"Whoa! I see you had a problem on the way here. Your caravan looks peculiarly small," Ma-Ye-Li said with a mocking eye that was directed at De-Tong. Then he looked at De-Tong's daughter lustfully…

Rustle!

The young woman could feel such a look from Ma-Ye-Li, so she rushed to cover the upper front part of herself. Zheng-Fu also understood Ma-Ye-Li's gesture toward the young woman, so he stepped in between them, which caused Ma-Ye-Li to crinkle his eyebrows and look at Zheng-Fu like he wanted a piece of him…

Zheng-Fu's action prompted Ma-Ye-Li's men to step in too. They initially came with bravery but had to feel stressed out immediately because they could sense that Zheng-Fu was tremendously strong. They felt like they needed to rethink their actions…

Normally, Ma-Ye-Li's men would not falter easily. This was the reason why they knew that Zheng-Fu must be very dangerous…

The whole thing made De-Tong and De-Na-Lan crinkle with worry. They thought it was not good for them to be cross with Ma-Ye-Li. So, De-Tong wanted to say something to calm everyone down…

"You have an excellent protector, Boss De!" Ma-Ye-Li complimented Zheng-Fu before De-Tong could say anything. He then sent a gesture for his men to stand back and turned to Zheng-Fu to say, "You look like you could do a lot for me. If you're interested in making good money, you can come to see me anytime," Ma-Ye-Li said with a smile before walking away…

"Tsk! Yeah! Leave! You old pervert!" De-Na-Lan cursed after Ma-Ye-Li with disgust. She then turned to Zheng-Fu and said, "Thank you for helping me."

"I'm willing to. As a protector, I have to do my best," Zheng-Fu said calmly, as usual…

"Then let's go! I have the pass tag, so we don't need to get in line. Let's get into the city." De-Tong changed the subject and led his daughter and Zheng-Fu to the city gate…

It was not difficult to get into the city. The travelers just had to register and pay for a pass tag. De-Tong carried a special pass tag with him, so he did not have to do the registration and pay the fee…

As the group entered the city, Zheng-Fu found that the city did not look different from In-See City, except for some elements. There were not a lot of people in this city because of the daily limit on the entrance to the city. Most of the people who came to the city were the people who accompanied the caravans and merchants from foreign lands.

Some martial artists were also spotted here and there around the city…

After walking toward the inner city for a while, Zheng-Fu noticed that the city held a lot of shops. They sold all kinds of things, like weapons, armor, and miscellaneous products. However, he did not see any herbal plant shops there. De-Tong started to tell Zheng-Fu about the places that people were allowed and not allowed to go to.

Basically, people could go everywhere in the city except for the castle and the oasis…

Zheng-Fu also noticed that soldiers were everywhere to prevent fights that could happen in the city. One of the city's rules was that no one was allowed to initiate a fight within the city. They could do it outside if they wanted to. The person who did not obey the rule would be banned from the city for good…

After telling Zheng-Fu about the city and the rules, De-Tong excused himself to do the registration for the space he needed to use. He urged his daughter to take Zheng-Fu for a walk and told them to meet up at the tavern that he had reserved…

"Do you have anywhere you want to go in particular?" De-Na-Lan asked after looking at Zheng-Fu with shyness when her father walked away…

"No, I don't. What about you, pretty lady?" Zheng-Fu did not know where to go, so he turned to ask De-Na-Lan with politeness…

"What!?"

De-Na-Lan's face turned red again. Her heart beat faster. She quickly turned away and said, "I want to go to a clothes shop." She spoke softly, but it was a good thing that Zheng-Fu had a superb hearing ability, so he heard her clearly…

"Then let's go to the clothes shop," Zheng-Fu replied calmly, and he made it sound warm to her too…

"Yeah…"

The two started to move once they had a clear destination. The clothes shop that De-Na-Lan wanted to go to was not far from where they were. It was about half a li from there. When they got to the clothes shop, Zheng-Fu looked at the shop with interest…

"Is this the place?" Zheng-Fu asked out of curiosity…

He asked the question because the shop that he was seeing was a small, regular-looking shop. It was different from the three clothes shops that they walked past. Those shops looked luxurious, and Zheng-Fu thought De-Na-Lan would prefer that kind of shop…

"Yes, it is. Why?" De-Na-Lan asked back when she heard Zheng-Fu's question…

"Nothing! I just wanted to check. Let's get in!"

"Yeah."

Squeak!

Ding! Ding!

