Chapter 396: Arriving at Heavenly Dao City

2295, mid-May.

Puppet city city lord's mansion, inside the puppet tower.

The stone door in the puppet tower slowly opened, and when the stone door weighing ten thousand catties rose, there was a deafening roar.

The originally dim tower was gradually filled with light, and the scene inside the tower became clear.

Within the space of this huge round tower, there are thousands of puppet remains on the ground. It is common to have missing arms and legs. There are countless broken limbs and arms, and they are almost piled up into a hill.

And in the center of the round tower, a figure was sitting cross-legged, adjusting his breath with his eyes closed.

What caught people's attention was that there was a small mountain piled up next to the figure.

In this hill, there are all silver puppets that look like soldiers, and beside the puppets, there are hundreds of silver shields.

"It's not bad, even the sixth-order silver-armored puppet can't do anything to you. It seems that I still underestimated your strength. Let alone the top four, as long as you perform stably, you may even win the championship!"

Sha Xin looked at the figure in front of him, and said such a sentence through the veil, obviously he was very optimistic about someone.

Lei Yi slowly opened his eyes, and the aura on his body was also aroused, and an aura that was more powerful and fierce than half a month ago spread out.

"In the middle stage of the false alchemy realm, you have broken through again within more than half a month of retreat!" At this moment, even Sha Xin was a little surprised.

She clearly remembered that before someone came to the puppet city, he should have just broken through the false alchemy realm.

In the end, how long did it take to break through a small realm again? This is too exaggerated.

But after all, she is the city lord of one of the nine cities of the Heavenly Dao League, and she sees a lot of cultivation geniuses on weekdays. Although Lei Yi's breakthrough speed is a bit faster, it has not yet reached the point where she can refresh her cognition.

"Is it time?" Lei Yi stood up slowly, and the breath on his body also subsided.

"Well, the Imperial Martial Arts Tournament will be held in a few days, and now we are going to go to Tiandao City before the opening!"

After Sha Xin finished speaking, she clapped her hands, and two figures walked in behind her, exactly the same two clone puppets as she had shown.

Seeing this situation, Lei Yi knew that he was about to set off.

He glanced at the puppets around him, then nodded, and left the puppet tower with Sha Xin's two puppets.

Before Sand Heart left,

His eyes just glanced around casually, but a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

She walked to the silver-armored puppet piled up into a hill, and then grabbed it casually, and a silver shield was sucked into her hand.

"Impossible!" Sha Xin yelled in a low voice, but his eyes were focused on the surface of the shield.

I saw that the surface of this shield was actually full of scars and paw prints.

The most important thing is that these paw prints look like they were made by strange beasts, not like they were made by one person at all.

"This is a shield made of silver gang stone, which is mixed with gold sand. In terms of hardness, let alone a monk, even a warrior at the peak of the sixth level may not be able to leave such a gap. And the shape of the wound ,what happened……"

Sha Xin stayed in the puppet tower for a quarter of an hour before slowly walking out.

As the stone gate closed, she brought Lei Yi Yukong to the city lord's mansion, near a reception platform.

Here, Lei Yi saw that more than ten people had gathered here.

Among these people, there are not only powerful warriors, but also many young puppet masters with puppets around them and proud expressions.

They were divided into two queues, the puppet masters stood in one team, and the warriors stood in the other.

Under Sha Xin's signal, Lei Yi stood in the queue of warriors.

Although he is a monk, the two queues are not divided according to monks and warriors, but according to representatives of the puppet city and foreign aid.

Lei Yi was not from a puppet city, so he was naturally included in the queue of foreign aid.

He looked at the queue where the foreign aid was, and found that the strength of the people here was good, and some warriors even had strong blood and evil spirits, and they were not good at first glance.

"It seems that City Lord Shaxin has recruited a lot of people for this imperial contest!" Lei Yi thought in his heart.

"Everyone, you all know that my puppet city's performance in the imperial competition is very bad, and it is almost always at the bottom. For this reason, I have even been laughed at by others. But this year is different. To sweep away the previous shame, at least let the other seven city masters see that the people of my puppet city also have dignity!"

On the reception platform, Sha Xin was making the final mobilization before departure.

"My goal is very simple. Not to mention fighting for the first place, at least I want to fight for the upstream position, the Ninetowns ranking, we want to get the top four position..."

Lei Yi listened to such a boring mobilization with a dull expression on his face.

He glanced at the queue he was in, and found that the group of warriors were all the same, and some of them were even yawning.

On the other side, the young puppet masters in the puppet city were also doing the same. Some even fiddled with their own puppets in private, with a perfunctory look of whether they would listen or not.

"It's no wonder that Puppet City is at the bottom every year. There's a reason for this!" Seeing the attitudes of these people, Lei Yi knew why Puppet City couldn't get a good ranking.

My own people don't pay attention to it, what a fart to win!

