid-level god, yet he still made a large purchase of items worth over a billion inkstones.

It's practically enticing these people to make a move.

He can't fight inside the city, but he can outside. I refuse to believe this guy will stay inside forever.

So this group of people kept an eye on him, and even planned to keep an eye on him for a long time, for hundreds or thousands of years.

Unexpectedly, this person left the city in just a few days. Considering how cooperative this kid is, it's not unreasonable to give him a quick death.