After Rex left the ship, he flew towards the wooden wall with Lerna, Jiang Qing, Tang Xuan, and Mr. Black.
Although he was quite far from the wall, he could see a bunch of people standing in a row to enter the gate, not only he could see it, he could also barely sense them without looking.
In the last few days, he focused on increasing his soul cultivation base instead of Qi cultivation base. After his soul cultivation base was increased to Core Breaking 3rd stage, his spiritual sense advanced by a whole new level. With a thought, he could expand it in all directions and precisely sense everything and the most amazing part was he could maintain this state for 24/7 hours without much effort leaving no loopholes for someone to sneak attack him. This type of soul perception was one of the big advantages of soul cultivation.
He didn't increase his Qi cultivation base, although he could increase it without worry as it will only strengthen his inner world and doesn't need him to wait for a long period before breaking through but he didn't do it, to not lose control over his strength, his movement was limited on the ship, if he continued to increase his strength then it won't be surprising if he someday broke the door while opening it.
On the other hand, soul cultivation doesn't have much impact on the body, so it was better to increase it.
"Eh… Are they Orcs?" Jiang Qing gasped after they were close enough and could finally see the two big gatekeepers of the city gate. Jiang Qing was quite knowledgeable so she could tell from the looks but it was the first time seeing them in person.
The two of them had humanoid figures but were thrice as big as an adult human, they were bald and had a big nose, their greenish-grey skin was rough and irregular. They were wearing leather armor with a big wooden club in their hands.
The second Tang Xuan heard it, his eyes shined, he took a step forwards, stroked his beard, and spoke in a firm tone acting like a sage who had traveled the world and discovered the truth behind life.
"Orcs are counted in monster race, they are born with high innate strength and have a barbaric nature in their blood. A long time ago they used to cause a lot of trouble to other people from other race, they have a lecherous nature and prefers to mate with people of other races instead of their own as a result they were hated by all but then a leader of a small clan took an interest in them.
Orcs are monster but had some intelligence to a certain extent, that clan leader caught a few orcs and used a monster tamer in his clan to subdue them and failed, those orcs were such idiots that even if someone put a slave collar on their neck they will struggle until death, the clan leader failed but he didn't give up, he started to breed them, although they were barbaric and hard to control, their next-generation was much easier to control.
After he finally managed to tame some of them, he breeds them on a large scale and successfully formed a mobile army of orcs in the next few decades, the small clan rose in status and power, it started to devour the other small clans around it and only stopped after it was high-rank clan, and his moment started to catch the attention of other high-rank clans.
Later, many other clans began to follow his steps, Not everyone succeeded but since then, orcs are as best monster labors, they are used to do tasks that require strength but not high intelligence like gatekeeping. They don't fight for power, they don't ask for a lot of resources so they are indeed the best labors one could find," Tang Xuan said in a mysterious tone.
Jiang Qing nodded.
'Who asked for the useless history about orcs? I'm not researching them,' Rex thought.
"I heard people in the past used to eat orc meats, and it tastes like chicken?" Jiang Qing asked.
Tang Xuan almost pulled out his beard.
Lerna finally looked at the orcs then after observing them for a while, she shook her head.
They are dirty and smelly… She thought.
'After I got back, I will have a long talk with Jiang Shuang,' Rex thought.
When they arrived at the gate, they obediently joined the row on Rex's instructions, there were only 4 people ahead so they didn't have to wait long.
Rex turned to Lerna, after making sure she was wearing her veil, gloves, bracelet covering her whole body and aura, he nodded in satisfaction. He then looked at Jiang Qing who was very carefree, she seemed very relaxed knowing that two powerhouses are walking beside her.
'I hope this girl doesn't work as a fanny magnet to attract idiots,' Rex thought before proceeding.
"Give me a temporary pass for five people," Rex said when it was finally his turn. He took out a pouch filled with spirit stones and gave it to them, Tang Xuan had told him about the amount so he was prepared in advance.
Both the orcs intently stared at Rex.
'What do they want? I only asked for a pass, not their girlfriend's number,' Rex stared back at them, but now the orcs were looking at the people behind him. When Rex looked at Tang Xuan, he found out that the old man wasn't the least bit surprised so he remained quiet.
Finally, the eyes of the orc on the right shined. He took out five wooden tokens and gave it to Rex. The orc on the right looked at him in admiration, the orc on the left patted his chest with a prideful look then he took the pouch from Rex's hand and started counting the spirit stones.
'Don't tell me…' (Rex)
[It seems like they were calculating the price for five people all this time.]
Rex's lips twitched. He realized that he had overestimated the orc's intelligence.
It took 10 whole minutes before the orc finished counting the spirit stones, he then emptied all spirit stones in his storage ring and gave back the empty pouch to Rex.
