In the eastern district, the cylindrical Myriad Phenomena Tower, nearly a hundred feet tall, stood out conspicuously.
Xiao Fan looked up at the skyscraper, so utterly out of place in this feudal age, and felt as though he had returned to the great metropolis of his previous life...
Like Granny Liu visiting the Grand View Garden, Xiao Fan looked left and right around the tower... yet could not find a door to enter!
"Hey... how am I supposed to get in when there's no door?" A crude martial man could not comprehend it.
Just as he was puzzled, ripples spread across the gray-white wall, and an arched "door" materialized out of thin air.
An unfamiliar man in white robes stepped out through the "door." "You've been skulking about here. What are you up to?"
What do you mean, skulking about? Your damn tower doesn't even have a door... Xiao Fan grumbled inwardly.
"I'm looking for Lord Li Mingyuan." Xiao Fan cupped his hands.
"He isn't here. Come back another day." The white-robed sorcerer shook his head.
Xiao Fan continued, "May I ask where Lord Li has gone? When will he return?"
"Something happened in the western district. He went to assist the Black-Clad Guard with their investigation. I doubt he'll be back anytime soon," the white-robed sorcerer answered truthfully.
Xiao Fan nodded lightly. "Thank you for telling me."
Just as he was about to leave, another white-robed sorcerer of lean build rode up on horseback.
The white robe this man wore bore the same constellation patterns as Li Mingyuan's. He was a Starwatcher, a high-ranking sorcerer of the Bureau of Celestial Observation—not in the same league as the greenhorn at the entrance, whose robes bore no markings at all...
"Huh? Lord Dong, you finished so quickly?"
"It was all minor