I am a villain and have been captured. Why are the fairies asking me to come out?

If she really wanted to go out with him, Yan Mobai would not refuse. He knew that his thoughts might not be right, and perhaps if he missed this opportunity, there would never be another one like this again.

The girl shook her head: "We are not going to the outer gate."

"Then stay inside the inner gate?"

"No! How can we stay here for nothing?" The girl glared at him in disapproval, "Let's go to Suzaku City!"

……

If you don’t see it with your own eyes, you can’t imagine how vast the Yuheng Immortal Sect is.

The southern part of Tianding Continent, nearly ten thousand miles from west to east and thousands of miles from south to north, is all the territory of the Yuheng Immortal Sect, occupying almost half of the continent.

The core area is naturally the territory of a hundred miles around Yuheng Mountain. This territory not only includes the outer and inner gates, but also the many fairy cities belonging to Yuheng beyond the outer gate mountains.

Although it is a fairy city, most of the people living in it are mortals. To be able to live in the fairy city, the origins of these mortals are not simple.

Not everyone in the world can become an immortal. The offspring of immortal practitioners may not necessarily have the talent for cultivation. They may be unlucky and have to be mortals all their lives.

Without the talent for cultivation, they are certainly not qualified to practice in Yuheng Mountain Gate, but they are blood relatives of Yuheng disciples after all, and it is impossible for them to be exiled to a distant place.

So the people in the sect built cities for them to live in next to the outer gate. This way, if they gave birth to offspring with excellent roots in the future, it would be convenient to bring them to the mountain gate and become disciples of their ancestors.

Over time, the number of mortal descendants accumulated increased, and the surrounding cities became larger and larger. The largest of them were the four giant cities in the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest, named after the four divine beasts. Each city had a population of nearly one million.

The girl held Yan Mobai's hand and stood in front of the gate of Suzaku City.

She had changed out of her clean white dress into ordinary clothes, but her slender and pretty figure and bright and charming appearance could not be concealed. Her every frown and smile was so enchanting that passers-by around her stopped to look.

They not only looked at the beautiful girl, but also at the boy next to her.

The boy was clearly only fifteen or sixteen years old, but his hair had turned gray at an early age. The white hair mixed with black gave him an eerie feeling of time disorder. It was also surprising to notice that there was not the slightest youthful liveliness in his eyes and brows. Instead, his eyes were deep and he always had a peaceful smile on his face, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

Precisely because of their extraordinary temperament, when it was their turn to enter the city, the dead look on the face of the chief guard at the city gate was instantly replaced by a smiling face, and he came to greet them in person.

In the entire fairy city, the city gate guards must be the ones who have seen the most people, and they have to see hundreds or thousands of faces every hour.

Anyone who stays in this position for a long time will develop an eye for judging people.

Although the two people in front of me are dressed in ordinary clothes, they have a noble temperament that is definitely not possessed by ordinary people. I think they must be the immortal masters in the sect, and they must not be provoked.

The head of the guard asked kindly, "Excuse me, do you have any talismans with you?"

Ordinary people need to pay silver to enter the city, but the Yuheng Immortal Masters do not need to pay. They all carry the identity jade tokens issued by the sect. With this jade token, they can go to any immortal city.

However, the girl did not show him the talisman as he expected, but took out some silver coins and threw them to him.

Her voice was particularly clear and pleasant: "For the two of us, this is four taels of silver."

Although the captain of the guard was surprised, he still took the silver respectfully without weighing the amount. He then waved his hand to let the guards behind him pass.

This was not the first time he had encountered this situation.

Silver is not a rare thing for immortal masters. Some immortal masters do not want to attract too much attention, so they would rather pay more silver than take out the jade talisman and show it to others.

Seeing that they were allowed to pass, the girl took the boy and walked towards the city.

Soon after the two men passed by, the captain of the guards noticed that there was another man with an extraordinary temperament in the crowd queuing to enter the city.

This man was also in casual clothes. Seeing the captain of the guard looking at him, he looked over with awareness. Just a glance made his head buzz, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.

It's strange, why are there so many immortal masters coming to the city today...

The captain of the guards secretly groaned inwardly. When it was that person's turn, before he could open his mouth to ask, he saw the man throwing a few pieces of silver at him, which weighed more than ten taels.

He quickly waved his hand to let his men pass, but the Immortal Master did not enter the city immediately. Instead, he asked, "Have you seen a white-haired boy?"

