Inside the Mansion of the City Lord of Hongfeng City.

"Did you hear anything?"

"The ground seems to tremble, so something must have fallen?"

"You don't care about those miscellaneous things, what matters now is how to appease the monks and mortals in Hongfeng City, even some of the guardian monks in our City Lord's Mansion have become suspicious of us stewards."

In a certain hall of Hongfeng City, the stewards who are currently in charge of managing all the big and small things in Hongfeng City are continuing to discuss some countermeasures, and some of the movements that happened just now have not affected them.

"Indeed, let's not be distracted by other things, the inner guard monks will naturally deal with those trivial matters, and the top priority is the matter of the city lord of Jane."

"Now that the life and death of City Lord Jian are uncertain, we can't sit down with anything other than trying our best to hide it."

"Originally, the City Lord Jane, who was seriously injured that night, has returned to the City Lord's Mansion, but we have only temporarily left the City Lord Jian for a while, but the City Lord Jian has disappeared mysteriously, whether it was before or now, we are also very powerless."

"Those guardian monk commanders don't understand our difficulties, they have been trying to make a stumbling block, our first priority is not to let Hongfeng City chaos before finding the city lord Jian, we have already seen the first chaos in Hongfeng City, and we must not experience it again."

While the stewards in the Hongfeng City Lord's Mansion were still discussing fiercely, Ye Kui on the other side also began to continue rummaging in the underground warehouse.

"There's nothing worth seeing here, and the booklet only records some of the events in Hongfeng City, but I don't know why I haven't turned to the events of the few days when the trial led to the chaos in Hongfeng City."

Then Ye Kui put the booklet that had been turned to the last page in his hand back on the original shelf.

In just a few incense sticks, Ye Kui had already read half of the booklet that recorded various events in the underground warehouse of the City Lord's Mansion, but he still didn't get any key information.

"Judging from the time recorded in the book and the placement of the booklets, the booklets I saw just now are the latest batch, and if you continue to look at them, you can only see the previous events in Hongfeng City.

However, the latest time is stuck in the time when I returned to the City Lord's Mansion before, and the time when the City Lord Jian left just after he returned, all this is too coincidental."

After making sure that the area on the left side of the underground warehouse where the booklet was placed was not worth continuing to look through, Ye Kui turned around and walked towards the remaining three areas.

Now the underground warehouse where Ye Kui is located is like a cylindrical deep pit, and there is a passage in each of the four directions of the deep pit, and Ye Kui is coming out of one of the passages.

"Except for the stone wall that was cut for the first time, there are not so strong stone walls in front of the other four passages, and perhaps the previous stone wall needs to be opened with special formulas, jade pendants, and stone plates."

When Ye Kui thought about this, he had already walked to the front of the second of the four passages.

"Even if you get here, you still don't see a single guard monk, is this so-called underground warehouse just a façade? Or am I going in the wrong direction?"

With this thought, Ye Kui pushed open the thick wooden door in front of him, and then Ye Kui saw that there were many damaged items inside, such as weapons, furniture, and armor.

"This is supposed to be the place to collect evidence or relics from dead monks, so just take a look."

It took some more time, Ye Kui finally saw the things here, and soon Ye Kui also walked through the third passage, and finally, Ye Kui came to the door that deliberately stayed in the last passage.

"Unlike the thick wooden doors in front of the other three passages, the gates of this fourth passage are made of some kind of fine iron, and judging from the sound of the knock just now, this fine iron gate is also several times thicker than the thick wooden doors of the other three passages."

Just as Ye Kui tried to push open the iron door, there was a soft sound similar to the bump of a hard object behind the door.

"The guys inside can hide just like me, there were no monks in the three passages before, so I also relaxed my vigilance, fortunately I wasn't too anxious, and now I can sense who is hiding inside."

This will Ye Kui stop pushing the door, and then concentrate on the central spirit to sense the situation in the fourth passage through the iron door.

