When he saw Zhu Xuanji and Song Fuli again, he first sent a message to the former: "Master Zhu, right now Huoshi Immortal City and Lava Immortal Palace are facing siege. We must unite and work together to overcome the difficulties."

"Right now, we still need the help of Song Fuli and his group to be more confident in fighting against the monster tide and getting through this crisis."

"I have obtained the authorization from Lord Meng Kui and can discuss compensation with Song Fuli."

"I'm afraid this person will ask for too much... Sigh, our situation is indeed passive."

"In this case, I hope that Master Zhu will lend a hand as we are both citizens of Nandou!"

Zhu Xuanji nodded and quickly replied, "Meng Kui and I serve in the same court. We are one. Now that we are in the same boat, we should contribute more."

"Don't worry, I will also participate in the negotiations. I also have the right to make some decisions regarding royal matters."

Regardless of his own position or the secret verbal contract just concluded, Zhu Xuanji actively participated in the negotiations.

With Zhu Xuanji's reinforcement, Fei Si secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He invited Song Fuli to the City Lord's Mansion and asked Zhu Xuanji to accompany him to start a negotiation.

It is obviously impossible to trace the stolen treasures and return them to Yunshang within two days.

The City Lord's Mansion wants to unite with Yun Shang to fight against the tide of monsters.

In order to show his sincerity, he simply negotiated compensation to win over Song Fuli.

The negotiations were difficult, with the three parties entangled and the situation quite complicated.

On the surface, Zhu Xuanji and Fei Si joined forces to discuss with Song Fuli.

Secretly, Zhu Xuanji and Song Fuli also had a tacit understanding and both wanted the City Lord's Mansion to bleed more.

Two hours later, the compensation negotiations finally came to a conclusion.

Song Fuli's hearty laughter came from the reception room.

Fei Si's face was extremely ugly. The City Lord's Mansion paid a huge price, and he almost failed to hold on to the bottom line left by Meng Kui.

Zhu Xuanji wiped the sweat from his head. He also paid a lot of price on behalf of the Nandou royal family.

Song Fuli made a lot of money!

Not only could he legitimately participate in the competition for the Lava Fairy Palace, he could also take advantage of the monster tide to make the City Lord's Mansion and the Nandou Royal Family pay high fees in exchange for their assistance.

After calculation, not only did he completely fill the hole of stolen treasure, but he also made a huge profit!

The three parties finalized the details and quickly signed the contract.

There was a knock on the door, and a monk from the City Lord's Mansion came to report.

If you report at this time, it must be that something major has happened.

Fei Si thought there was a problem with the city's defense, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to come in, but what he heard was that the "warehouse guard was corrupt and derelict in his duty."

It turned out that the monsters were attacking the city, and the Fire Persimmon Fairy City was on the passive defense. Fei thought of mobilizing the Fire Persimmons and making explosive devices on a large scale as a trump card in times of crisis.

As a result, when the subordinates took the persimmons from the warehouse, they found that a large number of them had disappeared!

Since the persimmons were picked, the warehouse has been sealed and only the management can enter and exit.

Therefore, the criticism was directed at the clerk who managed the warehouse.

If it wasn't him who embezzled the money, who else could it be? This immediately made Feisi very angry.

"Good, good, good, very good!"

"At this critical juncture, corruption is really bringing shame to our City Lord's Mansion."

Faith was so angry that her face turned pale.

He regretted calling his subordinates in and exposing the matter to Zhu Xuanji and Song Fuli.

Especially Song Fuli, he once again cast a distrustful look at him.

"I was so foolish that I handled official business in front of outsiders!"

"well……"

Fei Si lamented that the negotiation just now had really made him rack his brains and talk a lot, and his mind was not in the right state.

At this moment, he was actually glad that they had just agreed on a compensation and cooperation plan and signed a contract. Otherwise, Song Fuli would probably look down on the City Lord's Mansion even more because of this incident and ask for an even higher price.

At this point, in order to save his reputation, Fei Si simply ordered: "Bring up that corrupt official!"

Soon, the clerk was escorted and knelt in front of Fei Si and the other three Jindan cultivators.

"Tell me! How did you embezzle the money? What methods did you use to forge the records of the magic circle? Who did you sell that batch of fire persimmons to?!" Fei Si shouted.

The warehouse manager at the foundation-building level was so frightened that he peed and shit himself, and cried out, "Sir, Master Feisi, please understand!"

"I am innocent. I have not committed any corruption at all."

"Those persimmons were picked during the festival and sent directly to the warehouse through the teleportation array."

"I am only responsible for checking, I dare not touch anything."

Fei Si's eyes were sharp: "How dare you quibble!"

"Then you checked it many times, why did you only discover the large-scale deficit today when the fire persimmon was activated?"

The clerk said with tears in his eyes: "Although I have checked every day, I only checked the surrounding surface and did not find that the pile of persimmons has been emptied!"

"I failed to check my duties. This is my fault!"

"But I really didn't embezzle anything. I swear to heaven that I really didn't touch a single persimmon."

The petty official cried and expressed his feelings sincerely.

"Okay, okay, you are quite good at avoiding the important issues. I guess you have expected this and have been trying to exploit the laws of our country all day long, right?" Fei Si's face was gloomy, revealing his murderous intent.

Zhu Xuanji sighed lightly. He saw that Fei Sixiang wanted to cut the Gordian knot quickly to make an example of someone and restore the reputation of the City Lord's Mansion.

