Half a day later, Chen Xun and Black Bull stood far outside Panning City, feeling both familiar and estranged.

Outside the city gates, people still came and went, carriages passed by, and vigorous soldiers stood guard.

However, the city walls had been renovated several times and no longer looked like what they remembered.

They merely glanced up a few times, their eyes calm and unperturbed, and then walked step by step into the city.