140: Prince Judy of Yan

On the streets of Jinling City, Huang Chen turned into a gust of wind, sprinting toward the core area of the entire Jinling City.

That was the location of the Jinling Imperial Clan, the rulers of the entire Jinling City; Jinling City was also named by them using a homophone of their clan name.

The Jinling Imperial Clan had controlled Jinling City for trillions of years; within the clan, experts were as numerous as clouds, and the Guards were strict. If a Trial Taker's reputation did not reach 100, the Guard would not let you in at all.

In Star Abyss, the higher your reputation, the more respect you would receive from NPCs.

"Halt! Imperial forbidden ground, Trial Taker, stop!"

In front of the Jinling Imperial Clan's palace gate, Huang Chen was stopped by the Imperial Guard.

These Imperial Guards were all NPCs over level 150. If classified by monster rank, they had at least Dark Gold-grade strength.

"I want to go to the Administrative Hall to purchase property in the city," Huang Chen said politely, cupping his hands in greeting.

"Put your hand on the crystal ball," the Guard said upon hearing this, handing a crystal ball to Huang Chen.

After Huang Chen placed his hand on it, information immediately appeared on the crystal ball: [Beep! Name: Huang Chen, Reputation: 2000/2000]

The Guard looked at the information on the crystal ball, a flash of surprise appearing in his eyes, which then vanished.

"Follow me!"

Huang Chen followed the Guard into the Jinling Imperial Clan's territory.

He had never been to this place, which Trial Takers called the Jinling Imperial City.

The Imperial City was located at the very center of Jinling City, built with walls up to one hundred meters high, with 9999 areas spreading outwards in a fan shape.

Although it was called the Imperial City, its area was not smaller than the entire Huaxia Main City.

After all, the population of the Jinling Imperial Clan exceeded one billion, and they all lived within this Imperial City.

The buildings inside the Imperial City were ancient and elegant, filled with jade towers and golden pavilions everywhere, golden roofs and red doors, with dragons and phoenixes carved on the eaves; every part of it displayed the luxury and dominance of the Imperial Clan.

Soon, Huang Chen was led by the Guard to a grand hall; a plaque hung on the hall, inscribed with: Administrative Hall.

This name was quite in line with modern terminology; specifically, it should be the place for handling various affairs of Jinling City.

After entering, Huang Chen was led to a window. As soon as he sat down, all the unsold properties in the entire Jinling City appeared on his panel.

Looking at the properties listed there, a hint of excitement appeared on Huang Chen's face.

Currently, there were at least several hundred properties for sale near the God of War Tower.

These properties would all be cornucopias in the future.

Or you might think that to sell equipment, potions, and such things, the city gate must be the best place.

After all, Trial Takers always have to pass through the city gate when leaving the city to hunt monsters.

But in reality, the most bustling place in the Star Abyss was definitely beside the God Sealing Tower.

Because this was a place every Trial Taker had to visit every day.

One hundred billion Trial Takers distributed across five cities and 49,997 areas; how many people were there in each area?

A full 2 million!

The large gathering of people made this the most prosperous commercial center and intelligence hub.

Here, let alone selling equipment, even if you knelt on the ground selling your sob story, you could potentially get rich.

It was just that exaggerated.

Huang Chen focused his gaze entirely on the location of the God Sealing Tower; larger properties were priced at several million gold, while even slightly off-center ones required several hundred thousand.

And gold coins were not a big problem at the moment.

The main issue was that the reputation requirements were too high; some even required tens of thousands of reputation points.

In short, given Huang Chen's current reputation, these were all out of reach.

However, there was no help for it; how long had it been since the Star Abyss descended?

Reputation points were only obtained in small amounts through first kills of bosses on the leaderboard.

Unlike later on, when there would be channels like the Ladder Arena and the Hundred Clan Campaigns to quickly acquire reputation.

After searching for a while, he only found a shop with an area of about 400 square meters located over 300 meters away from the God Sealing Tower.

The shop was priced at 880,000 gold coins and required 2,000 reputation points.

It was just right.

After buying this shop, Huang Chen sent the shop information to Xie Chunyan.

If Jin Wanliang confirmed things on his end, she would be responsible for coordinating with Jin Wanliang, and in the future, Forbidden City would only need to station one person here to manage it.

As for other aspects of operations like stocking goods, that would be left to the Myriad Treasures Tower.

After purchasing the shop, Huang Chen took one last reluctant look at the panel: reputation 0/2000, back to square one overnight.

