Chapter 213 Vast City

The vermilion city wall is like a winding dragon entwined on the earth. The wall is tall and thick, and the bricks are stacked tightly together. The years have left mottled marks on it, making it look more ancient and solemn.

There is a corner tower at each corner of the city wall, with flying eaves and pointed corners. There are copper bells hanging under the eaves. When the breeze blows, the bells sound crisp and pleasant.

The city gate tower stands majestically, with red pillars, colorful beams, and interlaced brackets, like a phoenix spreading its wings about to fly.

There was a huge plaque embedded above the city gate, on which were engraved three powerful characters: "Haomiao City". Naruto felt the majesty contained in it with just a casual glance.

Walking into the city gate, you will see spacious streets paved with bluestone slabs, which have been polished by the years and are as smooth as mirrors.

There are rows of ancient buildings on both sides of the street, with carved beams and painted rafters, which are magnificent.

The first thing that catches your eye is the courtyard houses. Most of the gates of the courtyard houses are black lacquered wooden doors, with stone lions placed on both sides of the doors, looking majestic.

There are exquisite wood carvings on the door lintel, some with floral patterns, some with lifelike characters and scenes from mythological stories.

Entering the courtyard, the main house is tall and majestic, facing north and south. The sunlight shines on the carved window lattices, reflecting charming light and shadow.

The east and west wing rooms are distributed symmetrically, and there is often a small space in the middle of the courtyard, where there are either a few green bamboos planted, with the breeze blowing gently and the bamboo leaves rustling; or there is a small fish pond where goldfish swim happily.

Going deeper, there are more magnificent buildings, such as temple-like pavilions.

The pavilion has a double-eaved hip roof, and the glazed tiles sparkle with colorful light in the sun.

The paintings on the building are colorful, featuring auspicious scenes of dragons and phoenixes, the myth of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, and images of gentlemen such as plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum.

The railings of each floor are carved with intricate patterns, some are cloud patterns, symbolizing good luck and fortune; some are volute patterns, symbolizing endless wealth.

There is also a tall tower in the distance. The tower body is made of bricks. There are niches on each floor of the octagonal tower body, and Buddha statues are enshrined in the niches.

There are wind chimes hanging under the eaves of the tower. When the wind blows, the chimes make ethereal and melodious sounds, as if telling the long history of the city.

Naruto's eyes widened, his heart filled with shock.

He walked into the city carefully, feeling the strong ancient atmosphere. The residents here were dressed in simple clothes and walked hurriedly through the streets and alleys.

Naruto was walking around the city, and the residents around him were not curious about this child in strange clothes.

He was full of curiosity and eager to find someone to ask what this place was.

So, Naruto began to travel around this ancient and mysterious city, asking everyone he met.

He first grabbed an old man wearing a coarse cloth gown and carrying a shoulder pole. The old man looked kind.

Naruto asked expectantly, "Hello, old man, can you tell me where this is?" However, the old man just glanced at him indifferently, as if he didn't hear him, and continued to carry his load and slowly walked away.

Naruto was a little surprised, but he didn't give up.

Then he walked towards an old lady who was selling handmade products at a street stall.

He squatted in front of the stall, pointed at the surrounding buildings and said, "Auntie, I'm new here. Can you tell me where this place is?" The old lady was busy fiddling with her goods and didn't even raise her eyelids, as if Naruto didn't exist at all.

In this way, Naruto asked more than a dozen people one after another.

There were scholars carrying book baskets, children holding candied haws, and clerks busy in the shops, but no one paid any attention to him.

Naruto couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. He stood in the middle of the street, scratched his hair, and secretly sighed in his heart: "This copy is like a game, even NPCs are added."

Then he opened the map again. When the map unfolded before his eyes, Naruto couldn't help but sigh again.

I saw that on the map, the place where I was standing at the moment was like an insignificant speck of dust in the vast starry sky, just an extremely tiny existence.

This huge and complex map seems to be silently telling the vastness of this copy world.

Then he looked at it carefully again and found that the map was neatly divided into countless large blocks.

每个大块之上都清晰地标注着不同的数字范围，从 “20 - 30” 开始，接着是 “30 - 40”“40 - 50”“50 - 60”，一直到最高的 “90 - 100”。

If anyone who has played the game sees this mark, they will immediately understand that this represents the level of the wild monster area.

This means that in this dungeon, different areas have different levels of danger. The higher the level of the area, the stronger the monsters will be, and of course the things obtained will be more precious.

At this time, Naruto is at the first level of the Chengdan realm, and the level displayed on the system is 41.

He looked at the areas on the map that were marked with level ranges, made a quick decision, and headed towards the "40 - 50" area.

Along the way, monsters below level 30 would pop up from time to time, trying to stop him.

Naruto's mouth curled up slightly. Facing these low-level monsters, his current strength was more than enough to handle them with ease.

I saw him moving as fast as lightning among the group of wild monsters.

He quickly formed seals with his hands, and the simple ninjutsu was performed smoothly in his hands.

Every attack he made hit the vital points of wild monsters accurately. Those wild monsters below level 30 had no power to fight back in front of him and were easily solved.

As he continued to move forward, Naruto discovered a very interesting setting.

During the battle, he noticed that the system would reward 10 point for defeating monsters around level 1, and 20 points for defeating monsters around level 2.

This made Naruto guess that the points reward should be directly linked to the level of the wild monster. In this way, he also roughly understood how to obtain system points.

About half an hour later, Naruto appeared in the "40 - 50" area.

The atmosphere here is obviously different from before. The air seems to have become heavy, and there is a faint sense of oppression all around.

The first monster that appeared was a giant boar-like creature.

Its body was covered with hard brown bristles, and each bristle stood up like a steel needle, flashing coldly in the sun.

Its eyes were like two burning flames, revealing a fierce light. The long fangs in its mouth were curved and covered with some unknown mucus, making it look disgusting and dangerous.

Its hooves stepped on the ground, making a dull "thump thump" sound, and every step made the ground tremble slightly, as if protesting to Naruto.