Rex looked at the empty pouch then at the orc.
The orc saw Rex holding the pouch and gazing at him, he thought of something, he raised his hand and patted Rex's shoulder two times with an encouraging gaze and motioned him to go on.
"…" (Rex)
"Pffft…" Jiang Qing tightly closed her mouth with her hand but she still failed to hide her laugh.
Tang Xuan looked at the side pretending not to see it.
Because of Spider-Sense, Rex even noticed Lerna smirking at him under the cover of the veil.
Rex didn't speak and quietly walked in.
After entering the city, he cheered up and used his eye to scan his surrounding.
'Rose wanna bet on which one would I see first Elf-ey or Cat-ey?' Rex looked around.
[I bet on Dwarf-ey]
Rex was about to reply but he abruptly stopped, contrary to his imagination, it was more like a town than a city.
All houses are made of wood and the number of pedestrians was very few with all being human.
"Master Rex, this is more like a stronghold than a city, it is at the outermost part of the continent, after all, most people here are the ones that have just traveled to this continent," Tang Xuan explained.
Rex nodded in disappointment.
"Master Rex there is a reason as to why Sect Master Sung chose to leave us here instead of any other city, it's because this city has a direct route to a big active city - Willow Wisp city, where we can use transmission array to directly go to one of the main city in the Davalon Kingdom. In the Davalon Kingdom, many transmission arrays could let us directly reach the Beast God Temple.
For now, we should buy horses from the ranch, if we start traveling now then we can reach, Willow Wisp city in 3-4 days," Tang Xuan said.
He didn't say anything about flying, although people at the Golden Core stage are allowed to freely fly in most of the places but doing that will mean letting others know that an unknown Golden Core stage expert has infiltrated their territory, Rex had no intention of letting other spy on him for no reason.
"No need for horses let's go I have a way," Rex said.
Tang Xuan was just acting as a guide, he didn't refute Rex and showed the way out of one of the city gates.
A barren road was visible in sight.
Rex waved his hand and the Desert Queen he brought with him appeared on the ground.
Rex briefly explained to them what is a Carrrr, then they took their seats without any delay. There weren't many people on the streets so even if one or two stared at him, Rex ignored them.
The city or stronghold to be precise was connected to several routes passing through the forest to other cities, the forest on the way was not dangerous like Misty Maze Forest so several routes were made in the process when people traveled between cities.
Rex took the first seat, he wanted Lerna to sit on the side but she sat in the third row of seats. Instead of her, Jiang Qing happily took the seat to see the road in front.
The third row of seats was almost like a foldable bed, Little Aru had bragged a lot about it, that's why Lerna had already devised her schedule to read her favorite books when traveling for the 3-4 days.
Tang Xuan obediently took a seat in the second row with Mr. Black and sat there, even if someone gives him 1000 points of courage he won't dare go and sit beside Lerna, who knows if she waves her hand in sleep and he might become history in one night.
Rex drove for one whole day before switching with Mr. Black, they drove the car in for the next three days without any break.
The only one who could be bothered by three days of sitting was Jiang Qing but she was enjoying traveling in a car so they didn't need to stop on their way.
Whether it was Tang Xuan or Lerna, after cultivating for so long they had developed patience where they could sit at one place for years while cultivating, and Rex had his virtual world.
The beasts they found on their way were weak, they weren't strong enough to break the defense of the Desert Queen much less fighting them as a result they didn't face any hurdle on their way.
After three days, they finally arrived at Willow Wisp city...
Willow Wisp city was surrounded by a dense forest with 30% of the area inside being covered in the swamps or marshes. Willow Wisp city was a city famous for trading especially trades of edible goods.
Myriad Beast Continent had the highest number of body cultivators so they needed to eat a lot of nutritious food to replenish and nurture their body.
The walls of Willow Wisp city were made of stones but were covered in thin thread-like green vines that had very tiny but poisonous thorns on them.
The city guards were in humanoid form, Rex almost mistook them as humans until he noticed their yellowish eyes and thin body frame. Rex didn't know their actual species, on asking, Tang Xuan told him that because of cross-breeding a lot of new species have emerged in the last century so even he couldn't directly tell their species and asking it directly will be rude so Rex decided to suppress his curiosity and ignore it for now.
He didn't want to waste time in getting on their good side and shake hands to get DNA signature right now.
Rex placed the Desert Queen in the inventory and entered the city with Lerna and others.
The second Rex entered the city and saw the view in front, he was delighted and surprised, it was the view he longed for.
The well-engineered buildings, the pedestrians filling the streets... it was an active city.
Suddenly, he looked at the figure not too far away from him and his eyes shined.
[I won.]