My Father Is Definitely Possessed

Chapter 567 - 264: No Need to Keep a Low Profile (6,000 Words)

"I see."

Li Hengsheng suddenly understood.

The banquet had not yet begun, and the three Generals above were chatting about something unknown, but among the many Commanders below, a bit of tension was already beginning to brew.

There were twelve Commanders present.

There were competitive relationships among them.

And there were some chains of disdain.

The captains below, however, did not have as many things going on. Li Hengsheng wasn’t very familiar with anyone, not even the captains under Hong Shen, so Li Hengsheng simply closed his eyes to rest.

But after closing his eyes for a while, Li Hengsheng could still feel several sharp gazes falling upon himself.

"Li Yun, you’ve been quite conspicuous lately, it seems some people have set their eyes on you," Hong Shen said with a smile at this moment.

Li Hengsheng could feel that these sharp gazes came from the captains under the Commanders of the other General’s Mansions.

After hearing Hong Shen’s words, Li Hengsheng asked, "Should I keep a lower profile?"

"Low profile?"

Hong Shen looked at Li Hengsheng oddly, and then said, "Why would you need to keep a low profile."

"Oh right, I forgot, you’re human," Hong Shen laughed, "In the human world, if you attract attention, there might be reasons to hide your abilities and avoid standing out, but this is the Cloud Wasteland. In the Ghost Race’s world, it’s different. You need to show your strength to make them fear you, to intimidate them, not to hide your abilities."

"The Cloud Wasteland Ghost Race is a race that reveres the strong. Not only should you not keep a low profile, you should even be more high-profile," Hong Shen looked deeply at Li Hengsheng, "Understand?"

"Understood."

Li Hengsheng glanced at the captains looking at him with hostility and returned the gaze without hesitation!

But in his eyes was a look of disdain.

As if saying, what are you looking at.

At this moment, the entire City Lord’s Mansion seemed to quiet down, even the air’s flow slowed, as everyone sensed something.

They looked towards the second floor of the City Lord’s Mansion and saw there was a chair on the stone platform on the second floor, and at this moment a person was already seated on the chair.

It seemed vaguely like a middle-aged man.

Could this person be Xu Zhi’an?

"Greetings, City Lord!"

Everyone quickly knelt down respectfully to greet the City Lord.

Li Hengsheng also knelt with everyone on one knee, but his gaze did not leave Xu Zhi’an. Just one look, and Li Hengsheng could roughly guess that Xu Zhi’an’s strength should be much stronger than the three Generals’, likely already at the Great Martial Sect level!

Such a strong person, guarding a city, no wonder he could protect humans here without any other Ghost Races daring to cause trouble.

"Everyone, rise."

Xu Zhi’an’s voice came, plain and unremarkable without any distinctive features.

Everyone rose and took their seats.

"Let the banquet begin."

Without any extra words, the banquet started directly. It was the first time Li Hengsheng had seen such a straightforward City Lord.

And food and wine had already started being served in front of everyone.

Everyone else began eating without hesitation, and Li Hengsheng followed suit, drinking wine and eating meat, while occasionally glancing at Xu Zhi’an, seeing that he was quietly eating as well, Li Hengsheng increasingly felt it strange, was everyone here just to eat?

Finally, when everyone was almost done eating, Xu Zhi’an began to speak, and what he said was a summary of the recent events in Ghost City.

Although Xu Zhi’an was not in the city, the events he summarized were not much different from what had actually happened recently.

Then he began to reward those who had performed well recently.

First, the Commanders who performed well received rewards.

Only three Commanders were praised, with Hong Shen being one of them, sparking envy among the other Commanders. Hong Shen was rewarded with rare treasures and some silver notes.

When it came to the captains, Li Hengsheng naturally was among those to be rewarded.

"Reward: silver of 100,000, three Earth Core Lotus Seeds."

Xu Zhi’an said to Li Hengsheng: "Do well in the future."

"Thank you, City Lord." Li Hengsheng was somewhat pleasantly surprised, leaving aside the silver, the Earth Core Lotus Seeds were valuable items that could help him refine Inner Strength faster, allowing him to quickly enter the Innate realm, though it was a pity that only three were given.

Just three.

But based on Li Hengsheng’s merits, getting three was already quite good.

Even more to Li Hengsheng’s surprise, it seemed Xu Zhi’an hadn’t recognized his identity, apparently having not seen his portrait while outside.

"City Lord."

At this moment, a Commander stood up respectfully, and said to Xu Zhi’an: "Today’s banquet is a bit dull, usually there are performances to entertain, why not do something today to liven things up?"

Everyone looked towards this Commander, surprisingly it was a Commander from General Feng Ling’s Mansion, named Zhou Baichuan.

"Commander Zhou, what kind of program do you want to suggest?" Xu Zhi’an asked.

"Commander Hong," Zhou Baichuan turned to Hong Shen, and with a smile, said, "Recently, your captains’ achievements are quite impressive, how about this, let’s have a competition, my captains have been quite lax in their cultivation lately, I’d like Commander Hong’s elite soldiers to give them a lesson, to show them what real skill is, what do you think, Commander Hong?"

Upon hearing this, Hong Shen’s brows immediately furrowed. Zhou Baichuan and he never got along, and recently Zhou Baichuan had taken in a godson who belonged to a rare race, the Night Ghost Race! Members of this Ghost Race were very few, almost extinct, and this one was a survivor.