What nerve! Yuan Xi shouted. "Who gave you permission to lay hands on my subordinate?"
City Lord Zhao said blandly, "And you are?"
"Yuan Xi."
City Lord Zhao nodded. "Then may I ask, Fellow Daoist Yuan, do you know exactly what happened before this? From what I saw, you seemed not to have been in the city earlier. You must have only just returned, correct?"
Yuan Xi looked thoroughly unreasonable. "What do I care what happened before? Even if the sky had fallen, that wouldn't be a reason for you to attack Xiao Die."
City Lord Zhao snorted. "It seems your valued subordinate did not explain things clearly to you. Then do you know that your subordinate killed the Army Supervisor sent from Governor City?"
"Stop bringing up that fucking Army Supervisor!" Yuan Xi flared up the moment he mentioned it. "If not for that idiot, how could this city have exposed its whereabouts?"
City Lord Zhao was stunned. He had assumed You Die and the others had not reported the truth to her, but from the sound of it now, Yuan Xi clearly knew the whole story.
What was wrong with this woman? That had been an Army Supervisor from Governor City, yet her subordinate had simply killed him. Was she not the least bit panicked? Were he in her shoes, he would likely be beside himself right now. Once Governor City held them accountable, a mere Desolate-tier City like his simply could not bear the consequences.
"If this city had not exposed its whereabouts, how could the dangers that followed have arisen? So he deserved to die!" Another earth-shattering statement fell from Yuan Xi's lips.
City Lord Zhao's feelings were complicated. At last, he understood why the Weapon Cultivator who had stormed into the city had been so