After carrying the child into the city, Mo Chen soon spotted the woman near the city gate.
Once the woman took the child, she was just about to thank him when she realized Mo Chen had already vanished.
Mo Chen had just noticed that no fewer than three people among the passersby had been watching him for quite some time. They only refrained from acting because they were inside the city, under the protection of the Immortal Alliance's laws.
The reason was obvious without a moment's thought.
A cultivator with a feeble aura, yet several bulging Storage Bags hanging from his waist—how was that any different, in others' eyes, from a child carrying gold through a bustling market?
Mo Chen then went to a Medical Clinic in the city and spent five spirit stones to have a Healing Cultivator treat his injuries. Afterward, he put away the Immortal Alliance token at his waist.
Revealing one's identity had both advantages and disadvantages.
It could drive away foxes, but it could also draw in wolves.
Only after meditating and regulating his breathing did Mo Chen leave the Medical Clinic and head straight for the Teleportation Array to depart Ju'an City.
At the Teleportation Array in Changshu City.
A burst of light flared, and a large crowd appeared within the array.
Mo Chen was among them, following the crowd out of Changshu's Teleportation Pavilion.
Changshu was rather like Flowing Cloud City, where he had first started out: the Teleportation Array was built atop a mountain, while the market lay below.
After arriving in Changshu, Mo Chen did not reveal his affiliation with Emerging Cloud Peak. Instead, he first asked around the market at the foot of the mountain about the grave diggings on the city's outskirts.
But after asking several passersby in succession,