The place where Shushu and his group are now is called the Mengjiang Mountains, located in the territory of the Zhuansun family in the northern part of Donglong, near a small city called Mengjiang City.
To get to Zheyan City from here, besides traversing countless mountains, there is another way: by taking a teleportation array.
Teleportation arrays are mostly set up in various towns and are guarded and maintained by dedicated personnel.
To ride, one must pay a certain amount of spirit stones as a fee, and in addition, an identity token is required.
As newcomers to the Eastern Long Realm, the senior and junior disciples naturally did not possess identity tokens.
However, one can imagine the countless dangers that would occur if one did not use the teleportation array to cross the mountain range.
After a brief discussion, the senior and junior disciples decided to go to Mengjiang City first to see if they could obtain an identity token, and then make further plans based on the results.
The Mengjiang Mountains were not far from Mengjiang City, and with Zi Su's help, the two of them only spent half a day to leave the Mengjiang Mountains and arrive at the city gate.
As an inconspicuous and remote town under the Zhuansun family, there are not many people here, and only a few people are queuing to enter the town.
Almost as soon as they arrived, it was their turn.
Fortunately, unless something major happens, you don't need to check your identity information to enter the city.
Therefore, after paying the city entry fee, the senior and junior disciples were quickly allowed to enter the city.
As for Mengjiang City, it lived up to the saying "small but complete." As soon as they entered the city gate, they encountered several teenagers lingering there, waiting for their host.
Upon seeing that the two were unfamiliar faces, the children swarmed over and greeted them warmly.
Lu Lishu asked a few questions, then picked out a talkative boy named Shuwa and asked him to lead them to an inn and inquire about the situation in the city.
To get Shuwa to talk more, his senior and junior brothers and sisters not only subtly tried to extract information from him, but also paid half of the spirit stones upfront and gave him a Spirit Recovery Pill, which was quite precious to him.
For the sake of the spirit stones and the Rejuvenation Pill, Shuwa was very open and honest, and quickly told them everything they wanted to know.
However, things did not go as smoothly as they had imagined. As soon as they inquired, the senior and junior disciples felt a jolt of fear, because the teleportation array in Mengjiang City was broken.
It is said that it broke down three years ago and has not been fixed. The Zhuansun family also sent people over, but the teleportation array keeps breaking down after being repaired.
The array masters sent by the Zhuansun family all said that the teleportation array was unusable and needed to be re-set.
However, resetting the teleportation array is a huge project. Only the most powerful array master in the entire Zhuansun family can set it up. Mengjiang City has already submitted the application, but has not yet received a reply.
In the past three years, the people of Mengjiang City have not used the teleportation array; they have mostly traveled across the mountains by flying vehicles.
Furthermore, due to the broken teleportation array, Mengjiang City's connection with the outside world was almost completely severed, and there has been no news from those who went out of the city.
If it weren't for the fact that these people's life tablets, though not as bright as before, were still in good condition, they would have thought that all the people who went out were dead.
However, the number of newcomers to Mengjiang City remained largely the same as before, so Shuwa was not particularly surprised by the appearance of Lu Li and Shushu.
After saying all that, Shuwa led the people to the inn, which, as Lu Li and Shushu had expected, was a relatively quiet inn with a nice environment and facilities.
The fellow disciples were quite satisfied and, without much hesitation, booked a superior room, gave Shuwa the remaining half spirit stone as agreed, and then sent him away.
Afterwards, the senior and junior disciples inquired with the waiter, spent most of the day listening to conversations at a restaurant in the city, and then spent the rest of the day strolling around the market, using the excuse of buying things to gather information.
The results were almost identical, and the brother and sister returned to the inn.
Unexpectedly, almost the instant they returned to the inn, they keenly sensed that something was wrong; the room had a more unfamiliar feel than the last time they had entered.
It was very faint; it must have come in and then left.
The senior and junior disciples exchanged a glance, pretending to chat casually as if they hadn't noticed anything, but secretly spread their divine senses to investigate.
Soon, they found a water mirror in an inconspicuous corner of the room; it was a water mirror with communication capabilities.
In addition, Shushu also found fine powder of the antidote on the stool in the center of the room, on the bed curtains beside the bed, and in the futon next to it.
Yes, it's the Spirit-Binding Powder, the forbidden drug that Wen Jianxi once possessed.
If they hadn't seen it before and hadn't searched with exceptionally detailed divine sense, they might have overlooked this carefully disguised spirit-suppressing powder, which was mixed in with other things.
As for the Spirit-Suppressing Powder, once you come into contact with even a little bit, all the spiritual power in your body will be rendered useless, and no matter how powerful a cultivator is, they will become a helpless victim.
When the two students discovered this, their faces were almost identically cold.
However, they are facing away from the water mirror, so the water mirror is only recording their backs and cannot capture their expressions from the front.
All of these things point to the fact that there are serious problems in Mengjiang City.
It's unclear whether the entire city is the problem, or if their inquiry about the teleportation array has attracted the attention of someone behind it all.
After all, if the information they gathered today is true, the destruction of the teleportation array must be hiding some big secret.
Regardless of the reason, their immediate priority is to find out the truth, avoid being taken advantage of, and identify the person behind it all.
So, after a brief discussion, the senior and junior disciples asked Tianchen for help.
First, they created an illusion to confuse the water mirror, and then there was someone who might be looking at the situation through the water mirror.
Following that, the senior and junior disciples each released a high-level puppet, transforming it into their own appearance, and infused it with a wisp of divine consciousness to ensure that the connection would not be lost.
Finally, the brother and sister concealed themselves and quietly slipped out of the inn, heading straight for the city lord's mansion.
Whether it was because these people were too arrogant or not, the guards of the city lord's mansion were not on high alert, and the senior and junior disciples quickly made their way to the study of the city lord's mansion and saw the people inside discussing matters.
The senior and junior disciples exchanged a glance, checked the surrounding area, and confirmed that there were no ambushes or traps before quietly approaching again.
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