After what had happened earlier, Xu Yi no longer stopped along the way. He galloped straight to the gates of Central City and finally reined in his horse.
Central City had nine inner gates and ninety-eight outer gates, with thirty-six gates spread across its four sides.
Xu Yi had been to Central City before. Back then, summoned by Xuan Lengyan, he had visited the city and wandered around with her. On the night of the Begonia Gathering, he had also stirred up quite a commotion here.
At the time, he had only taken in the city in passing. It was only now, standing outside its gates, that he truly saw the splendor of a city that ruled over an entire continent.
Words could hardly do justice to its grandeur. Anyway, when Xu Yi first saw the gates, it was a quarter past Chen hour. In the blink of an eye, it was nearly Si hour, yet he had advanced only a dozen or so feet. The lines of people and horses waiting outside the gates stretched for more than ten miles, divided into four separate queues.
After nearly an hour, Xu Yi finally moved within range of the gates' inspection area. His expression immediately darkened.
It turned out the lines were moving so slowly because a massive inspection team and an elaborate screening process had been set up outside the gates.
To enter Central City, one needed not only a local guarantor but also complete identity documents.
Xu Yi thought ruefully, This is bad. He had none of those things. If only he hadn't rushed here in such a hurry. He should have prepared everything before coming.
He was considering whether to leave the queue and travel another ten thousand li or so to the nearest city, get his documents