Angel City was located at the junction of the Sidon Kingdom's desert and ice regions. The environment there could be said to be the most vile place in the Sidon Kingdom. It was surrounded by a boundless plain with no shelter. Storms would visit Angel City a few dozen times every year.
In the beginning, this place didn't have a city. It was a battlefield between the two major races of the Sidon Kingdom. Later on, the war stopped and this place became a place where all kinds of criminals were banished. The first criminals established Angel City there.
At the beginning, this place was called Sin City. Everyone there was either an unforgivable criminal, a banished evil mage, a homicidal maniac, or an irrational alchemist.
But later on, more and more people were banished there, and there were many talented people banished there. Those crazy alchemists and evil mages without any moral bottom line might be a bit stronger than powerhouses of the same rank in terms of pure power.
More and more of these people gathered, and the battles were endless. People died every day. Eventually, the first City Lord of the City of Angels appeared. Only then did he unite these crazy people and set a rule. Only then did the City of Angels slowly develop.
Later on, this place became a gathering place for all kinds of unacceptable existences. Those who killed people, offended people they couldn't afford to offend, or committed heinous crimes would all run to Angel City.
No one cared about what you did there, as long as you followed the rules of Angel City.
Anything that couldn't be bought on the market would be sold there. Even the princess of a certain royal family would be sold as a pet.
It wasn't that no one wanted to exterminate Angel City, but that there was simply no way to do so. This was the gathering place of the Sidon Kingdom's filthy people, but it also involved a lot of benefits. If you wanted to take something from there, you had to pay a corresponding price. Forcibly taking something was breaking the rules of Angel City.
Once, the daughter of a prince of the Odin Kingdom, a princess, was sold there and sold in an auction. That prince led people to suppress Angel City, and even a Heaven Rank powerhouse personally acted to destroy Angel City.
But that city had been in operation for countless years. It looked ordinary, but its defensive abilities were frighteningly powerful. The city was sealed and directly sunk into the ground, disappearing for a month.
The City of Angels had disappeared for a month. The organizations that had connections with the City of Angels had suffered great losses. This was especially true for international transactions. Some of the negotiations could only be done in secret or the exchange of information. All of this was done in the City of Angels.
During that month, a large number of forces suddenly appeared and suppressed that prince. Even the person responsible for the Odin royalty personally went to persuade him. Thus, Angel City once again rose from the ground, and that prince could only grit his teeth and escape with a large amount of purple golds to buy his daughter back.
Lin Yun stood on the deck of the airship, smiling as he looked at Angel City.
Even in the future, Angel City would still maintain its great reputation. Angel City's forces could be found in all the chaotic areas. Ten thousand years later, the main city of Angel City would be an incomparably chaotic plane. Anyone who knew the coordinates could go there and buy anything they wanted there. Whether it was materials, alchemy items, lifeforms, or even technology, they could be bought there as long as they could afford it.
This kind of place was actually the easiest place to do things. As long as one had enough power to deter others, this could be said to be the safest and most suitable place to open a shop.
As long as they paid enough taxes and had their own shop, anyone who came looking for trouble would be killed in front of the entrance. The city guards of Angel City would only help clean up the bloodstains at the entrance. Lin Yun wouldn't even need to make a move, the city guards would directly deal with the troublemakers. As for robbing the shops in the city, that would be suicide.
After landing outside Angel City, Dick personally led Lin Yun to the most flourishing street of Angel City. There was an eight-meter-wide shop that was the only shop that wasn't open for business.
The shop had three floors, and after opening the shop's defensive array, it was only eight meters deep. Compared to the Gilded Rose's shop, this was definitely the smallest one. Even the smallest branch was a few times bigger than this one. But in Angel City, this could already be considered a relatively large shop.
The interior had already been completely renovated, and it was decorated according to a potioneering shop. There were two floors on the top, with the first being a warehouse and the first being for people to live in. The corresponding things had already been prepared.
"Lord Merlin, this is already the largest shop in the best location we could find. If you are not satisfied, we can continue …"
Dick didn't get to finish his words before Lin Yun waved his hand.
"No need, I'll take this one, I'm very satisfied."
Lin Yun knew how hard it was to find a shop in Angel City. It was very difficult to buy a shop in this kind of place. Even if you offered ten times the price, no one would necessarily be willing to sell. Some people who owned a shop would rather leave it empty and pay a large amount of taxes every month than be willing to sell their shop.
Being able to rent a shop was already pretty good, let alone buying one. Especially this most flourishing street, it could be considered the best street in the lower reaches of Angel City.
After taking out all the contracts, Dick signed a contract with Lin Yun to transfer the shop. This shop belonged to Lin Yun, and no one could control what he did within the shop.
There were many evil Necromancers conducting human experiments in Angel City, but as long as it didn't affect the outside of the shop, no one would care.
