On Woundless City's broad streets, crowds flowed without end, carriages and horses filled the roads. Most of the people were ordinary mortals, but there was also a considerable number of cultivators. Woundless City was more than ten times larger than Moonwatch City, the largest rogue cultivator city in the Moonwatch Cultivation Realm. It held several hundred thousand resident cultivators, and it was said that an unknown number of Nascent Soul patriarchs lived here permanently. These Nascent Soul patriarchs came from Great Qi, Tianwu, and Xiang. Woundless City stood at the border between the three kingdoms, Woundless Lake, and the Black Sky Mountains. The three kingdoms had fought several wars in the past, seeking to seize this ownerless land, but Woundless City was not something any one power could swallow alone. Whenever one side gained the upper hand, the other two kingdoms would join forces. Over time, the three kingdoms accepted this reality and began managing it jointly.
At a tavern, a young man with his hair wrapped beneath a black cloth cap and dressed in a green robe sat drinking alone. Holding a jade flask, he had ordered a platter of spirit lamb and several spirit fruits from the Black Sky Mountains. This man was Lu Xiaotian, who had left the Marquis Zhenwei's residence several months ago.
Several months earlier, Lu Xiaotian had hidden in the dried-up well behind the Marquis Zhenwei's residence, evading the search of several Di You Hounds. He remained in the well for several days before emerging and fleeing the residence. It was said that the Di You Hounds had discovered the old man in green who had pursued him. The old man had briefly exchanged blows with the hounds, realized he could gain nothing, and withdrew early. The Marquis Zhenwei's residence had not sent anyone