And just as he was preparing to leave.

"Prince Yan has arrived!"

Suddenly, a shout came from the entrance, and everyone in the Administrative Hall stood up, bowing in place to salute.

Huang Chen watched the entrance indifferently.

Soon, a young man wearing golden armor and looking spirited walked in.

"He is Prince Yan!"

Huang Chen carefully sized up the person who had arrived.

Prince Yan had been famous in his previous life.

Being able to fight well, having tough methods, and showing respect to the talented were all his labels.

In the tenth year of the Star Abyss, his radiance even faintly overshadowed the then-Crown Prince, with a strong momentum to replace him.

As soon as Prince Yan entered the Administrative Hall, he walked straight towards Huang Chen, paying no attention to the people who were still bowing.

"May I ask if you are Huang Chen of the Huaxia Clan?"

Although Prince Yan's expression looked amiable, his tone carried the natural oppression of someone in a high position.

Everyone was shocked to hear this.

As the Huaxia Clan's Huang Chen, who was far ahead of all other Trial Takers in this batch, this name was like thunder in the ears.

After hearing Prince Yan's words, several of his followers also secretly sized up Huang Chen, but after just one glance, they quickly looked away.

Prince Yan seemed to have just received some news, putting down the official business in his hand and rushing here; it turned out he was here to meet the number one person among this batch of Star Abyss Trial Takers.

"That is correct," Huang Chen said, meeting the other's gaze levelly, his tone neither humble nor arrogant.

Although the Jinling Imperial Clan were the rulers of Jinling City, they were not allowed to take action against Trial Takers unless the Trial Takers violated the rules.

He just didn't know what Prince Yan's intention was in coming here to find him at this moment.

"My apologies! My apologies!"

Prince Yan cupped his hands and said calmly, "I am Prince Yan, Judy, a good friend of Jin Wanliang..."

Just a moment ago, Jin Wanliang had sent him a message saying that Huang Chen of the Huaxia Clan was coming to the Imperial City.

And Huang Chen's reputation had long since spread among the NPCs; it was estimated that every NPC with some status in Area 49101 would want to actively befriend him.

Judy certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity.

His Jinling Imperial Clan lineage currently had eighty-eight princes; although the Crown Prince had already been established, as long as they were outstanding enough, there was completely a chance to replace him.

And the Huaxia Clan stood out like a crane in a flock of chickens in this trial; if he could gain the support of the Huaxia Clan, he was very confident that he could pull his big brother down from his horse.

Huang Chen smiled brightly upon hearing this, cupped his hands and said, "So you are a close friend of Brother Jin! My apologies, my apologies!"

"I heard from Wanliang that Brother Huang is here today to purchase property. I wonder if you have found a place to your liking?"

As soon as Judy finished speaking, the attendant at the window was led to the two of them by his servant.

"Your Highness, Prince Yan."

The attendant bowed, then held up a blueprint with both hands and said, "Mr. Huang is buying a small shop near Area 9999, valued at 880,000 gold coins."

Prince Yan looked at the blueprint, frowned, and pointing at the blueprint, said, "This location is a bit out of the way, and the place is small. Can it be changed to... here!"

"Prince Yan, please calm your anger. Besides the rules set by the Imperial Clan, real estate transactions must also comply with the rules of the Star Abyss. This subordinate dares not overstep!" the attendant said in terror.

Prince Yan didn't make things difficult for her upon hearing this. After pondering for a moment, he pointed to a 6-story building with a total area of 10,000 square meters right in front of the God of War Tower and said, "How about this: reserve this property. I will go and issue a reputation quest right now. Once Brother Huang reaches the reputation requirement, this property will be sold to Brother Huang."

"As you command, Your Highness, Prince Yan!"

The attendant took the blueprint and scurried back to her workstation, immediately hiding the location specified by Prince Yan.

"Then I will thank Your Highness, Prince Yan, in advance."

Huang Chen didn't stand on ceremony; Jin Wanliang must have had his reasons for introducing Prince Yan, and he could just ask later.

"You are too polite! Wanliang's brother is my brother. I am a few hundred years older than you; if you don't mind, you can just call me Brother Zhu from now on, just like Wanliang does."

"Then thank you, Brother Zhu. I wonder what kind of task you are preparing to issue to me?"

The difficulty of a task for tens of thousands of reputation points could not be low, and Huang Chen felt it was better to understand it clearly first.

However, Judy did not respond directly, but smiled mysteriously and said, "Brother Huang, please follow me, and you will know in a moment!"