Ethan, after sending off his new lackeys, made his way out the gates, and the first thing he did was shop for a change of outfit.
All of his outfits were simple purple robes or stylish ones, so he went to the marketplace inside of houzi village where qinger had took him for a stroll previously.
He changed into some commoners brown robes but he looked like the most well to do commoner to ever exist.
Since the Silent Parrot was all the way over in the central province of the state, exactly at the state capital, he had to locate a ride that would get him there without drawing too much attention.
He had been receiving some gold coins allowance since living his mother's abode, so he currently had over a thousand gold coins on his person.
The currency of this world was similar to what he had expected -
100 copper coins - 1 silver coin
100 silver coins - 1 gold coin
1000 gold coins - 1 imperial coin
The many masses make use of copper coins in their day to day lives, for food and various necessities, while the well to do citizens, makes use of silver coins to purchase the more high end goods.
Gold coins are usually carried by the very rich citizens of the state, and they are spent in bulk when purchasing limited and special grade goods.
Imperial coins are usually held in bulk by powerful cultivators, they are used to purchase limited cultivation resources, special herbs or pills, as well as exchanged with resources gained from secret realms and so on, they can be held by wealthy families or royal families from different kingdoms, but basically, imperial coins are mostly held by cultivators.
After Ethan got a change of clothes, he walked steadily into a quiet alleyway by the side of the road, and he fully activated the strength of his new realm, even though he hasn't learnt any movement techniques yet.
He channeled spirit qi through his body, into his legs, and combined with the strength of his physique and body Cultivation, his actual speed was on par or more profound than that of someone at the early or mide stage of core building realm, even if it's just fifty percent , it was more than enough.
"Swoosh"
Ethan zapped out the alleyway with terrifying speeds as a simple gust of wind was all that remained of where he previously stood.
Almost immediately, two middle aged men in simple light purple robes ran into the alleyway.
"Oh no!, where is the young master" said the first.
"madam's going to kill us, we could'nt keep track of a one year old kid ?! "
As they spoke, they ran around the alleyway looking for where Ethan might be hiding.
"What if something happens to him out here, we had one simple job!"
They left the alleyway looking very worried as they started looking around other places.
Ethan who was now dawning a brown cloak he also secretly purchased when he bought his new commoners outfit, was looking at these men from a street Conner in the area as they ran around like headless chickens.
'They are probably one of my mum's retainers, and were sent to watch over me, they've been tailing me and trying to hide from view since I stepped out the gate'
'but how can they watch over me or even catch up to me if they just have the strength of peak body strengthening realm ?, they can't even see my movements'
Ethan ignored them, and made his way over to a spice merchant at the center of the marketplace, one who drives his wagon of spices through the state and stops at different locations to set up shop and sell for a while before moving again.
Ethan ended up paying the old man a gold coin to get him to move early and also plot his course for the state capital.
He knew he was ripped off, since a full grown horse, one of the most expensive things on the state, was just a gold coin as well.
But he didn't care, he simply wanted to get to the silent Parrot as quickly as possible, and since he couldn't walk there, and he couldn't ride a horse, he also couldn't tell his parents about it.
Getting there even by the wagon would be a journey of an entire month, it would have been half the time if he could ride a horse but he didn't know how yet, and he would simply stand out too much, as a silver head kid on a horse would defeat the purpose of staying low-key.
So stunt double Ethan began his one month long journey to the state capital, posing as the relative of the spice seller.
While Ethan prime stepped out of his home and into the courtyard, surprising all those present, for they had seen Ethan go out earlier wearing a different outfit, but they simply concluded he must have gone back in when they weren't paying attention.
Ethan played a little bit by the pond and admired the little fishes in it, before he turned around and went back into his home.
He did this because he didn't want to worry his parents that he'd gone missing, knowing full well that those guys would go report to his mum that he was missing, showing his face here now, would resolve any unnecessary worry she might fall into.
Ethan got back into the lotus position, and while his cultivation technique ran passively, same as his body strengthening technique.
He let those run in the background, and poured all his attention into a certain technique that would play the major role for when he got to the capital.
[Sutra of the bald immortal monk]
His plan was simple, get this technique to minor success, and according to his understanding, the three minor realms are actually in strength and not in actually stepping into those realms.
And since Ethan already has the strength of a core building realm cultivator at the early stage of qi gathering realm, once he gets the technique to minor success, he could do what he did to the three lackeys to someone at the body strengthening realm in cultivation.
The silent Parrot is a powerful organization, but the the amount of strength they would be able to allocate to one of their simple state branches, won't be that much.
So capitalizing on this information, he can simply get some body strengthening realm cultivators of the silent Parrot under him.
But he had to be careful and plan it all out well, who knows if any of them have a mind shielding treasure at the immortal grade?, a long shot I know, but never an impossibility.
He can simply start with the less important staffs and work his way up.
It took about a few weeks to a month to get an
Immortal technique to entry for Ethan, and following this trajectory, it should take at least two months to get to minor success.
But comprehension grows with life level, Ethan's life level has stepped into qi gathering realm from body strengthening realm and he could feel the potency of his comprehension has skyrocketed, compared to before.
"The question is, how long will it now take me to get to minor success with an immortal technique? "
"Well , let's find out"