In the secret room beneath the city lord's palace, a figure in black robes was kneeling in front of a fiery red orb.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me for my incompetence. Until now, I have not been able to get the key to the imperial treasury and the map."
The man in black robe swallowed, lowered his head and said.
"Trash, I gave you so many resources, but you can't even handle this little thing!"
"The treasure key of the Imperial Treasury is related to my future imperial career. If you still can't handle this matter, just wait for me to go and get your head in person!"
A low voice of neither male nor female came from the orb.
"Yes, please give me a little more time, your Majesty."
The man in black robe had a drop of cold sweat on his forehead and quickly assured him.
"Humph, this is the last chance!"
With a cold snort, the light on the fiery red orb disappeared.
The man in black robe stood up with an ugly expression and clenched his fists hard.
"It seems that we must speed up the progress. Let's inform Xiong Tiangang and his gang first and clear the obstacle of the City Lord's Mansion tonight."
The man in black robe said, taking something out of his arms and trying to contact the bandit cultivators hiding in the underground of the major slaughtered families.
However, no one responded to him for a long time after he sent the message.
"What's going on? These guys are so crazy that they dare to ignore my contact!"
The man in black robe was in a bad mood after being reprimanded by his superior. Now Xiong Tiangang and others dared to ignore his communication, which immediately aroused his anger.
The man in black robe immediately decided that he must teach these ignorant guys a lesson tonight!
With this in mind, the man in black robe was preparing to try to contact Xiong Tiangang's gang of bandit cultivators again.
Suddenly, a strange feeling surged into his heart, and the man in black robe immediately stopped his movements.
"Someone broke my formation?"
Feeling the source of this strangeness, the man in black robe couldn't help but feel shocked in his heart.
He immediately turned around and quickly returned to the hut through the secret passage.
Just as he took off his disguise and sealed the entrance to the secret passage again, three figures pushed the door open and entered.
"Um?"
Zhang Yifeng raised his eyebrows and looked at the old man in front of him who was over fifty years old.
"Ahem, what are you doing here, three adults?"
The old man looked at Zhang Yifeng and the others and asked suspiciously.
"Your Excellency, you are the general manager of this city lord's palace?"
Zhang Yifeng did not answer his question, but asked with a smile.
"That's right, I, Guhuang, is the general manager of the city lord's palace."
Guhuang nodded and directly admitted Zhang Yifeng's conjecture.
"Ha, that's right."
Zhang Yifeng nodded thoughtfully, and then said: "You are the only person who can hide beside City Lord Xiang for so long and know exactly when he will send people to investigate the massacres of major families."
Hearing these words, Guhuang froze on the spot as if struck by lightning, swallowing all the words he had planned.
"You, who are you?!"
Guhuang gave a low shout and took a few steps back.
"Can't you bear it?"
Zhang Yifeng looked at the half-century old man in front of him with some disappointment and said softly.
"Damn it, if you want to ruin His Majesty's plan, you have to see if you have what it takes!"
Guhuang roared loudly, and immediately a ball of purple light flew out from his palm and rushed towards Zhang Yifeng's face.
"You have such a small skill, but you still dare to show off in front of us."
Xuanyuan Li said coldly and waved his hand to directly fly the purple light aside.
Guhuang's eyes suddenly flashed with horror when he saw how easily Xuanyuan Li knocked away his tyrannical blow.
"Oops, these guys are far stronger than me, we must escape first!"
Guhuang gritted his teeth, and thoughts flashed through his mind quickly, and he was about to use a secret method to escape from this place.
But before he could make any move, the chill on his neck made him stop.
The chill penetrated into his body along his skin, blocking all the spiritual veins in Guhuang's body.
"Even if you kill me, Your Majesty will avenge me!"
Guhuang looked at the sword pointed at his neck and growled.
"Although I don't know who the person behind you is, but as far as I know, there are very few among the nine young supremes who would take revenge for their own men."
Zhang Yifeng put one hand behind his back and came to Guhuang and said quietly.
Hearing these words, Guhuang, who was originally a tough guy with strong bones, suddenly relaxed.
"Who are you, and why do you know so much about the Young Supreme."
Guhuang stared at Zhang Yifeng with an angry face and asked fiercely.
Zhang Yifeng was not interested in answering Guhuang's question.
I thought that with this trip, I would be able to face the mastermind behind Beihai City, but now it seems that this guy is just a pawn.
As soon as he thought about this, Zhang Yifeng began to search the small house.
After a while, he found the entrance to the secret passage hidden in the ancient wilderness.
Later, in the secret passage, he found the fiery red orb used by Guhuang to communicate.
But at this moment, the orb was silent. Even if Zhang Yifeng poured his magic power into it, the orb would not react at all.
"It seems to be a magic weapon for one-sided communication."
After Zhang Yifeng inspected it for a moment, he discovered that this orb could only be contacted unilaterally through another holder.
After realizing this, Zhang Yifeng simply used a ball of spiritual fire to directly refine the orb.
"Come on, let me see how hard your bones are."
When Zhang Yifeng said goodbye, Xuanyuanli pinched Guhuang's neck and followed him towards the reception room of the City Lord's Mansion.
On the way back to the living room, the guards in the city lord's palace also noticed something strange about the three of them.
Especially the Guhuang manager who was carried away by Xuanyuan Li's neck.
Seeing this, some of the guards wanted to step forward to stop him, but were stopped by the people next to him.
After all, the city lord told them when they left that no matter what Zhang Yifeng and the other three were doing in the mansion, they were not to interfere.
After returning to the living room, Xuanyuan Li threw Guhuang to the ground.
"Ahem."
Guhuang had trouble breathing along the way, and immediately started coughing after falling to the ground.
After reluctantly standing up, he subconsciously looked around.
As a result, they saw the lifeless Xiong Tiangang lying on the ground, and the corpses of the two men in black robes.
"It turns out that these losers have been killed by you!"
Guhuang gritted his teeth and shouted, no wonder no matter how he contacted Xiong Tiangang and others before, he still failed to send a message back.
"Oh, it's not just them, the other bandit cultivators you arranged in Beihai City are also being wiped out."
Zhang Yifeng chuckled and said in a calm tone.
Guhuang's pupils narrowed when he heard this, his eyes fell on Xiong Tiangang's body, and he immediately understood everything.
"Damn waste, is that all there is to it?"
"Huh, I'm different from these losers. Don't even think of getting any information about Your Majesty from me!"
Guhuang snorted coldly and shouted as if he was looking forward to death.