116: Chapter 116 Arrival in Longxi

Leaving the ancestral house, Pei Tianrong found Pei Kong and gave him a brief account of the Old Ancestor's intention to visit the main family in Longxi.

Upon learning that the Old Ancestor was going to the main family in Longxi, Pei Kong was somewhat surprised.

The two families had not been in contact for so many years, yet the Old Ancestor was suddenly going to visit the Longxi main family.

He absolutely did not believe that this was without a cause.

Compared to his curiosity about the purpose of this trip, he cared more about being able to be a member of the traveling party.

He was restless by nature and had long wanted to go out and travel again.

It was just that as the commander of the Pei family guards, he could never find the opportunity.

This time, as a member of the entourage, although he had the responsibility of serving as a guard, it just happened to satisfy this need of his.

Pei Tianrong exhorted, "Pei Kong, this trip to Longxi is a rare opportunity. I entrust the Old Ancestor's safety to you. Once you arrive at the Longxi main family, you must not act impulsively, so as not to affect the Old Ancestor's arrangements."

Pei Kong's eyes were firm, and his voice was resounding, "Family Head, rest assured."

As the guard commander, Pei Kong was excellent in all aspects.

Pei Tianrong had always relied heavily on Pei Kong.

But Pei Kong had one trait: he was combative.

From childhood to adulthood, there was no one among his peers of the same gender whom he hadn't challenged.

It was precisely because of this combative nature that Pei Kong was able to become the strongest among the younger generation.

From this perspective, Pei Kong's combative nature could be considered a strength.

But this also made it easy to offend others.

In the Longxi main family, there were certainly many young talents.

If Pei Kong saw a skilled opponent and rashly challenged them, there was still a possibility of things going wrong.

Of course, exhortations were just exhortations.

Pei Tianrong also believed that Pei Kong would not be that impulsive.

After giving instructions to Pei Kong, Pei Tianrong went to prepare the gifts.

The next day.

Pei Qingyun also began his trip to Longxi.

This journey involved seven or eight carriages; apart from the carriage Pei Qingyun rode in, all the other carriages were loaded with gifts for this trip.

Many of them were local specialties of the Pei family, which couldn't be considered very valuable, but the quantity could not be too small, so they were transported by carriage.

From Wuyang County to Longxi Prefecture city, passing through two prefectures and thirteen counties, a journey of over two thousand li, there was no shortage of mountains and rivers.

Because Pei Qingyun was not very familiar with many of the routes through the prefectures and counties, the speed of the carriages along the way was not fast.

When passing through some prefectures and counties, the Pei family caravan would stop briefly, firstly to experience the local customs, and secondly to take a timely rest.

Just like this, stopping and going along the way, it took more than half a month for the Pei family caravan to arrive at the territory of Longxi Prefecture city.

During this period, the Pei family caravan encountered several attacks from bandit forces, but after Pei Kong displayed his strength as a Five-Viscera Martial Artist, these bandit forces sensibly left.

However, attacks from Demons could not be scared away by human presence.

Aside from killing them, there was no other possibility.

Overall, the journey was smooth.

During this time, Pei Qingyun had no chance to make a move at all.

However, this was much slower than he had expected.

Once they reached the territory of Longxi Prefecture city, they were not far from the main family.

Looking out, it was a vast expanse.

After traveling another dozen li like this, Pei Qingyun saw the Longxi Prefecture city.

The Longxi Prefecture city and the Jinhuai Prefecture city were similar in their external structure.

But the Longxi Prefecture city was far more spectacular than Jinhuai Prefecture.

The city walls were about twenty zhang high, and their thickness exceeded three zhang.

Such thick city walls were the first time Pei Qingyun had seen them in both his past and present lives. Standing beneath the city wall, Pei Qingyun could feel his own insignificance, and an indescribable sense of shock arose in his heart.

This was purely a human's instinctive reaction when facing a behemoth.

