Flatten the City Lord's Mansion, Seize Life Essence, Break Through Body Refinement Fourth Tier Late Stage!

The wind was gentle, the sun was bright, and not a cloud stretched for ten thousand li. A sheet of dazzling sunlight spilled over the magnificent Water Cloud Immortal Capital, casting the city half in light and half in shadow.

In the City Lord's Mansion, inside an ordinary hall.

Dou Zhao lowered her head, her mind tense as she answered City Lord Yuan's questions. Twenty years had passed, and even though she had not cultivated with particular diligence...

With her aptitude as a fire-attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root, she had long since reached the realm of Qi Refining Peak, only one step away from Foundation Establishment. She should originally have been busy with matters of Foundation Establishment during this period.

Instead, she had suddenly been summoned by the City Lord's Mansion. Though she, too, had been thinking of Wang Yu, who had vanished for a full twenty years, no matter how the other party questioned her, she truly could not contact him.

She could only explain in as humble a posture as possible.

"My Lord City Lord, Dou Zhao and that senior were merely a fleeting encounter by chance. If one insists on putting it generously, there was only the kindness of sharing one meal."

After that, Dou Zhao laid out the entire sequence of events in a plain and direct manner, and placed the Dou Clan in the position of shameless flatterers who had forced themselves onto him.

Not in the relationship of old friends of his ancestors.

Every word of this explanation could be said to be true, and it could also prove from the side that Wang Yu had a decent character, washing away the suspicion that he was a demonic cultivator.

Of course, proof would not rely solely on others' words.

When City Lord Yuan heard this,