From Divine Mountain, making a trip to Dazhi City was simple.
But desolate no longer began to describe the land outside Dazhi City. Seen from the air, a huge patch of the Vast Grassland had been stripped bare.
Normal walking was no longer possible around Dazhi City. The roads had vanished beneath thick layers of dust that could easily bury a person. The slightest wind turned everything gray, and the consequences of rain were even harder to imagine. Some places scoured by the water veins already resembled swamps.
All the businesses outside Dazhi City had been destroyed as well, including the Horse Ranch where Wu Jinliang had once stayed. It had been razed as effortlessly as rotten wood crumbling beneath a blow.
With the water veins destroyed, the city's domestic water supply had also become a problem. They had to report it and request people proficient in water-based cultivation techniques to restore the veins.
Road repairs had also begun outside the city. They had no choice: once it rained, moving even an inch would become impossible, and ordinary merchants would struggle to bring goods in or out. Without the flow of people at the bottom, there could be no supporting the lives of those at the top.
Without that flow of people at the bottom, the city would have no reason to exist.
Jiang You'er, who had come in disguise, entered the city without trouble and headed straight for his destination.
With someone in the Extreme Fire Sect passing him information, finding Yin Tianlu was easy too. He was still inside the building from which they were keeping watch on the Bai Family Rice Shop.
A carriage stopped outside the small building's courtyard gate, and Jiang You'er, concealed beneath a cloak, simply went to the door.
Then the people inside