Baili Qingfeng sensed the class divide between lords and non-lords less than half an hour after parting from Ka Sang's knightly party.
Titan City was known as the City of Freedom, the City That Never Sleeps, and the City of Gold. It was an exceptionally open and tolerant city.
Yet he had not noticed it while traveling with Ka Sang. Only when he and Xiao Zhu began moving around on their own did he discover that class distinctions filled every corner of the city.
He had ridden his mount along the street for only a short while when a guard approached and politely asked to see his Lord Badge. When he could not produce one, he was immediately fined ten gold coins. The reason was that anyone without lord or Lord Vassal status was forbidden from riding a mount along the main streets.
Only a few minutes after paying the fine, another group of guards came over. They asked for his Lord Badge again. When he failed to produce it, he was fined once more, this time because non-lords and non-Lord Vassals were not permitted to use the color gold.
In this foul mood, he continued forward for a stretch, only to be stopped by guards again...
This time, the reason was that a Grand Lord's carriage had just passed by, and they had failed to move aside and bow in salute in time.
But Baili Qingfeng clearly remembered that he had been at least two or three meters away from the carriage at the time...
When he passed a seemingly high-end shop—one that even displayed Holy Spirit Fruit for sale on its counters—he was refused entry just as he was about to walk through the door.
In such high-end shops, anyone who was neither a lord nor a Lord