Although she was reluctant, with the help of Wenlan, Ying was able to easily shake off those monks and found a shop selling materials.

But when entering the store, Wen Lan did not go in with her. Instead, he chose to stay outside and hid in a secluded corner.

"What are you doing hiding here?"

After all, Wenlan helped Ying, so Ying was somewhat grateful to her and would naturally pay a little more attention to her. Wenlan had been trying to get close to Ying all the way, but now he suddenly let her go. This change made her feel strange.

Hearing Ying's question, Wen Lan smiled, took out a small bottle of wine from his arms, drank two sips directly, wiped his mouth, and then continued:

"Everyone here basically knows me. How should I put it? They probably don't like me very much."

Having said this, Wen Lan took another breath and exhaled after a while:

"No, they definitely don't like me."

"Is it because of your physical condition?" Ying asked.

"Yeah, men think I'm disgusting, and women think I'm scary. Anyway, I've experienced a lot of this ever since I was old enough to understand."

Ying recalled the place where she met Wenlan yesterday. It was the edge of the gathering place, the place closest to darkness outside the brightly lit area. However, she did not notice this at the time and did not think that Wenlan was the person who was excluded by everyone.

In this situation, a few words of comfort would not do anything. Ying sighed, went to the store and bought the materials she needed. She found a beautiful corner in the house to put them in her backpack, and then came out to meet Wenlan.

It is obvious that Wenlan wants to act with Ying later.

"Aren't you worried that you might be targeted by the cultivators from Fengyang City?"

Thinking that the other party still has a father to take care of, Ying couldn't help but feel worried. The always taciturn old Ye should be Wenlan's only relative.

But Wenlan doesn't seem to care about this:

"Him? Hahaha, there's nothing to worry about him. He is a genuine immortal. He is not on the same level as me."

"He is an immortal? Then why can't he enter the city?"

"Because of me, he was able to enter the city, but he couldn't take me in with him, so he waited for me outside."

This made Ying have a deeper understanding of the rules of Fengyang City:

Although immortals can enter the city directly, people related to them still cannot enter directly.

It is not difficult to imagine that those who have waited in the gathering place for many years and finally got the opportunity to enter Fengyang City, if they raised children in the gathering place, then in the end, they would either choose to abandon their children and enter the city alone, or wait for their children to get the same opportunity to enter the city.

But based on what Ying saw now, she doubted that no one could wait until that time.

"But if you ask me, instead of worrying about Old Ye, you should worry about yourselves first." Wen Lan said casually, "You are now wanted by the cultivators of Fengyang City. Let's not talk about anything else. The cultivators of Tianya Island and Wanxian Pavilion are scary enough. I heard that even cultivators with the same cultivation level cannot defeat the people from these two major sects."

"If I were you, I would leave the gathering place first and come back when the situation here is not so tense. Maybe the people who arrested you have forgotten about you."

Naturally, this proposal would not be recognized by Ying. So, Wen Lan kept talking about some unreasonable ideas along the way, but Ying still seriously denied her ideas.

But as they got closer to where Gui Yan and Gu Ling were hiding, Wen Lan's expression became more and more wrong.

"what happened?"

Ying did not ignore this point. When it came to matters concerning the gathering place, they were naturally not as good as this man who had twenty-three years of experience living in the gathering place.

"Is this where you hide? You really don't know how to choose a place. But I can't blame you. After all, you don't have a choice."

"Think about it, there are so many places in this gathering place, why do these guys have to live here at the very outside, and they are also separated from everyone else inside by a distance."

Ying frowned and said with a hint of doubt:

"What I can think of is that the people here like quietness and don't want to stay in the noisy environment of the gathering center. Or they have given up hope of going to the city, so they left the center and lived a secluded life outside. But since you asked this, there must be other reasons?"

In fact, there is another point, that is, they, like Wenlan, are discriminated against by others, so they live here in order to avoid being persecuted by others again, but Ying thinks there is no need to say this.

"Yes, those people live here because they committed crimes."

"That is to say, those who live here are all criminals. Not only are they not allowed to enter Fengyang City, but they are not even welcome in the gathering place. However, their crimes are not punishable by death, so they are expelled here to prevent them from continuing to harm others."

"That's why I asked you to stay at the center last night even though I knew you were wanted."

Hearing this, Ying also felt her heart tighten. She didn't think that these people who hadn't even reached the Earthly Immortal Realm would really cause any harm to Gui Yan and the others, but when she thought about how those two were inexperienced and that Gu Ling, who was stronger, even had a child's temper, she couldn't help but feel uneasy.

So, she and Wenlan quickened their pace. Sure enough, before they got close to the place where Ying, Guiyan and Gu Ling said goodbye, they saw a group of people forming a circle. In the center of the circle, continuous shouting was heard.

"Something really happened!"

Seeing this, Ying hurried forward to push away the crowd, but when she reached the center of the crowd, she found that the situation was completely different from what she thought.

In the center of the crowd, several gangster-looking guys were lying on the ground with several obvious wounds on their bodies. Opposite them stood Gui Yan and Gu Ling.

Seeing that the two were fine, Ying heaved a sigh of relief, but then she discovered that there was another person standing next to them. That person had gray hair and looked quite old. He was the person Ying had just met not long ago.

"Old Ye?!" Wen Lan directly called out the other person's name. She also followed Ying into the crowd. When the people around her saw her, they made way for her as if they had seen something scary.

Hearing Wen Lan's voice, Old Ye's gaze swept across his daughter and finally fell on Ying. Ying immediately discovered that although Old Ye's eyes were cloudy, they were extremely deep. In the depths of his eyes, there seemed to be something inexplicable surging.

But her eyes met with Old Ye's for only a moment, and soon Old Ye withdrew his gaze. He glanced at the crowd around him again and said in an old voice that matched his appearance:

"These three are my friends. Please, for my sake, don't provoke them again in the future."

After saying that, Old Ye took a step forward, and a powerful magical power burst out from his seemingly weak body. The coarse cloth clothes on his body seemed to have turned into an extremely hard armor at this moment, and the aura of a superior person emerged.

The crowd around them all took a step back. Those with dull eyes quickly lowered their heads and left without saying a word, but Ying still heard these words from some of them:

"You've raised a shemale. What's there to be proud of? You deserve it!"

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