After completing the contract, Dick hurriedly left with the ten thousand Multi-use Cores. As for Lin Yun, he opened his Demiplane and let out Xiuban, Reina, and the people specially brought here to manage the shop. They all appeared.
After the goods were sold, the shop's name was changed to a magic signboard, Gilded Rose Potion Shop.
The shop opened in a low-key manner, without any opening ceremony. Lin Yun only said a few words to Xiuban before disappearing.
"Xiuban, Reina, the two of you stay here for the time being. If anyone comes to cause trouble, just knock them to death, no need to hold back."
After stealthily leaving Angel City, Lin Yun directly headed towards the approximate location he had deduced. The location of that Planar Path wasn't very far from Angel City, only fifty kilometers away. This distance could be considered within the range of Angel City, and all kinds of battles never stopped in that area.
Those who fled to the City of Angels would often be chased to the gates of the City of Angels. Before entering the City of Angels, it was not safe. Only after entering the City of Angels would one be completely safe. No matter who it was, everyone had to abide by the rules of the City of Angels.
Lin Yun's hidden body fluttered in the air, using the probing Magic Tool he had prepared ahead of time to track the aura of that Planar Path.
If he didn't know what kind of plane it was, it would be almost impossible to use a Magic Tool to find the Planar Path. Only by knowing what plane it was could he determine a rough parameter and a rough target to search for. Only after knowing the general range would the Magic Tool be useful.
And this process wasn't so easy. The Magic Tool would only react when he was very close to the Planar Path. Thus, Lin Yun estimated that he would have to float there for at least ten days.
This process was very easy to be discovered. If he didn't have a good reason to wander around Angel City, he might attract unnecessary trouble.
Now, even if he was discovered, as a shopkeeper of Angel City, no one would spare him a second glance, even if he squatted outside and counted the sand, feeling the cold wind.
The sky darkened, and the hot weather during the day rapidly decreased during the night. During the day, Angel City looked like a sand city in a desert, but during the night, it kept snowing. Everything within several dozen kilometers of Angel City had turned snow-white, and the city had turned into a snow city covered in ice and snow.
At night, the temperature plummeted to the point where a drop of water would turn into ice. However, the city became even livelier. The atmosphere of the city was in full swing. The snowflakes falling from the city evaporated before they could even touch the ground.
Night was the time when Angel City came to life. All the shops were open at night. Brothels, casinos, and black markets were mainly open at night.
Xiuban was sitting at the entrance of a shop, happily eating the fresh food he had bought outside. But there wasn't much business in the shop. Newly opened shops were like this, even if they specialized in potioneering.
But in Angel City, the lack of customers didn't have much to do with the shop being newly opened.
Soon, a few people came to the door, led by a Sword Saint with a pondering sneer on his face.
"A newly opened shop, the Gilded Rose? I've never heard of that name, pay your taxes first …"
Two Sword Saints with sinister auras led a few Expert Swordsmen through the entrance of the Gilded Rose, but before they could finish their words, Xiuban stopped and raised his head to look at the few guys blocking the entrance of the Gilded Rose with a grin.
Then, he casually picked up Carnage beside him and disappeared in an instant.
The next second, there was a thunderous explosion as the Sword Saint who spoke was sent flying. After flying for three meters, his body exploded into a mist of blood.
Xiuban grinned nastily and swung Carnage as if he was hitting a chicken. Afterimages flashed as two Sword Saints and five Expert Swordsmen were smashed into bloody mists.
Less than three seconds had passed since these people stepped through the entrance of the Gilded Rose and turned into bloody mists.
Xiuban fiercely spat at the entrance and casually threw Carnage to the side before picking up the roasted leg of that unknown magic beast and wolfing it down.
"A bunch of idiots, I just paid my taxes during the day, yet someone is pretending to be a tax collector at night. Do you really think Lord Xiuban is an idiot?"
The bustling crowd outside the entrance of the Gilded Rose quieted down. A group of people were looking at Xiuban with alarm as he squatted at the entrance of the Gilded Rose eating roasted meat.
Everyone understood what those people were doing. The Gilded Rose had opened, but no one dared to buy anything because it was a new shop, especially one that no one had heard of. It clearly didn't belong to any powerful force.
This kind of shop would be treated as a fat sheep by the thugs of the city, so they would come to collect protection fees.
No one would dare to rob the shop if they relied on the city guards, but these scoundrels had plenty of ways to make the shop unable to continue doing business.
With enough strength, this was indeed the best place to do business, but without enough strength, they would have to bleed a bit to continue doing business.
Clearly, these people thought that the Gilded Rose was a branch of some alchemy shop that could be easily bullied.
After a few seconds, the crowd started moving again, doing what they had to do. No one cared about the tragic deaths of those few idiots, but their expressions as they looked at Xiuban and the Gilded Rose had changed. Such a fierce and unscrupulous person was rare in Angel City.
