Spirit City

After a while, Tang Feng regained his senses. He was glad that his brother was fine. He also understood why his teacher hit him. He apologized to his teacher for his reckless behavior.

Meanwhile, Xue Qinghe adequately demonstrated the education of one raised to be monarch, once the enemy retreated, he immediately began instructing the imperial knights systematically, moving the undamaged carriage to the front, healing the war horses and recovering the formation.

With just a little effort, excluding the war horses who were already dead, the five hundred imperial knights had already recovered most of their combat capabilities.

Previously, when those black clothed bandits were fighting, there was insufficient killing intent, most of them were only fighting defensively, trying to gain sufficient time for the two Title Douluo. Therefore, the area with the most deaths among the two parties, was actually when Tang San used his poisonous hidden weapons to kill the hundred odd people.

Xue Qinghe after finishing what he was supposed to do, returned to his place beside Ning Fengzhi, politely saying:

"Teacher, what do you think we should do next?"

Ning Fengzhi smiled calmly,

"Stick to the original plan and continue advancing, having learnt a lesson this time, they won't dare to lightly make another move. After all, they still wouldn't want to pay too heavy a price for Tang San."

"Yes. Continue onward."

The entire procession continued advancing, but the atmosphere had already became very tense. Tang Feng immediately boarded Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's carriage. He knew that he had already became everyone's focal point.

The mission of the two Title Douluo from before was obviously to kill his brother.

One failure didn't mean that they would still fail next time. Being remembered by Title Douluo level powers, that was not as simple as just having a thorn in ones back.

Tang Feng thought in his heart "If brother wins the tournament, the assaults from Spirit Hall will be much scarier than today. I can't let brother win this. I really have to give it my all!"

He was determined to defeat Shrek. Not only for his team, but also to save his brother. He planned to be so dazzling, that the shadow of his light will be enough to hide his brother from the giant named Spirit Hall.

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Heaven Dou Empire's competing Spirit Master teams continued onward, and for the rest of the journey, there were no more mishaps. In order to protect these Spirit Masters, crown prince Xue Qinghe requisition three thousand armored troops to supplement the guard from towns they passed. At the same time he also called for some Spirit Master experts from the capital.

At last, the whole procession reached Spirit City. Because of the special provisions of Spirit City, Xue Qinghe ordered the armored troops and imperial knights regiment to standby outside the city, and led the fifteen Spirit Master teams into Spirit City.

Compared to enormous cities like Heaven Dou City and Suotuo City, Spirit City was a lot smaller. It didn't even cover a tenth of the area Heaven Dou City did. However, it was still plenty shocking to Spirit Masters.

Despite the small area, Spirit City's walls were still absolutely constructed to the standard of any capital city. The more than eighty meter high city walls appeared extremely majestic from the outside, and they were also more than thirty meters thick, built completely out of granite.

Even the wealthy Ning Fengzhi couldn't help sighing in admiration on seeing the walls.

In fact, Spirit City was built entirely by Spirit Hall. Wouldn't building a city like this be easier said than done?

Most unusual was that Spirit City wasn't as square as other cities, but rather hexagonal. In other words, its city walls had altogether six faces. The ones in charge of patrolling the city walls were all Spirit Masters, all wearing the special clothing of Spirit Hall.

Each of the six walls had an enormous sculpture, identical to Spirit Hall's warrant tiles, symbolizing six formidable spirits.

Entering Spirit City gave people a spacious impression. There weren't a lot of people on the streets, and very few shops. The business of these shops were mainly in the goods needed by Spirit Masters. Even storage type spirit tools were for sale. Of course, the quality was a bit lacking.

They were met in Spirit City by a cardinal, and under his guidance, space was very quickly found for the more than two hundred people, staying in a hotel on the west side of Spirit City. Shocking Tang Feng was that even the hotel staff were Spirit Grandmasters with more than twentieth ranked spirit power.

After settling in, Tang Feng specially moved away from the hotel, carefully observing the other areas of Spirit City outside. This was his habit which came from his assassination missions.

He discovered that the hexagonal Spirit City was actually built around a hill. On this hill were two extraordinarily striking buildings. The building halfway up the hill was the most magnificent, clearly visible even from a long distance away.

It was a building of pillars with a domed roof; the outside of the building made of golden material, glittering in the sunlight. By simply asking, Tang Feng found out that it was the newly constructed Supreme Pontiff Palace. The residence of the most senior ruler of Spirit Hall.

From Xue Qinghe he had also learned that even deeper inside, Spirit Hall's Elder Palace was also located in Supreme Pontiff Palace. Of course, it was impossible for ordinary people to see those elders.

The other building at the peak of the hill was a lot smaller than Supreme Pontiff Hall, approximately only a third of the size. It's architecture was somewhat similar, only its walls were white like jade, far from as eye catching as Supreme Pontiff Palace.

Ever since entering Spirit City, every Spirit Master had a kind of special feeling, apparently a somewhat pious mood in their hearts. Xue Qinghe told Tang Feng that the seemingly much smaller building was the highest existence in Spirit Hall, Douluo Palace.

Only dead Title Douluo could stay in that place. It could also be called the tomb of Title Douluo. The reason this place had such a devout atmosphere wasn't because of Supreme Pontiff Palace, but rather because of Douluo Palace.

No matter where Supreme Pontiff Palace was established, Douluo Palace would follow, and moreover the position of Douluo Palace would always be even higher than Supreme Pontiff Palace. At times of great rites, the Supreme Pontiff would personally go to offer sacrifice before the doors of Douluo Palace, but even he didn't have the right to enter before death. These were the rules, and nobody could break them. Otherwise he would suffer the anger of all Spirit Masters.

It was precisely because of the existence of Supreme Pontiff Palace and Douluo Palace that Spirit City came to be known as the holy land of Spirit Masters after its founding. Of course, this was also publicly accepted by the majority of Spirit Masters.