Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 807: Chapter 317: Wrapping Up the Migration, Great Xia’s Flourishing Scene, Star-picking Hall (Part 4)

”Madam, Seniors, I’m truly sorry, the young one wasn’t meant to offend!”

He hurriedly spoke to apologize to the two of them, his expression somewhat anxious.

”It’s alright, please continue to lead the way!”

Li Tiancheng and Li Xuanling naturally wouldn’t blame him. After indicating him to continue leading the way, they sighed slightly and followed him onward.

Soon, Li Tiancheng was going to part ways with Li Xuanling, as his residence was on the southern side of the Outer City, requiring him to turn right, while Li Xuanling had to keep going straight into the Inner City.

”Second uncle, take good care of yourself. I’ll visit you in the Outer City when I have time.”

Li Tiancheng nodded lightly, softly advised: ”Leader Xia hasn’t set the date for your marriage yet. I’ll speak with him in a few days, you take care too.”

After speaking, Li Tiancheng left with Hong Yu.

Li Xuanling continued onward with Han Yue and a group of maids towards the Inner City.

Seeing the checkpoint of the Inner City from afar, a few hundred meters away, Li Xuanling slightly stirred and asked Han Yue next to him: ”Do you always refer to him as Lord?”

Han Yue shook her head, and responded: ”It was last month when Minister ordered us to change our address for him. The Minister said, the Great Xia now has a population of 400,000, spanning territories of tens of thousands of miles, far surpassing the standards for a Town-level Camp, thus we must address him as Lord.”

Having a population over 100,000 constitutes a Town-level Camp, and Great Xia’s scale now indeed far exceeds such a standard, calling him Lord is indeed correct.

”The Star-picking Hall you mentioned is the Lord’s residence?”

”Correct, the Star-picking Hall is a residence uniquely crafted by Director Mu for the Leader, astonishingly sophisticated in design, and truly the tallest building of Xia City. When it was completed five days ago, it was indeed breathtakingly marvelous. Madam, you will surely be very fond of it once you see it.”

It’s just a building, what’s there to be so amazed by...

Despite being quite astonished by the Outer City, Li Xuanling decided, for dignity’s sake, regardless of how breathtaking the hall might be, to remain composed.

They soon reached the checkpoint leading into the Inner City.

At the first sight upon entering the Inner City, Li Xuanling’s mind was struck hard.

Standing before her were two women dressed in blue summer clothes.

The two women’s appearances were naturally outstanding, and their summer clothes were evidently of exceptional quality, perhaps not less costly than her gauze skirt. The array of adornments on them was, just by eye, considerably more advanced than those worn by the dozen or so maids like Han Yue.

However, mere appearance wouldn’t suffice to strike Li Xuanling’s mind so harshly.

Mainly it was their cultivation!

She discovered the woman ahead of her surprisingly possessed cultivation at the Cold Resistance Level.

Though her strength wasn’t greater than hers, the woman wasn’t older either!

Li Xuanling could roughly tell the woman wasn’t more than twenty, perhaps not even twenty, at least two years younger than her.

And she was heavily pregnant, seemingly on the verge of labor.

Li Xuanling suddenly realized something, her face turned pale in an instant.

”Han Yue greets the two Ministers’ Wives!”

”Greet the Minister’s Wives.”

Upon hearing the maids like Han Yue bowing and greeting the two women with such titles, recognizing Xia Chuan was the Great Xia Minister, and these were naturally his wives, Li Xuanling’s pale face quickly regained its composure.

”I’ve long heard elder brother married a fairy-like wife, which we previously doubted, but upon witnessing, we now know it’s true. Sister-in-law is indeed beautiful beyond compare, Xiao Yu has never seen anyone as stunning as sister-in-law.”

”Xiao Ning greets sister-in-law!”

Compared to Xiao Ning, Xiao Yu was both eloquent and adept, immediately giving Li Xuanling, a shower of compliments to close the gap, instantly taking Han Yue’s place, holding Li Xuanling’s hand, and laughingly guiding her deeper into the Inner City.

”Sister-in-law is new here, should you feel bored in the Inner City, feel free to come find us sisters for a chat, to relieve the monotony...”

With full of amiability, Xiao Ning quickly warmed Li Xuanling, making them feel an instant bond as they soon began chatting.

However, in between their conversations, Li Xuanling didn’t forget to observe the Inner City surroundings.

Streets, coal stoves, houses, the furnace lamps hanging on the mountain walls... The lavish arrangements and facilities outshining the Outer City rendered her somewhat overwhelmed;

Upon shifting her gaze from objects to people, her pupils kept dilating, her amazement hardly suppressed, nearly gasping aloud.

”All Earth-digging Realm, such young children, all are Earth-digging Realm!”

”That one, must be at most thirteen, right?”

”This one, not likely even eleven.”

”That one, is she ten yet? How is this possible.”

.........

At that moment, Li Xuanling dearly wished to quickly pull over her second uncle, Li Tiancheng, to have him see the children on the Inner City streets, just realizing the Outer City’s Li Yuanqing would likely be considered aged here.

Where did so many geniuses in Great Xia come from?

”Sister-in-law, we’ve arrived!”

”Ah... arrived at the Star-picking Hall?”

Momentarily dazed, Li Xuanling was awakened by Xiao Ning, hurriedly raising her head, realizing unbeknownst to her, she had arrived at a huge three-story wooden building, roughly two hundred meters long and fifteen meters tall.

Judging by the size and location of the wooden building, including the meticulous layout from bottom to top on each level, it’s evidently the main building of Great Xia.

Li Xuanling admitted, the dragon and phoenix carvings under the eaves, the artistically designed beast-shaped coal stoves, the flags atop the building, along with the overall appearance presented in alternating shades of light gold and black... indeed made the main building remarkable.

But astonishingly sophisticated to the point that it was overly exaggerated.

Breathtakingly marvelous, was even more so...

”Madam, this is the main building, the Star-picking Hall is above, please step back for a look.”

Not the Star-picking Hall?

Upon hearing Han Yue’s words, Li Xuanling paused slightly, then retreated a few steps, once more looking upwards towards the main building.

At this sight, she was instantly dumbfounded.

Behind and above the main building, surprisingly was a floating palace.

The palace was evidently forged of pure iron, aside from some decorative bone carvings, along with bonfires and coal stoves inside the palace, it presented an overall black color.

It spanned only about thirty meters, merely one-seventh of the main building, with a height equal to the main building, but since it floated thirty meters above the main building, unless examined carefully, it would indeed be hard to see from the front of the main building.

How could such a grand palace float?

After this perplexing thought emerged in Li Xuanling’s mind, she carefully scrutinized the palace, noticing an iron bridge connecting with the rooftop of the main building.

Suddenly, upon spotting something, Li Xuanling turned her head to look towards the sides of the mountain wall, immediately revealing a look of realization.

”It’s not floating, the Star-picking Hall below is linked with numerous iron materials connecting both sides of the valley walls, so that’s it...”