Chapter 33 The Strange Royal City
Originally Xu Zhenfeng thought that with a mount, they would be able to reach the Demon Mountain King City in one day at most.
Little did they know that they had to climb over mountains and cross rivers, walking straight for three days regardless of wind and rain before arriving outside the royal city.
From afar, when he was still on a high mountain, Xu Zhenfeng, riding on Ben Lei, saw a towering city below, located in a concave basin.
Xu Zhenfeng felt something strange when he saw this royal city.
There is no other reason. The location of this royal city is simply... too easy to attack but difficult to defend.
The royal city is surrounded by towering mountains, with a sunken basin in the middle that is dozens of miles in radius, which is the location of the royal city.
Surrounding the royal city is a moat that appears to be more than twenty feet wide and more than ten feet deep.
There was no water in the river. It looked as if the riverbed had been dry for who knows how many years, and the riverbed had been trampled into a solid surface like a road.
Xu Zhenfeng stood on the mountain, looking at the royal city and shaking his head.
If the human race and the demon race really broke through the defense line of the Demon Mountain and diverted the river water, they would surround the royal city and starve the demons in the royal city to death.
He knew that there were also intelligent monsters in the Monster Mountain, so why did they choose such a place for the royal city?
Over the past two or three days, Xiong Da had been telling Xu Zhenfeng all kinds of gossip about the eight major demon tribes in the royal city, and had roughly introduced to him the distribution of the eight major demon tribes' power in the Demon Mountain.
As the eldest son of the chief steward of the royal city's internal affairs, although Xiong Da's father does not think much of him, his status and position are there after all.
Xiong Zhenwei knew that he was not very smart, so in order to prevent him from making mistakes and doing something that would bring disaster to the family, he would tell him some things secretly.
In fact, Big Bear knew more about the private matters of the eight demon tribes than the two wolf elders.
In the past few days, Xu Zhenfeng and Xiong Da almost ate and slept together. The more the two monsters talked, the more they got along. It felt like they had known each other too late. Xiong Da did not hide anything from Xu Zhenfeng. He told Xu Zhenfeng almost everything he could remember about the things in the royal city.
As a result, the two wolf elders also learned a lot of secrets of the eight demon tribes, and solved many things that they had been unable to understand before.
When Xu Zhenfeng and his companions arrived at the foot of the royal city, they saw only a team of demon soldiers guarding outside the moat about ten feet away from the city gate.
Behind these demon soldiers was an extremely simple wooden bridge that was only a little over ten feet wide. However, the city gate behind the wooden bridge was open and there were no demon soldiers guarding it, allowing the demons to enter and exit freely.
Xu Zhenfeng looked at this strange royal city with a lot of questions in his mind.
When they arrived at the bridge, the two wolf elders and Big Bear took out their inspection cards. After the guarding demon soldiers looked at them, they let them cross the bridge.
When Xu Zhenfeng was crossing the bridge, he was still wondering what kind of wood this wooden bridge was made of. It was more than twenty feet long and had no pillars in the middle. He followed the monsters riding on their beasts and walked on it without feeling any shaking at all.
What's even more bizarre is that this wooden bridge actually has gallows at both ends, which means that the wooden bridge can be folded up at both ends of the moat.
After they entered the royal city, they saw a wide circular street in front of them. They walked around the circular street for a while and entered a passage that looked like a city gate.
Then, there was another circular street, and we continued walking along the circular street for a long time, and there was still a city gate, and we continued walking around the circular street.
After passing through nine city gates, they had almost walked a complete circle around the royal city.
They entered the city before noon, and only arrived at the center of the royal city in the afternoon.
Along the way, Xu Zhenfeng discovered that the demon clan's royal city was quite lively.
Although they are all circular streets, there are various shops on each street, and there are also monsters of various races coming and going to shop.
However, most of the items sold in the shops are monster meat, dried meat, or various types of clothing and weapons.
There are also various daily necessities, such as tables, chairs, beds, cooking utensils and so on.
As for shops such as tea sets, incense shops, restaurants, and leisure and entertainment shops, he didn't see any.
I don’t know whether the living standards of the demon race have not yet reached the point where they can pursue exquisite pleasures, or whether the demon race simply doesn’t care about these things.
Now they have come to the most central part of the royal city. In front of them is the palace of the Demon King, and behind them are the headquarters of the eight major demon tribes.
The headquarters of the eight demon tribes surrounded the royal palace, just guarding outside the eight gates of the palace.
The more Xu Zhenfeng looked at the royal city, the stranger it seemed. It looked like a city trapped in a maze.
Especially the royal palace in the center, whose eight gates were guarded by the masters of the eight major demon tribes. It seemed like the royal palace was surrounded by the eight major demon tribes.
