Talisman Reincarnation - All My Clones Are Dao Ancestors-Chapter 157: Introducing the Neighbourhood

Fu Xian gestured to one of the carriages in front of the teleportation hall.

Entering it, he said, "Take us to the Di family, the noble family."

The driver understood and reigned the horses, telling them to move forward.

In the night he didn’t use a whip, keeping the horses quiet.

Inside, Gui Zen looked through the window at the streets of the empire, his body hunched over while the tortoise shell on his back hit the walls.

"It’s a bit cramped," he commented casually before turning to Fu Xian.

"Could you tell me a bit about the neighbourhood and who we will meet?"

After teleporting and doing so much, Fu Xian was still calm, so he thought that this invitation was likely legitimate.

In that case, he would have to get to know the inner workings of the neighbourhood.

"To be honest, I myself haven’t been able to interact with many, so I only know the general outline.

The first leader is Senior Ruan, who has been in the fifth stage for hundreds of years. He initially invited many creative masters and battle masters, but over time, the battle masters passed away while the creative masters advanced.

Now, the majority of cultivators in the neighbourhood are creative masters.

My senior sister is called Qian Ziling, she is a Construction Leader, owning a construction hall and proficient in building all kinds of things.

Besides her, there are various senior brothers and sisters of our faction..." he introduced them one by one.

"There are two more who are close to advancing to the fifth stage – I only know their general information. One of them is a battle master. It’s said he has some conflict with the creative masters in our neighbourhood, and over the years, he nearly left several times. This time, even if he advanced, we don’t know whether he’ll stay.

The other is a creative master, an alchemist. As long as he advances, our neighbourhood would have our own alchemy master.

Other cultivators are also not far. Especially from our faction, nearly everyone is close to a breakthrough.

Most other creative masters aren’t as good as those in our faction, simply because the cultivators in our faction are mostly niche cultivators who have developed their own small market, without having to compete with the many cultivators in the city.

Senior-"

"Since I will join your faction, just call me senior brother, no need to call me senior." Gui Zen interjected.

Fu Xian nodded with a smile, he knew Gui Zen had accepted his position.

"Senior brother, when you enter the city, you will have two ways to enter it.

Either you enter as a battle master using Senior Ruan’s quota, or you enter as a creative master using sister Ziling’s quota.

To be honest, the former is a good short-term profit for sister Ziling, since she won’t have to use her quota. But if you have mastered a creative art, then I suggest you enter as that.

In the end, with senior brother’s cultivation, you won’t be far off from the fifth stage.

Naturally brother will be tested by the city and the neighbourhood, but after five to ten years, after you signed contracts and formally became a member of our neighbourhood, getting resources for cultivation won’t be too difficult.

After all, many people don’t lack the money but the opportunity to use it.

I hope senior brother can use this opportunity to advance by leaps and bounds and become the next fifth stage cultivator!

Though even after you advance, you probably won’t become a higher citizen with the right to open a neighbourhood. Only those who grew from lower stages have this right.

Staying in a neighbourhood for many years and building relationships is a lot better than entering a new one."

Fu Xian could see from Gui Zen’s character that he might be tempted if he were to be invited by a different neighbourhood.

Currently, his cultivation was too low to be able to discern his ideas fully.

Gui Zen smiled, "Thank you, junior brother, for telling me all this.

Although I can divine, to be honest, my path is focused more on Beast Transformation, so I am more suited to be a battle master.

As for creation arts, well, I do have some mastery in divination, but not much more."

Fu Xian nodded in understanding – rather than entering as a creation master with a lacking expertise, it would be better to just become a battle master and fight your way through everything!

"We have arrived," the driver stopped the carriage and knocked at their door.

Fu Xian came out and saw that he was indeed in front of the Di family.

A servant saw him and stepped forward, "Greetings, honourable guest!"

"Tell Huoling that I’ve come here." Fu Xian said directly.

The servant bowed and went back, sending a different servant to inform their honorary elder.

A few minutes later, a lady in a fiery dress came out.

She was quite confused, "Fu Xian? Didn’t you say you would stay in the Tingle Kingdom for a month?"

"Well, that was indeed my plan."

"Haha, it’s my fault, I was impatient and directly rushed to take the last teleportation to the empire!" Gui Zen laughed and cupped his hands in greeting.

"Senior!" Huoling felt his aura, greeting him respectfully.

"Huoling, this is the Tortoise Daoist Gui Zen, a senior who has helped me in the past. He is the person I came to recruit!

Senior brother, this is Huoling, a fellow neighbour. She is a weapon refiner and has become a temporary retainer of the Di family here, refining weapons for the family."

"Oh so it’s senior brother Gui Zen!" Huoling relaxed somewhat, then looked at Fu Xian displeased.

"You didn’t say the person you would recruit would be at the peak of the fourth stage!"

"I didn’t know either.

Huoling, it’s like this.

We really just came back and I thought that the inns probably don’t have any rooms. Do you mind housing us for a few days?"

"Sure, no problem, come in!" Huoling led them into the courtyard.

Of course she knew that the issue wasn’t a lack of inns – Fu Xian simply didn’t want to pay exorbitant prices in the night. There was even the danger that the rooms offered would be those left over, such as suite’s, costing a lot more than what he planned to purchase...

After all, he didn’t have a real business just yet, so every stone had to be saved if possible!