High-level cultivators could rise into the air and ride the clouds whenever they pleased, going wherever they wanted. There was simply no way to stop them.
However, the city required all cultivators to travel on foot according to the rules. Flying through the skies was forbidden.
If they were allowed to fly about overhead like that, the city would fall into chaos.
But they could not stop cultivators from coming to compete, so the city gates stood wide open.
Cultivators were allowed to enter the city freely.
Li Changsheng also saw that the city gate was enormous. This city was probably no small place.
Li Changsheng followed the other cultivators into the city.
Like an old country woman visiting a grand estate for the first time, the cat looked around everywhere.
Sure enough, the city was exceptionally prosperous once they entered.
The streets were packed with people and bustling with activity. Vendors' cries rose and fell one after another.
"Brother, should we find a nearby inn and get rooms?"
"Let's settle into the inn first, then go register at the Skill Competition."
One of the cultivators who had entered alongside Li Changsheng saw him—
turning his head this way and that, looking around everywhere.
He looked like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world.
But the cultivators assumed that Li Changsheng had simply never been here before, so it was understandable.
Perhaps Li Changsheng was deliberately acting this way to mislead everyone.
Maybe he was afraid they would ask him to refine pills for them. Still, some remained skeptical.
They thought perhaps Li Changsheng was not some Alchemy Grandmaster after all, and that they had misunderstood.
But they did not dare be certain. Perhaps Li Changsheng was only pretending.
Since that was the case, they needed to keep