Chapter 436: Chapter 204: Homecoming, Unease, Avian_3

Using millions of pounds of iron ore to make a gate?

Just how prosperous has Great Xia become?

“Come on, hurry into the city, or do you still want to freeze out here?”

“Hurry up, I’m freezing to death, desperate to go home, come on, hurry up.”

“Quick, quick.”

……

With a few urging calls, Xiang Liang followed the crowd forward.

A kilometer away from the gate, a wave of warmth greeted them face-on.

Xiang Liang and all the others were suddenly taken aback.

That gate was actually spewing hot air?

No, no, the gate is indeed spewing hot air, but not to this extent, why suddenly getting so warm out of nowhere?

Everyone’s face was full of curiosity, but now no one provided an answer, they could only continue to walk forward.

When they reached below the iron gate, Xiang Liang and the people in the front row couldn’t help but look up and gaze inside the gate.

With that one glance, everyone’s expressions instantaneously froze.

Connected to the iron gate was a spacious avenue.

In the avenue, pedestrians came and went, creating quite a bustling scene.

Houses on either side of the avenue stood side by side, the key was every house had lights on, the streets were lined with hanging lamps and stove fires, the entire valley was brightly lit, full of scene of prosperity.

The attires of pedestrians on the avenue varied in colors: white, yellow, red, blue, black…and styles: beast skin cloaks, coarse cloth soft attire, satin embroidered robes, light gold armor, pure iron black armor…and many different styles.

Most of the fabric and color of the clothes, Xiang Liang didn’t recognize at all.

Even he didn’t recognize them, let alone others.

While Xiang Liang and others were observing the pedestrians on the street, naturally, these pedestrians also began to observe them.

“Are these the people who returned from Wuyuan? Why so many unfamiliar faces?”

“I heard it’s from those four camps earlier, didn’t Wuyuan send people back to pass the message last night, those four took initiative against us but were dealt with by Master Xu’s team, this must be everyone they brought back!”

“Four camps, tsk, tsk, tsk, Master Xu has accomplished another feat!”

“What do you mean by a feat, I just heard from the Tiger Leopard Team that they brought back over a hundred Earth-digging Realm captives, all credits go to the Black Arrow Team, Xu Ning’s squad probably doesn’t have to mine for years.”

“Such profit, I also want to go out for a stationed mission.”

“Then you’ll have to work hard, many teams are watching now, just waiting for when there will be new territories.”

………

Entering the valley, while Xiang Liang looked around at the wooden buildings, he also listened to the road discussions of the passerby; despite not fully understanding what he saw and heard, he could infer some information from it.

“I previously hypothesized that the group stationed at the Wuyuan point could occupy half of Great Xia’s strength, but now it seems absurdly wrong, randomly finding someone on the street, I feel they are all stronger than me, even stronger than my father, and there are quite a few.”

“Xu Ning’s status in Great Xia is indeed not very high, many people can call him by his first name, and there are probably many stronger than him.”

“Iron, coal, beast meat, beast bones, fruits, clothes…the supplies from Wuyuan were nothing at all at the Great Xia Station.”

“Black Arrow, Green Dragon, East Sun, these three intermediate squads are considered strong in our view, but still just the tip of the iceberg of Great Xia; for instance, the Tiger Leopard Team we just saw might be stronger than many of these squads.”

……

With more information deduced in his mind, Xiang Liang’s expression grew more horrified, his mood increasingly apprehensive.

He was horrified by the sheer strength of Great Xia.

His apprehension stemmed from the fact that, with Great Xia being so strong, his father and those one hundred-odd Earth-digging Realm people no longer held that much significance.

“The Earth-digging Realm captives they mentioned should refer to my father and them, are they suggesting they’ll be sent to mine, is it continuous mining, or just for a period of time…”

While Xiang Liang felt apprehensive, he also continued walking together with the crowd.

Ahead on the avenue, a giant wooden building came into view.

Xiang Liang was instantly entranced.

Not just him; the people around him, or rather, like him, the five or six thousand first-timers to Great Xia, were all entranced as they looked at the wooden building.

The wooden building had three floors, standing about fifteen meters high, stretching two hundred meters in length, resembling a colossal beast lying in the valley.

From the outside, one could see that most of the wooden building was constructed of timber, with only some critical parts mixed with iron materials, its overall hue presented as alternating light gold and black, giving an inexplicable sense of solemnity and awe.

Atop the wooden building, a banner was fluttering in the cold wind, the flag was golden yellow, with a large bold “Xia” character in the center.

Beneath the eaves of each floor of the wooden building hung forty to fifty braziers, dragon and phoenix engravings at the roof corners were vividly highlighted by the furnace light.

All three floors of the wooden building were brightly lit, inside the first floor you could see many people walking back and forth; the second floor’s veranda had quite a number of people leaning against it looking down, lively; only the third floor, being too high, nothing could be seen, yet its brightness was the strongest.

“Huh… Ha…”

In front of the wooden building, there was a group of ten-year-old children, probably around a thousand, practicing boxing shirtless, with every punch a loud shout; although their strength was not very formidable judging by their punch force, the momentum was exceptionally strong, especially with that building like a massive beast in the background, the aura appeared even more magnificent.

“This must be the main building of Great Xia, where that leader…”

Xiang Liang raised his head and looked at the third floor, especially the brightest spot in the center, his eyes filled with both awe and intense curiosity.

“Xu Ning, Lin Kai, Lu Yang, come on up!”

A clear and resonant voice came from the third floor of the wooden building, making everyone below, including Xiang Liang, suddenly react, all raising their heads to look.

Unfortunately, they couldn’t see anything.

“Could this voice be from that leader?”

Xiang Liang turned back, looking at Xu Ning and the other two walking towards the wooden building excitedly, becoming even more curious about that voice.

“Whistle…”

Regrettably, before the three had rushed into the wooden building, an unexpected event occurred.

A shrill, piercing, terrifying cry suddenly came from high in the sky.

The sound seemed to carry a blow directly to the soul, making Xiang Liang and the others below show an expression of inexplicable fear.

Everyone raised their heads to the sky, their faces full of horror and dread.

A shocking black silhouette, four or five feet in length, plummeted from the night sky, diving towards the top of the wooden building.

“A flying Cold Beast from the sky, what is that!?”

“So fast, what does it want to do, what’s there at the wooden building?”

“Run quickly, if you don’t, your life will be at stake!”

……

For the first time seeing a flying Cold Beast, not only Xiang Liang and the five or six thousand others, but even many people in Great Xia were suddenly thrown into panic.

Quite a few people even began running towards the outside.