"The guy that Wang Jie brought me to my attention before should have been locked up in this fourth passage, but if this guy is really dangerous and important, then the City Lord's Mansion above should send some guard monks or even the commander of the guard monks to guard here."

Ye Kui was sure that there was indeed a monk hidden in the iron gate, or that it was locked up, but Ye Kui could feel that the monk's breath was unstable and in an extremely bad state.

"But the realm is only about the Void Mirror, so it's not difficult to deal with."

Ye Kui, who was ready, tried to push open the iron door directly, but Ye Kui found that the iron door seemed to be locked from the inside.

"I don't know who you are, and I don't care what you want to do, after five breaths I will forcibly break open this iron door, if you are not afraid of getting hurt, you will continue to stick behind the iron door and listen."

After Ye Kui finished speaking, he had already put his right hand on the hilt of the sword, and when the time came, the sword flowed, and the iron door in front of Ye Kui was broken into several large pieces like the previous stone wall.

"So City Lord Jane, you're hiding here? So who is the guy who Wang Jie told me to pay attention to here before? It can't be the City Lord of Jane."

After the iron gate shattered to the ground, Ye Kui waved his sleeves lightly, and the dust and the stench in the air were immediately blown away by several other winds, and then Ye Kui saw the city lord Jian who was leaning on the wall in the distance.

"Ye Kui? You... Ahem, how did you find here? The old man thought that they had come down, and the old man thought that the stone wall outside that had been reinforced with a magic circle could last for a few more months, but who knew that it would be broken by Mr. Ye like that."

After City Lord Jian saw that it was Ye Kui, his tired face finally relaxed a little.

"City Lord Jane, can you tell us about the current situation? This time, I came here under the guidance of Commander Wang Jie, and Wang Jie originally said that there was a guy who needed to be treated with caution."

Ye Kui approached City Lord Jian as he spoke, and then saw another half-decomposed corpse in the area where City Lord Jian was.

"Wang Jie and the other guardian monk leaders should be looking for the old man, they can be trusted, Mr. Ye, who is in charge of the City Lord's Mansion now?"

After hearing Ye Kui say this, City Lord Jian tried to stand up, but after trying a few times, he could only sit on the ground.

"City Lord Jian, I heard Wang Jie say that the current City Lord's Mansion is still managed by those stewards, which is the same as the time when City Lord Jian left Hongfeng City to help your friends.

So City Lord Jane, what is going on with you before and you now? According to Wang Jie, the steward of the City Lord's Mansion seems to have other ideas."

Ye Kui felt that he should ask for clarification at this time, so he didn't care about anything else, and simply said the doubts in his heart.

"Mr. Ye, can you help the old man first? Later, the old man will naturally inform you of everything."

City Lord Jian said to Ye Kui with difficulty.

When Ye Kui walked to City Lord Jian and tried to help City Lord Jian get up, he found that City Lord Jian's right leg and calf had been completely shattered.

So Ye Kui first let City Lord Jian continue to sit on the ground, and then Ye Kui simply bandaged City Lord Jian's wounds, and then gave City Lord Jian some pills.

In the end, Ye Kui handed a long wooden stick that had been removed from other passages to City Lord Jian as a temporary crutch.

After this, Ye Kui helped the limping Jian City Lord to a pile of wooden boxes and sat down.

"On the night when Mr. Ye came to the city lord's place before, the old man happened to return to the city lord's mansion from outside the city, and the old man wanted to meet with you, Mr. Ye, but the old man's friends said that the matter was very urgent, and the evil cultivators once besieged the old man's friends.

So after thinking about it, the old man could only go back the same way again to help his friends, so he didn't go to see Mr. Ye that night, but at that time, the old man had already instructed Wang Jie to entertain Mr. Ye well."

After City Lord Jian sat on the wooden box, he first explained why he hadn't met Ye Kui before.

"City Lord Jane, what about after that?"

