Alien Hotel.

Chapter 466 The Human World is Full of Life

Yu Sheng walked out of the gate, glanced back in confusion at the direction of the main peak of Ling Mountain, and frowned slightly.

Hu Li immediately came over curiously: "What's wrong, benefactor?"

"It's nothing, I just felt like someone called my name," Yu Sheng thought for a moment, then waved his hand dismissively, "It's not a big deal, maybe I just misheard."

"oh oh."

Hu Li nodded vigorously, then began to look around excitedly.

At the foot of the Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain, there is a large city. Yu Sheng had come here once before to "open up coordinates" around the Spirit Mountain, but he only passed through in a hurry. After that, a series of events began to occur, so that no one had time to wander around. Now that they finally have some free time, they finally have the opportunity to understand what this "city" on the Taixu Spirit Pivot is like.

Everywhere you look, there are pavilions, towers, grand halls, and rows of brothels and tiled houses, bustling streets, and towering, classically styled buildings rising from the ground in the distance. Long covered bridges and staircases connect the buildings, and the whole city exudes a wonderfully ancient atmosphere. Yet, everywhere you can see incredible, even seemingly defying the "laws of architecture," large-scale architectural structures that are truly breathtaking.

Between those large pavilions and covered bridges that resemble some kind of majestic beast, one can see all kinds of fairy boats and shuttles flowing endlessly. Various magical lights and colors appear on the carved high walls and roof surfaces. There are also small buildings that stride through the specially left "tracks" between buildings under the propulsion of mechanical devices, moving slowly from one district to another.

The bustling noise of traffic fills the air, while before you lies a massive city powered by mechanical structures and celestial energy. The city is completely different in style from the "Ink City" on the desolate mountain, yet it is equally imbued with an atmosphere that is both ancient and advanced, both real and fantastical.

The children who had run down the mountain with Yu Sheng and his friends started shouting excitedly. Some of the older kids took out their smartwatches and snapped photos of the surrounding streets. Others started asking Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White all sorts of questions. The little girl closest to Yu Sheng even jumped up and pointed at a building that looked like a temple, slowly flying through the air: "Wow—this building can fly!"

Yu Sheng was also dazzled by what he saw. Because it was during the celebration, the entire city was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, creating a festive atmosphere. Various celebratory messages and stunning giant holographic projections covered almost every building in sight. Local and out-of-town tourists crowded the streets. Looking up, he even saw two cultivators in standard Taoist robes flying on swords chasing a local fox that flew across the sky in a streak of yellow light. He learned from the surrounding people that they were catching a speeding driver...

Eileen had already climbed onto Yu Sheng's shoulder, her little hands tightly gripping his head, as if afraid of being knocked off by the people around her: "Goodness... I knew it would be lively down here, but I didn't expect it to be this lively."

“This is completely different from the serene and tranquil Thousand Peaks and Spirit Mountain,” Yu Sheng remarked with a sigh. “To be fair, it has a real, down-to-earth feel to it.”

The raccoon next to him nodded vigorously, then tugged at Yu Sheng's sleeve: "My benefactor, I want to eat this!"

Yu Sheng looked up and saw a stall not far away by the roadside with a large pot set up. The bottom of the pot was glowing with blue light, and the cakes inside were emitting wisps of cold air. Many people were queuing up there.

He joined the queue and saw a large sign next to the stall. The sign had a bunch of words on it, mainly saying that in a certain year, a down-on-his-luck cultivator, frustrated and unsuccessful in the Spirit Mountain Grand Selection, ended up here. Then, an old woman with her name in bold and underlined saw that he was starving and gave him a pastry. The cultivator ate it and his mind and meridians were instantly opened. He rushed to Spirit Mountain, overcame all obstacles, and successfully passed the entrance exam for the 56th class of the Spirit Beast Postpartum Care major at Beast Taming Peak...

Yu Sheng chuckled upon seeing this; it turned out that even the folk cultivators of Taixu Lingshu, who were researching cultivation, were involved in this...

As he chuckled, Eileen started patting his head: "Hey, stop laughing. Do you have any money with you? They use something called spirit stones here..."

Then Yu Sheng pointed to a small mirror next to the stall, under which was a note: This store supports payment via Xingchen Lianfu/Lingshitong/Tonghe Payment/Tera Quick Pay.

"Are you kidding me? The capital planet of an interstellar civilization, you're worried about not being able to spend the money?" Yu Sheng rolled his eyes. "Besides, Yuanling has been opening up to the public in the Taixu Spiritual Pivot for decades. Even beggars at the foot of Thousand Peaks Spiritual Mountain would probably support you using a border region's phone to scan a QR code..."

Eileen was stunned and scratched Yu Sheng's head: "There are beggars in this place?"

Yu Sheng broke out in a cold sweat: "It was just a metaphor, I was just using it as a metaphor."

