Chapter 511 — Into the City
Blade of Dawn · Page 4 of 4
"Parr, my son, take a good look at the city of Xuanque, and see how many opportunities you can find—" The great merchant Coder's eyes blazed with fiery passion. This man, already middle-aged and, in the eyes of others, near the age when he might retire with honor, was now stirred with fighting spirit. For a fleeting moment, he seemed to have returned to the days when he first set out to trade on his own, to the time when he first left his hometown to seek business in distant lands. He remembered the first time he saw the streets of a great city, the first time he saw so many people and so much goods—and a remark he had happened to overhear then.
"My son, this place... is paved with gold..."