95 Xianren Road

  Ye Qin and Nan Zhongjie walked behind, leading their horses, marveling at the old woodcutter's words.

  Ye Qin asked: "I heard that there are many cultivators fighting outside Xianyuan City, and ordinary people like you often appear here, isn't it very dangerous?"

  The old woodcutter laughed and said, "Hehe, the immortal is joking. The immortals' lives are more precious than gold, where would they have a moment of leisure to bother with an ordinary person like me? If I were to encounter an immortal in battle, all I need to do is avoid them, no immortal would treat an ordinary person like me as an equal."

  The old woodcutter, although sixty or seventy years old, was in good spirits and carried a bundle of firewood on his back with quick steps, almost without stopping at all. Ye Qin asked him to put the dry firewood on the horse's back, the old woodcutter was delighted, but he insisted on doing it himself.

  Under the guidance of the old woodcutter, they wandered around on the vast Gobi Desert shrouded in white mist, seemingly circling around many places, walking for about an hour or so, before finally arriving at Xianyuan City.

  In the distance, a city wall rises abruptly on this high plateau, with a corner faintly visible in the morning mist. The city wall, built with massive stones weighing tens of thousands of kilograms, exudes a majestic and powerful aura, like a sleeping tiger, shocking to behold.

  When the three of them arrived at the entrance of Xianyuan City, they found that there were already one or two hundred people crowded in front of the city gate. Most of them were Qi-refining cultivators like Ye Qin and Nan Zhongjie, with most being between the first to sixth layers of cultivation. Of course, there were also a small number of ordinary mortals like Old Man Lin. The crowd was jammed at the entrance, unsure why they couldn't enter the city.

  Ye Qin was shocked to see so many cultivators gathered together for the first time, his cultivation at the fourth layer of the Refining Qi stage was ordinary among these cultivators. Seeing that all the cultivators were calm and queuing up to enter the city one by one, he quickly calmed down and thought to himself that it's good to get used to it.

  In the midst of the excited crowd of Southern Middle Jie's morning market, Zhang Wang gazed out and saw those cultivators at the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining, and couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.

  Dozens of fully armored, stern-faced guards stood at the gate of Xianyuan City, carefully checking every cultivator who wanted to enter or leave the city. Only those who passed the inspection were allowed to pass through.

  The inspection process was quite cumbersome, and the team entering the city moved slowly.

  On one side of the city gate, there was a huge notice board with several latest notices posted on it. Many cultivators gathered around the notice board, pointing at the wanted notices and discussing them in an uproar, their faces filled with shock and fear. However, not a single ordinary person walked past to take a look, nor did they pay much attention to the wanted notices.

  Ye Qin looked from afar, somewhat perplexed.

  Nan Zhong Jie Xing rushed over to take a look, but soon ran back in shock, shrinking his head and saying: "It's a wanted poster, someone committed murder in the city yesterday and was put up by the guards of Xian Yuan City, so today at dawn they sealed off the city for inspection."

  Ye Qin Qi said: "There are still people in the city who will kill others, does this kind of thing happen often?"

  "No, I used to live in the city for a year, and most of the time the city gate didn't need to be checked, you could come and go freely. In my impression, it seemed like the city was only closed once or twice."

  An old woodcutter beside him also said, "This old man occasionally sees such a wanted notice every few months. Those who can be listed on the announcement are all those who have committed murder in the city and will be arrested after being posted on the announcement board, so they will be checked very strictly. However, there are more cases of fairy fights outside the city, and no fairy will take care of it."

  Ye Qin looked at the old woodcutter's expression in surprise, apparently the old man wasn't worried about his own safety at all. But thinking about it, whether it was orthodox or unorthodox cultivation, which cultivator would have the leisure to do anything to a mere woodcutter?

  He took another glance at the wanted list and secretly memorized the portraits of the wanted cultivators, so that he wouldn't recognize them if they met again.

  The troops at the city gate advanced slowly.

  Cultivators and secular mortals entered the city separately, with cultivators entering through the main gate. Secular mortals, on the other hand, entered through a smaller side gate, where inspections were not as strict. As there were fewer secular mortals, they passed through quickly, and the old woodcutter soon bid farewell to Ye Qin and the others, carrying his firewood into the city.

  On the side of the main gate, after nearly half a time, it was finally Ye Qin's turn.

  At the city gate, a desk was placed, and a middle-aged man in charge of checking was guarding.

  Don't look at this person as just a captain of the guard, he is also a master of the fifth layer of Qi refining, and his strength is one layer higher than Ye Qin's.

  At the city gate, there were also dozens of other guards who were cultivators at the third or fourth layer of the Refining Qi stage. They wore armor and wielded weapons that seemed to be made of some unknown material, emitting a strong aura of spiritual energy. On the chest plate of their armor was an unusual emblem - a cross pattern composed of three small swords. Although Ye Qin couldn't discern anything special about these armors and weapons, he could sense that they were far from ordinary mortal equipment.

  The guardian leader had a large knife at his waist and sat lazily on a wooden bench, shouting at Ye Qin: "Take out your Xianren Road token!"

  "Immortal's Road Leads?"

  Ye Qin's face changed slightly, and he was shocked in his heart. Xianren Road Token? This Xianren Road Token, he indeed had one, but it was obtained from the Patriarch of the Nan Clan, Nan Tianxiong. He had always been unaware of the token's function, so he put it in his package. He couldn't possibly take out this token in front of Nan Zhongjie, or else who knows what would happen. Apart from this, he didn't have any other Xianren Road Tokens.

  The leader of the guards saw that Ye Qin did not take out the Xianren Road Token, but instead was dazed and asked in surprise: "You don't have a Xianren Road Token, could it be that you're a newcomer to Xianyuan City for the first time?" The leader of the guards' eyes emitted an unusual golden light, as if using some sort of magic to scan Ye Qin.

  Ye Qin was startled at first, but found that it was just a probing spell and didn't have any harmful effects, so he quickly calmed down and let the guardian leader continue to probe.

  The leader of the guards finished his investigation and did not find that Ye Qin used concealment techniques or disguise techniques to hide his appearance. Then, this leader of the guards picked up a stack of portraits on the case table, carefully compared them with Ye Qin, and found that Ye Qin was not the person listed in the wanted notice.

  The leader of the guards put down the wanted poster and didn't make things difficult for Ye Qin, saying: "Since you're a newcomer, there's no need to take the fairy road. Tell me, which country are you from, which family are you from, or are you a loose cultivator? First, register here before entering the city."

  Ye Qin immediately replied: "I am a wandering cultivator from Wu Guo, I don't have a family."

  The leader of the guards heard Ye Qin was from a relatively unknown country, and suddenly sneered, "Wu Guo?" He turned his head to ask the other guards, "Hey, has anyone ever heard of such a small country?"

  The guards burst out laughing.

  "Who knows, maybe tens of thousands of miles away there might be one. It can't be found near Xianyuan City." "Nowadays small countries are as numerous as ants, rising and falling, falling and rising. There being a small country called Wuguo is nothing unusual."