A few minutes later, the people queuing in front of the stall dispersed, and Yu Sheng and his friends walked out from behind the crowd. Hu Li grabbed cakes from his tail and stuffed them into his mouth as he walked. Behind them was the stall owner, whose eyes were still a little dazed—the pot on the stall was empty, and even several spice bottles were empty...

After walking a few more steps, Hu Li started tugging at Yu Sheng's sleeve again: "My benefactor, I want to eat that!!"

After that, it basically started repeating these few phrases: "My benefactor, I want to eat this! My benefactor, I want to eat that too! My benefactor, is this delicious? My benefactor, try this... and try that too!" Fortunately, Yu Sheng is not short of money now. If it were before, he would never have dared to walk his fox on a street full of delicious food like this—back then, he would only take the raccoon for a short walk along the riverbank, since at most a few vendors selling grilled sausages and cotton candy would appear on the riverbank...

Prices at the foot of the Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain are really high.

But then he thought about it again. This was the inn's first line of defense unit replenishing its ammunition, and he suddenly felt that it was all worthwhile. So he waved his hand and stuffed ten more steamers of buns into the fox tail...

As for the fairy tale toddler study group that Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel brought along, they disappeared by the time the fox had eaten its third meal. Before leaving, Rapunzel said she was taking the toddlers to see the street performance next door—there were wandering martial arts practitioners performing feats like breaking chests with large stones and bone-regenerating techniques on the street...

To be honest, Yu Sheng found this performance quite suspicious, and he seriously doubted whether it was appropriate for children to see such a show. But then he thought, considering the intense dreams that children in "fairy tales" have faced from childhood to adulthood, coming here to see a boulder shattering their chests might just be a refreshing and lighthearted experience for them...

He led Huli and Luna, carrying a doll on his shoulder (with a harbinger of doom floating beside the doll's head), and the four of them (carrying a ball) walked down the street without any particular destination, just wandering around with their minds blank.

During this time, he fed Huli a lot of strange and unusual things, many of which he even doubted were edible for ordinary people. He also bought Eileen a bunch of random trinkets such as hair clips, buttons, and glowing beads. To be honest, many of these things were completely useless to Eileen at her current height of 66.6 centimeters, but she just liked collecting these pretty little things.

Yu Sheng's bedside table is now filled with a bunch of these kinds of "collectibles" made of small dolls, and she usually doesn't let anyone touch them.

Finally, Yu Sheng's attention turned to Luna, who had remained silent and followed beside him.

"Since you've come all this way, aren't you going to buy anything?" He asked curiously, looking at the quiet, artificial saintess.

Luna thought for a moment, then slowly shook her head: "I... didn't see what I wanted."

“That’s right. C-ring usually either stands at home in a daze or goes to the valley to farm,” Eileen muttered, shaking her head. “This place doesn’t look like it sells farm tools.”

Yu Sheng stroked his chin: "Let's wander around a bit more. It's not easy to have such an opportunity—Luna, take a look around. You might find something that interests you. Don't always stay cooped up in the Soul Wilderness. Give some bandwidth to the real world too..."

Luna nodded slowly, then continued strolling down the street with Yu Sheng. But after only a few steps, she actually noticed something and tugged at Yu Sheng's arm: "I'm interested in something."

As she spoke, she took the initiative to walk forward, looking as if she had really discovered a treasure.

Miss Saintess's enthusiastic demeanor was rarely seen. Yu Sheng was taken aback when he saw this and quickly looked up in the direction Luna was looking. He then saw a large group of people gathered in front of them. He took a few steps forward and finally saw a stall there, which seemed to be selling only various souvenirs and decorations.

Yu Sheng was somewhat surprised; he hadn't expected Luna to be interested in such things—after all, the style of the pile of souvenirs on this stall was clearly designed to rip off tourists; he'd seen plenty of those in tourist areas. But the next second, he noticed that right in the middle of the pile of souvenirs was the finest-looking "treasure of the shop"—a human figure over twenty centimeters tall. Its appearance looked strangely familiar, and upon closer inspection, he saw a small plaque on the base of the figure with a line of small, gleaming gold characters:
The Holy and Virtuous Lord, who bestows boundless grace to save those in distress, is truly a saint.

Yu Sheng: "...?"

After less than two seconds of stunned silence, Eileen started tugging at Yu Sheng's hair: "Hey, hey, this little guy looks just like you! It's just that he seems a bit too handsome, your face isn't that good-looking..."

Yu Sheng finally realized what was happening and exclaimed, "Holy crap!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding crowd remained silent, but the stall owner who had been busy tidying up his things with his back turned suddenly sprang to attention, stood up, turned around, and looked at Yu Sheng in bewilderment.

It's TM Yuanhao.

He turned his signature white hair black and put on an outfit that looked like a tourist attraction staff uniform, which he somehow managed to find. He set up a stall there, selling blessed souvenirs and figurines of Yu Sheng...

(End of this chapter)