"Hello! Welcome to Mai-Hom-Huan shop! Sister Na-Lan!"

As the door of the shop was pushed open, the woman at the counter greeted the customer. And when the woman saw that it was De-Na-Lan, she shouted her name with joy and excitement. Then she ran to give her a hug instantly…

"Sister Xuan-Ji!"

De-Na-Lan and Xuan-Ji hugged each other with happiness. They jumped up and down joyfully to see each other. Then, Xuan-Ji saw Zheng-Fu behind De-Na-Lan, so she asked De-Na-Lan who he was out of curiosity…

"Who is he, sister Na-Lan?"

De-Na-Lan turned to look in the direction that Xuan-Ji urged her to look at and remembered that she had not come to the shop by herself. She came with a mysterious martial artist…

"He's the martial artist who saved my father and me when we were attacked by the Desert Worm Monster. His name is… Um…" De-Na-Lan forgot that she had never had Zheng-Fu's name…

"Hi! My name is Fu-Zheng. I'm a wandering martial artist. It's a pleasure to meet you, lady Xuan-Ji." Zheng-Fu said politely with a slight bow…

"Hi. It's a pleasure to meet you too." Xuan-Ji responded reluctantly. Then she turned to De-Na-Lan and dragged her into a room, leaving Zheng-Fu by himself with an awkward feeling…

"That man doesn't look trustable, sister Na-Lan. Why did you…?"

"Don't worry, sister Xuan-Ji! He has saved us twice and is very polite too," De-Na-Lan said with mixed feelings. Xuan-Ji crinkled her eyebrows the minute she saw her sister's gesture because she knew what that gesture meant…

De-Na-Lan's action worried Xuan-Ji. She did not understand why her sister felt that way…

"How long are you going to stay this time?"

"About two days. We have to refill the food and water. And we have to fix the carriage too."

"That's good. I'm about to finish the outfit I'm working on. Do you want to try it on?"

"Yes, I do! I love every outfit that you make, sister Xuan-Ji."

The girls continued the conversation with delight and completely forgot that Zheng-Fu was being left by himself. Zheng-Fu did not move anywhere, not because he did not know where to go, but because he sensed the killing intent from a group of people outside the shop. He even sensed that he knew one of them…

The person that he could sense vividly was Ma-Ye-Li, the man he had met at the entrance of the city earlier. Zheng-Fu sensed that the man was standing in the middle of the group. Then he felt that the group left the man and walked toward the shop as if they wanted to break in…

Whoosh!

"Ugh!"

As the group approached the shop, horrifying pressure energy went off from behind the shop door without them preparing for it. The group had to dash backward and choke out big gulps of blood…

Ma-Ye-Li crinkled his eyebrows at seeing his men in that condition. He was shocked to see the men that he hired choke out blood. They were supposed to be strong because they were at the second and third levels of the Nascent Soul stage…

"What happened!? How could they get hurt that easily!?"

Ma-Ye-Li tried to find an explanation for why the men that he hired got injured. But no matter how hard he tried, he could not come up with the answer. Those men had not even gotten into the shop yet. Then Ma-Ye-Li thought of something…

"Or do they have a high-level magical spell at the front door!?"

Ma-Ye-Li did not know that his guess was not correct. He did not know that Zheng-Fu was the one who sent out the pressure energy to stop his men from breaking into the shop. Zheng-Fu put all his energy into the projection and did not expect to see such a result…

He was surprised that the martial artists, who were at the second and third levels of the Nascent Soul stage, choked out blood because of his technique that much. They looked petrified too. He remembered when he used the same technique with the monsters in the forest, the monsters did not get affected this much. But then again, he realized that monsters and humans were different…

"I thought it was supposed to be a piece-of-cake job. Didn't Boss Ma say that? How come it turned out this way?" The man with a scar on his face said while patting his chest. He cursed Ma-Ye-Li for telling them that the job was an easy one…

What this group of hired bad men experienced was horrifying and forceful. They all got goosebumps from it. The pressure energy they encountered caused their Qi energy to fluctuate as well. The group feared for their lives, thinking that they would be dead by now if the pressure energy was turned into an energy wave. They thought it was their luck when it was not the case…

"Let's go home! We can't deal with this! Boss Ma must be responsible for this!" The man with a scar on his face shouted with the utmost anger. Then he led his men away from the shop immediately. They headed to Boss Ma, who was looking at them from afar…

As the group turned their direction toward him, Ma-Ye-Li rushed to take off without waiting for the group to catch up with him…

Whoosh!

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