A New Era

With a thought a purple color ring appeared in Meng Chuan hand, giving it to his son he said

"This ring was left behind by your mother, she requested that the ring be given to you when the time is right I believe the time is now.

You can go through it later all the answers you need are there, you don't have to worry about your mom issue I will settle it."

Meng Hao received the ring and held back an impulse to go through it a immediately but decided to wait until he went back to his courtyard.

"I also received an official letter from the clan about the visit of the delegation and a banquet will be held that day and all the major powers in the blue cloud County will be invited, I believe Meng Ye will make his move at the banquet allow me to handle everything at the banquet" Meng Chuan concluded.

Meng Hao left his father officer after that and decided to go into the city and visit some place, Coming out of the Governor Mansion beautiful structure can be seen all around and some form of transportation carriage can be seen moving about seeing this carriage Meng Hao thought about the changes that have been happening within the empire for the past few years ago.

About two years ago some new form of transportation carriage was introduced replacing the old form of horse carriage this new form of carriage is called vehicles that run on four wheels.

The vehicles are faster than horse carriages and there are both common and luxurious types. Meng Clan have some of this vehicles but Meng Hao decided to enter a plubic vehicle.

After waving down a vehicle Meng Hao entered "To the west ring" he said to the driver. The vehicle has front and back seat and can accommodate at least four people, Meng Hao has seen some other bigger vehicle that can accommodate more people.

Blue cloud city is divided into West Ring, East Ring and Central Ring. The Governor Mansion is located at the Central Ring.

After about 15 minutes they arrived at the west ring if it was a horse carriage it would have taken at least 30 minutes, after giving the driver a direction they arrived before a local restaurant, bring out a few Soaring Cloud Notes($Ç) he paid the driver and got down.

The $Ç is a new form of currency introduced about six years ago to replace coins that was in use before, the $Ç was issued by the Soaring Cloud Central Bank and for the past few years it has gradually replace coins.

The symbol for the Soaring Cloud Notes is $Ç. After the Currency change the next thing was introduction of Crystal Rune, the Crystal Rune is a flat and transparent crystal that has many functions,it can be use to contact people from a long distance it can also send and receive messages amongst many functions.

Another change introduced by the Dynasty was registration of all citizens and getting an Identity Card ID without and ID one can not get access to most services.

Although some powerful Cultivators kicked against some of this changes but the Dynasty still went ahead with it, and according to news making rounds that the changes are not only happening in the Dynasty but other places in Nine Serenities.

Meng Hao looked at the old sign and worked into the restaurant, the restaurant is not popular, Meng Hao discovered by chance and there is a special type of cake and drink made in the restaurant that he likes, walking in, he moved towards a seat by the window then the owner a middle age man came to get his order.

"Good day Mr Shan " Meng Hao greet the owner whose name is Qin Shan,

"Young Master Meng Hao you here again, what is your order, is it the usual"?

Mr Shan replied, " Yes" Meng Hao responded,

"Coming Right Up" Mr Shan replied before going to the back room where the kitchen is located.

While waiting for his order Meng Hao brought out a flat Crystal, this is his crystal rune, with a touch of the screen it lightened up then a symbol appear he pressed his right thumb on the symbol and it was unlocked, the symbol is a security rune in the Crystal Rune to ensure others do not have access to the crystal apart from the owner.

After unlocking some icon appeared on the screen, each icon represent a function performed by the crystal.

Meng Hao press an icon, this icon lead to a page were one can have access to latest news in the Dynasty. On the page some news appeared ",

" A Delegation From The Alliance Of Kingdoms Is Expected To Visit The Dynasty In A Month Time",

" The Hidden Dragon Pavilion Is Holding It's Annual Auction in Three Months Time".

There are other news headlines on the page.

Meng Hao Press on the first Headline.