Ye Kui felt that the focus was on the back, so he began to continue to ask City Lord Jian.

"As a result, the old man and those friends worked together to deal with those evil cultivators, but those evil cultivators were not easy to deal with, they couldn't beat them and ran away, and in order to prevent those evil cultivators from coming back, they immediately began to hunt down those evil cultivators.

Things went well at first, until we were still thinking about killing all the evil cultivators hiding in the lair in one go, and the monks of the Blood Demon Gate... It was the evil cultivator who appeared.

The result after that was that our side was attacked from both sides by the Bloody Demon Sect Evil Cultivators and other evil cultivators, and what should have been a smooth victory turned into a defeat with heavy casualties, and the old man himself almost died on the spot."

When City Lord Jian said this, he still had some lingering palpitations.

"Bloody Gate meddling again? City Lord Jane, have you told the other Immortal Sects about this?"

"Mr. Ye, during the time when the old man's friends were attacked by the evil cultivators, they had already told these things to the other nearby immortal sects.

But the reply was lost, so the old man's friends had to look for help everywhere, and the old man himself knew that they rushed over after asking for help."

"It's all come to this point, are those immortal sects still letting the bloody sect mess around? It's like a joke, so is the situation on Xue Ci's side also related to this matter?"

When Ye Kui replied to City Lord Jian, he also thought of Xue Ci of Comet Sakura City by the way.

"Mr. Ye, the old man also wants to know what those nearby immortal sects think, they will actually allow the Blood Demon Sect to do evil everywhere, generally speaking, no matter how bad those immortal sects are, they will also jointly send some monks to warn the Blood Demon Sect."

The City Lord Jian, who was a little resentful of the nearby Immortal Gate, couldn't help but point out a few words to those Immortal Gates who deliberately ignored the Blood Demon Gate.

"Those immortal sects may also have their own troubles, or they are in the next big move, Jian City Lord, so what is going on in the City Lord's Mansion now? Why the hell are you hiding here?"

"Mr. Ye, you should have guessed something, the old man did this to protect himself, the old man thinks that the city lord's mansion has already been planted by outsiders, but I don't know if it's the plan or the evil cultivator of the Blood Demon Gate."

"That's why City Lord Jane hid here from the stewards of the City Lord's Mansion, the Guardian Monk Commander, and everyone in Hongfeng City?"

Ye Kui felt that it was normal for this Jian City Lord to protect himself, but he was always a little irresponsible, whether it was for the City Lord's Mansion or the mortals and monks of Hongfeng Pavilion.

"Mr. Ye, if you have also experienced those things that the old man has experienced before, you will definitely understand the reason why the old man did this."

"City Lord Jian, you shouldn't have received the news yet, now most of the mortals and monks in the entire Hongfeng City know that you, the City Lord Jian who returned to the City Lord's Mansion of Hongfeng City with a serious injury, suddenly disappeared, and this is what I asked directly from the other monks in Hongfeng City."

"Mr. Ye, it's impossible, the stewards in the City Lord's Mansion should try their best to block this news, right... Could it be that all the stewards have rebelled?

When the matter of the audit happened, I screened those stewards over and over again, how could they all be betrayed? Isn't it going to be all replaced?"

City Lord Jian thought about the possibility of this kind of thing as he spoke, but City Lord Jian slowly frowned, which also showed that this kind of outcome could indeed happen.

"Then City Lord Jane, my suggestion is that you get out of here, and then go to other places to heal your injuries and come back."

"The old man also thought so, but at that time, the old man was too seriously injured, and then he found out that there was indeed an eyeliner outside the city lord's mansion, so he could only temporarily be in this underground warehouse, ready to recuperate here and then go up."

"Alright, City Lord Jane, can you tell us who that corpse is? Why did he die here?"

Ye Kui pointed to the rotting and smelly corpse in the distance and asked City Lord Jian.