This is too impatient.

"How many persimmons were lost?"

Fei Si's face was gloomy and he stared at Zhu Xuanji like a hawk.

The two men stared at each other for a while. After all, Fei Si didn't want Song Fuli to see the internal strife in Nandou Kingdom, so he had to take a step back and reported a compromise amount.

Zhu Xuanji's eyes sparkled, and he immediately realized that Fei Siyan was insincere and was lying.

Obviously, in this situation, Feisi could only report a lower number.

This immediately made Zhu Xuanji frown and his face darken: "So many?!"

A large number of fire persimmons have been lost, especially many fire persimmons that are tens of thousands or thousands of years old.

Fire persimmons are like fire spirits. If so many fire persimmons are used by people with ulterior motives, they may cause huge damage to the Lava Fairy Palace, especially when the monster tide is constantly attacking.

If the fire persimmon explodes, causing the front line to collapse and allowing monsters to rush into the city, it will inevitably cause heavy casualties.

"This matter must be investigated and cannot be ignored!"

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Zhu Xuanji stared at the clerk, with a golden light shining brightly in his eyes.

This is really bad news, even more important than the theft of Yunshang’s goods.

Song Fuli said, "They were able to steal the treasures of the City Lord's Mansion so easily, but they were not discovered until now. Could it be that they were done by the same group of people?"

"Bukongmen?" Feisi's eyes flashed, "Very likely!"

If it wasn't for Zhu Xuanji, he would have confirmed it immediately. No matter what, he couldn't take the blame and affect his career.

Zhu Xuanji had a bottom line, and said, "We still need to investigate to identify the real culprit!"

He originally thought that after he had dealt with the Yunshang matter, he could immediately return to the Lava Fairy Palace, but he did not expect the theft of the persimmons to occur.

He immediately went to the warehouse to conduct on-site survey.

Under the golden eyes, almost nothing can escape detection.

Soon, Zhu Xuanji made an astonishing discovery!

"Dark Shadow Demon Cultivator?!"

After tracing back to the source, Zhu Xuanji "saw" a scene that had happened here.

The black shadow demon hid in the fire persimmon warehouse and took away a large number of fire persimmons. Then, covered with black smoke, he easily drilled out of the warehouse like a black python.

There are six layers of magic arrays in the warehouse, but the black python can move freely along the gaps between the arrays! "So, the Black Shadow Demon Cultivator has been hiding here all along? But is he the original Black Shadow Demon Cultivator?"

During the Jindan battle, several dark shadow demon cultivators appeared. Zhu Xuanji could not judge the true origin of this dark shadow demon cultivator based on this past image alone.

"Did the Meng family commit theft? Or is the City Lord's Mansion just a simple victim?"

In an instant, fog shrouded Zhu Xuanji's heart.

Seeing Zhu Xuanji's expression change, Fei Si asked anxiously: "Master Zhu, have you found any key clues?"

"Yes, I have discovered something. The one who stole the fire persimmons was the black shadow demon cultivator!" Zhu Xuanji thought about it and decided to tell the truth.

Faith glared: "Dark Shadow Demon Cultivator?!"

He was stunned for a moment, then reacted: "Wait, doesn't that mean that anyone could be possible?"

After the Jindan melee, the identity of the Black Shadow Demon Cultivator became commonplace, and anyone could play the role.

Zhu Xuanji nodded slowly.

He said: "The Fire Persimmon Mountain often shakes, even with the Lava Fairy Palace suppressing the bottom of the mountain, it is inevitable."

"The city defense formation has not changed for many years. It was damaged by the shaking of the mountain, and the repair work can be seen all year round."

"When the six layers of the magic array were first set up, they were so tightly packed together that there was no room for more formations."

"But as time goes by, cracks will always appear due to the shaking of the mountain."

"The Shadow Demons use these gaps to enter and exit the warehouse."

Fei Si glared again: "How can someone get through such a narrow gap?"

Zhu Xuanji sighed: "It seems that some kind of magic or supernatural power was used."

Faith was speechless.

After a moment's silence, he finally reacted.

Immediately, Fei Si bowed deeply to Zhu Xuanji and said sincerely: The City Lord's Mansion is definitely the victim, and this is by no means a self-directed or self-acted event.

Zhu Xuanji's eyes were shining with golden light as he stared at Fei Si.

"I know you didn't lie. However, just because you didn't do it doesn't mean that the City Lord's Mansion didn't do it, right?" Zhu Xuanji transmitted the message.

Faith was speechless.

Zhu Xuanji implied that Meng Kui had arranged it secretly and kept it from Fei Si.

It is indeed possible.

After all, it is taboo for the righteous to use the chess pieces of the evil, and the fewer people who know about it, the better.

If such a thing really existed, Faith would rather not know about it!

The more secrets he knows, the more dangerous he becomes.

Fei Si subconsciously looked at the top of Huoshi Mountain, and immediately realized that this action was inappropriate.

He frowned and immediately promised that he would issue an order to his subordinates to thoroughly investigate the front line and various key points in the Immortal City.

"But I can't do anything about the Lava Fairy Palace." Fei Si then sighed and asked Zhu Xuanji in a helpless tone to follow this clue to the end! Zhu Xuanji also sighed: "I need to consider it comprehensively."

(End of this chapter)