Xu Yanli felt like he'd heard those words somewhere before. Never mind. It wasn't important.
They prepared to set out.
Outside Star Luo City, the main road was fairly clear.
Xu Yanli's Soul Guidance Carriage convoy slowly passed through the city gates and headed north along the broad road.
The soldiers guarding the gates still lounged lazily against the walls, paying no attention at all to the carriages coming and going.
Though Xu Yanli wasn't a citizen of the Star Luo Empire, he still frowned at their attitude.
Though greasing palms like this greatly helped Xiaoyao Pavilion's development, a country like this wouldn't last long—unless it was part of an extraordinary world.
What's more, they were headed to the Sun Moon Empire. It was an empire, after all.
Hopefully law and order in the Sun Moon Empire weren't like this.
But the convoy had barely gone three miles when a sudden, urgent blast of a horn sounded behind them.
"Woo—"
The deep, heavy horn shattered the morning silence. The gates of Star Luo City instantly erupted into chaos.
Squads of fully armed soldiers charged out of the city and formed a line at the gates, taking up defensive positions.
Then dozens of Soul Masters with exceptionally powerful auras shot into the sky and scattered in every direction.
Tang Ling leaned out the window to look back. His expression changed at once. "Boss, it looks like Star Luo City's been locked down."
Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to take a look as well. After a moment, he withdrew it and lowered his voice. "The teacher put up a notice at the city gates. It says... the Duchess of White Tiger was assassinated and died. The whole city's under lockdown while they look for the culprit."
A trace of satisfaction flickered in