Douluo Unrivaled: The Beginning Materializes the Black Abyss and White Flowers

Chapter 20: The Golden Guard

Haiyuan City, a relatively backward coastal city in the Xingluo Empire, has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to the past.

There are many buildings with strange shapes and different styles in the streets and alleys. These buildings combine novel design concepts with soul guide technology elements, making them unique.

At the same time, a large number of convenient and practical soul guides have quietly appeared in the city since some time ago. They are dotted in every corner of the city like stars, bringing unprecedented convenience to the lives of residents.

On both sides of the street, soul-guiding lamps emit bright and soft light, illuminating the entire city as bright as day even in the dark night.

Several newly opened soul guide stores are bustling with activity, displaying a wide variety of affordable daily soul guide devices, which are so dazzling that it's hard to take your eyes off them.

From bicycles that facilitate people's travel, to soul-guided air conditioners that can provide warmth in the cold winter, to soul-guided washing machines that can automatically help people wash clothes, each one is novel to the people of Haiyuan City.

In fact, these soul guides have long been widely popular in the Sun-Moon Empire, but in the Xingluo Empire, as well as similar countries such as Tianhun and Douling, traditional soul masters have long been prejudiced against soul guides, believing that they are unorthodox and not worthy of being accepted by the upper class.

Therefore, most of the people in the original Douluo Three Kingdoms had only heard of the magical effects of soul guides, but had never seen the real thing with their own eyes.

However, the people of Haiyuan City showed a strong ability to accept it. With the City Lord's Mansion's unremitting efforts to promote it, these originally unfamiliar soul guides quickly became popular throughout the city.

Although some conservative aristocratic families and sects adhere to traditional concepts, they sneer at soul guides and refuse to use them.

But under Changli's tough measures, even though they were dissatisfied, they did not dare to openly stand up and oppose.

After all, in Haiyuan City, the decrees issued by the City Lord's Mansion have absolute authority and no one dares to disobey.

If anyone dares to raise an objection, they might as well ask the extremely sharp sword in Jingliu's hand whether it agrees or not.

The constraints of traditional thinking have, to a certain extent, restricted the ideas of the older generation of aristocratic families and sects.

However, the younger generation is completely different. They are open-minded, full of curiosity and desire for new things, and accept new things very quickly.

Coupled with the pressure exerted by the City Lord's Mansion, the older generation could only helplessly turn a blind eye and allow the young people to fully enjoy the convenient life brought by soul guides.

In this way, in just eight years since Lu Jingming took office as the lord of Haiyuan City, the city has been transformed.

Not only has the city area expanded by several centimeters, but some magnificent buildings as high as hundreds of meters have also been erected. On the streets, brand-new tram tracks crisscross, and soul-conducting trams shuttle back and forth along the tracks, providing great convenience for citizens' travel.

The rapid changes in Haiyuan City are like a huge magnet, attracting a large number of merchants from all over the world.

Even many soul master families were moved by the prosperous scene here and took the initiative to move to Haiyuan City to settle down.

All these changes are largely due to the new batch of soul-guided warships purchased by Haiyuan City.

These advanced warships can go out to sea regularly and sail through the rough seas as if it were flat ground. They can not only capture precious sea soul beasts, but also bring back large quantities of delicious sea fish and other seafood.

The abundant seafood brought back by the soul-guided warships not only satisfied the daily needs of the city residents, but also created enormous economic value, allowing the wealth of Haiyuan City to accumulate day by day. In the past, the frequent invasions of sea soul beasts were a lingering nightmare for the people of Haiyuan City.

But now, the situation has changed dramatically. Every invasion of the sea soul beast is no longer a terrible disaster for the people of Haiyuan City, but a grand carnival.

Because that means that more soul beast materials will flood into the market.

In terms of maintaining order in the city, the city lord's personal guard, the Golden Guard, plays a vital role.

This team has a total of 500 people, and each member is a soul master who has been strictly screened and trained.

They wear the most advanced soul guide armor and are equipped with various powerful soul guides to maintain order in the entire Haiyuan City.

Whether it is the sea soul beasts that wreak havoc on the shore or the soul masters who commit crimes in the city, they cannot escape the punishment of the Golden Guards.

The Jinwei was established only two years ago, but it has already become famous in Haiyuan City.

They had no idea how many unruly and undisciplined soul masters they had suppressed. There was even a time when three members of the Golden Guards easily suppressed a Soul King, an astonishing feat.

You know, on the Douluo Continent, the number of soul masters is already very rare, and soul king-level powerhouses are even rarer. In many smaller cities, soul king-level powerhouses are even qualified to serve as city lords, which is enough to show how respected their status is.

Although the three members of the Gold Guard who successfully suppressed the Soul King were only three of the five commander-level strongmen in the entire Gold Guard, even so, the Gold Guard had only been established for two years and already had five Soul King-level commanders. This was undoubtedly an amazing achievement for Haiyuan City, which was located in the border area.

After all, training and supporting soul masters requires a lot of resources, especially high-level soul masters, the resources required are difficult to estimate.

Within the Jinzhiwei, there is a strict and clear hierarchy. Ordinary Jinzhiwei members have strength reaching the level of Grand Soul Master, team leaders are Soul Lords, team leaders are Soul Sect Leaders, and above them are Soul King-level commanders.

The commander-in-chief of the entire Jinwei is the most powerful person in Haiyuan City - Xueyue Douluo Jingliu.

It is no exaggeration to say that with such a disciplined and powerful Jinwei, the order of the entire Haiyuan City is the best in the Xingluo Empire.

All outsiders who come to Haiyuan City dare not act recklessly or break the law here.

After all, in the past two years, many powerful people have fallen here because they coveted the wealth and resources of Haiyuan City.

The various charms displayed by this city, whether it is the soul-guided warships that can sail far out to sea without fear of invasion by sea soul beasts, or the wide variety of soul-guided instruments with different functions, or the rare treasures obtained from the ocean, inevitably aroused the greedy thoughts of some people with ulterior motives.

However, these chaotic events that attempted to destroy the peace of Haiyuan City were ultimately unable to have any substantial impact on this vibrant city.

Although the Jinwei is not as powerful as the soul master corps of the major empires, let alone the soul master corps of the Sun and Moon Empire, the forces that covet Haiyuan City are not powerful.

Not to mention, there is a powerful fighter like Jingliu guarding Haiyuan City.

(End of this chapter)