"Huh?"
The next second, the celestial maiden, who had maintained her professional composure until then, couldn't help letting out a quiet gasp when she saw Annie's violations.
"Whoa!"
"Good heavens!"
Her beautiful eyes widened slightly as she carefully scanned the relevant information on the jade slip and read aloud:
"How did you manage to violate so many airspace regulations in just one short hour?"
"Flying without a license, trespassing in a restricted zone, traveling against the flow of traffic, causing congestion..."
"Fine: one hundred and fifty-five liang of spirit stones?!"
For an individual's traffic violations, that was certainly a considerable amount—quite a lot, in fact.
After all, she only earned a mere ten liang of spirit stones a month, and most cultivators would wince at a fine of even five or ten liang. But this one had gone and racked up a hundred and fifty-five liang in one go. It was the first time she'd seen anything like it in her two years on the job.
In most cases, offenders were caught by the enforcement heavenly soldiers after just one or two violations. But this little girl cultivator, who called herself the "Flame Immortal," had somehow gone nearly an hour before finally getting caught—and committed more than ten violations in the process?
"..."
She couldn't help raising her head again to take another look at the seemingly harmless little girl standing before the counter. Her eyes were full of disbelief and a peculiar curiosity.
"You..."
"Are you the cultivator named Annie, with the Daoist title 'Flame Immortal'?"
She checked the information and images on the jade slip, confirmed they were correct, and couldn't help letting a strange note creep into her voice.
"This is your first time in the Divine Capital, right?"
"How did you manage to cause so much