Peeping into the Immortal Road

Chapter 32 Arrival at the County City
A few days later, Ji Chang walked out of the house, locked the door, took a last look at the house, and then turned and headed in a certain direction of Heishan County.

Ji Chang did not sell his house directly.

This is because he does not lack this little money, and selling it would be a waste of time and not worth it.

However, during the past few days, Ji Chang found a reputable escort agency in Heishan County and hired a team of escorts to protect him.

In Zheng State's escort agency, there are roughly six different factions, namely letter escort, ticket escort, silver escort, grain escort, cargo escort and guest escort.

The people Ji Chang hired were guest escorts.

Because the purpose of guest escort is to protect travelers instead of property, guest escort is also called human escort.

Generally speaking, travelers who can hire bodyguards to protect them are mostly officials who are going to or from office, or wealthy businessmen who are moving or returning home to visit relatives.

They are all wealthy people who bring their families and money with them, and are the targets of thieves' sneak attacks. Not only are they big targets, but it is also inconvenient for them to move.

Therefore, escorting guests is more difficult than escorting property, escorting silver, and escorting passengers, and the price is also much higher.

Of course, Ji Chang is not short of money, but is rather generous.

He hired escorts mainly to avoid trouble.

These escort agencies have connections with many bandits and robbers in the mountains and forests. With the protection of the escort agencies, they can avoid encountering most of the bandits.

Moreover, when entering or leaving the city, the soldiers guarding the city gates generally would not search the bodies of nobles who were guarded by escort teams.

In this way, Ji Chang's belongings can also be prevented from being exposed.

As for why he didn't do this before, he had to wait until he broke through the third level of refinement.

Because of caution and safety.

Although the escort agency generally would not rob their employer, if they saw Ji Chang alone with a large amount of valuables on him, they might attack him.

When Ji Chang's cultivation was still at the second level, he could not stop the escort team which consisted of many first and second level warriors.

However, now that I have become a third-level martial artist, I no longer have this worry.

Most escort agencies do not have three-level warriors, and the few that have them rarely send them out to escort the escort.

In this way, even if the escort team dared to attack him, Ji Chang would be able to kill them back.

Not long after, Ji Chang, wearing a blue robe and with a steel knife slung around his waist, arrived at the door of the escort agency.

At the entrance of the escort agency, a dozen escorts were standing near a carriage, waiting for Ji Chang's arrival.

They were dressed in uniform escort uniforms and wore sharp weapons around their waists, looking very majestic.

Ji Chang glanced at these escorts and admired them secretly in his heart.

They have sharp eyes and sturdy build, and almost all of them are martial artists at the first or second level. You can tell at first glance that they are veterans who have been in the martial arts world for many years.

The middle-aged escort leader walked up to Ji Chang and clasped his fists, saying, "Master Ji, please get in the car. It's time for us to set off."

Ji Chang returned the greeting and said, "Thank you all!"

Then he turned and walked towards the carriage that was protected by everyone.

Ji Chang boarded the carriage and sat down. The carriage moved slowly forward under the escort of the bodyguards, and they set out on the journey to the county seat of Cangling County.

They were walking on the street leading to Heishan County. There were many shops on both sides of the street, and there were a constant stream of pedestrians. The dart flags were flying high, looking very majestic.

The escorts walked briskly and looked around vigilantly. Even in the county town, they were always ready to deal with possible dangers.

When entering and leaving the city, because of the escort team's guarding, the soldiers guarding the city did not search Ji Chang, but only asked him to pay the exit fee.

After all, the soldiers could also see that this time the escort team was escorting guests, not food or supplies.

Naturally, there is no need to pay any fees for goods entering and leaving the city.

This also made Ji Chang very satisfied. After all, in this way, the large amount of silver bills he carried would not be so easily exposed. In this way, under the protection of the escort team, Ji Chang successfully left Heishan County and embarked on the journey to Cangling County.

Along the way, Ji Chang remained vigilant at all times, observing the movements around him.

Although he had the protection of the bodyguard, he still did not dare to be careless.

After all, the world is dangerous and people’s hearts are hard to predict.

Even the escort team might attack him as their employer.

However, after a few days, Ji Chang's worries seemed unnecessary.

The escort team did not attack him. They did encounter several robbers on the way, but most of them avoided him after seeing the escort team protecting them.

Of course, there were also some desperate robbers who dared to come forward and try to get close to Ji Chang's carriage.

But often before that could happen, they would be repelled by the escort teams.

However, they did not encounter any major crisis that forced Ji Chang to take action and demonstrate his strength at the third level of refinement, showing off in front of the escort team's escorts.

Such calmness made Ji Chang feel a little regretful.

However, it is better to have less trouble than more, so how could Ji Chang be dissatisfied?
Soon, after several days of trekking, they finally arrived near Cangling County.

The terrain here is dangerous, with continuous mountains and dense forests.

The county seat of Cangling County was not built on a plain, but near the mountains.

Just like Heishan County, it is named Heishan County because it is close to Heishan Mountain.

The name of Cangling County comes from the fact that the city of Cangling County was built near Cangling Mountain.

Like Heishan Mountain, Cangling Mountain is also a branch of the Shiwan Mountains.

Ji Chang guessed that the reason why the county seat of Cangling County was built here must be closely related to the cultivators.

Perhaps there is a spiritual vein on Cangling Mountain.

In other words, the residence of the Cangling Chen family, a family of immortal cultivators, should be on Cangling Mountain.

If he couldn't bind the person in charge of Cangnan Iron Mine, he might as well go to Cangling Mountain to try his luck.

Finally, at dusk one day, they saw the city wall of Cangling County from afar.

The towering city wall looked particularly spectacular under the setting sun.

The city wall is tall and thick, with bricks and stones stacked tightly. Time has left deep marks on its surface, demonstrating the vicissitudes and thickness of history.

On the city wall, rows of neat battlements appeared clearly outlined under the setting sun.

Unlike the city wall of Heishan County, the city wall of Cangling County is more than ten meters high.

Ji Chang estimated that even if he used the Flying Crane Force and the "Flying Crane Soaring Cloud Step", it would not be an easy task to cross the city wall of the county town.

This magnificent city wall doesn't even look like an ancient city wall.

If we rely solely on the manpower of the people, I don’t know how many workers and how much time it would take to build it.

But considering the existence of monks in this world, with the help of magic, it should not be difficult to build a city wall of this scale.

Under the escort of the bodyguards, Ji Chang successfully entered the Cangling County City.

Just like when he left Heishan County, Ji Chang did not encounter any body search.

After saying goodbye to the escort team, Ji Chang found an inn to stay in.

(End of this chapter)