Few horse carriage were advancing towards a big gate. That gate was opened and carriages and people were entering through this gate into the city. That gate was connected to a huge walls all around the city. That wall was grey in color and had a strong vibe into it.
" We have arrived at Xiguze city "
A voice came to remind them that they have arrived. Finally after two months and some days they finally arrived at the Xiguze city. Chu Na stood up from his place and walked toward the window of the carriage and he saw the huge city gate and he was amazed by it.
" Wow! Such a huge gate I have never seen such a huge gate before, La, Nie come and see this it's amazing " Chu Na spoke with a hint of excitement.
Chi Nie and Che La stood up and ran toward the window Su Mohi also stood up and tried to peek over the window but Chu Che Chi had already occupied the whole window, that window was quite small after all.
" So, we have arrived at the Xiguze city after all, kids let's get down "
" Aren't we supposed to go to Nangong Imperial family so, why are we dropping here "
Chi Nie asked as Uncle Liu asked to get down the horse carriage.
" Nangong Imperial clan is in Xiguze city, you fool " Uncle Liu scolded and told him.
All the horse carriages were in que only the beautiful looking horse carriage crossed the gate not being in the que. And all the other carriages were stopping by and the soldiers were checking the people and the carriages also taking the entrance fee.
All of them again entered as Uncle Liu asked them to and waited for their carriage to enter the city. Finally after twenty minutes and so finally their carriage was meant to enter. A soldier came and looked inside the carriage. Inside the carriage only Chi Nie and party was there and some precious goods. That soldier came back to the other guards and spoke something to another soldier.
A soldier came toward the carriage and asked.
" Old Liu you never bring a boys with you, but now you bought four boys with yourself, I never thought that you will bring them here, when you left the city and told me that you will bring some good sapling with yourself I never thought you were serious about it "
" You bet I was serious captain Zhu "
" Good luck, let's see what they can do "
" He he he "
That soldier was the captain of the bunch as their duty was to watch over the city gate. They were quite acquainted with a lots of merchants and people who pass through here.
After passing through the city gate and crossing through some streets. Uncle Liu asked four of them to get down. All of them got down to the street and walked through the street. Quite a lot of people came and greeted Uncle Liu and looked at them with a weird gaze. It seemed Uncle Liu was unusually quite popular in the city.
They walked behind Uncle Liu toward a house. Uncle Liu knocked on the door A big fat guy came out of it, he was too fat, even Che La would seem thin before him. He was half baldy and wearing a old white clothes over his body.
" Come in "
" Old Liu are you serious "
" Let's talk after sometime, Old Ban, I need to go to Nangong clan to report my arrival " That fatty was Old Ban and he wanted to talk about something with Uncle Liu but Uncle Liu stopped him and both of them got out of the house and after sometime only old Ban came back. And he shouted
" Kar, Kar "
" Coming father "
A man wearing a weird dress arrived there, he simply looked like a weirdo he was wearing a cap fitted with a fan over his head just like helicopter cap from Doraemon, but a bit lame one. He had a bunch of long beard on his face which was quite oddly twisted by itself. He was wearing few unusual device on his body. his feet was fitted with a big boot which stretching from his knee cap to down to his feet and a big mechanical parts attached to it. and a little rods were surrounding him from his thigh to his belly connected with each other. It was truly a weird sight to view.
" Father say "
" Take them to our old house "
" Yes, father "
That weird bearded man looked at Chi Nie and party and said with a big smile on his face.
" Hello, Near you but quite far, I am called Ban Kar " That boy introduced himself. He pointed his his finger toward his face and gave a big smile. Chi Nie and party looked weirdly at him.
" Decrease the gap come near, Let's be friends don't fear , don't get low, just follow" That boy said again smiling brightly at them.
" He told us to follow him is it "
" I think so "
" Let's follow him "
Chi Nie and party followed him but suddenly the Old Ban shouted at them pointing at Chu Na.
" You stay here, You that tall one, the others can go "
" Sir, You mean me, " Chu Na asked as he pointed the finger at himself.
" Yes you, you are Chu Na isn't it "
" Yes sir " Chu Na replied.
Chu Na stayed there doing nothing but looking at their figure going farther away. Leaving Chu Na, Chi Nie and gang left with Ban Kar.
After walking for about twenty five minutes they finally reached a area which looked like a slum. The place they were before was quite clean, big buildings and huge shops and houses are big like palaces , people were good looking clothes. But now infront of them there was only broken down houses, quite dirty road and people wore torn and worn out dresses and they looked quite muddy.
After walking for a while they walked toward a house. Now Chi Nie and Che La had a bit of beard on their face too. When they left the Village their parents shaved their beards as they were about to go for a job. But they indeed shaved their beards time to time. After all Chi Nie was the oldest of the three he was twenty five years old, Che La was twenty four and Chu Na was seventeen years old. Where they didn't knew about Su Mohi. Su Mohi only had a small beard down his cheeks and above his neck. Chi Nie was curious about Su Mohi's age.
" keh kehhh.. How old are you and " Chi Nie cleared his voice and asked Su Mohi.
" This year I should be nineteen years old " Su Mohi replied in low voice in Chi Nie's ear.
