Tu Zheng had learned in such a short time that Ye Zhen had already cleared the passage and appeared in Zhengyao City, guarded by the Great Zhou army. Ye Zhen had initially suspected that someone on the Great Zhou side was colluding with the Demon Race, secretly exchanging information.
But on second thought, the Zhengyao City guarded by the Great Zhou army and the Two Realms City guarded by the Demon Race army had always infiltrated each other to an extraordinary degree.
Though inspections were layered upon layered, and every merchant and shopkeeper had to provide mutual guarantees, anyone with half a brain could guess that after so many years, Zhengyao City must have Demon Race spies planted within it.
The same was true of the Two Realms City guarded by the Demon Race.
So it was no longer all that surprising that Tu Zheng knew Ye Zhen had appeared in Zhengyao City.
"Heh, Ye Jiuxiao, worthy indeed of being the man Hu Qingtong has taken a liking to. You really do have some skill!" Tu Zheng, the Qingqiu Fox Clan's Clan Head, whose face had been full of fury moments ago, suddenly became all smiles, his face bathed in spring warmth.
The shift came without the slightest trace of abruptness, as though this was how it ought to have been all along, leaving Ye Zhen somewhat stunned.
"It seems that after I passed through the net you laid with several hundred Dao Realm experts, Clan Head Tu is not particularly angry?"
"If anger were useful, if anger could undo what has happened, why would this old man need to rack his brains and wear himself out over worldly affairs?"
"That is true."
Ye Zhen clasped his hands. "Clan Head Tu truly has a broad-minded temperament."
Tu Zheng smiled and