"He's... He is the next lord of Hongfeng City who will be imprisoned here."

City Lord Jian hesitated for a moment before revealing the identity of the corpse.

"City Lord Jane, what's going on? The matter of your Hongfeng City is really

It's complicated and changeable, you, the current city lord, are fine, why just... No, is it true that you mean to say that some guys in the City Lord's Mansion have long wanted to replace you?

But why did Wang Jie ask me to be careful of the dangerous guys locked up in the underground warehouse of the City Lord's Mansion? Where did Commander Wang know about this future City Lord's Mansion?"

Ye Kui connected some things, and then asked the doubts in his heart again.

"Mr. Ye, you didn't think about it, there are already some people in the City Lord's Mansion who want to pull the old man down from the position of the city lord of Hongfeng City, and even a new candidate has been arranged.

Then the old man happened to find out about these again, and he also caught the guy who tried to replace me here and forced him to ask about other things from that guy's mouth, as for Wang Jie, he was the old man's most trusted subordinate in the City Lord's Mansion, so the old man only told Wang Jie about someone being locked up in the underground warehouse.

However, for the sake of safety, the old man only vaguely told Wang Jie that the guy locked in the underground warehouse was very dangerous, and he tried not to approach.

However, the first gate of the underground warehouse, that is, the stone wall of the magic circle under the cloth, can only be closed and opened freely by the old man through the stone plate, so the old man wants to hide in this underground warehouse and cultivate for a while."

After the Jian City Lord finished speaking, he also glanced at the rotting corpse.

"Then why did City Lord Jane kill this future City Lord who tried to replace you? If it's for my own safety, then I can understand that."

"That's right, after the old man dragged his wounded body to the underground warehouse, this guy wanted to sneak attack the old man, and the old man almost fainted at that time, so for his own safety, the old man didn't pay attention to it."

"In this way, I have a general understanding of what City Lord Jian has experienced during this time, as well as some of the situation in Hongfeng City, but City Lord Jian, haven't you thought about finding the ghosts with those of your most trusted subordinates in the City Lord's Mansion?"

At this time, Ye Kui tried to ask City Lord Jian from other angles.

"Only by personally passing through the thorn bushes will you know the danger of that situation, Mr. Ye, the old man thinks it is better to be cautious, and then the old man will naturally eliminate those guys in the City Lord's Mansion who look wrong."

"Since City Lord Jian already has his own thoughts, then I won't say much, now City Lord Jian, do you want to leave here with me?"

"Mr. Ye has come here, so the old man has the cheekiness to beg Mr. Ye to take him for a ride, and he is tired of Mr. Ye."

"It's okay, City Lord Jane, I still want to know something related to the Bloody Demon Gate from you later, I think that the Blood Demon Gate is also being laid out for something, so I'll talk about it for the time being, let's leave here first."

After Ye Kui said that, he used his wind to break the wind and left the underground warehouse with the impaired Jian City Lord, and the rotting corpse was also burned to ashes by Ye Kui's fire method.

When Ye Kui and Jian City Lord left the City Lord's Mansion, the stewards in the City Lord's Mansion and the other guardian monks all found Wang Jie and other guard monks who were unconscious in a hidden corner of the City Lord's Mansion.

Later, the stewards of the city lord's mansion and the commander of the guard monks returned to the underground warehouse by unknown monks to walk around, but afterwards these things were suppressed like this.

"Mr. Ye, are you sure we live here?"

"It's a long way from the City Lord's Mansion here, and there are almost no signs of monks and mortals moving around, so it's safe for us to stay in this old city for the time being."

In Hongfeng City, it can be said that the old city inhabited by five people is full of abandoned and dilapidated houses, and Ye Kui plans to take City Lord Jian to live here for a while.

"Then City Lord Jane, you stay here first, if you want to go to other places in the city, then you must disguise yourself, so that no one else will find out your identity as City Lord Jane."