While feeling shocked, a strange thought also arose in his heart.

With his own power alone, could he punch through this city wall?

After thinking for a moment, Pei Qingyun had to admit that he seemed unable to do it yet.

Perhaps only a Xiantian Master could break through the city in one strike.

It was no wonder, as the Longxi Prefecture city was said to be able to withstand the impact of fifth-rank exotic beasts.

With such thick city walls, the power of a fifth-rank exotic beast was not enough to be considered a threat.

At the entrance of the prefecture city, carriages were lined up in an orderly fashion, and there were many styles.

The style was significantly different from that of Jinhuai Prefecture city.

But this was not what Pei Qingyun was focusing on.

After some observation, he discovered that the build of these horses seemed much larger and taller than the prized horses of his own family, which possessed the Bloodline of exotic beasts.

Just by looking at them once, he could be certain that this type of horse was also crossbred.

He just didn't know which type of exotic beast they had been crossbred with.

Besides that, there were some fine riding horses whose breeds also seemed superior.

If they could be introduced to Jinhuai Prefecture, they might sell for a good price.

However, Pei Qingyun did not linger too long at the prefecture city entrance.

As people from a noble family, no matter which prefecture city they were in, they did not need to queue, but instead had a special VIP passage to enter the city.

Before long, Pei Qingyun and his party entered the prefecture city.

More than a hundred years ago, the Longxi Pei family was already a second-rate noble family, even stronger in strength than the four major second-rate noble families of Jinhuai.

At that time, the Longxi Pei family had a Grandmaster of Meridians as their Old Ancestor.

Unlike the four major second-rate noble families of Jinhuai Prefecture, whose strongest members were only at the Perfection of the Six Bowels Realm.

Promoting from the Six Bowels Realm to the Meridians Realm would increase one's Lifespan by sixty years.

If they died of old age under normal circumstances, a Grandmaster of Meridians could even live to be one hundred and eighty years old.

However, so many years had passed.

That Grandmaster of Meridians from back then should have died.

After all, to promote from the Six Bowels Realm to the Meridians Realm, generally speaking, one would already be over fifty years of age.

As for whether the Longxi main family had given birth to a new Grandmaster of Meridians, Pei Qingyun did not know.

According to the clan records, the area where the Longxi Pei family was located was on the Central Street in the north of the city.

Half an hour later, Pei Qingyun arrived at the Central Street in the north of the city.

The Central Street was very prosperous and was not inferior to Shiming Street where the Wuyang Pei family was located.

As the capital of the prefecture city, if it couldn't even compare to Shiming Street where the Wuyang Pei family was located, then he would truly be surprised.

Through pedestrians on Central Street, Pei Qingyun inquired about the location of the Pei family mansion.

It was an extremely large complex of buildings, composed of nearly a hundred courtyards with different styles; in this regard, it was not much different from the Wuyang Pei family.

Walking along the way, the Pei family caravan arrived at the front gate of the mansion.

On both sides of the main gate, a pair of lifelike stone lions crouched majestically. The vermilion-lacquered gate was tall and thick, emitting a steady and solemn luster under the sunlight.

Getting off the carriage, Pei Qingyun walked toward the two guards at the main gate.

The two families had not been in contact for so many years, so it was naturally impossible to have communicated via letters in advance.

Before he could even get close, a guard sternly questioned him, "This is the Pei family mansion; unauthorized personnel are not allowed to approach."

Seeing this situation, Pei Qingyun had to stop his steps and slowly said, "Pei Qingyun from the Wuyang branch family. I have come specifically to pay a visit to the main family today; please trouble yourselves to announce my arrival."

"Wuyang branch family?" The two guards frowned, obviously having never heard of it.

But looking at Pei Qingyun's appearance, as well as the nearly ten carriages behind him, they knew that Pei Qingyun could not be deceiving them.

One of them said, "You wait here, I will go inform the Elder."