Feng Ziling sounded hesitative, "Mu Tian…"

Murong Xue raised her eyebrows, "What's wrong? You look weird."

Feng Ziling blushed and turned away immediately, "Nothing. Let's go."

They walked through the crowd and nobody dared to challenge them after what just happened. After all, beautiful women were not comparable to treasures that would help people achieve higher levels.

Murong Xue ran to confront Feng Ziling, "Hey, you keep avoiding making eye contact with me. It's so strange. Why?"

The moment he saw her attractive face, he looked up to the sky.

Murong Xue also looked up and asked, "What do you see? I see nothing but the blue sky and the white clouds."

Unmoved, Feng Ziling ignored her as if she had been invisible.

Murong Xue had no choice but to reach out to force him to meet her eyes. The two just looked at each other.

Murong Xue let go of him and exclaimed, "Wow, your face is hot!"

Then she looked up and saw his red face. All of a sudden, she understood it and she squatted in front of him, laughing out loud. "Are you feeling embarrassed? Ha-ha! You are killing me."

Feng Ziling's red face turned black and then indifferent. "Is that funny? You think that's funny?"

His reaction brought an awkward silence.

Murong Xue froze and stopped laughing, "Come on. It's not a big deal." She made a face at him.

Feng Ziling was mad and he felt a twitch in his face. Mu Tian was dressed like a woman, so he could not punch him in the face now. He knew Mu Tian was a man, but he could not do it, either. He clenched and then unclenched his fists repeatedly, trying to calm down. In the end, he decided to let it go.

"Hey, wait for me." Murong Xue sped up to catch up with him.

"Seeing a woman and having a red face? You can't go on like this."

"As your good friend, you can practice it with my face. Look at me. If you don't change this, women will take advantage of you someday. It's true. Listen to me..."

Murong Xue kept nagging without noticing Feng Ziling's faster pace and his darker face.

Feng Ziling now found he was helpless with this friend and he also felt ridiculous that he had thought Mu Tian was very strong. Now Mu Tian only looked like a fool.

"Hello, are you listening to me?" Murong Xue was unwilling to give up and pulled at his sleeve.

Feng Ziling had lost his patience. He got rid of her hand and moved forward.

Murong Xue came after him.

One was impatient and the other was stubborn.

Laughter kept the two company.

After they crossed the border, the number of searchers only escalated.

When the Feng Family heard about what had happened in the Death Forest and knew that Feng Ziling was attacked and whether he was still alive was unknown, they sent men to search for him in the Death Forest, and they announced that anyone who hurt Feng Ziling would be against the Feng Family and would be hunted down at whatever cost.

In order to keep a low profile, Feng Ziling did not contact the Feng Family's members all the way. At this time, it was better for him to leave the Death Forest as soon as possible. Once they entered the city, no one dared to lay a finger on them even if they showed up in public. Differently, the Feng Family's warning meant nothing to people as whatever happened in the Death Forest was unsupervised.

They hurried on with their journey and barely rested. After a few days, they finally left the territory of the Death Forest.

Soon they caught sight of the buildings of the city, East City. According to the location, the Fengyun Continent was divided into four cities and the other three were West City, South City, and North City. Each city was in the charge of its governor, whose job was to regulate cultivators in case they had their way by virtue of their high cultivation levels. After entering the city, cultivators had to obey the rules. The official residence for the governor was guarded by masters at purple-level, and the Law Enforcement Team was patrolling the city every day. Therefore, few would ask for trouble here.

That was also why Feng Ziling and Murong Xue came to the city for their safety.

Seeing the high walls, Murong Xue was impressed that a world without advanced technology was able to create things comparable to modern society.

Longyu College was located in the inner circle of East City, and its reputation and power were as good as the influential families' on this continent. Although there was the royal family, big families like the Feng Family and Longyu College were unbounded by the royal family. As this world was a place where the strongest took all, the latter was unable to control them, either.

The high walls were built with black spar and rose tens of meters above the ground. Standing in front of the walls, people would feel that they were insignificant.

Seeing the admiration in Murong Xue's eyes, Feng Ziling chuckled to himself at her innocence.

After paying two crystal coins, they were allowed to enter the city. Then Murong Xue saw people who were not cultivators, which shattered her stereotype of a world full of cultivators. Nevertheless, ordinary people here were stronger and healthier than those in modern society. After all, different from modern cities, this place was abundant in spiritual qi. Many people set up their stalls on both sides of the street to sell things and it gave the city an air of prosperity.

Feng Ziling frowned when he noticed that the city was more crowded than usual. When they walked through the crowd, he found that many people were moving towards Mu Tian on purpose. His eyes grew cold and he took her by the shoulder and brought her closer to him. Then he created an invisible protective shield to prevent people from running into them.

It took a minute before Murong Xue realized it and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Too crowded. Keep going like this. We need to find an inn to stay overnight." Although he knew Mu Tian was a man and the disguise was only a cover-up made by the Dragon Ring, he could not bear to see people take advantage of him.

