Return to Imperial Capital, Back to Mite'er, Nalan Yanran Comes Seeking Medicine

Imperial Capital of the Jia Ma Empire.

Lu Heng put away his Five-Colored Twin Wings and landed on the official road outside the city gates. Xiao Yi Xian slid down from his arms and swayed the moment her feet touched solid ground. Lu Heng casually steadied her.

Xiao Yi Xian rubbed her eyes. Her long purple hair had been blown into slight disarray by the wind, and her cheeks still bore creases from Lu Heng's collar.

"Are we here?"

Lu Heng smoothed Xiao Yi Xian's hair.

"Yeah. Let's go into the city."

The two followed the official road toward the gates.

The closer they got to the Imperial Capital, the more carriages and pedestrians filled the road.

The towering city walls cast a stretch of shadow beneath the noon sun. A long line stood before the gates, while fully armored guards patrolled both sides.

Xiao Yi Xian slowed her steps.

The place she had lived in the longest was a small town like Green Mountain Town. Later, she had spent more than a year in a valley within the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

She had visited Wutan City and already thought it was huge.

But this city before her...

The gates alone stood six or seven zhang tall. Four carriages could pass through the gate tunnel side by side, and the walls above were packed with fluttering flags.

"The Imperial Capital is so big," Xiao Yi Xian muttered softly.

Lu Heng glanced at the city gates, an indescribable feeling rising within him.

When he had first transmigrated here, he had wandered these very streets.

In winter, he had shivered in the corners of alleys, freezing in the cold. The Imperial Capital's splendor had nothing to do with him. What he remembered most clearly were the stone lions outside wealthy households,