"Fifty ancient cities, the number of the Great Expansion. This great city is anything but ordinary. So many trial-takers have lingered here. Are they searching for something, or comprehending supreme Dao arts?" the peacock said.
At dawn, golden rosy clouds shone over the earth. Bathed in their radiance, Jiang Zhu looked especially like Divine Might.
"Hey, young fellow, you're quite something. Want to come in for a taste?" A burly, bearded man spoke from the roadside, his imposing figure standing as straight as an iron tower.
"Donkey Meat Restaurant?" Jiang Zhu spotted the gold-lettered sign hanging behind the man.
"Donkey meat is a peerless delicacy, good enough to rival dragon meat! And our establishment sells only the finest donkey meat." The man rubbed his hands, looking every inch a butcher.
"The Reception Envoy has started hawking his donkey meat again!" someone murmured nearby.
The Five-Colored Peacock and Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon froze, looking astonished. This was actually the city's Reception Envoy? How could he be like this?
"Senior, you're this city's Reception Envoy? Why did you open a restaurant?"
"Ah, even a Reception Envoy has to make a living." The man wore a world-weary expression, yet no matter how they looked at him, he seemed like an eccentric middle-aged man.
He was indeed the Reception Envoy of the Fiftieth Human Clan City. Though powerful, he mingled among the common folk without a shred of dignity, utterly unlike the Reception Envoys they had met before.
"Come on in. Donkey meat is on me." The Reception Envoy warmly invited Jiang Zhu and the two sacred beasts inside.
Whispers drifted over from a distance.
"The Reception Envoy got badly swindled by an old donkey back then. Four thousand years have passed, and he still holds a grudge. Who knows how much donkey meat he's