Chapter 122 - Pyramid

Later, Jean reached the Divine Phoenix City after landing in front of the city gate.

And the first thing that happened…

"Hey… Isn't that…"

"Yeah… It'd the guy from the post-HOLY SHIT IT'S THE GUY FROM THE POSTER OF THE MIGHTY HEAVENLY SWORD REGION! CALL THE REINFOR-"

*Clang!*

Two cages appeared from nothing and sealed the two guards in front of the gate, surprising them.

"..."

The guards shouted and tried to get out, but no sound came out.

"I almost forgot about that…" Jean approached the two guards and said. "Now since you saw my face, I need to kill you… So please, don't make me do it, if me and you two ignore each other, no one will get hurt. Ok?"

The guards trembled and tried to call the reinforcements with a jade, but nothing happened. Jean smiled and nodded. "Nothing will happen… Now that you are trapped from my profound art, you will die as soon as I want it. I just need to seal your heart too, and boom!"

Jean also played with gestures, to make things more dramatic. The guards yelped and kowtowed. Jean snapped his fingers, and the cages disappeared, freeing the guards.

"Now remember, since you were caught from my profound art, the seal will be always attached to your bodies, it is just not active.

If you try to do something about it, it will activate around your heart, if you do something I don't like, it will activate anyway."

"...T-Thank you, good sir…" Jean nodded and smiled. "I never seen you two."

"We never seen anyone passing here… I don't know who was talking here, do you?" One of the guards looked at the other, who shook his head in denial.

Jean walked inside the Divine Profound City and quickly hid behind a building.

"Alright, Jasmine, is there anything I can use to cover my face?" He could also use herbs to disguise himself, but he had a feeling that he had something just right for this moment.

"There is a custom mask over here…"

Oh right, the mask he obtained from killing the branch of the Xiao Sect. "Great!"

He took the jade white mask that didn't have any detail, and looked through it. It had some formless profound qi, which made it seem obvious on how it works…

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, before the white mask on his hands started to transform and got heavy.

…

The atmosphere of the Divine Phoenix City carried a trace of searing heat thanks to the extremely huge number of profound practitioners who trained in fire attribute profound arts, especially with the Divine Phoenix Sect as the head. 

The size of Divine Phoenix City was enough to be 20 times larger than Blue Wind Imperial City. Even if that was the case, the level of density of people was still exceptionally shocking at the borders of the city. 

Countless of profound practitioners, wearing various types of clothes, were moving about. Among them, most appeared in groups, and seemingly everyone was emitting out an extremely dense and heavy profound aura… 

From these people, just by casually picking any one of them out, he or she would be at the level of a Sect Master in Blue Wind Nation.

But even if the mix between the people's clothings might be confusing, there was an exception…

There was a man with the body of a 20 years old walking bȧrė-footed. A cloth hanged around his waist, covering his legs and waist, but it was clear that it was just a coat.

The ċhėst was left nȧkėd, showing a thin and pale body, but at the same time it gave off the feeling of "Impenetrable".

But the thing that attracted everyone the most was…

"...So… Why did you decide to go around the Divine Phoenix City with a rusty pyramid on your head?"

"Shhhh… Just something of my world… Also, if someone asks for my face, I already modified it to make me look intimidating. I may have the need to disguise, but why the hell should I look like a sweet guy?"

Jean was currently walking around the city with a fuċkɨnġ pyramid head that was eerily similar to Pyramid Head from Silent Hill… At least he was still able to see through his senses.

Jasmine sighed in exasperation and looked upwards from the Sky Poison Pearl. "So that is the Primordial Profound Ark, huh?"

She couldn't sense anything coming from it, which raised her curiosity. "Hey Jean, whatever you do, try to get inside the Ark."

"You don't have to tell me that, of course I am going there! Maybe I will also try to hijack it… A profound ark that can travel through space, that sounds nice."

"You think that it is so easy? We don't even have idea about how it works, for now just think about going inside it first."

"Alright… I guess you're right. So, where is the Black Moon Merchant Guild? I can't see shit with this mask…"

"It's your fault you decided to wear a FUCKING PYRAMID! …*Sigh* Whatever…" She picked up a map lying near her and looked at it. "Keep walking forward, there should be many people so it is easy for you to find with your Profound Qi."

"Thanks…" Jean started to accelerate forward, and soon he reached his destination. 

The size of the Black Moon Merchant Guild was more than several tens of kilometers, and could be comparable to a small town. The Black Moon Merchant Guild had a total of eight floors. Although they were only eight floors, the height of every floor was incomparably shocking. 

Adding the eight floors together, the building actually shot through the blue skies. At the very top, a gigantic black-colored crescent moon exalted itself among the clouds. Seemingly, at any corner of this humongous Divine Phoenix City, it was clearly visible if one were to raise his head to take a look.

Currently, in front of Jean, there was an extremely huge plaza. The plaza was filled with a huge crowd, and the place concentrated with the most people, was a gigantic crystal stone stage. 

The crystal stone stage was separated into several crystal pillars, and at the front of every crystal was a vertical profound array that was slowly swirling around. These profound arrays were distributed uniformly around the crystal stone stage, and every profound array was glowing with a mysterious and unfathomable rainbow-colored light. 

Jean approached someone and patted his shoulder. Annoyed, the man turned around. "What do you wa-AHH!!"

The man screamed in surprise when he saw a pyramid head in front of him. A voice came from its insides, making the man think more reasonably. "I'm new here, how do things work?"

"See that crystal stage? There are 36 profound arrays at the exterior of the crystal stage, and they're also the only entrances to the Black Moon Merchant Guild. If you wish to enter, you have to use your own strength to attack the profound arrays. 

These profound arrays will completely take in the energy that was struck onto them, and calculate the age of the bones."

The man took a deep breath and continued.

"Then, according to the level of strength, it would judge the grade of the attack, then, it will have the grade displayed at the corresponding crystal pillar behind the profound arrays… 

And the grade displayed have to be at least green-colored, before one has the qualification to enter the Black Moon Merchant Guild. 

However, that person will only be able to enter the first and second floors. 

With a blue-colored grade, the person will be able to enter the third and fourth level;

an indigo-colored grade, allows the person to enter the fifth and sixth levels. 

As for the highest purple-colored grade… that person can enter the seventh level."