Su Fan glanced at Old Dragon Li Gao, unable to keep the doubt from rising in his heart.
"Could we have run into highway robbers..." he muttered, his voice laced with vigilance.
Old Dragon Li Gao furrowed his brow and shook his head lightly, sneering, "Doesn't look like it. How would those bandit cultivators in the star domains dare show their faces in this territory..."
After hearing that, Su Fan went straight to the porthole and pressed himself against it, watching the outside without blinking.
Several flying vessels were hovering in neat rows. The orderly scene gave off an indescribably eerie feeling.
A flash of inspiration suddenly struck Su Fan, and a bold idea popped into his head. Could these people be the law enforcement authorities?
Sure enough, what happened next increasingly confirmed his guess.
"Bang..."
With a muffled sound, the flying vessel's hatch opened, and someone boarded.
Immediately afterward, a burst of commotion came from inside the vessel, as if someone were loudly berating others.
Su Fan couldn't help frowning. Ordinarily, a flying vessel that could smuggle goods through a legitimate Starry Sky Gate would have been greased from top to bottom long ago.
Yet this vessel had been intercepted by the law enforcement authorities. There was definitely something going on.
Su Fan guessed that this was the result of infighting among the various factions in the chain of profit.
At that moment, the argument inside the vessel grew louder and louder. Even Su Fan, down in the vessel's lowest level, could clearly hear what the two sides were arguing about.
Those who had boarded the vessel to conduct an inspection were blocked by the vessel's cultivators, and the two sides had clashed.
More people boarded the vessel, and even the corridor on the lowest level where Su Fan