[Creation: Illusions That Interrogate the Heart]

Black Wind City.

In the past few days, many bold merchants had even secretly reopened their businesses in the formerly tranquil Black Wind City, trading all kinds of scarce goods.

Profit could turn cowards into warriors! Besides incalculable losses, war also brought endless business opportunities. Once they caught sight of such opportunities, countless merchants swarmed into Black Wind City to make fortunes from the war. Within Black Wind City, only a small number of original residents and mercenaries had fled in fear, while even more merchants entered. It had become more prosperous than before.

The only regret was that the black market could not yet officially reopen, so the merchants could not maximize their profits.

"City Lord, Wild Ox has arrived. He is outside." While the Black Wind City Lord was discussing the war with Wei Old Devil, Baisong, Pang Man, and other Heaven-ranked powerhouses in the City Lord's Manor, he received General Jin Feng's report.

It was not strange for Guild Leader Wild Ox to come and take part in the cross-realm war.

The Black Wind City Lord had previously made a secret arrangement with Wild Ox. The Wild Ox Thieves' Guild would attack Western Heaven Realm powerhouses as a third-party private army.

But what was this light-shy bandit chief Wild Ox doing, openly requesting an audience outside the City Lord's Manor? Was he not afraid others would learn that Black Wind City's black market was where stolen goods were disposed of, or that he was in league with him? If he merely wanted a drink, he could have slipped in secretly. Why make such a grand display of requesting an audience at the gate?

The Black Wind City Lord's first thought was that Wild Ox wanted to use the cross-realm war to blackmail him.

Unless he paid a