Chapter 5613 Cooperation

"Aren't you here to take my life?"

Beihai City Lord Xiang Zhen stared at Zhang Yifeng and asked with a suspicious look on his face.

"Hahaha, it seems that this is indeed a misunderstanding. If I were here to kill someone, why would I parade around like this?"

"Although I have heard about what happened in Beihai City recently, I am still surprised to see the city lord looking so worried."

Zhang Yifeng laughed loudly and waved his hand indifferently.

Hearing this, Xiang Zhen's expression changed slightly, but soon returned to normal.

It was because what Zhang Yifeng said just now really hit the embarrassment in Xiang Zhen's heart.

As the lord of a city, he is unable to eradicate the chaos in his city.

He even refused to allow his subordinates to investigate anything related to the chaos just because his life was threatened.

These things had become a thorn in Xiang Zhen's heart, which caused him to be unhappy immediately after Zhang Yifeng said these things.

But Xiang Zhen suppressed his angry emotions again.

It was because he was certain that the young man in front of him who had driven the flying boat all the way to the City Lord's Mansion was definitely not a troublemaker in Beihai City.

Even the arrival of this person might bring new hope to the situation in Beihai City which is gradually heading towards collapse.

"I am Xiang Zhen, the Lord of Beihai City. May I ask your name, fellow Taoist?"

After thinking for a while, Xiang Zhen raised his hand to signal the four guards behind him to calm down, and then asked Zhang Yifeng.

"Oh, I'm just an idler. The city lord can just call me Zhang Yifeng."

Zhang Yifeng replied with a smile, then deliberately raised his eyes to look at the City Lord's Mansion in front of the two of them.

Xiang Zhen's pupils narrowed when he saw this, and he immediately understood what he meant.

"Friend Zhang has come from afar. If you don't mind, why don't you take a rest in the City Lord's Mansion?"

After Xiang Zhen finished speaking, he raised his hand and signaled the four guards behind him.

Upon seeing this, the four of them flashed and immediately disappeared from the spot.

Zhang Yifeng naturally would not refuse Xiang Zhen's invitation, and replied with a smile on his face: "Then I'll have to trouble City Lord Xiang to take care of it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Yifeng drove the flying boat directly into the city lord's mansion.

Xiang Zhen’s City Lord’s Mansion covers a very large area, and the courtyard in front of the court alone is large enough for a flying boat to land.

Shortly after Zhang Yifeng entered the City Lord's Mansion, someone came out of the mansion and dispersed the common people and monks who had been attracted to watch.

According to what the servants in the mansion said, everyone knew that the young man who came in the flying boat seemed to be a distant relative of the city lord.

Among the dispersing crowd, a man wearing a black hood sneered.

"Huh, the city lord's distant cousin? How ridiculous."

"Since Xiang Zhen became the Lord of Beihai City, he has taken his entire family into the City Lord's Mansion, even his relatives outside the family are no exception."

"Why is there such a young distant cousin suddenly here at this time?"

The black-robed hooded man sneered and thought secretly in his heart, while his figure gradually faded away with the crowd.

Needless to say, he was the one sent by those bandit cultivators to secretly monitor any abnormalities in Beihai City.

Zhang Yifeng came into the city so brazenly, so as a secret agent he naturally had to keep a close eye on him.

After hearing the explanation from the servants in the City Lord's Mansion, he was not in a hurry to go back and report.

"This kid probably came here for the Imperial Treasury Key. As soon as he entered the city, he went straight to the City Lord's Mansion of Xiang Zhenlao..."

The man in black robe thought to himself, and a cold look flashed in his eyes.

"It seems that someone was dishonest and secretly provided him with some information."

As soon as he thought of this, the man in black robe had a goal in mind.

He raised his head and looked towards the direction of the city gate. In his mind, he had already determined where Zhang Yifeng got the information from.

"If you can't control your mouth, don't blame me for being cruel and ruthless."

He let out a sinister laugh, slowly crept into the darkness, and moved towards the city gate.

On the other side, Zhang Yifeng had already jumped off the flying boat and landed in the courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion.

Everyone in the flying boat felt the slight vibration of the docking and came out of the cabin one by one.

"Friend Zhang, I will inform my servants about your identity for now, and have them unanimously tell everyone that you are my distant cousin."

Xiang Zhen stood in front of Zhang Yifeng and said in a deep voice.

"Since Lord Xiang has taken the trouble, let's arrange it this way."

Zhang Yifeng nodded, then looked at the people walking out of the flying boat, but did not see Lei Ao.

"That kid was quite tired, so I deliberately didn't wake him up."

Ji Dali jumped to Zhang Yifeng's side, scratched his head and laughed.

As soon as Ji Dali saw Zhang Yifeng's eyes sweeping among the crowd, he knew what he was thinking.

"Well, let him rest for a while."

Zhang Yifeng nodded slightly, then turned around and led Ji Dali and Xuanyuan Li, who had just got off the flying boat, to the reception room in front.

Xiang Zhen was slightly stunned when he saw this, but he quickly understood what he meant and hurriedly followed.

"Well, Brother Zhang is really simple in everything. I thought you would be polite to me again."

Xiang Zhen coughed lightly and said somewhat awkwardly.

"I think given the current situation in Beihai City, there won't be much time for us to chat."

"City Lord Xiang should have figured it out. I came here to stabilize the situation in Beihai City and gain some personal benefits for myself."

Zhang Yifeng walked into the reception room, found a chair to sit down, and said in a calm voice.

Upon hearing this, Xiang Zhen did not put on airs as a city lord and simply sat down next to him.

"Alas, I know the situation in Beihai City better than anyone else, but I was unable to compete with them with my personal strength before."

"I watched with my own eyes as these guys committed crimes in the city, and I just hated that I couldn't stop them directly!"

Xiang Zhen said this with gritted teeth, with a flash of resentment in his eyes.

Seeing his behavior, Zhang Yifeng realized that he was not the kind of loser who exploited the people.

It seems that these bandits have considerable power in Beihai City. Even Xiang Zhen, the lord of the city, can't do anything to them.

"Well, Lord Xiang, don't blame yourself. There may be a force behind these bandits that you can't imagine."

"I think after these days' experience, City Lord Xiang has already seen some clues about this."

Zhang Yifeng looked at him calmly and said.

"Yes, it seems that Fellow Daoist Zhang already has some understanding of these bandit cultivators."

"If they didn't have the support of the people behind them, these bandits would never be our opponents."

"But the people behind them are too powerful. Not only have they increased the strength of these bandits, but they are also controlling everything in secret."

"Once I want to make any unusual move, they will use various methods to warn me."

Xiang Zhen slammed his fist on the wooden table beside him and said hatefully.

"Hmm... City Lord Xiang, do you know if there is a Lei family among the big families that were slaughtered in Beihai City?"