Monday Immortal City, inside a spacious tent.
"The reason we went outside the city was because the City Lord learned that you had encountered an attack by a Fifth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Race. Worried that something might happen, he went out of the city to receive you."
Chen Zhanglei said with a smile to Zhou Ling and the others.
City Lord He and several Nascent Soul Cultivators all studied Zhou Ling.
Yet the aura Zhou Ling gave off was unmistakably that of a genuine Golden Core Cultivator.
Moreover, they could see that Zhou Ling's aura was deep and robust, his eyes bright with spirit. Clearly, he was in fine condition.
No matter how they looked at it, he did not seem like someone who had just killed a Fifth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Race.
"Thank you for your concern, City Lord."
"Though we encountered Star Sea Foreign Races along the way, it was ultimately a close call without real danger!"
"Still, there was something exceedingly strange about this attack!"
Zhou Ling cupped his hands to the others, his expression solemn.
The more he thought about it along the way, the more he felt that Tao Yue might truly have tipped off the Star Sea Foreign Race.
Otherwise, the timing could not have been so coincidental.
If they had encountered a Fourth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Race, that would have been understandable.
Given the current situation, it was normal for Fourth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Races to patrol the area.
But sending a Fifth-Tier combatant out on patrol was absolutely abnormal.
Thus, it was certain that this Fifth-Tier Star Sea Foreign Race had been lying in ambush for them outside the Dark Star Domain.
And if Tao Yue had truly leaked the information, Zhou Ling absolutely could not let this matter go.
After all,