Chapter 629: Mansion

"Zhu Que Imperial City Administration Office?"

By the wide street, Seeing Qiao Huizhu looked up, her pretty face looking at a massive palace in front of her. She pointed her finger repeatedly, read the large characters on the gate, and asked: "What place is this?"

He Pingsheng said: "In short... the City Lord's Mansion!"

"Hey!" Seeing Qiao Huizhu immediately felt her intelligence had been insulted: "This... this this this... wouldn't it be fine to just call it the Zhu Que Imperial City City Lord's Mansion?"

He Pingsheng said: "If it were that straightforward, how could one see that this is an Imperial City? This is the difference between an Imperial City and an ordinary city!"

"Let's go, let's settle down first!"

What now?

Where to go?

He Pingsheng had no plan for the big direction.

He didn't know either!

But for the moment, he did have some small plans.

For example, first find the materials to refine a 【Substitute Puppet】; once the materials are complete, he could try to refine the puppet.

Once refined successfully, it could be nurtured and used.

An extra layer of protection, right?

Besides that, he also needed to refine more 【Spirit-Condensing Pills】 and 【Gathering Dao Pills】.

The fifth-tier Gathering Dao Pill could improve a Soul Transformation cultivator's understanding of Dao laws, thereby breaking through Dao barriers.

He Pingsheng had already comprehended his Dao laws, but he could refine them for Seeing Qiao Huizhu to use.

Or, take his own Dao laws to the chamber of commerce and exchange them with others for other Dao laws, using them mutually to break through Dao barriers.

These were all possible!

But first, he needed a foothold.

Since he had no place to stay, He Pingsheng temporarily chose Zhu Que Imperial City as his place of residence.

It was relatively safe here.

After all, the Zhu Que Demon Emperor was in charge; even the Heavenly Fire Divine Emperor might not dare to come here and run wild.

The three of them entered the City Lord's Mansion.

Inside the City Lord's Mansion, there was a large hall responsible for selling various residences, houses, and even sect grounds.

Inside the hall, people were coming and going, bustling with activity.

Along the outer side of the hall space, parallel to the walls, was a circle of windows, numbering over three thousand.

Every window was handling business related to house leasing and sales.

He Pingsheng was also amazed.

Looking at it this way, Zhu Que Imperial City was truly vast!

Even so, there were long queues in front of every window handling procedures.

"Young Master, I'll go queue first, you take a look!" In such times, Hao Cang was definitely the one to step forward and queue.

He Pingsheng nodded: "Go!"

Having an old servant follow was indeed much more convenient.

After Hao Cang queued, He Pingsheng took Seeing Qiao Huizhu's hand and came to the very center of the hall.

In the very center, there was an eight-sided stone tablet, each side ten *zhang* wide and fifty *zhang* high.

On each side of the stone tablet, formations were arranged, and as the formation light film flickered, countless characters and messages flowed across it.

It contained introductions to various houses, courtyards, and sects in the entire Imperial City.

It could be roughly divided into several categories.

Classified by two dimensions: area and spiritual energy.

The smallest area was only a few dozen *zhang* in radius, while the largest was over three thousand *zhang*.

And spiritual power was based on the concentration level, with several grades: ordinary, mid-range, excellent, good, high-tier, and top-tier.

He Pingsheng couldn't say exactly how much spiritual power each grade had.

But choosing a high one was naturally correct.

It was just that the price was relatively more expensive.

Not only were there text introductions, but there were also graphics of various courtyards!

He Pingsheng watched for about half an hour, and not far away, Hao Cang had reached the front of the queue.

"Let's go... over there!"

He Pingsheng and Seeing Qiao Huizhu came to the window.

"Hello, Senior!" The woman handling the business was only at the Foundation Establishment Stage; in a place like the Imperial City, she basically had to call everyone "Senior": "May I ask which kind of residence you would like to purchase?"

He Pingsheng said: "Don't need to be too close to the center, the edge is fine, but the spiritual energy cannot be too poor, hmm... at least it must reach high-tier!"

"Also, the courtyard doesn't need to be too big, thirty *zhang* in radius is enough!"

He Pingsheng had already seen it; if it were thirty *zhang* in size, although not big, there would be at least two halls inside.

He and Seeing Qiao Huizhu could live in one, and Hao Cang could live in one.

"Okay!" The female cultivator nodded: "Senior, please take a look. I have selected a total of 153 houses that meet your requirements. Which one do you think is suitable?"

He Pingsheng looked at the information coming from the formation light film, scanned it roughly, and pointed to a residence near the North Gate: "Let's have this one!"

"How many spirit stones?"

"The cost is 30,000 high-tier spirit stones!" The female cultivator smiled sweetly, looking at He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng waved his hand: "Take it!"

30,000 was a lot, and very expensive.

But it didn't matter; when he was in the Netherworld Imperial Palace, he could basically reinforce two pieces every day.

Two pieces a day, ten years was over 7,000 pieces.

The key was that He Pingsheng stayed there for eighty-eight years.

That meant he had reinforced over 60,000 pieces.

He still had 30,000.

What He Pingsheng didn't expect was that this house didn't need to pay taxes, but although it was a purchase, the residence period was only five hundred years.

After five hundred years, the City Lord's Mansion would take it back directly.

Of course, if you didn't live for five hundred years, you could sell it midway, just deducting based on the years lived.

After obtaining the formation token for the house, He Pingsheng registered it using Hao Cang's name and then hurried over.

Thirty *zhang*, just looking at the literal meaning, was indeed not big.

But in reality, thirty *zhang* was still quite a large territory.

A thirty-*zhang* courtyard had two halls, one big and one small.

The big hall was in the back, and the small hall was in the front.

Rich spiritual energy rushed toward them.

For He Pingsheng, spiritual energy didn't matter; but for Seeing Qiao Huizhu and Hao Cang, it was very important; both of them needed to swallow heaven and earth spiritual energy to improve their cultivation.

"Young Master, Madam, this old servant can just live in this small attic!"

"The big hall in the back is for the two of you to live in; I'll go check the formations!"

He Pingsheng also ran over to check the formations laid out by the City Lord's Mansion first.

There was no problem, but the level of the formations was very low, only third-tier.

He Pingsheng took out two formation disks, laid out a 【Double God Formation】 on both sides of the big hall and the attic, and then began to carve formation disks to lay out some other formations.

For example, a defensive formation!

A Spirit-Gathering Formation!

An illusion formation!

He even laid out a hidden teleportation formation.

This teleportation formation didn't have much use in normal times, but it could be used to escape for one's life at critical moments.

After the formations were laid out, He Pingsheng began to refine pills.

He still had the origin he obtained from the ascension passage; He Pingsheng had already comprehended these things, and there was no use in comprehending the same laws again.

Therefore, he planned to refine these Dao law rules into 【Gathering Dao Pills】 and then give them to Seeing Qiao Huizhu to take, or take them out for trading.