Looking around, Murong Xue noticed that many people were harboring evil designs, so she understood that Feng Ziling did it to protect her. However, she was still disappointed that women were generally lower than men in this world.

Meanwhile, she also knew that people in this world had seen few high-level women as women were usually less gifted than men, which induced such prejudice.

They visited several inns, only to find them all full.

Murong Xue was confused, "Has the city always been so populated?"

Frowning, Feng Ziling shook his head, "No. Probably because of what happened in the Death Forest, many reclusive cultivators came here and the younger generation of big families also arrived here for Longyu College's admission examination."

"The admission examination? I thought all we needed was enough money." Murong Xue was surprised. She worried that Wu Xiaomei would fail the exam.

Feng Ziling explained it to her, "It was true, but things changed in recent years. As the expanding number of students in the college made it hard to guarantee the quality of education, the college decided that the applicants must be tested and that there were only a limited number of places."

Hearing this, Murong Xue frowned. They were her trustworthy partners now, so she wanted all of them to go to the same college. If any of them failed, she would never leave him or her behind. After all, they would be friends until death.

Feng Ziling took a look at her and continued, "Don't worry. You can make it. Definitely." In his eyes, Mu Tian would be the one the college would invite with many privileges. After all, the purple-level was far more above the expectation for students, and even a student at the ninth stage of blue-level like him could be exempted from attending classes and only needed to check in from time to time.

Murong Xue answered plainly, "I'm not worried about myself."

After she said that, Feng Ziling understood what Murong Xue was considering. He felt touched and thought that person who Mu Tian cared about to this extent must be happy.

They found the last inn in the city and they would sleep on the street if there was still no vacant room. It was a big city and the Feng Family and Longyu College were far from them. After days of traveling, they wanted to have a good sleep first.

Feng Ziling asked, "Hello, do you have any room available now?"

"Yes, Your Excellency. A medium-sized room."

"One room? Fine, I'll take it. How much?" Feng Ziling wanted to have two rooms, but now he might have to make a bed on the floor.

"Okay! 50 crystal coins." The inner owner smiled beamingly at them. He had made a fortune these days.

"What?" Feng Ziling was rich, but the prices was ridiculously high. The best room usually only cost 5 crystal coins.

"Everywhere else is the same. Our room is cheaper than others'." Raising price was the most common strategy when they were short of vacant rooms.

Thinking of the crowded street, Feng Ziling understood why. He paid 50 crystal coins and took the key, ready to go upstairs. Murong Xue stood aside and remained silent as she was unaware of money's worth in this world.

In fact, a crystal coin was equal to 1,000 copper coins. 10 copper coins could buy a bun, so a crystal coin could afford a normal family's weekly expenses. Now they spent 50 crystal coins for one night, so it was no exaggeration to say that the price was outrageous.

As they were going upstairs, two men arrived and asked for two rooms.

The owner apologized with a smile, "Sorry, Your Excellency. The last room was booked just now."

"What? Are you trying to get yourself killed?" The one-eyed man of the two took him by the collar and lifted him up.

The inn owner, who was at yellow-level, was now wet with cold sweats because the two were both at blue-level. He begged, "Sir, I don't want this, either. But we have no rooms now." Although he was scared, he knew they didn’t dare to kill him, which would incur punishment from the Law Enforcement Team.

The man inquired, "You said the room was just booked. By who?"

The owner was caught in a dilemma and he took a quick look at Feng Ziling and Murong Xue.

The man put him down and turned to look at them, "So, you two just took the key?"

Feng Ziling and Murong Xue stopped at the top of the stairs. They turned around and stared coldly at the two stirring up trouble.

When they met eyes, the aggressive one-eyed man was dazzled by Murong Xue's beauty. But he returned to normal very quickly. "Give us the room. We'll pay you ten times the price."

Feng Ziling and Murong Xue watched them and they could see that the one-eyed man was at the middle stage of blue-level. The other in black remained silent the entire time but his cultivation level…

Murong Xue's eyes grew cold as she found the man in black was also at purple-level, which explained their arrogance.

Feng Ziling answered coldly, "We don't need money."

"I tell you. You won't want to do this the hard way. You shouldn’t mess up with us." The one-eyed man also found that Feng Ziling was at the ninth stage of blue-level, but he did not back down as his partner was at purple-level.

Feng Ziling held his sword harder and released all his spiritual power to suppress them, "What if we don't give you the room?"

"You can go to hell, but the pretty girl could stay and have fun with me. Ha-ha."

Murong Xue gathered her spiritual power and kicked the one-eyed man who was still laughing out the door. The laughter stopped and the man flew backward for tens of meters, by which the onlookers were petrified.

"One prefers death to humiliation. I'll pay back any insult I receive." Murong Xue's voice was cold.

What she said caused an uproar in the crowd.

"Well done!"

"A cool beautiful girl!"

"I fall in love with you."

"Wow, she is more of a man than him!"

The silent man in black, who stood by the one-eyed man just now, finally looked up. His weird silver eyes fixed on Murong Xue, "So, you are a master."