Chapter 445: The Luxurious Immortal City

In Wei Yuning's imagination, fairies never partake in mortal worldly affairs; who could have thought that in the Immortal City, fairies not only indulge in mortal life but also work hard, earning immortal stones to buy houses.

All the jobs that the mortal world can imagine exist in the Immortal City.

"Why not become a mountain king in the Little World, yet stay in the Immortal City to endure this fate?" Wei Yuning couldn't help but ask the Qiu Hu beside him.

"That's obvious. The Little World is a wasteland; even if I became the head of a cultivation sect there, the sisters here would mock me as a country bumpkin!" Qiu Hu looked at Wei Yuning with a clueless expression, "Now you understand, right? Even if I like you, we could never become Dao partners in the Little World unless you settle down in the Immortal City!"

Though the myriad heavens and realms are in panic, the inner city of the Immortal City remains exceedingly tranquil, with peaceful years.

A group who originally rode the celestial shuttle earned temporary status as citizens of the Ten Thousand Ages Immortal City by completing missions from the Bounty Office.

Compared with the money they earn, the cost of living in the Immortal City is negligible, so besides work hours they all begin to live within the city, enjoying the dense immortal aura.

Of course, they are not true residents; besides paying housing fees, they must also complete a quota of tasks issued by the authorities.

Fortunately, the gemstone‑collecting mission at Gemstone Lake is still valid through the Immortal City's Bounty Office, so no one has to run around.

Under these circumstances, Wei Yuning finally entered the long‑famed Ten Thousand Ages Immortal City and, together with Qiu Hu, lived like ordinary city dwellers.

On the surface, the Immortal City seems freer than the Immortal Realm; as long as you have money, entry and exit are casual. Yet the city's soaring living costs force even true immortals to work, let alone lower‑rank cultivators and mortal residents.

By contrast, the Immortal Realm, though strictly governed, allows anyone who enters to stay indefinitely.

Unless one triggers the Realm's laws, no one has ever been heard of being expelled for lack of money; from this angle, it is hard to say which is superior, the Immortal Realm or the Immortal City.

There is another point that fills Wei Yuning with urgency.

He originally thought all fairies were beautiful; Qiu Hu's looks would be considered average in the city, but after comparison he realized that Qiu Hu is actually a rare beauty among fairies, and being of a light‑type spiritual root makes her even more popular.

Her only flaw is a low cultivation level and modest talent, but these do not outweigh her charms; in the district belonging to her family, Qiu Hu is a famed beauty.

The Ten Thousand Ages Immortal City is extraordinarily vast; a trivial district spans half a galaxy. Though the Beast Realm is a medium‑sized world covering most of a galaxy, most of its interior is barren, whereas the Immortal City, unlike a mortal's endless walkable district, is filled with streets and residences, its population incalculable.

The city's prosperity is evident at a glance.

Every block boasts numerous places for food, drink, and entertainment, seemingly no different from mortal towns, yet the city's goods are countless times more exquisite and valuable.

Legendary dishes like dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder are not rare in the city's restaurants.

Here, taste is less important than the ingredient's cultivation benefits, raw flavor, and rarity.

On this matter, Qiu Hu, a local resident, offers a different answer.

Merchants on the market indeed follow this trend; it represents a fashion as well as a taste.

However, behind closed doors, ordinary city residents prefer cheaper, tastier food and pay little attention to ingredient quality, because most are ordinary mortals, spirit cultivators, or strongmen, not wealthy, and only occasionally dine out.

It is precisely for this reason that Qiu Hu originally thought of having Wei Yuning open a restaurant in the Immortal City.

In entertainment, aside from the never‑ending vices of gambling, alcohol, and drugs, the central commercial district favors various song‑and‑dance or pure music performances.

Places that play videos via memory stones, like the one Wei Yuning uses, do exist, but only within official agencies of the Immortal City, and they show proper documentaries rather than fabricated stories.

Nowadays, compared with opening a restaurant, Qiu Hu prefers Wei Yuning to bring video playback into the city, since he has become her public Dao partner and should pursue a more fashionable profession.

The film from Gemstone Lake in Green Forest Wei City has already gained some fame in a small circle; the Upper City district, closer to Green Forest Wei City, has people among Qiu Hu's acquaintances who have watched it and are raving about it in their circles!

The two, like ordinary couples, wander the Immortal City together, and at night attend a large song‑and‑dance show.

Among the performers is a fairy who once took part in the Yaochi Song‑and‑Dance Grand Assembly.

The celestial music floated, the divine maidens swayed; Wei Yuning watched the whole performance, marveling. Both the visual and auditory pleasures were top‑tier.

Afterward, he, Qiu Hu, and most of the audience remained immersed in the atmosphere, unwilling to move, and even the cultivation stuck in the out‑of‑body stage showed a faint sign of loosening.

"Impressive, impressive—things in the Immortal City truly stand out; no wonder Qiu Hu once despised the Beast Realm. Compared to this, calling the Beast Realm a wasteland is being polite!" Wei Yuning thought.

In the final roll call of performers, Wei Yuning was surprised to find that among the musicians was a list from the Heavenly Sound Sect of the Immortal Realm.

He had long heard Luo Yi say that the Heavenly Sound Sect wields great influence; this seems to confirm it.

After the song‑and‑dance show, Wei Yuning and Qiu Hu returned to the streets.

The climate of the Immortal City differs from that of the Immortal Realm.

The Immortal Realm's climate is natural, while the city's climate is deliberately engineered.

The Upper City district's main residents are human cultivators, so its climate follows human standards: clear day‑night cycles, four seasons, yet never too cold or too hot.

Streets illuminated by lanterns resemble a place on Earth from long ago.

While Wei Yuning was lost in this disorienting mood, Qiu Hu beside him suddenly said, "I really should have taken you away back then; now I have to share you with a group of women, and to make matters worse, one of them is a distant relative of mine!"

Not mentioning this is fine, but bringing it up makes Wei Yuning feel embarrassed.

Great Luo Golden Immortal Feng and Qiu Hu actually come from the same great clan; although they share the surname Qin, the families have not interacted for tens of thousands of years.

Feng and the female immortal reside in the inner city district of the Immortal City; they belong to one of the three main branches of the Qin family, while Qiu Hu's Qin family is an outer branch.