The two of them were so certain that Chen Changan grew quite curious.
By rights, the Sacred Capital was enormous. Though the city gates were always closed, surely the arrival of newcomers wouldn't be known to absolutely everyone?
"You're new here, so you don't understand how things work."
"You have to know, this is the Sacred Capital of the Heavenly Feng Sacred Dynasty. Do you think just anyone can get in?"
"We were simply lucky enough to have ancestors who already lived here. After the Sacred Capital was established, our families stayed here, generation after generation."
"But for anyone who comes to the Sacred Capital later, getting in is difficult, and the scrutiny is strict."
"They have to register every detail, and their identities are announced throughout the Sacred Capital."
"Really, it's also to warn them not to cause trouble here. If they do, they won't get away with it."
"And it's not as if they can cause trouble and then slip through the cracks just because no one knows who they are."
"This is also to protect the safety of ordinary residents like us."
"So if any newcomers arrived, there's no way we wouldn't know."
"There haven't been any newcomers in the Sacred Capital for the past few years. Well, that's not quite true—you count as one."
"By the way, brother, what's your background? How did you manage to get into the Sacred Capital?"
Hearing what the two men said, Chen Changan furrowed his brows.
They hadn't come?
That couldn't be right.
Lü Fengxiao and the others had left Tianyun Mountain long ago. Even if their strength couldn't compare to Lord of Tianyun Mountain's, and they were therefore much slower, they had still set out two or three months before Chen Changan.
After all, Chen Changan had spent more