"Ah... I've seen it, I've seen it!"

The guard leader agreed with sweat on his forehead, and asked with a smile, "Master, do you have any history with those two people?"

The Immortal Master laughed and said, "How can I be worthy of having any relationship with them? Tell me, where did they go after they entered the city?"

Normally, such things cannot be said, but this immortal master looks extraordinary, so the captain of the guards dared not not answer.

After a brief recollection, he pointed in the direction of the city gate with a flattering smile on his face. At the same time, he secretly planned to report the matter to his superiors as soon as the immortal master walked away.

Of course, the Immortal City cannot be guarded by mortals like him alone. There are many cultivators in the Condensation Veins and even Yuan Building Stage in the city. They usually sit in seclusion to practice. Only when disputes occur in the Immortal City that mortals cannot solve, they will come out to settle them.

"If you tell this to others, your life will be in danger."

The immortal master seemed to see through his thoughts. He lifted his sleeves slightly, and a flash of bright purple jade light passed by.

It turned out to be the inner sect master!

The captain of the guards was suddenly shocked. He had been guarding the gate for more than 20 years and had seen many outer sect immortal masters, but this was the first time he had seen one from the inner sect.

The talismans I usually see are green jade talismans, and I have never seen any other colors.

The fact that the purple jade talisman represented the inner sect disciples was told to him by a senior, who warned him that if he met such a person, he should never go against the other person's ideas, otherwise he would be doomed.

The senior said that at least those in the inner sect are great cultivators at the Jindan stage, and each of them has tremendous magical power. If they use all their strength, it won't take much time to demolish the entire city.

He was complaining in his heart. Since it was the inner sect master in person, he naturally had no way of reporting to his superiors. The other person was even more powerful than his superior's superior.

But if there is any trouble in the city, won’t he be implicated?

By the time the inner sect master walked away, the captain of the guards was already sweating profusely.

He suddenly thought of the young couple from before.

Even the inner sect master said that he was not worthy of having any relationship with those two people. So...what level of people are they?

Chapter 28: Candied Haws

Zhuque City is very large, with a radius of approximately ten miles. There are six main roads running through the city from east to west, south to north, which can accommodate several carriages and horses passing side by side at the same time.

The girl held the leader's hand and walked on one of the main roads. From time to time, a horse passed by, raising gusts of wind and sand.

"There are so many people there..." Li Yulo covered his flying hair with his other hand and looked in surprise at the large low-rise market town not far away. Although the buildings there were not as tall and magnificent as those in other places, there were the most people there.

The vehicles, horses and pedestrians on the street all flocked there like water flowing to a low-lying area.

"What place is it..."

In the past, she seldom came to such a mundane place, and had only heard of its name. But when she entered the city today and saw the prosperous scenes, she felt quite surprised.

"It's a place like a market." Although Yan Mobai seldom visited mortal towns, he had seen some costume dramas before, and the markets in them looked more or less like this.

"The leader knows?" Li Yulo asked in surprise.

It was clearly she who brought the leader here, but when they arrived at the place, the leader was more familiar with it than she was.

"I've probably heard of it a little bit. The so-called market is a place where merchants gather. As long as you have enough silver, you can buy food and daily necessities there."

"Then..." The girl gently pulled his arm, "Do you want to go there, Master?"

Seeing her expectant look, Yan Mobai knew that he had no other choice of answer.

"Let's go shopping."

The two walked towards the bazaar in Suzaku City. The road became more and more crowded, and the lively shouting became louder and louder as they got closer.

Almost every inch of land around the market was packed with people. The lines of shops in busy areas were lined up outside the doors. Even in the streets farther away, there were many merchants coming and going. Vendors set up stalls on the street selling noodles, sugar bottles, rouge and powder, and the pedestrians were bustling in an endless stream.

Yan Mobai turned his head and saw that the girl had taken his arm at some point, with her little head almost resting on his shoulder.

To others, the two of them probably looked like a young couple hanging out together.

Although being hugged by a cute girl like this is enjoyable, it would be terrible if the people in the sect knew about it...

Yan Mobai poked her side with a little force, and immediately heard a moan of pain.

"Master...?" The girl looked at him with grievance and confusion in her violet eyes. Suddenly she found that she was holding the Master's arm. She quickly let go of her hand and moved away from him. She looked left and right vigilantly, and was relieved when she saw that there were no movements of cultivators around.

