Ryu moved toward the gate of the golden parrot harbor city
The gate of the harbor city was quite big but it was still too small compared to the IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE but it's still big.
And the gate is crowded with rows of two lines, one for the carriages and beasts and one for the pedestrian, so Ryu had to line on the pedestrian line where he waited to enter the city.
Ryu noticed that some people are being sent back, and denied the right to enter the city.
Ryu asked the fat young man in front of him who is lined up with him
"Hey, do you know why those people are sent back and denied from entering the city, I have been seeing this quite a long time since I arrived here," Ryu asked pointing to the people sent back downcast.
The man looked at Ryu with a strange gaze but instantly understand that Ryu should be part of the people that is entering the city for the first time.
The man answered,
"Those people are sent back because they don't have money to enter the city, to enter the city you must pay the entrance fee to avoid the city being overcrowded"the man patiently said and explained further to Ryu.
Ryu looked confused, 'how can a person come to the golden parrot harbor city without any money, isn't that stupidity' Ryu thought baffled.
As if understanding why Ryu was confused, the man said again.
"They have money, but unauthorized because the golden parrot harbor city can only be entered using spirit stones but those people may only have no spirit stones with them, or they have a small amount but not enough to enter the city, or they may even have gold or silver which is being rejected by the guards"
"Ohh..so that's how it is, thanks for clearing up my confusion, I'm Ryu, what about you?"Ryu exclaimed in understanding and ask the man's name.
"I'm Bryt, I'm one of the young masters of this city, I'm the young master of the Vintage family inside the golden parrot harbor city," the young man said proudly while puffing out his round stomach.
It's now Ryu have time to check the appearance of this man well, he was preoccupied with his questions earlier.
This man was quite fat with a straight nose with fair skin, he is a handsome young man but very fat like a round ball,
Though he had fat all over his body, the strangest thing is that he doesn't have fat on his face which makes him quite handsome but still lacking compared to Ryu's face.
Any man will be ashamed to compare their face to Ryu's.
Ryu looked at the man strangely and said
"You said you are the young master of the vintage family but what are you doing in the line for pedestrians with no carriage, I suppose a rich young should be inside his carriage right?"Ryu said and asked the fatty why he was in the pedestrian line.
The fatty was speechless when he heard Ryu's question, he didn't know how to reply.
Ryu want to continue but the fatty hurriedly said stammering
"W...wh..why can't a big family young master be on the pe...pedestrian line, what happened to this place, huh?" the fatty said defending himself.
Ryu looked at the fatty disdainful and stopped talking.
The fatty seeing Ryu no more replying was getting anxious and struggled internally before he eventually said with a pained and pitiful expression
"Ah! Brother can you believe I'm like this because of my father, he is too strict, he wants me to go and find my money to buy a carriage.
And you should know that there are many useless carriages at home but he's just too stingy to even give me, his only son a carriage!"
When the fatty said, he put up an almost crying expression
"I only tell you this because you are my brother, so don't tell anybody, okay!" the fatty said while leaning up to Ryu to put his arm around Ryu's shoulder.
Ryu evaded fast using his wind Chasing Foot Technique
Ryu expression looked strange, and he thought in confusion
'When did we become brothers that I don't know, besides how can this fatty become my brother '
The fatty doesn't mind and continues to talk
"Brother you know the worst thing is that he doesn't even let me use privileged to enter the city with my identity, so I must also line up here, he always said I should get my prestige myself, but how was I even going to do that?! Too cruel, too cruel !!" The fatty said wailing
When he was wailing the people in the line looked back but when they saw it was the fatty, they turned back to their business as if its the most normal thing to do.
Fatty Bryt was quite popular in this city, he is the most miserable young master inside this city, who have to work to get all thing, so he's quite popular.
"Ohhh... But I don't think you are suffering with your stature, I think he is building you up for the future"Ryu said while looking the fatty up and down.
"Don't look at my stature, it's my physique, but...
You are right but my father is the most person I respected, I know he is training me .."the fatty want to continue but instantly stopped.
When the fatty said all that he said it seriously with a domineering aura which surprised even Ryu, and he started taking this fatty seriously.
The fatty reverted to his jovial nature and continue to chatter but without touching the topic where he stopped, it's as if avoiding the topic
And Ryu also doesn't point it out, the fatty is still a stranger to him after all.
The fatty talked about the city and things about the powers in the city.
The line continues to move till it reaches the fatty turn but the guards don't collect any spirit stone from him.
They only collect the fee from the outsiders who don't have any properties inside the city
It reached Ryu's turn and one of the guards said
"Take out two low-grade spirit stones to enter the city," the guard said professionally,
He had been saying this all day so he said it perfunctorily.
