Of course, Su Jiu was not the only one harboring such suspicions. Chu Luohen also felt that something was wrong.
He kept feeling that the Water Moon School prohibited these people from speaking freely because it wanted to conceal something more important.
However, this stallholder clearly had little more to tell them.
"We just came through the gate in North City. Does that mean Xi He City also has a gate in South City?"
The stallholder nodded. "Since South City and North City are no longer connected, outsiders who want to enter the other side's territory can almost never get there directly from within the city."
Su Jiu understood what he meant. In other words, to reach South City, they first had to leave through North City's gate, circle more than halfway around Xi He City, and find South City's gate before they could enter.
The corner of Su Jiu's mouth twitched. Looking at it that way, the two sides really did seem determined to have nothing to do with each other until they died of old age.
In the end, she still placed the two spirit stones in the vendor's hand.
Delighted, the stallholder could not help offering Su Jiu and Chu Luohen a warning. "A word of friendly advice: you'd best not try to save yourselves the trouble by crossing that wall in the middle to reach South City.
"There are guards over there, and even if you evade them, you won't escape the curse."
Su Jiu turned to look at the stallholder.
He continued, "They say that every outside cultivator who appeared near that stretch of wall disappeared."
"Does that only happen on the South City side, or does it happen in both cities?"
A momentary look of confusion crossed the stallholder's face. Then, as though he