Yang Ling changed his appearance and wandered through A-9 City.
He was curious about how A-9 City had changed after all these years.
"Cicada-Holding Directorate, Divine Guard Bureau... Oh, there's even a Myriad Affairs Bureau now. It seems the Great Dream Dynasty's core departments have basically all moved here."
He did not linger outside those departments, lest he invite unnecessary trouble.
After making another round, he found that A-9 City had become far more orderly than before.
He spotted signs for places such as the Heavenly Crane Mystic Sect, Heavenly Mandate Sect, and Nine Immortal Talisman Sect.
"Even first-rate sects have set up quite a few offices in A-9 City."
A patrol of Divine Guard Bureau experts approached from straight ahead.
Every so often, they stopped people along the way to inspect their travel documents.
Yang Ling nodded thoughtfully.
"Back in A-9 City in the Intermediate Divine Guard Bureau Dungeon, even buying pills required an inspection of one's travel documents."
"Now the Divine Guard Bureau is randomly checking people's travel documents right on the streets. Their control over illegal entrants has clearly become even stricter."
"I came here using an Abyssal Beast Grotto Pass. I don't have any travel documents at all."
Another patrol of Divine Guard Bureau experts came over from the other side.
"These days, the higher-ups require us to patrol ten rounds every day. Who knows who this Yang Ling fellow is or which big shot he offended."
"I heard it's not just A-9 City investigating this. Other cities are doing the same, and they're even searching for him outside."
"Really? What kind of outrageous crime did this guy commit?"
"Doesn't matter. It definitely has nothing to do with us. We just follow orders."
"True enough. We found quite a few people with the same name a