“Lan Tingyu and I don’t know each other, nor do we have any relationship,” Yang Kai slowly said. He had only heard of Lan Tingyu from Yue He and the Proprietress. When Yue He first saw him, she had also called him this name.
“But this is too similar,” The few people still couldn’t believe it.
Yang Kai didn’t say anything more, as long as he expressed his meaning clearly, everything would be fine. However, judging from the current situation, Lan Tingyu had also come here before, and he knew everyone here. Otherwise, how could they have mistaken him for someone else when they saw him?
As for the City Lord…
Yang Kai observed her expression and secretly felt that this City Lord had an unusual affection for Lan Tingyu, otherwise she wouldn’t have been so excited. Lan Tingyu is so ruthless, it was Yue He before, and now there is another in the Blood Monster Cave Heaven, and she is a City Lord, tsk tsk! [Hoogs: Yang boy, you shouldn't be the one to say that. LOL]
Yang Kai suddenly remembered the wooden token the Proprietress had given him. At that time, the Proprietress had said it was a favor, but now it seemed that the wooden token was related to the people here.
When the Proprietress handed him the wooden token, she hesitated for a moment, seemingly a bit helpless. It should have something to do with the current situation. He could imagine that if she had come here, such a scene would have definitely occurred, but this place was so hidden. If Yang Kai hadn’t coincidentally obtained a map and avoid being hunted down, he wouldn’t have come here.
Several coincidences had led him to this place and meet these people.
“In front of this honored guest, this Queen has lost her composure. Please forgive me, Sir.” The City Lord was also an extraordinary person. Although he was shocked when she saw Yang Kai, after confirming that he was not Lan Tingyu, she quickly recovered, showing her firm and steady temperament.
For a woman to have such a calm temperament, it was no wonder she could sit on the City Lord’s throne.
“City Lord is too serious,” Yang Kai nodded slightly and asked, “May I ask for your names?”
“This Queen Mo Mei is Ding Feng City’s City Lord!” The woman replied before introducing the other four to Yang Kai. These four were all Elders of Ding Feng City. The female Elder was called Mu Qianxuan, the middle-aged man Pang Duo, the middle-aged man was Gong Yangxi, and the slightly plump man was called Jin Yuan Lang.
“I have a total of five Elders in Feng City, as well as one Elder Tan Luoxing. You should have met him before.”
Yang Kai couldn’t help letting out a cold snort. It was that Elder Tan who had repeatedly accused him of being a spy from Dark Green Thunder City that had caused this chaos.
“Where is Elder Tan?” Mo Mei suddenly asked.
Miss Jing said, “I saw that Elder Tan seemed to be injured just now, so he should be recuperating.” As she spoke, she glanced at Yang Kai. To be honest, when she saw the scene of the wounded all over the ground, she was quite shocked.
Mo Mei nodded lightly.
Pang Duo said, “Little Brother Yang, since you don’t know Brother Lan Ting Yu, how do you know him?”
Yang Kai replied, “I am familiar with Lan Youruo and Yue He, and I learned of Lan Tingyu’s existence from them.”
“I see!” Pang Duo suddenly understood.
Jin Yuan Lang asked, “How is Brother Lan now?”
Yang Kai turned his head to look at him and frowned slightly. According to the words of these people and what he knew, Lan Tingyu, the Proprietress, Yue He, and the others should have come to Ding Feng City together and obtained that wooden token, and here, this Mo Mei City Lord had a deep affection for Lan Tingyu.
However, this is the Blood Monster Cave Heaven after all. Once the time limit was reached, the outsiders would naturally leave, and whatever happened afterwards would not be able to reach Ding Feng City. In other words, the people here had no idea that Lan Tingyu had already fallen.
Looking at City Lord Mo Mei’s reaction, Yang Kai didn’t know if he should reveal the truth or not, but after pondering for a moment, he eventually decided to speak the truth, “Everyone may not know, but Lan Tingyu… is no longer alive!”
As soon as these words came out, Mo Mei’s body trembled and her emotions, which had just stabilized, became chaotic again. Pang Duo and the others all looked up worriedly as Mu Qianxuan quickly said, “City Lord, please restrain your grief!”
Mo Mei lowered her head, her hair covering her eyes, her expression unreadable, but she still slowly raised her hand and said, “It’s alright, I knew something would happen. If something hadn’t happened to him, how could he not have returned after such a long time? He promised to take us all out.”
Seeing that she was still acting so strong, even if their hearts felt like they were being cut by a knife, they still endured it. The Elders didn’t feel good, but they didn’t know how to comfort her. Before this, Mo Mei wasn’t the only one who had guessed that something had happened to Lan Tingyu. It was just that they hadn’t been able to obtain any news from the outside world, so they still had some hope. Now that they knew the truth, this hope was gone.
“Is everyone familiar with Lan Tingyu?” Yang Kai asked.
Pang Duo said, “Little Brother, to be honest, this Ding Feng City was built with Brother Lan’s help. If it weren’t for Brother Lan, all of us would have died under the claws of the Monster Beasts. It can be said that Brother Lan has shown us great kindness.”
“So that’s how it is?” Yang Kai was surprised. No wonder the Proprietress said that the wooden token was a favor, it really was a favor. This Ding Feng City was built by Lan Tingyu, so this favor was not small.
