"So—this is everything that happened?"
"Yes, City Lord."
When Wang Yu heard that, he could not help covering his face, striking a pose of utter despair.
"Xu Ruozhou, oh Xu Ruozhou, you really are stupid."
At this moment, Wang Yu had already returned safely from the King Yama Ghost Market. He was standing before the great hall door of the City Lord's Mansion, looking at the Central District that now had only one residence left, furious.
Xu Ruozhou knelt on the ground, head lowered, his face already flushed scarlet from holding it in.
Wang Yu said, hating iron for not becoming steel, "Master Tian Shui is a direct-line Artifact Forging Master of Gold Abundance Pavilion. He reduced Guiling City to this state, and dismissed you with a single thank-you?
"So many people died, all caught up in the aftermath because of him. Rebuilding the city, postwar compensation—don't all of those cost money? Did he give any? Huh!!!"
At this moment, Xu Ruozhou suddenly thought of something. He felt in his pocket and offered up a pitch-black iron pellet threaded with lightning. He said, "Senior Tian Shui said that when he exterminated that group of deathsworn, he misjudged this item's power and accidentally caused such a scene, so he gave this item to the City Lord. Once he returns from the eastern shore, he will think of a way to compensate us.
"He also said that once Miss Jin Miaoshan comes out of seclusion, she will personally come over to thank you."
Wang Yu took the Thunder Tribulation Pill and said speechlessly, "Am I lacking that one thank-you from her? If you had this thing, why didn't you take it out earlier?"
"This subordinate... forgot for a moment."
Xu Ruozhou had recorded the scene of Guiling City's thunder sea erupting with