Li Xiaoya felt rather disgusted knowing that the Devastation Devil Lord had kept the Pearl on his tongue all that time. Naturally, he would no longer wear it on his wrist as before. Instead, he put it in a small cloth pouch and tucked it into his belt.
Although they were still in the Human Realm, the two of them had flown through this region for several days without spotting a single cultivator or Market District. Even small villages built by ordinary mortals were few and far between.
"Hey, there's a city up ahead! Why don't we go down and ask what country we're in?" A cluster of buildings resembling a city suddenly appeared on the ground not far ahead, and Dong Santong hurriedly spoke up.
"All right." Li Xiaoya had no objection. With that, they descended toward a secluded spot a dozen or so li outside the city.
"Ah!" Before they reached the ground, both cried out in surprise.
"You sensed it too?" they asked each other almost in unison.
"There are actually that many cultivators in the city?" Again, they spoke almost in unison, landing in the secluded spot as they talked.
"That can't be right. Why are so many cultivators mingling with mortals?" Li Xiaoya asked in bewilderment once they had landed.
"Exactly!" Dong Santong hastily agreed.
When they approached the outskirts of the city just now, their divine sense had suddenly detected the auras of quite a few cultivators mingled among its inhabitants. Their cultivation was nothing impressive, and most were at the true cultivation stage, but so many cultivators living among mortals seemed impossible. In the Liang Kingdom, Immortal Cultivators held a special status. Apart from a very small number of mortals, almost no one even knew they existed, much less lived alongside them. Even