Chapter 624: Fog Sea
Jiang Han narrowed his eyes and questioned the city lord.
"City lord Duan, my Zhenyue family does not bully others, but we do not allow others to bully us. I want to know how you will deal with this matter."
Duan Quan clenched his hands.
’How dare a qi transformation realm weakling speak to me like this?’ He angrily thought.
However, when he saw the two nascent soul realm cultivators, Duan Quan didn’t dare to rush out.
’I will never forget this insult.’ He promised himself but smiled.
"Nephew..." Duan Quan started but didn’t know the person’s name.
"My surname is Jiang." Jiang Han introduced himself.
"Nephew Jiang, how do you say we end this matter here?" Duan Quan suggested and quickly continued.
"My son started the trouble, but he and his mother are injured. Ultimately, both sides are at fault." The city lord said.
Unfortunately, Su Meihui was uncharacteristically stubborn.
"City lord Duan is wrong." She said.
"My friends and I are not at fault. We did not provoke the young city lord but only reacted to defend ourselves. All the fault lies with the young city lord and the city lord’s wife."
When he heard this, Yu Chang nodded in agreement.
"My three sisters are traumatised from this ordeal. Not to mention the resources we consumed to defend ourselves. Does the city lord want us to swallow our losses?"
’Bastard!’ Duan Quan silently cursed.
However, he understood he had no choice.
After an incense stick of back and forth, Duan Quan lost fifty million immortal stones, and the Zhenyue children happily left the city lord’s residence.
Seeing this outcome, the guards tried to minimise their presence.
If possible, they wished for the ground to open a crack and hide them inside.
Unfortunately, wishes were not horses.
Less than ten breaths after the Zhenyue family left, the city lord angrily slapped the guards.
"Useless things." He cursed, turned around, and left without caring about his wife and son.
An hour later, the city lord finally calmed down and summoned his housekeeper.
"Wang Hong, what do you know about the Zhenyue family?" He asked.
"The Zhenyue family appeared ten years ago." Wang Hong started, and Duan Quan couldn’t help but frown.
Fifteen years ago, a friend invited him to explore an ancient cave.
As a result, he didn’t return to Tianqi city until several months ago.
Since then, he had been catching up with the affairs of the city lord’s residence and hadn’t had time to care about other things.
"Where did the family come from?" Duan Quan asked, and the housekeeper hesitated.
"Speak." The city lord ordered.
"They came from that place." Wang Hong said.
"That place..." Duan Quan was momentarily confused.
However, he soon understood and reflexively stood up.
"Are you talking about that place?" He asked.
"Yes." The housekeeper nodded and continued.
"It’s that place that suddenly appeared several hundred years ago."
More than five hundred years ago, a fog-filled place suddenly appeared in the sea near Tianqi city.
At that time, many cultivators thought a secret realm would soon appear.
As a result, they gathered in Tianqi City and other surrounding towns.
However, the fog never lifted, and a secret realm never appeared.
At a loss, many cultivators went to sea, preparing to enter the fog.
However, no one could enter the fog.
Whenever someone got close, they would suddenly be distracted and inexplicably find themselves in another sea area.
Eventually, the Fog Sea became a mysterious place in the Cangxing world.
"Has the fog lifted?" The city lord asked, and Wang Hong shook his head.
"The fog has not lifted, but the Zhenyue family has a way of entering and leaving the Fog Sea."
Hearing this, Duan Quan narrowed his eyes.
"What’s the cultivation level of the head of the family?" He asked.
"No one knows." Wang Hong frowned.
"Haven’t you investigated?" The city lord couldn’t help but be dissatisfied.
"Not only I but also the major families in Tianqi city have investigated. However, ..."
"The heads of the family are two young men surnamed Yu and Jiang. However, no one has been able to find out anything else about them."
"What about the border guards?"
"Not even the border guards." Wang Hong sighed.
As the housekeeper of the city lord’s residence, Wang Hong would not slack when a powerful family appeared so close to Tianqi City.
Unfortunately, his efforts were useless.
Other than the surnames, he discovered nothing else.
"It’s strange." He said and continued.
"City lord, there is something else."
"Speak."
"Over the past ten years, we have only seen meridian awakening realm, origin forging realm, and qi transformation realm cultivators. However, these people are usually accompanied by high-level puppets. Everyone who has tried to take advantage of the Zhenyue family has failed."
"Puppets..." Duan Quan frowned and recalled the two nascent soul realm puppets.
"Can puppets be so human-like?" He asked.
"The Zhenyue family seems to have a large collection of puppets. It not only has the humanoid puppets but also beast-type puppets."
"Does old Qi know?"
"The weapon-refining city sent people to investigate. However, nothing came of it."
When he heard that, Duan Quan fell silent with a thoughtful expression.
Ten breaths later, his lips curled into a sly smile.
"City lord, did you think of something?" Wang Hong asked.
"We tried our best to enter the Fog Sea five hundred years ago." The man suddenly stated.
Hearing this, Wang Hong nodded.
"All the cultivators were interested. Unfortunately, not even the nascent soul realm cultivators could enter the Fog Sea." Wang Hong said.
"Wang Hong, how do you think the cultivators of my Cangxing world will react when they hear that people can enter and leave the Fog Sea?"
"City lord..." Wang Hong shuddered.
For some reason, he felt the city lord was taking the wrong path.
Unfortunately, he was just a housekeeper.
"I think it’s time for my Cangxing cultivators to unravel the mystery of the Fog Sea." Duan Quan said with a vicious look.