Ryu was confused about the grade of spirit stones, he didn't know spirit stones have grades too.
Curiously, he checked his save and looked for the difference between the stones but discovered that almost all of them are the same but little among the stones had more qi concentration than others,
Confused about which one to give the guards, he heard lyan say,
"Just give the guards the one with the most Lowest qi concentration, it should be the low-grade spirit stone"
"Ohh.. okay "Ryu nodded and take out two of the stones to give the guard.
The guard was getting impatient and wanted to say something when Ryu took out the spirit stone.
The guard looked at Ryu strangely, swallowed what he wanted to say, and collect the stones.
"You can enter now," the guard said and Ryu nodded while entering through the gigantic gate to move toward the fatty who was waiting for him.
"Why do you use so much time just to give the guard spirit stones" fatty Bryt asked curiously.
Ryu didn't answer but instead asked,
"Hey fatty, do you know the grade of spirit stone, I want you to explain to me," Ryu asked which also answer fatty Bryt's question.
Earlier Ryu asked Arnt and lyan about the grades of the spirit stones, but it's as if spirit stones are too low-grade qi stones for the both of them, so they don't know anything about them, they can only determine that the qi concentration in them are different.
"Ohh....so that's why you use so much time, okay I will explain to you"fatty Bryt nodded and started.
"There are four grades of spirit stones, they are;
Low grade, Middle grade, High grade, and Peak grade
But that is only for the common people of the world, there is a rumor only known to the peak power of the world that there is something called spirit crystals that have qi concentration 100 times that of the peak grade spirit stones,
But that is only just a rumor so don't mind that too much, let me explain further.
The low-grade spirit stones Are the ones with the lowest qi concentration and one middle-grade stone contains a 1000 times qi concentration of that of low grade.
The high grade contains 1000 middle-grade stones while the peak grade spirit stones contain 1000 high grades stones.
The fatty explain and Ryu nodded continuously, he understand all that the fatty said.
Ryu looked around the city after digesting the information, inside this harbor city is quite big and bustling.
The harbor city is a city that connects two continents so it's not strange for it to be so crowded, Ryu continues to look around accompanied by fatty Bryt.
He saw some roadside stalls selling almost everything a cultivator needs like pills, weapons, formation plates, and so on.
But the stalls are minimal compared to the big shop around which sells the same thing the stalls sell but higher grade, higher grade pills, weapons, and formation plates, they even sell what the stall doesn't sell.
"You know the stalls around these shops are suffering, the shop owners collect allowance money from the stalls and cultivators also prefer to go to the shops compare to the stalls, so the stalls owner losses money at the end, that's why the stalls are fewer around there" fatty Bryt beside Ryu explained to Ryu when he saw Ryu being curious.
"And inside this city, there is almost nothing you can't find inside because people from all around the 4 continents sell their goods here" the fatty further explained to Ryu who is continuously nodding.
Ryu continued his exploration when he saw a majestic 6-story building plated with gold by the formation master, and on it was written in a domineering way.
THE MYRIAD BEAST INN!
Ryu was attracted to the inn and wanted to ask the fatty when the fatty already answered,
"It's the branch of the MYRIAD BEAST INN of the MYRIAD BEAST ACADEMY branch in our golden parrot continent that is in every continent in the world! It's the most influential academy in the world!" The fatty said while exclaiming in his loud voice which attracted other pedestrians in street.
"Do you want to Lodge in, don't even think about it, it's expensive, you should just come to my house, I will give you a room there" the fatty said eagerly after explaining to Ryu.
"How much is the fee for one a week," Ryu asked leisurely.
Ryu was confident in himself, he got quite some spirit stones from the bandit, so it should be enough for some days before he board the ship.
The fatty thought for a while and raised his two hands dramatically while raising up his 7 fingers and said,
"7000 low-grade spirit stones for a week as 1000 low-grade spirit stones is for a day"
"What! Just to Lodge for a week, 7000!" Ryu exclaimed and he sucked in a cold breath in shock, while all his earlier confidence dispersed.
Ryu checked his save and calculated that he have 9000 low-grade spirit stones if he pay for the inn he will only have around 2000 left! coming back to being poor.
Ryu thought downcast for a while and regained confidence that he will still gain money from refining pills, besides, he is sure there will still be enemies like those bandits he can plunder from.
He looked at the fatty and said
"The inn it is, I will stay in the inn and I don't think I should be here for a week either, the ship should move before 7 days right?" Ryu said probing the fatty.
Fatty Bryt's jaw dropped in shock when he heard Ryu said he will lodge inside the inn using 7000 spirit stones! Even a big family young master will hesitate to use that type of money to lodge, besides he Is a pauper!