She was reluctant to let go of the feeling just now, and openly hugged the leader in front of others, which was even sweeter than the time they whispered in each other's ears in the cave.

"When can I hold the leader's arm openly..." She muttered quietly, her eyes involuntarily looking towards the shop selling preserved fruits and pastries not far away.

In the long line in front of the shop, except for the servants sent by the wealthy families to buy snacks, most of the people in the line were men and women dressed elegantly and appropriately. They stood close to each other, fearing that others would not notice their relationship.

Not to mention holding hands, some men even put their arms around the waists of the women next to them, making small movements and making them giggle.

Those men and women looked over here openly or secretly, as if they were marveling at the good-looking couple, and there was some envy in their words. They wished that their looks and temperament could be as extraordinary as these two.

But how could those people know that the beautiful girl was secretly envious of them at this moment?

She wanted so much to be able to be intimate with the leader like an ordinary person, but this was the Yuheng Immortal Sect...

The girl's thoughts were soon disrupted by the sound of gongs and drums.

Bang, Bang, Bang...

Not only her, many people's attention was attracted by the sound of gongs and drums, and they all looked towards a two-story building in the corner of the market.

The small building is black and simple, inconspicuous in appearance, with no special decorations. But if you look closely, you will find that there is an enclosed courtyard underneath it blocked by a wall. You cannot see what is inside through the wall, which is very rare in the busy market town.

The sound of gongs and drums came from that yard.

"Master, where is that place?" She pointed curiously at the two-story building where the drum sounds came from.

Yan Mobai looked in the direction the girl's slender fingers were pointing. With his eyesight sharpened by physical training, he could vaguely see a few brightly colored flags sticking out from the side of the small building, as well as fluttering curtains inside.

"It should be a theater... there are gongs and drums. Maybe the show will start soon, and they are inviting people to come in now."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and saw the girl looking at the theater with shining eyes.

This guy... Yan Mobai didn't know what to say for a moment.

This trip didn't feel like Li Yulo was accompanying him out for fun, but rather like he was accompanying her shopping.

……

After inquiring about the specific time when the show would start, the two bought some candied haws from a nearby stall and ate one string each.

Yan Mobai actually didn't like eating this kind of thing very much. At first, he tasted the sweetness of the sugar shell on the outside, but in the middle, only the sour taste of hawthorn was left. In the end, his hands were covered with sticky sugar threads that he couldn't get rid of.

But Li Yulo insisted that both of them eat it, saying that only in this way would it taste sweeter.

Yan Mobai was a little confused about the logic in her words. Wouldn't the same candied haws taste the same whether eaten by one person or by two people?

But since she said so, just go along with her.

The candy shop was some distance away from the theater, so the two walked back while eating.

There were so many people on the street and cars were coming and going so frequently that before the girl had eaten for long, her wrist was hit by someone's package nearby and the candied haws in her hand fell to the ground.

"ah!"

As the girl screamed, the red candied haws rolled on the ground a few times and became gray.

Even if I picked it up, I couldn't eat it because it was covered in so much dust.

“Master…!” She looked over with a bitter face.

Yan Mobai paused as he was holding the candied haws, feeling that something seemed to be wrong.

"Since it's fallen, let's go back and buy another bunch..."

Before he could finish his words, the girl leaned over to him, showing her fangs and taking a big bite of the candied haws that he had not eaten much of.

"Yu Luo?!"

Baji, baji... The big light purple eyes looked at him innocently, and the white and tender cheeks bulged.

Yan Mobai immediately realized that he had fallen into this guy's trap. All his previous actions and words were probably just to be able to take this bite openly in front of him.

The reason why she insisted on giving each person a string of candied haws was probably because of this... Even if no one bumped into her, she would probably fall down and drop the string of candied haws on the ground.

A strange emotion surged in Yan Mobai's heart.

In this helpless situation, there is still a girl who is willing to spend so much effort to eat the same string of candied haws with him...

He smiled, picked up the remaining candied haws, and took a bite under her sparkling gaze.

"Is it sweet?" The girl smiled like a flower.

"……Um."

This was the first time in Yan Mobai's life that the hawthorn in the middle of the sugar shell did not seem to be as sour and astringent as he had imagined. Instead, it had a slightly different flavor and was not so difficult to swallow.

Maybe Li Yuluo didn't lie to him...

Eating candied haws together probably adds some different flavors.

……