These people are not going to participate in the imperial competition, they are all there to give away experience!

In the end, Sha Xin probably also knew that his mobilization would not be effective, so he simply threw out his hole cards.

"As long as you win the qualifying places in the competition, the puppet master will reward you with an iron halberd puppet, and non-puppet masters can enter the city's treasure house and choose one of the treasures; if you win the top eight places, the puppet master will reward you with a silver armor puppet. The puppet master can enter the city's treasure house and choose two treasures; if he wins the top four places, the city's treasure house..."

Lei Yi could clearly feel that everyone except him in the two queues was breathing a little short of breath.

Obviously, they were all attracted by Sha Xin's promise.

After all, who would work for nothing these days? Only when people see the benefits will they be motivated, right?

"I'll stop here, let's go!"

Finally, with a big wave of Sha Xin's hand, all the teams set off in a mighty way.

Lei Yi was fortunate to take the flying vehicle of Puppet City and flew towards Tiandao City with a group of warriors.

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Tiandao City, one of the Nine Cities, Tiandao City.

The expected grand ceremony did not appear, and not even a single banner was seen in Tiandao City.

The residents in the city are in order, and the guards should do what they want.

When Lei Yi landed on the reception platform of Tiandao City with the team of Puppet City, he found that there was no tension around the imperial contest, and there was not even a festive atmosphere of holding a grand ceremony.

"What's the matter? I heard from you, the city lord, that the Imperial Grand Competition is a grand event every few years. Why is there no atmosphere in Tiandao City?" Lei Yi walked to Sha Xin and asked in a low voice.

"The martial arts competition in front of the emperor focuses on the word "before the emperor". Ordinary people can't see the content of the competition, so there is no need to hold a grand ceremony. It is enough for the people of Nine Cities to join in the fun!"

Speaking of this, Sha Xin paused, "If it's the "Sacrifice to the Heaven Ceremony", then that's another story. It's a grand event in the Nine Cities that truly celebrates the whole world. It's a pity that it has only been held since the establishment of the Tiandao League. Had two grand ceremonies! "

With that said, the guards of Tiandao City walked over quickly and began to receive Lei Yi and his party.

"City Lord Sha Xin, Lord Xuanzhe ordered that if the City Lord of Nine Cities comes, please go to the Gilded Gold Palace to discuss matters!" After seeing Sha Xin, the guard commander hurriedly informed the order from above.

Sha Xin nodded, then looked at everyone in Lei Yi, and said: "You should pay attention to your words and deeds in Tiandao City, and don't do anything out of the ordinary. If you make my puppet city look ugly, I will not spare you!"

After giving the instructions, she also walked towards the Gilded Gold Palace under the leadership of the guards.

As for Lei Yi and the others, as representatives of the puppet city participating in the imperial contest, they were naturally received by someone specially assigned for them.

Led by a few guards, they came to the place where they lived, in a few decent annexes.

It can accommodate more than a thousand people, and it is specially prepared by Tiandao City for guests from the other eight cities.

When Lei Yi came here, he found that other Ninetowns representatives had already moved in here.

"This is your identity certificate. If you have this certificate, as long as it is not in the center of the city, you can go sightseeing in other places. This city does not restrict your freedom, but please don't make trouble, otherwise the law enforcement team in the city will not care about you. Is it the contestants of the Imperial Tournament, if they make trouble, they will even be disqualified!"

The guard who led the way handed each of them a piece of golden jade talisman, and then gave another order before leaving.

Lei Yi looked at the jade talisman in his hand, and after thinking that he could move freely, he left the hotel where he was staying and started wandering around in Tiandao City.

Not to mention, the architectural planning and so on in Tiandao City are somewhat similar to Baiyun City. Most of them are high-end courtyards, and many of them are residences of aristocratic families.

Moreover, there are much more guards in Tiandao City than in Baiyun City, basically every now and then, you will encounter groups of guards passing by.

The strength of these guards is not weak, and those who take the lead are generally at the fifth or even sixth level.

And the closer to the center of Tiandao City, the stronger the guarding army, even Lei Yi saw a seventh-tier grandmaster leading a group of sixth-tier golden armored guards on patrol.

He can be sure that if he hadn't been carrying the Jade Talisman that is qualified for the competition, these guards would rush to suppress him as soon as they found him.

Even so, when he passed some aristocratic mansions, the warriors guarding the gates would look at him with wary eyes.

And when he was approaching the center of Tiandao City, he was also stopped by the guards.

"The Imperial Tournament has not yet been held, and your contestants are not allowed to enter the alliance yet!"

In front of the palace complex in the center of Tiandao City, Lei Yi was stopped because he could not enter temporarily.

"This is the main altar of the Tiandao League. It seems that my identity is not qualified enough to go in and listen to information!" Lei Yi thought helplessly.

But just as he was about to leave, he saw a figure appearing not far away, walking in this direction.

This person is none other than Ah Liang.