The Gilded Rose, which originally didn't have many customers, soon had many people come to visit. No one cared about those disgusting pieces of flesh at the entrance.
After half a minute, the city guards appeared, and the manager of the shop only said a few words. These people had pretended to be city guards and came to collect taxes for the Gilded Rose. The city guards immediately turned around and left, cleaning up the traces at the entrance.
A few minutes later, someone came to sell information about the people killed by Xiuban. The manager straightforwardly used a thousand purple golds to buy the information and gave it to Reina.
After daybreak, Lin Yun directly appeared on the 3rd floor of the shop. He also learned about what happened during the day, but Lin Yun didn't care.
"As long as those people take one step out of Angel City, I'll get rid of them. A small force formed by a group of fugitives actually dares to extort us."
Ignoring these things, Lin Yun kept looking for the Planar Path outside the city. The Gilded Rose's business in Angel City had started smoothly. With deterrence, the people who came to buy things felt more at ease, especially since the Gilded Rose's potions were of very good quality. There were even some special potions that couldn't be found in Angel City.
Three days later, the small force formed by that scoundrel was completely annihilated when they left the city on an escort mission. They were all frozen into ice sculptures less than a hundred meters away from Angel City. Even the scorching sun and high temperature of the day didn't melt the ice sculptures.
Everyone seemed to be powerless to resist as they were frozen into ice sculptures. The shocked expressions on everyone's faces were frozen.
After being frozen for three days, the ice sculptures loudly exploded and turned into ice crystals that scattered in the air.
After flexing their muscles, the Gilded Rose could be considered to have a firm foothold in Angel City. In this place, as long as one had enough strength, it was definitely the best place to do business.
No one came to look for trouble in the Gilded Rose's shop. The transaction was far more straightforward than in other places.
As for Lin Yun, the frequency at which he appeared in the shop became lower and lower. He spent most of his time looking for the Planar Path outside the city.
After searching for a dozen days, he didn't find any useful clues. He then searched for another five days without rest. Just as the sun was about to rise again, the Magic Tool Compass finally reacted.
A faint aura of death appeared on the surface of the Magic Tool Compass, which hadn't changed at all. Then, the death aura flowed to the edge of the Magic Tool Compass and pointed in a certain direction.
Lin Yun's expression shook as he finally found something. He followed the Magic Tool Compass's guidance and reached the place pointed out by the Magic Tool Compass in a few seconds. After reaching the place, that wisp of death aura revolved in the center of the Magic Tool Compass.
Seeing this scene, Lin Yun suddenly understood.
'Turns out that Planar Path is underground. No wonder Angel City is such a chaotic place, yet it took a few millennia to discover this Planar Path.
At that time, Angel City had already moved to an independent plane and this place was occupied by the Lincoln Merchant Alliance. It was also at that time that the Lincoln Merchant Alliance discovered this Planar Path.
The sand under his feet mixed with the night's snow and was frozen into frozen earth. It would take at least noon for the desert to return to its daytime state.
Lin Yun spat out a Law Rune and the frozen earth under his feet automatically split open. Lin Yun's body looked like he had fallen into a swamp as he rapidly disappeared.
After diving for over a hundred meters, he finally found the hidden location of the Planar Path. He was surrounded by hard rocks, and there was a crack that was only a meter wide. In the center of that crack, there was a faintly discernible spatial crack that was half a meter long, and it looked like it would disappear soon.
There was only a bit of death aura within the crack, as well as some Undead Skeletons' corpses that had been crushed to pieces. As the spatial crack started weakening, that crack seemed to be closing up towards the center.
No wonder no Undead had appeared for so long. That spatial crack simply couldn't be called a Planar Path, it was at most a set of coordinates.
The Undead creatures that could pass through such a small crack would definitely not be more than level-10. Furthermore, the Spatial Crack would only appear for a short period of time between day and night. After that period of time, the Spatial Crack would disappear, and the crack that was forcefully opened by the Death Aura would also close due to the strong underground pressure.
Under this kind of pressure, any Undead below level 30, even if it was a Specter, would be directly suppressed to death. Not to mention a few thousand years, if there were no accidents and the terrain didn't change, this Spatial Rift might not be discovered even after tens of thousands of years.
He released a few Spatial Law Runes into the spatial crack and propped up the spatial crack that was about to close. He then expanded the range of the crack and solidified the surroundings into a several-meter-wide small space before starting arranging the Planar Path.
This kind of Planar Path with only a small spatial crack simply couldn't support shuttling. He could only use that spatial crack to confirm the Planar Path's coordinates and then use the array to build the Planar Path.
In less than half an hour, the Planar Path was completed and Lin Yun crossed the Planar Path and arrived in a dusky world.
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