Following the directions Ai Hu had given him, Luo Zheng led Mu Mingxue through Zeji City. After the time it took an incense stick to burn, he discovered that he had arrived in a residential district.
There were also different levels among the common people. Some wealthy merchants, though they were not martial artists themselves, had enough resources to hire martial artists to guard their homes. Thus, low-level martial artists could occasionally be seen even in residential districts, such as those in the Innate Realm or Spirit Illumination Realm.
When Luo Zheng and Mu Mingxue, two Divine Sea Realm martial artists, descended into this place, they immediately attracted many curious gazes.
Boys were naturally drawn to martial artists, and the auras Luo Zheng and Mu Mingxue gave off were far stronger than those of the martial artists they usually saw. Thus, groups of them followed behind and around Mu Mingxue...
The sight made Mu Mingxue frown. She could not understand why Luo Zheng had brought her here.
However, after they had not walked far, a grand mansion appeared ahead. When Luo Zheng had just reached the entrance, a portly wealthy landlord respectfully bowed to him and led him into the residence.
This landlord was also a hugely wealthy merchant in the area. Of course, that was only in the eyes of mortals. Even if all his wealth were sold off, it could probably be converted into no more than one or two thousand Top Grade True Essence Stones. Such an amount was insignificant in the eyes of martial artists, but for a mortal to earn so many True Essence Stones was already astonishing. After all, it was equivalent to the yearly expenditure of a Third Grade Family.
The landlord did not know whom he was receiving. Even the several Innate