Li Mu stopped in his tracks and turned his head to look.
"What's the matter?"
He asked.
The leader of the immortal slaves in black was in his thirties. He looked ordinary and looked Li Mu up and down. Then, he walked over and asked, "Who are you? Where are you from? "
Li Mu said flatly, "I am a wandering beast tamer. My name is Mu Mu. I am from the East Saint Continent. I lost track of a Rouge Cloud-splitting Beast and happened to pass by this place."
"Oh? A beast tamer? "
The leader of the immortal slaves in black believed Li Mu's words at first when he saw a tiger and a dog beside Li Mu. Then, when he saw a burly attendant, he was convinced.
"Yellow Wind City is under the protection of the Dao-seeking Sect. Recently, there have been frequent wars. Spies from other sects often lurk around. Do you have the travel permit of the Dao-seeking Sect?"
The black robed immortal slave leader asked again.
Li Mu shook his head and said, "I came here in a hurry. I haven't got it yet."
"Oh?" The black robed immortal slave leader sneered and shouted: "Men, arrest this spy for me."
Several immortal slaves in black lazily handed over the broken fairy spears in their hands and aimed at Li Mu and his companions.
The immortal citizens who were entering and exiting the city immediately revealed expressions of shock and fear as they retreated far away.
Yuan Hou raised his eyebrows and was about to take action.
At that time, the leader of the immortal slaves in black sneered again and said, "However, since you are new here and don't know the rules, it is possible. How about this, I will let you go. You are Mu Mu, right? You give me some immortal money, and I can help you with the travel permit. What do you think?"
As he said, he gave Li Mu a weird smile.
Li Mu was stunned for a moment, but then he understood.
He was asking for money.
How come in the immortal world, it was totally different from the image of immortals that he had imagined. Instead, it was full of a philistine atmosphere, as if he had come to the barbaric feudal ancient times.
The leader of the immortal slaves in black was obviously looking for an excuse to blackmail him.
Li Mu didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard the word "money" from the mouth of an immortal.
"This immortal is so down-to-earth!"
Li Mu guessed that immortal money should be the currency circulated among immortals.
But he didn't have it.
"Hmm, I don't have any immortal coins. I wonder if this thing can be used as a substitute?"
As Li Mu spoke, he took out half a piece of defective immortal crystal the size of a child's palm.
"Immortal crystals?"
The black-robed immortal slave leader's expression changed, and his breathing quickened.
He hurriedly took it and said with a smile, "Of course, of course, of course. Haha, Lord Mu Mu, I can tell that you come from a famous sect. You're so generous. Please enter the city. Haha, you're now in the city. The travel permit will be sent to you soon."
All of a sudden, his attitude became extremely humble.
Earth's Ruffian Tiger sneered in his heart.
His ability to change his face at the sight of money is even better than mine.
Li Mu said, "In that case, thank you very much."
"Haha, you're welcome. It's my good fortune to get to know Master Mu Mu." The immortal slave in black was extremely courteous, he said with a fawning smile, "My name is Zhou Liang, I am an outer disciple of the Dao Seeking Sect, the captain of the city guards. If Master needs anything in the Yellow Wind City, you can look for me anytime."
Li Mu nodded and led Yuan Hou and the others into the city.
Zhou Liang put away the half defective immortal crystal, and the fawning smile on his face gradually disappeared.
Looking at the backs of Li Mu and the others, he muttered to himself in a low voice, "Judging by Mu Mu's appearance, he can't be a spy of the Sword Forging Pavilion. He really looks like a beast-tamer who lost his way while searching for a strange beast. But he's so generous. A piece of immortal crystal he casually threw out is worth three to five years of my hard work. Haha …"
He waved his hand and said to another black-robed immortal slave beside him, "Go find some new faces.
Kong, go to the city and keep an eye on Mu Mu. See what he's doing. If there's any movement, report to me at any time. "
"Yes."
…
The situation in the Yellow Wind City was a little more lively than it looked from the outside.
The streets were tidy.
The buildings on both sides were mostly made of earth and stone.
The ground of the streets was full of potholes, and they were not paved with flagstones. In the howling wind, the sand was flying.
There were a lot of pedestrians, but most of them looked poor.
There were stalls on both sides of the street, selling things such as immortal ores, herbs, broken fairy weapons, incomplete secret manuals for cultivation, weapons and armors … and so on.
Li Mu casually glanced at them and lost interest.
There was nothing good.
To sum up the people and things in the city, there was only one word —
Poor.
There were also poor people in the Immortal World.
Li Mu vaguely felt that the atmosphere in the city was strange.
It was as if everyone was guarding against everyone else, or as if everyone was staring at everyone else as if they were prey.
An unstable factor was circulating in the air.
And he also noticed that there were no restaurants or taverns in the city.
There was only one inn.
Li Mu was very familiar with the name —
Yuelai Inn.
That's right, it was the word that often appeared in the various martial arts movies and TV dramas that Li Mu watched on Earth.
There were many shops selling weapons, armor, elixirs, and all kinds of cultivation and combat equipment.
But there were also the signboard of the Wendao Sect hanging on the door.
