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Shangsha City is located in a vast desert, which is difficult for ordinary people to cross, so it is relatively isolated.

Although immortals can cross this desert, they always choose places with abundant spiritual energy when selecting a place to cultivate or settle down.

Places like Shangsha City, lacking spiritual energy, opportunities, and population, are so remote that even evil immortals wouldn't come here.

Today, Shangsha City is far less prosperous than it was billions of years ago. The outer city of Shangsha City is now filled with houses covered by yellow sand, and the population of Shangsha City is not even enough to fill the inner city.

Seeing Shangsha City transformed into its current desolate state, Lu Chen felt a pang of emotion; time truly can change everything.

When he passed through Shangsha City, it was incredibly prosperous, and there were quite a few Immortal Lords there at that time.

After arriving above Shangsha City, Lu Chen immediately released his divine sense, as if searching for something.

Soon, Lu Chen found what he was looking for. Then, he flew down from the fairy ship and headed straight for that place.

Seeing Lu Chen leave the fairy ship, Xiao Xueying and Cao Shiyun also got off the fairy ship. Then Cao Shiyun put the fairy ship back into her own small world.

Not long after, Lu Chen appeared on a sand dune with the two women.

Seeing the sand dune, the two women were even more confused. What was their junior brother doing?

At this moment, Lu Chen raised his hand and used his immortal energy to move the entire sand dune. In a short while, all the sand in front of them disappeared.

After the surrounding sand was removed, a stone tomb appeared in front of them. There was a stele in front of the tomb, but the stele had no inscription, perhaps because it had been weathered over time.

There are traces of an array on this stone tomb. It must have been protected by an array in the past, but because of the long time that has passed, the array collapsed after it lost its spiritual energy.

Without this formation, this stone tomb might not exist anymore.

Upon seeing the stone tomb, both women were curious about the person inside and who Lu Chen was, but given the current situation, they couldn't ask too many questions.

Lu Chen arrived in front of the stone tablet, released his divine sense to explore the entire stone tomb, and then took out some spirit stones from his spatial ring to set up a new formation on the stone tomb.

After doing all this, Lu Chen moved the yellow sand that had previously covered the stone tomb back, allowing the sand to continue covering the tomb.

Lu Chen then turned around and walked towards Shangsha City, and the two women quickly followed.

At this moment, Cao Shiyun could no longer contain her curiosity and asked, "Junior brother, is that your relative?"

Lu Chen smiled and replied, "I guess so."

The stone tomb you just saw contains the remains of another maid who cared for him as he grew up. After his defeat, while he was fleeing, that maid shielded him from a sneak attack by a certain immortal king.

The retreat was rather hasty, so Lu Chen buried her body in Shangsha City.

After hearing Lu Chen's answer, Cao Shiyun didn't ask any more questions.

Xiao Xueying thought to herself that the person Lu Chen personally came to pay his respects to was probably one of his wives or concubines buried in the stone tomb.

The three of them soon arrived at the city gate of Shangsha City. There were some mortal cultivators wearing golden armor at the city gate. These mortal cultivators were basically all at the Nascent Soul stage.

The fact that a Nascent Soul cultivator is allowed to guard the gate indicates that the city lord of Shangsha City is no ordinary person.

In the Celestial Realm, above the Nascent Soul stage are the Deity Transformation stage, the Mahayana stage, and the Tribulation Transcending stage. After the Tribulation Transcending stage, one can become a mortal immortal.

Although a mere Nascent Soul cultivator is nothing to immortals, in the mortal world, a Nascent Soul cultivator is considered extremely powerful.

The fact that the guards at the gate are all Nascent Soul cultivators proves that the people managing this city are not mortals, but immortals.

Lu Chen thought to himself, it seems that Shangsha City is not too decadent. The spiritual veins are about to dissipate, and there are still immortals guarding Shangsha City.

Lu Chen walked directly towards the city gate, saying as he went, "Senior Sister Cao, I plan to stay in Shangsha City for a while."

Cao Shiyun said, "Experience is about training your mind. Junior Brother can stay wherever he wants."

Lu Chen didn't say much and walked directly towards the city gate of Shangsha City.

Soon, the three arrived at the city gate. Upon seeing them, the Nascent Soul soldiers guarding the gate immediately stopped them.

"Who goes there!"

Seeing someone blocking the way, Cao Shiyun released her immortal aura without saying a word. The soldiers were stunned by the pressure of the immortal aura emanating from Cao Shiyun, but they still did not make way.

Seeing that they did not make way, Cao Shiyun took out the Xuan Yue Palace identity token from her spatial ring. However, to their surprise, the soldiers still did not make way.

Cao Shiyun said coldly, "What, you don't even recognize the token of the upper sect?"

Upon hearing this, the soldiers exchanged glances before bowing to Lu Chen and his group, saying, "Greetings, envoy of the Supreme Sect."

However, even after the salute was performed, the soldiers still did not make way.

Seeing this, Cao Shiyun coldly asked, "What do you mean by this?"

"Now that you know we are immortals from the Xuan Yue Palace, why won't you make way?"

At this moment, a soldier said, "Your Excellency, our city lord has ordered that no immortal is allowed to enter Shangsha City while he is in seclusion, not even an envoy from the Upper Sect."

Ok?

Upon hearing this, Cao Shiyun frowned slightly. Even the envoys from the Upper Sect were not allowed to enter Shangsha City.

Cao Shiyun then said, "Has your city lord betrayed the Xuan Yue Palace?"

Shangsha City is just a small city within the territory ruled by the Xuan Yue Palace. It is really strange that their city lord dares to prevent the immortals of the Xuan Yue Palace from entering.

The city lord of Shangsha City is incredibly audacious. Daring to refuse entry to the Xuan Yue Palace's envoy is tantamount to betraying the Xuan Yue Palace.

Upon hearing Cao Shiyun's words, the soldiers present broke out in a cold sweat, but they still did not make way as Cao Shiyun increased the pressure emanating from her.

The next moment, the immortal soldiers were forced to their knees by the oppressive aura emanating from her.

A soldier hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, it's not that we don't want you to enter Shangsha City, but if we do, both I and my clan will die."

Hearing this man's words, Lu Chen and the others couldn't help but want to laugh. Then Lu Chen said, "Do you really think that by blocking the envoy of the Upper Sect, the envoy will let you and your clansmen go?"

"Or do you think the envoy from the upper sect is more benevolent than your city lord?"

Upon hearing this, the gatekeepers present all wore expressions of distress.

Lu Chen thought to himself, judging from their appearance, the current city lord of Shangsha City is probably no pushover. These people would rather offend the envoy from the Upper Sect than dare to offend the city lord. (End of this chapter)