"Lingzhao, let's take Xiaotian to the City Lord's Manor as guests first. As for whether we can go to the righteous path's side, let's ask about the situation before deciding. Maybe even Xiaotian won't be allowed to go. By then, you probably won't want to go to the righteous path either, right?" Madam Woshuang tried a roundabout approach to save the situation.
Lingzhao thought it made sense too and could only say, "All right, then. Let's go see what they have to say."
I breathed a sigh of relief. Once we entered the City Lord's Manor, there would ultimately be a way to keep the little girl here. So we followed Madam Woshuang toward the City Lord's Manor.
Not to mention anything else, this city was truly enormous. Fengpo City had been modeled after Fengxian City's layout, copying it in every detail, so it always looked somewhat similar. That was also why it had developed along the road to prosperity.
When we passed by the riverside, the female immortals soliciting customers inevitably cast flirtatious glances our way. The worldly bustle here was hardly any less than in the mortal realm. With two great beauties leading the way, all we could do was lower our heads and keep moving, each of us also wearing a bamboo hat to conceal our identities.
At last, a gigantic vermilion pavilion appeared ahead, built along the mountain and soaring upward in a winding ascent. Even halfway up the mountain, its end was still nowhere in sight, because beyond that lay the clouds. There were surely more structures above the clouds as well. In the middle of the mountain city was a stone staircase with countless steps, rising straight into the heavens. The surrounding vermilion pavilions contained innumerable rooms, though I could not tell whether they