Two guards, both Eight-Star Dou Zhe, stood before the gates of the City Lord's Mansion in Black Rock City.
Upon seeing Xue Mei and Lin Fei, they immediately bowed respectfully. "Miss Lin Fei, Miss Xue Mei, the City Lord has been waiting for some time."
As for Xiao Yan, who accompanied them, he looked very young, but his expression was neither servile nor arrogant, and even carried a faint air of dominance. He was clearly someone they could not afford to provoke either.
"Yes, understood. Mr. Xiao Yan, please come in."
Lin Fei gave a casual reply. The ease she had shown in the carriage was gone, replaced by a rigid tension. Her speech and manner made her seem like an entirely different person.
Her behavior struck Xiao Yan as rather strange, but he said nothing more.
Beyond the gates of the City Lord's Mansion lay a spacious courtyard. Water murmured continuously over an enormous artificial rock formation, while several servants swept the grounds.
Neatly equipped guards stood watch all along the way.
These guards were all high-star Dou Zhe, and quite a few were approaching the level of a Dou Shi.
After all, Black Rock City was an important city within the Jia Ma Empire, and it also had to remain on guard against the other empires beyond the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
Ten Dou Zhe guard divisions were stationed inside and outside Black Rock City. Each had a thousand soldiers, whose strength generally ranged from the fifth to the eighth stage of Dou Power.
Such military might far surpassed Wutan City's. Unless a Dou Emperor personally took action, even several Dou Wang could forget about breaching the city from outside.
The Xiao Clan, to which Xiao Yan belonged, was considered a major clan in Wutan City, and he