It seemed that most of them were "official businesses" of the Wendao Sect.
Li Mu went into a few shops and found that they were selling some defective goods of extremely low quality. But the waiters and the bosses were all arrogant and didn't seem to care about buying.
After wandering in the city for almost an hour, Li Mu visited many places and talked to different people. He had a rough idea of the surrounding situation.
The Yellow Wind City was a small city in the middle of nowhere. Its permanent population was no more than 10,000, and there were not many transient people.
The sect that ruled this place was called the Wendao Sect.
Although the immortal peddlers in the city were quite in awe of the Wendao Sect, Li Mu roughly judged that the Wendao Sect was not even as good as the major sects of the 36 advance teams that entered the Chaotic World.
In other words, it was not good enough.
It was just a small sect.
In the area ruled by the Wendao Sect, there were "one big city" and "seven small cities".
The Yellow Wind City was one of the seven small cities.
The big city was Quicksand City, where the headquarters of the Wendao Sect was located, which was about 100,000 miles away.
This place belonged to one of the thirty-six prefectures of the Eastern Sage Continent, the Moon River Prefecture. Before the era of the immortal collapse, it was a place with verdant hills and limpid waters. But after the immortal collapse, the environment was destroyed.
The Wendao Sect was a small sect in the Yuechuan Prefecture.
There were at least 800 sects like the Wendao Sect in the Yuechuan Prefecture. They fought with each other for territory, population, and resources. Old sects were constantly destroyed, and new sects appeared.
It was common for the new to replace the old.
The Wendao Sect had been established for 300 years before they barely gained a foothold and obtained the territory of "one big city" and "seven small cities".
In recent years, the resources in the territory of the Wendao Sect had been decreasing day by day. Several mines had been exhausted, and the number of immortal citizens had been decreasing. Even though they had raised taxes several times, it was not enough to support the cultivation of the upper echelons of the sect. They could only start a war with the neighboring sect, Sword Crafting Pavilion.
At this moment, in the territory of the Wendao Sect.
It was in a state of war.
Hence, they were extremely wary of unfamiliar faces like Li Mu.
"I didn't expect the order of the Celestial World to be so chaotic. Sects of all sizes are fighting each other. There are countless deaths and injuries. It's a completely chaotic world."
Li Mu gathered the information he had gathered from various sources. Immediately, he felt terrible.
How was this the Celestial World?
This was an Asura hell of slaughter.
In comparison, Earth, the Ziwei Star Zone, the Light Star Zone, and the Chaotic World were all better than the Celestial World.
At least there was order.
There were rules.
And the Celestial World was completely chaotic and lawless. It was a world where strength was everything.
No wonder when the advance teams from the Celestial World descended to the Chaotic World, the first thing they did was to capture living creatures, kill, extract vitality, seize resources, and capture slaves … They were all so poor.
"I wonder if it's just the Yuechuan Prefecture that's so barren, or if it's the entire Dongsheng Continent, Nantian Continent, West Mirror Continent, and Northern Chaos Continent. The Celestial World is so poor."
Li Mu sighed.
After he got the information he needed, he didn't plan to stay here.
The Yellow Wind City was too small for Li Mu's plan.
However, just as Li Mu bought a few maps of the Yuechuan Prefecture and was about to leave, the guard captain called Zhou Liang came to find him.
"Haha, Lord Mu Mu, you made me look for you."
Zhou Liang greeted him with a fawning smile.
"Captain Zhou, you came at the right time. Is my travel permit ready?" Li Mu asked casually.
Zhou Liang had an apologetic look on his face as he hurriedly explained, "I came precisely for this matter. Now that there are frequent battles, the sect has orders to strengthen our defenses. The travel passes are much stricter than in the past. The City Lord is currently in his residence and would like to invite you over to personally handle the travel passes for you."
"Oh?"
Li Mu's heart skipped a beat.
He glanced at Zhou Liang and said, "In that case, please lead the way, Captain Zhou."
"Please, Lord."
Zhou Liang led the way.
A moment later.
They arrived at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion.
The Yellow Wind City was barren and dilapidated, but the City Lord's Mansion was quite luxurious.
There were twenty black-clothed immortal slave guards on both sides of the gate.
Zhou Liang led Li Mu in, passed through the courtyard of the front yard, and arrived at the court of the meeting hall.
A handsome young man who looked to be about 16 or 17 years old was sitting behind a large table with a smile on his face. He was talking to a young woman beside him.
Of course, the lifespan of an immortal could not be determined by appearance.
This young man might be an old man who lived for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.
Zhou Liang walked over and reported loudly, "Lord, the person is here."
Li Mu entered the hall.
The young man's gaze fell on Li Mu, and with a slight look, he said lightly, "You are the beast tamer from outside?"
Li Mu smiled and said, "Yes."
"Oh, which beast taming sect did you come from?" The young master asked again.
Li Mu said, "I don't belong to any sect. I am just a rogue cultivator."
"Really?"
"Really."
"How dare you. You dare to make irresponsible remarks in this court?" After the young master asked, he suddenly shouted and sneered, "You are clearly a spy sent by the Sword Crafting Pavilion to spy on information. Men, take him down."
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