"Your Excellency, please allow me to speak a little longer."
The old door attendant shook his head and said: "After entering Xiangmei City, please sell us Mei Zong a piece of thin noodles. You must not cause any random killings in the city, and you must not sacrifice your black wings to fly into the sky."
"Otherwise... haha, it will make it very difficult for us, Mei Zong."
"Okay, would you please come in?"
After saying that, the old waiter waved his arm toward the city.
Someone on the female wall immediately understood. After a few palm prints, the energy of the formation covering the whole city slowly tore a gap, and the city gate opened wide.
"Senior, you can go in."
"Senior? Your Majesty the Emperor?"
Seeing that Chen Shen didn't respond for a long time, the old man called out a few more times.
"Ah? Oh, okay, I understand."
Chen Shen thought that he might have thought too much, so he laughed at himself and walked into the city with big steps.
The institution of city-state does not only exist in the secular world.
In fact, there are more city-states in the cultivation world and their scale is larger, but they are not under the rule of a king, but are attached to a certain sect.
For example, the Xiangmei City in front of us belongs to Mei Zong and is located in the southeast, almost on the border.
The roads in the city extend in all directions, and there are a wide variety of stores. Among them, buildings such as "Station Tavern" can be seen everywhere.
Looking at the crowded street and the tavern full of guests, Chen Shen shook his head in disbelief: "I'll just go!"
"Judging from the map, Xiangmei City is just a small border town of Mei Zong. Why is there such a huge flow of people?"
"I've seen no less than ten larger restaurants along the way, and all of them are full? Are you so exaggerated?"
After wandering around the street for a while with curiosity, Chen Shen discovered something unusual——
In Xiangmei City, except for small groups of patrol members wearing Mei Zong costumes, everyone else is wearing casual clothes.
Moreover, there are quite a few decorators with extremely powerful auras: low-grade and mid-grade Xuanhuangs are common, and there are quite a few high-grade Xuanhuangs.
In fact, Chen Shen even noticed several auras of the Xuanzong realm along the way. Although they were hidden, they could not escape his sense of soul.
"I remember hearing that when I was in the royal city of the Korean Empire, the disciples and elders of Mei Zong all wore brocade robes with blue sea and blue sky seals."
"On the left chest, there is also an embroidered plum blossom with emerald green branches and as black as ink."
"Ordinary plum blossoms only have five petals. But in Mei Zong, those with five plum blossom petals embroidered on their left chest are only the lowest-status servant disciples."
"The patrol team I just saw had at least eight petals on their chests. They should be core disciples, right?"
"In addition, there are a lot of elders from the outer sect with nine petals, and even elders from the inner sect with ten petals..."
The more Chen Shen thought about it, the weirder he felt: "Why is a small border town worthy of Mei Sect sending so many experts?"
"Also, why do so many powerful foreigners gather here?"
At this moment, a "drunk man" who was walking awkwardly and swaying suddenly walked towards Chen Shen, with a grin on his face: "Hey, hey, little brother, you are also here to take the shortcut of the express boat, right?"
The middle-aged man burped, and while talking, he raised his arms and stretched his arms around Chen Shen.
The latter frowned slightly and quickly moved his body to one side——
"Whoosh!"
"Crack!"
The drunk man missed the opportunity and fell straight to the ground.
But he wasn't annoyed either. He got up and continued to giggle: "Oh my! You are quite agile."
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, brother, I'm not a bad person, I just want to... hiccup~ I just want to find a companion to go with, hehehehe!"
Chen Shen said expressionlessly: "I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are talking about, and I am not interested in traveling with you."
As he spoke, the young man continued to walk unhurriedly.
"Oops? You kid is really... hiccup~ no, you don't know the heart of a good person!"
The drunk man rubbed his slightly red forehead, which had just fallen. He walked a few steps to follow Chen Shen and took the trouble to persuade him: "You don't know, right? The Clippers shortcut is risky!"
"Multiple companions means one more chance of surviving and reaching the Free City, do you understand?"
"despair!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Shen couldn't help but pause as he stepped forward: "The city of freedom?"
When the drunk man saw this, he laughed as if no one was watching: "Hahahahahaha, I guessed it right, you are also going to the City of Freedom!"
"Hiccup~ But that's right."
"In four weeks, it will be the Liberty City's once-in-a-decade Liberty Auction."
"At this point in time, outsiders who come to Xiangmei City from the southeast really have no other possibility except going to the City of Freedom."
At this time, Chen Shen's curiosity was completely aroused.
He turned around and asked: "You mean, the reason why so many people gathered in Xiangmei City is because they want to take that boat to the City of Freedom?"
"Otherwise? Isn't this your first time here?"
The middle-aged man burped again, then waved to Chen Shen and said, "Let's go, let's go. I'll take you to see the notices in the city, and you'll understand everything."
Having said that, without waiting for the other party to agree, he used his own profound energy to cover his feet, let go and ran away.
Chen Shen narrowed his eyes slightly: "One-star Xuanzong?"
The young man never expected that this drunkard-like guy would actually be a Xuanzong.
What makes him even more puzzling is that he couldn't sense the other person's breath after being in such close contact just now?
It doesn’t make sense!
Even if his soul power is divided into three parts, he still has the soul strength of a six-star Xuanzong.
The two had almost passed each other just now, and he actually couldn't feel the strength of the other's profound energy.
"Is it because this guy smells too drunk?"
Chen Shen thought to himself, but followed him calmly.
If there really was a so-called "fast boat shortcut", he really wouldn't mind spending some spiritual stones to reach his destination as soon as possible——
Relying on Liuli Tianyu's flying speed alone, unless he stayed awake all the way, Chen Shen really couldn't guarantee that he could reach the Free City within four weeks.
Wouldn’t it be a pity if you missed Liberty City’s once-a-decade auction?
"I said, young man, what's your name? Where do you come from?" The drunkard said and put his arm on Chen Shen's shoulder.
Chen Shen stepped aside fiercely, causing the other party to stumble again, and then said coldly: "Wu Ming."
"Hey hehehe? So cold, so cold!"
The drunkard smiled disapprovingly, then patted his chest and introduced himself: "Brother, my name is Wei Shu, huh~ I am a casual cultivator."