Secondly, this place is extremely far from both the Great Tang and the Divine Sect. Even if the Emperor of the Great Tang and the experts of the Divine Sect want to avenge the Second Prince, they still couldn’t easily find him.

Most importantly, Jiang Feng had a premonition that the Sect Leader of the Fire God Sect would be able to guarantee his safety.

Judging from the system established by the other party, if one didn’t possess extraordinary cultivation or a terrifying background, it would have been impossible to set this up. As long as he lay low in the city, behaving like an honest commoner, no one could easily find him.

Even if the Royal Family and the Divine Sect made it here and wanted to search, they’d still need the Fire God Sect’s permission first.

And even if the other side couldn’t stop them, Jiang Feng could escape in time.

So Jiang Feng settled down in the South City Gate district of Fire God City.

He chose this area because heading south would lead him to several small countries with complicated relations. No matter which country he ran into, he could play off the Great Tang Royal Family or the experts of the Divine Sect for time.

Days flew by,

and in a flash, another ten days had passed.

Jiang Feng woke up early to check his panel information.

Name: Jiang Feng

Fortune: 624,279

Cultivation Technique: Yangchun Technique (Great Success)

Skills: Flame Saber (Proficient+) Wind Control (Proficient+)

Realm: Fourth-Layer Qi Condensation

Divine Power: Immortality

Not long ago, he had skirted around the Red Earth Forest, putting distance between himself and the Great Tang, all the way here to Fire God City. In that time, he’d accumulated more than forty thousand Fortune Points, and without realizing it, his total Fortune had already surpassed the six hundred thousand mark.

However, he was still a long way from another breakthrough in cultivation.

Ever since moving into Fire God City, his Fortune Points had been growing extremely slowly. To accumulate two million points and upgrade the Yangchun Technique again, he had no idea how long it would take.

Luckily, Jiang Feng was in no hurry.

He had a feeling that as long as he successfully evaded pursuit from the Great Tang Royal Family and the Divine Sect, his Fortune Points would definitely skyrocket again.

Maybe when that happened, he could shoot straight up to two million points in one go.

He lived like an ordinary person, cooking over a fire, and after finishing his breakfast, Jiang Feng took a trip to the South City Gate. His current identity was a laborer helping merchants transport goods outside the city.

The reason he chose this identity was that it allowed him to show up at the South City Gate in broad daylight every day to check the wanted posters on the wall.

Although Fire God City was remote, there was no guarantee that the Great Tang and the Divine Sect wouldn’t send his wanted poster here.

In addition, by mingling with the merchants, Jiang Feng could pick up news from outside. He was very curious what the scene in the Great Tang Dragon Capital was like these days.

"Make way!"

"Another batch of wanted posters has been sent over."

"I hear two flower thieves have shown up in Han Country. Wonder if they escaped to our side."

The crowd near the notice wall became restless.

Two disciples of the Fire God Sect were posting the notices.

With his Fourth-Layer Qi Condensation cultivation, Jiang Feng could see the contents of the notice wall clearly from a distance. He didn’t crowd forward, but waited for the crowd to disperse, then swept his eyes quietly from left to right.

He grabbed a nearby sack of medicinal herbs to toss onto the merchant’s carriage, but all of a sudden, his movement halted.

His gaze was drawn back to the notice wall.

His eyes stopped on the portrait at the far right of the wall.

Who else could the person in that portrait be but him?

It stated that he was a wanted criminal jointly pursued by the Great Tang Royal Family and the Divine Sect, and anyone who provided information would be rewarded with ten thousand taels of gold, a hundred stalks of spirit medicine, a thousand catties of spirit rice, and a hundred spirit stones.

"How... How was I discovered?"

Jiang Feng placed the herbs on the carriage.

He’d imagined more than once that he’d see his own wanted notice posted on the wall, but he didn’t expect the portrait on it to look exactly like his true face.

"Heaven and earth—Celestial Eye, open!"

Jiang Feng remembered the magic Young Master Liu had used when they fought. So that spell was only for seeing his true appearance; no wonder he hadn’t sensed the slightest harm back then.

But now, looking back, the damage left behind by that technique was even worse than that of the purple mini-sword.

If even his wanted poster had been delivered here, it must’ve already spread throughout the Dragon Capital. He wondered how Uncle Han Donghuo and the others would feel if they saw it.

More importantly, would they end up implicated because of this?

"Boom!"

Just as Jiang Feng was at a loss, a terrifying wave of energy swept over from the direction of the Red Earth Forest and descended before the notice wall.

"Greetings, Sect Leader!"

The Fire God Sect personnel stationed on the wall or patrolling nearby all knelt toward the figure.

"Sect Leader, sir!"

The citizens and merchants outside the city voiced their excitement; some knelt down in worship, others’ eyes filled with tears, as if seeing their faith incarnate.

From afar, Jiang Feng saw the Fire God Sect Sect Leader with her back to him—a woman with long, flowing hair, her silhouette strikingly beautiful.

The woman seemed to sense something, and turned to look back.

Jiang Feng withdrew his gaze, forcing his expression to look as passionate and excited as the surrounding commoners.

The woman frowned slightly; she had clearly sensed someone watching her just now, but in an instant, that gaze had disappeared.

Her spiritual sense burst out, sweeping through the area.

Jiang Feng was startled inside.

He hurriedly activated the Yangchun Technique to block detection, trying not to let her sense anything unusual.

He prayed inside that the Yangchun Technique would be effective, that she wouldn’t detect his spiritual power fluctuations.

The woman’s spiritual sense brushed over Jiang Feng.

Then extended toward the Red Earth Forest.

After a moment, it retreated, then suddenly lashed back like a counterattack. The civilians didn’t notice anything, but Jiang Feng felt his nerves stretched to the limit.

He had no idea how strong this woman really was.

But just from those two sweeps of her spiritual sense, Jiang Feng felt he was nearing the limits of what he could hide. If her sense washed over him again, he wouldn’t be able to resist, and everything he was would be exposed to her.

"Boom!"

The woman in white vanished from the front of the notice wall, turning into a white beam of light that flashed over Jiang Feng’s head and shot into the Red Earth Forest.

A moment later.

A two-tailed Wolf King was thrown out of the Red Earth Forest by the woman in white.

Jiang Feng was shocked.

He recognized that two-tailed Wolf King.

It was the very same two-tailed Wolf King he’d seen in the Dragon Capital recently—the one who had led dozens of werewolves into the city. Why had it come to Fire God City, and why was it hiding in the Red Earth Forest?

Even more shocking, the two-tailed Wolf King had been defeated by the woman in white in an instant.

What the Wolf King said next was even more shocking to Jiang Feng.

"Spare me, Saintess, I had nothing to do with the death of the Divine Sect Saint Heir."

The two-tailed Wolf King spoke in human tongue.

"If your werewolf clan hadn’t betrayed us, how would the Divine Sect Saint Heir have died in the Dragon Capital? You deserve death!"

The woman in white said angrily.

She pressed down with her hand.

A white aura enveloped the two-tailed Wolf King, and before it could even scream, it was transformed into an ice sculpture, then shattered into dust, vanishing completely.

Jiang Feng felt his scalp tingle and a chill run down his spine.

He finally understood why Fire God City could exist at all.