They had indeed found the county town, but what surprised Li Huowang was that it had no City Wall. A tattered White Gauze Lantern hung above the entrance, swaying in the wind.
"Stay alert. There might be people who can see me." As Li Huowang shifted his figure into the earth, he walked toward the county town while invisible.
The county town gave Li Huowang only one impression: desolation. Empty houses stood everywhere with their doors wide open, while potholes and rubbish covered the ground.
If not for the candlelight still flickering behind some windows, Li Huowang would almost have thought he had arrived at a mass graveyard.
Just then, Li Sui suddenly spoke. "Dad, someone from the Tianchen Kingdom is casting divinations to find out where we are."
Li Huowang's scalp tingled at those words. They had acted that quickly after all. Rather than sending people to search for them, they had gone straight to divination. "Did they find us?"
"No. I blocked them, but I can't hold them off for long."
"Block them for as long as you can. We'd better leave before they find us." Li Huowang headed straight for the center of town.
The town center was barely livelier. Though it was already night, the shops all around remained brightly lit.
There were not many kinds of establishments: gambling dens, brothels, and opera houses. Just those few.
After making a quick choice, Li Huowang entered the opera house, the place most likely to have scholars. But the moment he went inside, he saw that Pink Opera was being performed onstage.
And unlike the Pink Opera of the Lu Family Troupe from before, the Tianchen Kingdom's performers wore only hazy layers of thin gauze.
The entire opera house was in an uproar. The spectators drank and played