The patrol guards appeared quickly and right on time. They were dressed eccentrically, wearing tall, pointed hats, and instead of the usual topknots or loose hair worn by most cultivators, their long hair was braided into thin plaits interwoven with colorful ribbons. As they moved, it looked as if they were trailing a rainbow behind them. It wasn't just their hats and hair that were odd; their attire was equally strange.
In the Cultivation World, Li Dai had seen plenty of male and female cultivators in traditional robes and elegant garments. But these guards from the Kong family wore short outfits that reached only to their knees. Below the knees, their lower legs were not bare; rather, they were wrapped in wide, diagonal bandages. Combined with the two-meter-long spears they carried, these guards were the focal point of the crowd the moment they appeared, even if they were just escorts.
While Li Dai had the leisure to observe the outfits of the three or five patrol guards approaching them, Lan Ying was in no such mood. Truth be told, while the expressionless, sallow-faced guards were dressed in an unconventional and bizarre manner, anyone from the Inner Continent had seen them many times before. Whenever the Kong family traveled, the scale was so grand and luxurious it rivaled a celestial vessel, with hundreds or thousands of guards following them, making them the center of attention wherever they went. Moreover, it wasn't just the guards; the Kong family’s personal style …
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