I awakened my god-tier passive skill early on and took off instantly

The old man attacked fiercely, engaging Wen Yuanlong in a fierce battle. Wen Yuanlong, unable to withstand him, fled. The other person had already slipped away.

Afterward, the old man pulled Yan Qinglu away quickly.

Seeing that he didn't need to rescue her, Lu Xin didn't reveal himself and continued walking beside Han Daobei.

"By the way, Brother Lu, I have a vacant room. Why don't you stay at my place for now?" Han Daobei invited enthusiastically.

Lu Xin pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement.

Han Daobei was overjoyed at this sight and rubbed his hands together. "Brother Lu, um, I…"

Lu Xin smiled and said, "I must thank Brother Han for telling me all this along the way. I certainly can't stay for free. Name your price."

Han Daobei was a little embarrassed. "Because the houses in the city are protected by formations, even Nascent Divinity experts can't destroy them.

So the houses are fixed, and with the ever-increasing population, therefore, according to the market price…"

"Just name your price."

Lu Xin said directly. Regarding the formation protection he mentioned, he had just seen two Nascent Soul cultivators fighting, and the destructive power was indeed limited.

"One hundred middle-grade spirit stones per month. What do you think?"

"Acceptable," Lu Xin agreed readily.

Middle-grade spirit stones were already useless to him. Besides, if the spirit stones here were real, they would all be his sooner or later.

"Then Brother Lu, come with me quickly. I'll take you to see the house." Han Daobei was very happy to see Lu Xin agree.

Subsequently, Lu Xin followed him through the streets and came to a huge mansion.

"Is this your residence?" Lu Xin was very doubtful.

Han Daobei quickly shook his head. "This is the residence of Elder Nangong of the City Lord's Mansion. How could I possibly live here?"

Then he pointed to a small alley opposite the mansion. "My residence is inside. Come with me."

"I thought so."

Lu Xin was about to follow and take a step when the gate of the mansion in front of him suddenly opened, and several Golden Core guards dragged out several headless female corpses.

They happened to be thrown at his feet.

Then the guard glanced at him disdainfully and closed the door.

Lu Xin looked at the flowing blood at his feet. The women had obviously just been killed.

Han Daobei quickly came up and pulled him away. "Brother Lu, let's go! We can't stay here long."

Lu Xin casually threw out a ball of fire and burned the corpses to ashes, returning dust to dust and earth to earth. Then he followed Han Daobei and asked,

"What was that all about?"

Han Daobei looked around and explained in a low voice,

"Elder Nangong likes to drink and also likes to urge people to drink, and when he invites people to drink, he requires that they not use their cultivation to suppress him.

No one can outdrink him, but he still wants to urge them to drink.

Finally, one day, tired of urging, one of his subordinates came up with an idea."

"What idea?" Lu Xin vaguely guessed.

Han Daobei said, "It's to have a beautiful maid serve the guest for a day in advance, and then have this maid come forward to urge them to drink the next day.

If the guest doesn't drink, the maid will be beheaded!"

"Hiss!"

Although Lu Xin had already guessed it in his heart, he couldn't help but gasp.

His impression of the lawlessness and willfulness of the strong here became even stronger.

Han Daobei continued,

"Those who can associate with such people are naturally not soft-hearted people, but being forced like this also makes them feel that they have lost face, so they basically won't refuse the urging to drink.

Those people just now, I guess…"

The two of them arrived at a small courtyard deep in the alley. Since it was a house in the city, the conditions were not bad.

In the middle was the main hall, and on the left and right were the wing rooms.

"The one on the left is where I live, and the one on the right is still vacant. What do you think?"

Lu Xin casually looked around and nodded. "Not bad. Here are the spirit stones. Count them."

"No need."

Han Daobei accepted them and advised,

"Brother Lu, the people here don't have any scruples in their actions. You have to be careful when you go out in the future."

"Thank you for telling me."

Afterward, Han Daobei left the small courtyard, saying that he had been absent from work for half a day and had to rush back.

After Han Daobei left, Lu Xin walked into the house and spread out his divine sense, wanting to understand the layout of the city.

As a result, he found that his divine sense was severely restricted and couldn't even penetrate the walls.

"Interesting."

Lu Xin didn't force it. He set up a formation in the house and began to think.

His purpose in coming here was to find cultivation resources.

But the current problem was that he couldn't distinguish between truth and falsehood.

After the system's confirmation, the spiritual energy in the air was definitely fake. This was a land without spiritual energy.

But what puzzled him the most now was that under the "fake spiritual energy," the people here could not only cultivate magic power but also use it.

And the various spiritual objects that grew under this "fake spiritual energy" seemed to be real.

Otherwise, how could these people have survived for so long under the "fake spiritual energy?"

Unless the people here were also fake.

But Yan Qinglu was someone he had met outside, so it was impossible for her to be fake.

"Could it be that I entered an illusion formation before even drilling into the ground?"

Lu Xin was completely confused and had no choice but to summon Li Youlan again to consult with her.

"Junior, what's wrong with you again?" Li Youlan was a little surprised. Recently, Lu Xin had been looking for her more and more frequently.

"Sense what this place is like," Lu Xin didn't answer directly.

"Could this be the Underground Maze City?"

Li Youlan did as he said in confusion and said in surprise, "The spiritual energy is so rich! It's already not inferior to the various holy lands in Central Continent!"

Lu Xin was a little disappointed when he heard this and began to carefully examine her after absorbing her into his hand.

"What do you want to do?"

Li Youlan was a little panicked and felt somewhat inexplicable.

Lu Xin said faintly, "I'm wondering if you're really Li Youlan."

"If I'm not Li Youlan, then who am I? Could it be that you are?"

Li Youlan became more and more confused and didn't understand what he meant.

Lu Xin pondered for a moment and said, "Have you ever seen an illusion formation that makes you feel that the spiritual energy is very rich, but it's actually fake?"

"Illusion formation?"

Li Youlan frowned and carefully sensed it, affirming, "No, this spiritual energy is very real."

Lu Xin disappointedly stuffed her back into the porcelain bottle. The system would never deceive him. There must be some secret here.

But no matter what secrets there were, it wasn't important. What was important was that this was a land without spiritual energy. If he stayed here for one more day, his cultivation would stagnate for one day.

It wouldn't be worth it.

So he couldn't proceed step by step.

Thinking of this, he went out, intending to go to the so-called Nine-Story Pagoda to take a look first.

Lu Xin walked out of the alley, and the gate of the mansion in front of him was opened again. This time, it wasn't throwing corpses, but eight Golden Core burly men carrying a palanquin.

The palanquin was covered with black纱, and the breeze blew, the black纱 danced, and you could vaguely see a woman in a black dress sitting inside.

Her cultivation was quite high, at the mid-stage of Nascent Divinity.

"Wait!"

As the palanquin passed Lu Xin, a voice suddenly came out. The eight Golden Core burly men quickly stopped, and a middle-aged Nascent Soul man following beside them hurriedly stepped forward.

"I like this man very much. Take him back to serve me in bed."

The woman suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed to Lu Xin, who was standing by the street.

The middle-aged Nascent Soul man understood, flashed to Lu Xin's side, and reached out to grab him. "Boy, you're in luck."