The veiled girl in a light yellow long dress moved with lotus steps, making her way beneath everyone's gaze straight toward the registration office of the Jiangzhou Ancient Teleportation Array, where spirit stones were paid and teleportation tokens issued.
Along the way, anyone standing before the girl—men, women, young, old, burly men, or soldiers—voluntarily stepped aside.
Every so often, one or two ill-intentioned hooligans tried to do something. Yet before they could act, the girl merely raised her head slightly. Without making any move, she simply glanced at them through her gauze veil, frightening those scheming ruffians into looking around in terror before practically scrambling away with their pants full.
And so, beneath everyone's watchful eyes and the gaze of the flashing blades, spears, swords, and halberds around her, the girl walked directly into the registration office.
The man handling the busy clerical affairs in the registration office was a low-ranking clerk. Ordinarily, no matter who entered, even if he did not put on official airs, he would remain seated without budging, handling everything according to procedure.
But when he saw this girl enter, the clerk unexpectedly felt a sense of dread. He involuntarily rose to his feet and stammered, "May I ask... where the young lady wishes to go? At present, of the Jiangzhou Ancient Teleportation Array's four teleportation routes, only two are open."
Prince Li Ji Yuan held the riverlands against the demons. Though he had not openly raised the banner of rebellion, in many matters, he had already come close to ruling independently across the river.
For example, since declaring that he would hold the riverlands against the demons, he had shut down the teleportation passages connecting several Ancient Teleportation Arrays throughout the fourteen southern Jiangzhou provinces under his current control with Luoyi.
He had left only