Yang Kai secretly speculated that when Lan Tingyu, the Proprietress, and the others entered the Blood Monster Cave Heaven, they had met these people from Ding Feng City and formed some kind of friendship with them, helping them build a city here. Afterwards, they had promised to find an opportunity to take them away from this place, but after Lan Tingyu left the Blood Monster Cave Heaven, the heaven-defying opportunity had caught the attention of the various Cave Heaven Paradise, causing him to fall and never return.
A thousand years had passed, and by the time he arrived here, these people would have recognized the wrong person, which was why Tan Luoxing was so surprised and even said that after so many years, what was the point of returning?
Thinking of this, Yang Kai suddenly felt that something was wrong and quickly asked, “Did Elder Tan Luoxing also see Lan Tingyu?”
Jin Yuan Lang nodded and said, “Naturally, Elder Tan and us can be considered the oldest group of people in Ding Feng City. Only a dozen or so people came here at the time, but after so many years of development, they finally reached their current scale.”
Yang Kai chuckled, “That’s strange. Since Elder Tan has met Lan Tingyu before and mistakenly recognized me as Lan Tingyu, why did he insist on slandering me as a spy from Dark Green Thunder City? After seeing me, he immediately shouted at me to kill. If I didn’t have some foundation, I’m afraid I would have been a corpse by now.”
He didn’t even know where Dark Green Thunder City’s gate was.
“Did this happen?” Pang Duo was shocked.
Mu Qianxuan pondered for a moment before glancing towards Mo Mei and sighing deeply, not saying a word.
The others also seemed to understand something and their faces all became ugly.
Qu Huachang suddenly whispered behind Yang Kai, “Junior Brother, it seems that Elder Tan treats you as a love rival.”
These words suddenly enlightened Yang Kai. If that was the case, then it made sense. Tan Luoxing had fallen in love with this Mo Mei City Lord, but Mo Mei’s entire focus was on Lan Tingyu. However, after so many years without Lan Tingyu appearing, Tan Luoxing felt he still had a chance.
However, Yang Kai had come here at this time, and the wooden token had been taken by Fan Wuxin. This wooden token had only been issued once in Ding Feng City, and it had been taken by Lan Tingyu. In the entire Ding Feng City, only a dozen or so people knew about the existence of this wooden token. Of these dozen or so old people, only Mo Mei and the five Elders knew about its origins.
When Tan Luoxing saw the wooden token, he naturally went to investigate, but in the end, he saw Yang Kai and thought that Lan Tingyu had returned. Immediately, his killing intent soared and he wanted to kill him while he was being bound by the Hard Yuan Nail. At that time, as long as his corpse was destroyed, who would know?
Unfortunately, Yang Kai wasn’t restrained by the Hard Yuan Nail at all and had injured him with a single palm strike. Later on, the situation became more chaotic, making it impossible to clean up.
“Jing’er, go invite Elder Tan over, I have something to ask him,” Mo Mei said angrily.
Jing’er bowed, “Yes!” She quickly left the City Lord’s Mansion to find Tan Luoxing.
Pang Duo turned to Fan Wuxin and asked, “Deacon Fan, I heard that Little Brother Yang and his companion were brought back by you?”
Fan Wuxin quickly replied, “That’s right. A day ago, I was guarding the Formation's entrance when I suddenly saw someone approaching, seemingly looking for something. In order to avoid exposing Ding Feng City, and afraid that Dark Green Thunder City would send someone to spy on us, I led someone to capture this Senior Brother and Senior Sister. Now it seems that it was all a misunderstanding!”
As he spoke, Fan Wuxin cupped his fists apologetically to Yang Kai and Qu Huachang, secretly feeling a lingering fear. Fortunately, Yang Kai was injured at the time and couldn’t act, otherwise how could he have brought them back?
“What happened after that?” Pang Duo asked again.
Fan Wuxin immediately explained the rest of the matter in detail because he saw the pattern on the wooden token and felt that it was very similar to the totem pattern of Ding Feng City, so he took it and asked around, but no one knew what this wooden token was. Tan Luoxing heard the news and came to see him, took the wooden token, and went to the dungeon.
After that, there was a great disturbance. Tan Luoxing had ordered Ding Feng City’s cultivators to surround and attack Yang Kai in order to kill the spy, but in the end, they had been injured by him.
Hearing him say that Tan Luoxing had repeatedly called Yang Kai a spy from Dark Green Thunder City, everyone’s expressions became ugly. Not to mention that their City Lord and Lan Tingyu were in love with each other, even Ding Feng City was established with the help of Lan Tingyu and the others.
Lan Tingyu had shown great kindness to Ding Feng City, and Tan Luoxing’s mind had been blinded by jealousy, causing him to act so unwisely. As one of Ding Feng City’s Five Great Elders, his attitude was simply repaying kindness with enmity, bringing shame to Ding Feng City!
“Where is that wooden token now?” Mu Qianxuan asked.
Fan Wuxin replied, “It’s with Elder Tan.”
Mo Mei said, “That wooden token is not important. Because Ting Yu and the others helped us establish Ding Feng City, we gave him a token. Whoever holds the wooden token, my Ding Feng City will definitely repay his kindness. Yang Kai, that wooden token was given to you. If you have any requests, feel free to ask. My Ding Feng City will definitely satisfy your request and not refuse.”
TO BE CONTINUED...
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