Chapter 725.
The autumn sky was clear and bright.
Wang Dust landed in Thousand Star Immortal City for the first time.
Unlike Yongle Immortal City, Thousand Star Immortal City did not prohibit airspace and allowed cultivators to use flying spells to enter and exit the city.
But after entering the city, there was a difference.
Class D city dwellers could only walk on the streets, Class C city dwellers could fly freely under ten feet, Class B city dwellers were limited to a height of fifty feet, and Class A did not have any restrictions.
In addition, flight is limited to personal magic weapons, allowing a companion to be carried, but large flying magic weapons such as flying boats, airships, flying ships, and so on, need to get the pass qualification before they can be used.
Although Wang Chen had gotten the qualification of a B class city dweller, after entering the city, he didn’t bring Su Ziling to waltz through the city, but instead used the walking marketplace to take in the elegance of this city of merchants and traders.
Thousand Star Immortal City was really special.
It completely subverted Wang Chen’s inherent impression of the Haotian Realm’s Immortal City, such as the tall buildings on both sides of the street, one after another, with a minimum of a dozen floors and a maximum of over a hundred feet.
Moreover, the Gui Tuo that carries this immortal city has a turtle’s back that rises high upwards, gradually transitioning from the lowest edge to the highest point in the center, with quite a big drop.
The Thousand Stars Immortal City was without walls and was able to enter it from any direction.
There were countless buildings in the city, as if it was a huge forest, and none of the houses were the same over and over again, there were more or less differences, and some were even unique.
Walking in it, there was a feeling of entering a forest labyrinth.
And this feeling made Wang Chen couldn’t help but think of a city he had once visited in his previous life.
Mountain City!
Although it was a completely different world, the Thousand Star Immortal City brought Wang Chuan an indescribable sense of familiarity and affinity.
The stores and teahouses and taverns here were also particularly numerous, the cloth streamers used to solicit business were densely hung, and the fellows in front of the stores used words with accents to solicit guests from the south and north.
That kind of hustle and bustle unique to the city, it was easy for people to get lost in it!
Su Ziling followed closely by Wang Chen’s side, looking at the scenes in Thousand Star Immortal City, a look of reminiscence appeared on her face, “I haven’t been here for a long time.”
The last time she came to Thousand Star Immortal City was when she was ten years old.
At that time, Su Ziling had the company of her parents, and her life was not considered much more affluent, but it was very cozy and happy.
However, her mother’s passing changed everything, and her father gave himself up in grief, eventually degenerating into a gambling dog that everyone despised.
Thinking back to the past, the girl’s eyes more than a little crystal.
Wang Chen took her hand and wordlessly gave her comfort and warmth.
For the first time in the Thousand Star Immortal City, shopping is undoubtedly a very interesting thing, there are too many stores and workshops here, cultivation of Immortals all kinds of arts and crafts, so that Wang Chuan have opened their eyes.
However, when it was dark, he could not keep on shopping, so Wang Chuan found an inn to stay overnight.
With Bi Xi Dragon Turtle as the boundary, above and below are different worlds again, and the price of goods is the best proof.
For the same suite, the price for a night’s stay here was three times the price of Welcome Immortal Town!
Then how much are the prices in Thousand Star Immortal Town?
Wang Chen was suddenly less confident in his Sumeru Ring.
The next morning, he inquired with the innkeeper and then found a rather famous dental shop.
Wang Dust planned to open a store in Thousand Star Immortal City, so he needed to rent a store room, preferably the kind that could be lived in.
He inquired about the local housing prices in passing, and despite being mentally prepared, he was still startled.
Thousand Star Immortal City can truly be said to be an inch of land, the turtle’s back on the land as early as a few hundred years ago, all the development is completed, so there is no “new building”, only second-hand houses can be traded.
Just the high price, simply outrageous his mom to outrageous open the door – outrageous to home!
Dental shopkeeper told Wang dust, thousand stars immortal city of housing stores, more than ninety percent are in the hands of merchants.
The “merchants” here refer to the families, clans and associations in the merchant community.
The other half is the private property of Jindan and YuanYing.
As for the ordinary citizens, very few of them own their own properties, and even those who do are first-class citizens.
So the question is, where do the millions of fourth class city dwellers live?
Everyone basically rented a room.
More than seven of the city dwellers of Thousand Star Immortal City worked for merchants for their entire lives, their families, and even for generations.
And the merchants provided them with relatively inexpensive houses or subsidized the rent.
It was guaranteed that the vast majority of the people would not sleep on the streets.
Since land is very limited, in order to accommodate so many people, the houses in the city are built higher and higher.
When the old houses could no longer be accommodated, they were knocked down and rebuilt as new high rises.
These houses, under normal circumstances, are not sold to the public.
Even if they were sold, they would only circulate amongst the merchants.
The Thousand Star Immortal City was formed by a thousand merchants together, and the latter also had an alliance – the Thousand Star Merchant Alliance.
As the saying goes, things are more expensive than they are rare, the number of properties circulating on the market was very small, so the price was naturally ridiculously high.
Fortunately, Wang Chuan hadn’t wanted to directly purchase property in the first place, and renting a house was relatively easier.
After listening to Wang Dust’s requirements, the Dental Shopkeeper picked out five storefront houses from the canonical book, and then had his fellows accompany Wang Dust to look at the houses.
Although Thousand Star Immortal City was the territory, or lair, of the Thousand Star Merchant Alliance, the latter didn’t pinch all of their business in their own hands and didn’t allow outsiders to taint it in the slightest.
They would also release some of their own stores for local city dwellers or foreign travelers to rent and operate.
I guess there is a factor to promote the vitality of the market.
In short, it was fine for Wang Dust to want to open a store here, as for whether he could do it or not, it would depend on his skills.
After all, ninety-nine percent of outsiders who ran to Thousand Star Immortal City to open a store lost money.
The very few that earned spirit stones would also be absorbed into a certain merchant.
In short, don’t look at the Thousand Star Mall’s atmosphere is very open, in fact, want to get a foothold here is really difficult.
Especially if you don’t want to work as a cow for a merchant and sell hard labor, then it’s even harder!
Under the guidance of the dental firm’s fellow, Wang Dust visited five separate store rooms.
But the general feeling was that none of them were very suitable.
Either the place was too remote or too large, or the surrounding fish and dragons were not very safe.
Then picked half a day also did not choose.
Luckily, the dental shopkeeper received a letter from his buddy, and then took out another set of properties for his buddy to accompany Wang Duan to see.
As a result, this set of store house, Wang Dust took a glance at it.
After asking the price and doing some bargaining, Wang Dust finally rented the house at an annual rent of half a million lower spirits, declaring that he had a foothold here.
If possible, Wang Chen would have preferred to buy the house.
Nay, the other party refused to sell it at a discount, so he had no choice but to bury the thought deep in his heart.
Looking forward to the coming year!