"Mr. Ye, don't worry, the old man won't be so careless."

"That's good, by the way, City Lord Jian, I haven't seen Mr. Miao in the City Lord's Mansion for a long time, do you know where Mr. Miao went and what he did? Why haven't you come back yet?

I've been to the wide wooden building where Mr. Miao lived dozens of times, no

It's been a long time since no one lived there, and I think Mr. Miao has never returned."

At this time, Ye Kui asked the Lord of Jian City about Mr. Miao.

"Mr. Ye, Mr. Miao has also helped the old man several times before, and after the matter of the audit, the old man also went to the Kuanmu Building where Mr. Miao lived alone to thank him, and then the old man was busy with other things, so he didn't pay much attention to Mr. Miao's affairs."

City Lord Jian replied to Ye Kui with a slight apology.

"Okay, City Lord Jian, you take a rest for a while, remember to write a letter to Commander Wang Jie when you have time, of course you can write to anyone you want, now I'll go to other places in Hongfeng City."

After that, Ye Kui left the old city and returned to the City Lord's Mansion in Hongfeng City.

"Now it's time for me to start fishing for a few stewards in the City Lord's Mansion who have special information, and then ask them what they're doing, but the focus is on how to tell if the stewards in the City Lord's Mansion are good or bad."

When Ye Kui returned to the City Lord's Mansion again, Ye Kui found Wang Jie, the leader of the guard monks patrolling the City Lord's Mansion, and Wang Jie was standing still at this time, looking at the flowers and grass in front of him.

"I don't know if Mr. Ye has found some key clues, and in addition, the steward of the City Lord's Mansion already knows that there are monks who have trespassed into the underground warehouse to cause trouble.

Although nothing was lost, the stewards of the City Lord's Mansion found a body burned to the point of only a few ashes in the underground warehouse, and the stewards deduced part of the deceased from the location and general shape of the ashes."

Wang Jie was a little worried, if it weren't for Ye Kui telling him that he couldn't be in a hurry, the current Jian City Lord would be too good to find it for the time being.

After a while, when Wang Jie returned to his residence, he found that there was already a slip on the seat inside that read "The matter has been done".

"Could it be that Mr. Ye really found any clues in the place where the stewards in the City Lord's Mansion lived, or in the underground warehouse of the City Lord's Mansion?"

Just as Wang Jie continued to think about these things, he was suddenly attracted by other movements that appeared elsewhere.

And Ye Kui left the City Lord's Mansion again, and then Ye Kui returned to the small courtyard where his clone lived.

"Now that things have developed in Hongfeng City to the point where they are now, whether it is the mortals or monks in Hongfeng City, they are all used as pawns, and they are inadvertently fueling the troubles of that or those guys, and there may still be a group of evil cultivators on the other side, which is not very easy to deal with."

Ye Kui felt that the situation might have begun to develop in a bad direction, if this was really the case, then Ye Kui was not sure to use his own strength to change these, so he could only say that it depended on the situation.

Before I knew it, it was already night, and during this period, Ye Kui also let his clone go to the old city to continue to discuss some things with City Lord Jian.

The old town of Hongfeng City.

"Mr. Ye, do you mean that the two of us are investigating and finding the stewards and guardian monks in the City Lord's Mansion who may have completely become the eyes of the evil cultivators? That's all well and good, but I'm not in the same shape as I used to be, and it will take at least a few months for me to slowly recover."

"City Lord Jian, I know that your physical injuries are not optimistic, so some time ago, I was mainly responsible for investigating the personnel in these City Lords' Mansions, and then you and I discussed together based on the information I gathered to identify the specific identities of other monks."

When Ye Kui's doppelganger came to the place where City Lord Jian temporarily lived in the old city, he told City Lord Jian about this, and then left here.

And in the ordinary small courtyard where Ye Kui's body was, an uninvited monk who didn't know whether he was an enemy or a friend was standing at the gate of the small courtyard.