" Oh I see "
Ban Kar placed his hand on a hand mark in the door and the door opened itself. Chi Nie and party entered inside a house that house was filled with scarps and all kind of mechanical instruments. A woman came infront of them she was a beauty even though her hair was all messed up and and there were few patches of dust on her face. She was wearing a white dress but it seemed that it was quite old and had dust on it.
" You old hag, I came back " Ban Kar said as he touched that woman's cheek and pinched it.
" Keep those words on bay, so who are they " That lady spoke.
Chi Nie and party was quite amazed by the duo. But the most amazed person was Su Mohi because that lady was Divine Lord realm cultivator. Su Mohi glared at the lady from under his mask. That lady felt the gaze of Su Mohi she was also quite amazed to see such a powerful unfathomable cultivator. Su Mohi of today was already healed he was at his peak and he was now a Heaven realm cultivator. So she wasn't able to see through him. In this world Heaven realm cultivation was the limit. There were no Heaven realm cultivator in this world, Heaven realm was only a myth. As like always Su Mohi reported the cultivation realm of the lady in Chi Nie's ear. Chi Nie heard it and was quite shocked.
" She is my love my life , you know she is my wife , Changchang " Ban Kar introduced the lady as his wife.
" Well nice to meet you Mistress Ban " Che La stepped and greeted.
" Come let me show you the room " Lady Changchang walked further in a hall. And she advanced toward a room in the right to the hall.
" You guys will live here for now, so I guess I need to leave now and the bathroom is on the left corner of the hall" Lady Changchang left them in a room. That room was only place it seemed that there weren't any freaky mechanical instruments in the room. It was clean room there were two beds and a table.
All of them washed themselves and walked into the hall, all of them heard a sound of a beating metal. They walked toward it and saw Ban Kar was creating some kind of mechanics.
" Hello Ban Kar what are you doing "
" Oh it's you people, It's nothing special I am creating a new locks "
Chi Nie asked and Che La moved to the side where there was a shelf. And there were various types of locks were placed there. There was also some humanoid figures and and some complex machinery.
" What are all these things "
" Those are some locks created by me "
" You created all these "
" Yeah I did but no one would buy them, our shop doesn't sell such locks because no rich people would visit us "
" So where is your shop Ban Kar "
" You dare. You people came from there, "
" Where ? " Che La was confused so as others by this reply.
" You mean that house was a back side of a shop, and there is a shop in the front, am I right " Chi Nie replied as he guessed the possibility.
" You can't take him light, he is perfectly right " Ban Kar agreed to Chi Nie.
" So, these are some puppet warriors isn't it, I heard about them in the tales at our Village " Chi Nie spoke as he looked at those humanoid figures.
" Yes indeed, they are " Ban Kar replied.
" From now on you people will live with us and work here, you will get paid for a silver coin every month, how is that " Ban Kar looked smilingly at them and spoke.
" What, what was that ? wasn't I supposed work at Nangong Imperial kitchen. " Che La retorted at Ban Kar's word.
" Let it be La this place seems nice to me " Chi Nie tried to pursue Che La to stay here. After awhile Che La understood that he needed work here from now on. This was his fate. After all a silver coin per month was quite a lot for him.
" So, you people will work here with me, what's were your names again " Ban Kar asked.
" I am Che La, he is Chi Nie and he is Su Mohi " Che La introduced everyone not giving anyone the chance to speak.
" Ok that's right, from tomorrow you Chi Nie will help father at store and Che La you will work with me. And he will do hum.... " Ban Kar went silent after sometime he spoke again.
" Ok he likes to wear mask and he stays silent all the time, I had a plan for him, you guys come at the hall to eat something for dinner " By saying all these Ban Kar asked them to leave the room.
It was already night they were hungry so they sat on the side of the hall waiting for dinner. At that time Ban Kar came and pulled a lever on the side of a door and a big dining table came infront of them from the roof and few chairs dropped from there too. Lady Changchang also came she was carrying few food bowls on her hand. She placed them on the table.
Without any hesitation all three of them walked toward the chairs and sat on them. They took a spoon and a plate placed the food on their plate and eat them in a hurry. After few minutes two of them were full. Only Su Mohi took the food and entered a room and came back after finishing it.
Soon they greeted them and went for a good sleep. Inside the room Chi Nie and Che La slept on a single bed where Su Mohi slept on the other bed. It was dark they were quite sleepy and so they fell a sleep. Su Mohi took the mask off and slept silently on the other bed.
After they fell deep into sleep the word locks again and again revered through Che La's mind. He was just saying locks, locks, locks repeatedly again and again.
Inside Che La's dream he was standing on a cloud and infront of him there was a huge person sitting on a lotus and he spoke. That person's face wasn't clear to Che La because it was too shiny.
" Aid Lord Xuwu on his hard times, you are my avatar we are same, I am sealing my memory in this lotus " he took off a petal from that big lotus he was sitting on and that petal became a new lotus flower. He placed a light from his hand into the lotus and spoke.
" I locked all my memories here when Lord Xuwu will in need you just need to open this lotus to gain the memory to help him, for the last we are same we have same consciousness remember that little me "
He placed that lotus inside a bag and gave that bag to him. And Che La placed that bag on his shoulder.