"I'm here to visit my family. Please help me find Pu Xue."
To Du Feng's surprise, Huang Ying reported his name in a serious manner and even shoved an immortal stone into the guard's hand. The Immortal Stone was the same as the one in the Heaven Realm, but the shape was slightly different. The Immortal Stones in the Heaven Realm were usually flat while the one here was in the shape of a pebble. It was easy to make. All he had to do was polish it.
"Alright, please wait a moment."
The guard was quite polite to Huang Ying. Maybe it was because of the Immortal Stone. After all, it was a third-rank Immortal Stone.
"Will it work? If not, we'll think of something else."
Du Feng didn't want Huang Ying to feel awkward, so he secretly talked to her through voice transmission.
"No problem, I'll be there in a while."
Huang Ying sounded confident. She said that she would be there in a while. She must have been to the Emperor City before, so she must have told the people in advance. People who often came to the Emperor City for business would always find a relative in the city. Even if they weren't relatives, they would insist that they were so that they could enter the city. However, it would cost money to find such relatives. They would have to pay extra every time they led the way.
Du Feng thought that Huang Ying must have found a guide in the city in this way. In fact, the brown-skinned man was hoping to find a guide this way too. As long as he entered the city, he would be able to find a fake relative.
While Du Feng was wondering what kind of fake relative Huang Ying had found, he saw a woman walking over with the guard.
That's not right. Why does this person look so familiar? Du Feng's mind was spinning rapidly as he tried to recall if he had seen this person before. But no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't remember seeing such a person. He looked at Huang Ying again, and then turned to look at the woman. He remembered.
"Mom, walk slowly."
Just when Du Feng was about to confirm his guess, he heard Huang Ying call out "mom".
That was right. The reason why the woman looked familiar was that she looked very similar to Huang Ying before she put on a disguise. However, she looked more mature and amiable. She was a serene woman, and one could tell at a glance that she had a gentle temperament and a good temper.
Holy sh * t, this was simply explosive news. This woman was actually the wife of the Yellow Emperor, one of the Five Emperors of the Heavenly Court. People said that the Yellow Emperor's wife had died a long time ago and he only had this daughter left, so he doted on her. To his surprise, his wife was still alive, and she was hiding in the Imperial City of the Realm of True Immortals.
No matter how big of an enemy he had in the Upper Realm, he wouldn't come all the way to the Realm of True Immortals to kill him. Needless to say, the Yellow Emperor really had his ways.
"Mother, there's something I want to ask you."
Huang Ying did not hesitate to tell her mother that the brown-skinned man wanted to buy a place to enter the city. Actually, it was not a big deal to sell a fake relative as long as he really went shopping in the city and didn't cause any trouble. If this fake relative caused trouble in the city, as the guarantor, he would have to take responsibility.
"Your father doesn't let me vouch for others. I'm sorry."
The woman rejected the brown-skinned man's request. After all, she didn't have a strong foundation in the Imperial City, and she didn't want to cause trouble. Therefore, she couldn't vouch for others. Of course, Du Feng was an exception. He also managed to sneak into the Imperial City as a relative without spending extra money.
"Do you see the man with the sign over there? Go and ask him."
Huang Ying's mother was indeed a gentle woman. Seeing that the brown-skinned man was in a difficult situation, she even pointed him in the right direction. Actually, vouching for others, including selling the place to be a guarantor, was also done by intermediaries. They would charge some processing fees and introduce a fake relative to you. Then, they would negotiate with the person in question.
"Thank you!"
The brown-skinned man left after receiving the guidance. He turned around and went to look for the man with the sign. The man's sign looked like he was selling all sorts of groceries and ointments, but he was actually an intermediary. He could get a commission for recommending a business, which was much easier than selling groceries.
Smart. That was Du Feng's first impression of the woman.
The woman seemed to be too timid to vouch for others, but in fact, she didn't want to cause trouble for her family. The brown-skinned man didn't look like he was going to the city to buy groceries. Du Feng had been suspicious of his identity since the beginning. Only Huang Ying was so naive as to be willing to help him.
If he rejected the man directly, he might be hated by the man. Besides, he would embarrass Huang Ying. He could introduce a middleman to the brown-skinned man so that he could communicate with the man himself. He could solve his own problem and show respect to Huang Ying. He was indeed smart.
"This young man is nice. Why did you bring him to me so late?"
The woman suddenly asked when the three of them were walking on the main road in the Imperial City.
"No, that …"
Huang Ying panicked. She didn't know how to answer the question. In fact, she wasn't familiar with Du Feng. They had only met a few times. However, for the convenience of entering the city, Du Feng had adopted the identity of a live-in son-in-law.
"Your dad arranged it, right?"
Alright. The woman answered her own question without Huang Ying's introduction. Actually, she could tell that all of this was arranged by the Yellow Emperor.
"Let's go. Huang Lang is waiting."
With that, the woman led Huang Ying and Du Feng into an alley. The alley was hidden behind tall buildings, so it was dark. When they were walking on the main road, they felt that the buildings in the Imperial City were too grand. Every building was tall and exquisite.
However, the style changed completely when they reached the alley. In fact, behind the pavilions, there were also many run-down houses. Even a high-end immortal city like the Imperial City had a lot of commoners. Moreover, Immortal Emperors could be commoners here too.
Of course, commoners weren't poor. After all, the Immortal Emperor's Cultivation was not too poor. However, there were too many Immortal Emperors in the Imperial City. First and Second Rank Immortal Emperors were everywhere. Third Rank Immortal Emperors were just the beginning. Fifth Rank Immortal Emperors would have some status.
In the Upper Realm, Immortal Lords could be City Lords. Immortal Emperors were rather respected. Even in the Heavenly Palace, Immortal Emperors had a high status. Everyone was given a luxurious residence. But in the Imperial City, ordinary Immortal Emperors could only live in bungalows.
They could go to smaller immortal cities to enjoy better treatment and be respected. Why would they want to live like commoners in the Imperial City? Maybe it was because of the good resources here, or maybe they liked the life of commoners.
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