However, it can also be said that the masters of the eight demon tribes guarded the palace.
Is this the difference between the demon race and the human race?
After seeing the entire layout of the royal city with his own eyes, Xu Zhenfeng secretly complained in his heart.
At this point, Xiong Da had to separate from Xu Zhenfeng. The main hall of their bear tribe was outside the Xihua Gate of the royal palace, while the main hall of the wolf tribe was outside the Donghua Gate.
The two monsters clasped their fists and said goodbye. Xiong Da and Xu Zhenfeng agreed to visit him again in the wolf tribe's main hall in a few days, and then they returned to their respective main halls.
Seeing Big Bear riding on the monster and leading his followers away, the two wolf elders approached Xu Zhenfeng, whispered to him the location of the hall, and led him all the way east. After walking for half an hour, they arrived outside the Donghua Gate.
Just opposite the Donghua Gate, separated by a street several feet away, is the wolf clan’s main hall.
When he saw the two magnificent doors that looked like they were made of gold and iron, Xu Zhenfeng couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it was worthy of being the headquarters of the demon clan. These two doors were extremely thick and tall, even more magnificent than the Donghua Gate of the demon king's palace opposite. I'm afraid it would take several demons working together to push them open.
Even the walls on both sides of the gate are higher than the walls of the palace.
Guarding outside the gate were eight burly wolf demons wearing armor and holding spears. After seeing Xu Zhenfeng and his party, one of the wolf demons hurriedly walked down the steps and came up to them, smiling and shouting to them, "The two elders are back."
The two elders dismounted from their mounts, and Xu Zhenfeng and the others followed suit.
The demon soldier who came forward glanced at Xu Zhenfeng and the Wolf Buyan Ji demon behind him, nodded at them, and waved his hand back. The demon soldiers guarding outside the door pushed open the door together.
After a few demon soldiers pushed the gate open, they came up and took the mounts from their hands. The two elders led Xu Zhenfeng and the others into the gate.
Inside the gate was a square paved with bluestone, with rows of houses on both sides. Across the bluestone square was a building. Walking under the building, Xu Zhenfeng looked up and saw that the building had three floors, each with a circular corridor, just like an arrow tower.
After walking out of the building, there is another bluestone square in front of you. Three rows of houses in the shape of a Chinese character "品" are at the end of the bluestone square.
The two elders asked Lang Buyan and the others to wait outside the house on the right, and took Xu Zhenfeng to the big house in the middle.
Along the way, Xu Zhenfeng did not see any wolf tribe members except for the eight wolf demon soldiers guarding outside the main gate of the hall. The huge hall was so quiet that it seemed as if there were no demon tribe members present.
Could it be that all the wolf demons in the hall go out during the day and only come back at night?
Xu Zhenfeng was puzzled and followed the two elders towards the big house in the middle.
When they arrived outside the door, two wolf demons who looked older finally came out of the house.
One of them was leaning on a black wolf-head cane. When he saw the two elders and Xu Zhenfeng coming over, he smiled and said, "Wu Jing, you guys are finally back. Is this the talented junior?"
The wolf demon with the crutch looked at Xu Zhenfeng and kept looking him up and down. Xu Zhenfeng quickly saluted.
"Junior Xu Zhenfeng greets the elder."
"Hmm? Last name Xu?"
At this time, the elder named Wu Jing also smiled and said, "It doesn't matter what your last name is. Let's go in and talk about it first."
When the monsters returned to the house, they saw an old wolf monster sitting on the chair in the middle of the house.
After a few old wolf demons exchanged a few words of greeting, they sat down one by one, leaving only Xu Zhenfeng standing in the middle.
After greeting each other again, Lang Wujing said to the old wolf demon in the middle with a serious face: "Great Elder, Wubai and I have already investigated the qualifications of this young man, and it should be excellent."
As soon as Xu Zhenfeng came in, the Great Elder stared at him intently. When he heard Lang Wujing say that the aptitude of this little wolf demon was excellent, his eyes jumped involuntarily.
“Excellent?”
“Yes, absolutely perfect!!!”
Lang Wujing said with certainty without any doubt.
The Great Elder looked at Lang Wujing with surprise, then stood up from his chair and walked to Xu Zhenfeng in a few steps.
Xu Zhenfeng smiled at him and was about to say something when the great elder suddenly stretched out his hand and placed it on the vital point of his wrist. His movement was as fast as lightning, and a demonic power instantly emerged.
"Great Elder, you must not..."
The Great Elder's series of actions were so fast that when Lang Wujing wanted to open his mouth to stop him, it was too late.
Before he could finish his words, the expression on the Great Elder's face changed.