In order not to alert others, Li Tianyan and Cheng Qi restrained their auras and pretended to be ordinary people. When the cultivator’s carriage passed by the tea house, he did not notice their presence.

But just when the group of people was about to disappear from their sight, an old man in rags suddenly fell in front of the carriage, and the team stopped.

“Who are you? Why don’t you get out of the way?” A young Taoist priest standing next to the carriage saw this and said to the old man on the ground.

“My legs and feet are not good, please help me,” the old man sat on the ground and looked at the man in the carriage and spoke.

“How dare you, an old man, ask our Imperial Master to help you! I want to see how hard your bones are,” upon hearing the request, the young Taoist priest immediately kicked the old man fiercely.

“Hey, what’s wrong with this old man? He actually wants the Imperial Master to come down and help him. It’s so shameless to rely on his status as an elder.”

“The Imperial Master is going to the altar to pray for blessings, but this old man delayed the auspicious time. I’m afraid this old man won’t be very lucky now.”

People around saw the old man in ragged clothes being kicked and beaten, but no one sympathized with him. The old man was given a lesson by a group of Taoist priests and thrown on the side of the road, then the team began to move forward slowly. The tall and thin man sitting in the carriage did not even turn his head.

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The old man who was abandoned on the roadside waited until they were far away, he patted his clothes and stood up. He didn’t appear to be injured at all, and even his legs and feet were very good.

Cheng Qi had a panoramic view of this scene and couldn’t help but feel puzzled by the old man’s behavior. “Young master, this old man is fine and healthy, why did he mess with those guys?”

“Maybe he wanted to test them,” Li Tianyan looked at the old man’s figure below, and a light flashed in his eyes.

“Testing?” Cheng Qi felt even more strange. Why would a poor old man test someone like the Imperial Master?

“Let’s go,” Li Tianyan saw that the time was almost up and he was not interested to stay in the teahouse any longer.

“Oh,” upon hearing this, Cheng Qi patted the snack crumbs in his hand, got up, and went downstairs with Li Tianyan.

The two of them happened to bump into the old man just now when they were leaving the door of the tea house. Li Tianyan only glanced at him and was about to leave. However, when the old man saw them, his eyes lit up and he took the initiative to pester them. “You  two little friends, can you give me a hand? Give me money, I want to buy a drink.”

Cheng Qi saw that the old man was in high spirits and did not look like crippled old man at all. Although he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, he still took out a piece of broken silver from his purse and gave it to him. “Grandpa, is this enough?”

“That’s enough, thank you little friend,” the old man saw the broken silver in his hand and nodded in thanks.

“Young master, we can go,” Cheng Qi put his purse away and then walked to Li Tianyan and spoke.

The old man looked at the two people leaving with a thoughtful expression on his face. Then he threw away the broken silver in his hand and walked into the teahouse with his hands behind his back.

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“Young master, that old grandpa is very weird.” Cheng Qi said as they walked away.

“A cultivator.” Although the old man’s aura was well controlled, Li Tianyan still found clues from his movements.

“Ah, is the old man also a cultivator? Can the young master see what kind of cultivation he has?” Cheng Qi felt even more strange. Could it some cultivators like to run around in the secular world? They met two of them today.

“Above me,” Li Tianyan replied affirmatively. The person who could make him unable to see his cultivation level was most likely a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

Hearing that the old man’s level was above Li Tianyan, Cheng Qi was shocked. The young master was already at the ninth level of Qi Condensation. The only person who was more powerful than the young master was a Foundation Establishment Cultivator. Only then did Cheng Qi finally react, “Young master, is he from Tianfan Immortal Sect? Could he be here to arrest us?”

“Don’t worry, it seems that he has no bad intentions at the moment. Anyway, we will solve this problem as soon as possible then leave,” Li Tianyan said and raised his hand to rub Cheng Qi’s head out of habit, but his hand stopped in mid-air.

Upon seeing this, Cheng Qi smiled and pulled down Li Tianyan’s hand, holding it with his, and the two walked hand in hand in the direction of the Crown Prince’s Mansion.

“Who is it?” The guard in front of the Crown Prince’s Mansion saw someone approaching and immediately stepped forward to stop the two people.

“My surname is Li. I am a doctor. I was recommended by a warrior named Han Wei, who asked me to come and treat His Highness the Crown Prince.” Li Tianyan said and took out Han Wei’s letter of recommendation from his body and handed it to him.

When the guard heard his surname was Li and saw the letter of recommendation, he lowered his guard slightly, took the letter, and said to the two of them, “Wait here.”

Seeing that the guard had someone send the letter in, Li Tianyan and Cheng Qi stood at the door waiting, and not long after, they saw a man wearing an apricot-yellow python robe walking out.

Li Tianyan saw the man’s natural nobility and the true dragon-like aura revealed in his demeanor, and he had already guessed the identity of this man, “I have met His Highness the Crown Prince.”

Zhao Shengyu saw that Li Tianyan only raised his hands in salute and did not show any intention to correct the cultivator. He raised his hand and signaled to the person in front of him, “No need to be polite, Doctor Li. Come in quickly.”

After the Imperial Master appeared, he had heard Han Wei talk about Li Tianyan. It was said that his abilities were as good as those of the Imperial Master. Therefore, Zhao Shengyu deliberately asked Han Wei to win over this person. It was just that there had been no news for several months, and he had given up hope on the matter. But he did not expect that the two of them had arrived in the capital.

Note:

Meeting a royal family, even though people don’t need to kowtow in front of the crown prince but they still need to bow down. Li Tianyan isn’t from Zidong Kingdom and a powerful cultivator, so there was no need to bow except basic respect.

Kowtow is kneeling then bowing down until your forehead touch the floor, that can only be done in front of the emperor.