With the dust settled, the city lord withdrew his spiritual sense from the long street.
Jingjing replied quietly, "At dawn today, the armies from the two camps outside the city entered to take over the defenses. The soldiers who could still be used had long since been lying in ambush throughout the city."
The great general continued staring at the beacon fires rising within the city, his expression dark and shifting.
He asked coldly, "Big Brother, what do you mean by this?"
After saying that, he withdrew his spiritual sense and swept it around the city lord's residence.
He saw neither Dantai Changfeng nor the contingent from the general's residence. Those people had vanished without a trace, like snowflakes in winter.
At that instant, his eyes gradually turned cold, and even a murderous aura emerged.
"You should be asking yourself that."
The city lord did not sense the great general's emotions. He merely said quietly, "If you have a different opinion, you can say so. You can even become the city lord if you wish."
The great general shook his head. "Now that things have come to this, what does Big Brother mean by saying that? The fact that I haven't gone out to wage war all these years wasn't my fault."
After saying this, the great general could not help thinking of his wife at home.
If this matter implicates my woman today, then even if I have to stake my life, I'll turn the city lord's residence upside down.
Even if his troops were still on the way, so what?
One had to know that over all these years, neither he nor Shangguan Ruoyan had neglected their cultivation.
They had done so precisely because they feared that one day they and the city lord would turn against each