The unexpected politeness of the possibility city lord surprised them. If they looked from a perspective, it kind of made sense.
As the leader of the group, Li Fang took off the piece of clothing that was covering. After taking off, he smiled and politely answered. "Sir, we are from a small clan called the Li clan from the Black Swan City."
Hearing that they are from the Black Swan City, the two guards looked at eachother. The young man also raised his eyebrows, with underlying meaning.
Seeing the reactions of the trio, Li Fang confirmed that the group in front him was the new city lord and his men.
With respect on his face, he asked once again. "May I ask if this sir is our new city lord?"
Smiling, the young man answered. "Yes, you are right. I am the new city lord of the Black Swan City, appointed by the Southern Province office of Red Lion Kingdom. And my name is Wang Lin."
When the Li group heard him confirming their suspicion, they were delighted that they didn't help the wrong person otherwise their works would have been in vain.
With Li Fang leading the way, the group quickly bowed their heads in respect.
"Greetings to the city lord."
After that, Li Fang formally introduced himself and his group, once again. "Please let me formally introduce once again. My name is Li Fang. And I am the patriarch of Li clan."
The, he pointed towards his clan members. And one by one he introduced them.
He first pointed to Li Fei. And started the introduction. "This is my son, 17 years old. His name is Li Fei."
At the same time, Li Fei took off his face cover— revealing his face.
Wang Lin looked at Li Fei. He smiled acknowledging him. He remembers him from the previous fight with Jin Mo. Because Li Fei left a remarkable feed on his mind. Fending off against someone with level 6 with just peak Level 5 was an impressive. Even if it was just in Body Refinement Realm.
Then, one by one, Li Fang introduced the rest of of members. All of them took off their covers and greeted.
But Wang Lin didn't pay anymore attention to them. He simply smiled and nodded.
After the introduction was ended, Wang Lin changed his expression. Coldly, he said. "I wonder why you guys are here, so far from your city. And how did you guys know that I would be attacked."
The sudden changed in expression caught them off gaurd.
Instantly, Li Fang thought. 'What a dangerous man.'
However, contrary to his thought, Li Fei sensed something different. Even though Wang Lin was showing cold and dangerous expression, he could not sensed any of that. Which means that Wang Lin didn't mean any of that. It was just the outside.
With a tense face, Li Fang was caught in between trying to explain.
From the side, Li Fei swiftly stepped in.
Pushing Li Fang to the side, he explained the situation calmly with a smile. "Sir, please allow me explain the situation."
"Its like this. In our city, the useful resources are control by the four clans of the city. Namely the Lin, Jin, Meng and our Li clan."
"But as Sir knows, the sudden news that the provincial capital has appointed a city lord to run our city. The clans feared that the city lord will restrict their control over the resources, so they came to a decision to attempt to intercept the city lord on his way towards the city."
"For that, the 4 clans gathered to discuss the plan. But as our Li clan doesn't want to participate in the thing, we stepped away from it. And as our clan came from a humble background, we are satisfied with just reaching just our current state."
"However, thinking that the other 3 clans are planning to ambush our city lord, as a righteous clan, we could not just sit back and let that happen. So, here we are."
"For the rest of the story, I think the city lord already knows."
His smooth words left his clan members speechless. Well the story was mostly correct.
Even Wang Lin was surprised how calm and smooth that Li Fei didn't lose his composure.
"Then, let me ask you one more. How did you guys get the information that they will attack me here if they left you guys out from their discussion. And why didn't you passed the news to the government office." Wang Lin asked once more. This time his words carried the weight of his strength.
It was a reasonable question. Instead of reporting to the government office, they came out here. Are they deliberately trying to gain his trust or something else.
When Li Fei heard the question, he could feel the pressure —not just from the words but from the pressure Wang Lin was exerting. This time, he could feel the changed in his emotion. Wang Lin was really serious.
Even though he was under the pressure, Li Fei remained compose. He opened his mouth trying to answer the question.
But before he could do that, Wang Lin suddenly turned away from him.
He swiftly unsheathed his sword from its scabbard.
Li Fei could not even catch a glimpse of the speed. For a split second, he thought Wang Lin was going to attack. It made him think that his ability was not working at all.
Looking at a certain direction towards the woods, Wang Lin spoke in a somewhat loud voice. "I know you are hiding there. Come out. Don't hide anymore."
As soon as he did that, his two guards also came up to him and stood beside him. Their swords drawn.
The Li clan members also did the same. And at the same time, they were puzzled. The direction they were looking was the direction they were hiding just a moment ago.
More than 10 seconds have passed but no one came out from the woods.
Wang Lin thought to himself. 'Did I sensed it wrong? No. My skills won't lie to me.'
For a second time, he shouted. "If you guys don't come out in 3 counts. The I will take it as you guys as my enemies."
"1...2..." Before he could count to 3, sounds of footsteps could be heard from the direction they were looking.
Rustle...rustle....
Seconds later, a person walked out from the shadows of the woods.
Just as they thought it was just him, another one also walked out. Then another.
Five of them walked out from the woods in total.
As soon as Li Fei saw someone among them, his pupil constricted. He knew that person. It was Nan Yuan.
'What is he doing here!?' He thought.
As they were focusing on the five people. None of them noticed the changed in Li Fei.
Unlike the Li clan members and Jin Mo's group, the Nan Brothers didn't cover their faces. Thats because they simply didn't need it.
Looking at the new five people, Wang Lin narrowed his eyes. He could threats from them. Not just from one, but from all of them.
'How is this possible!? They're all just at Level 5 of the Acquired Qi Realm, and I'm at the peak of Level 7! How can they possibly pose a threat to me?' he thought.
"Who are you guys? Why are you here?" Wang Lin asked in a calm yet cold tone.
But it seemed like none of them took the underlying threat in his tone. Without phasing a bit, one of them responded calmly. "Forgive us for our rudeness. It seems we disturbed you guys."
It was Nan Chen, standing in the middle. On his left was Nan Hai and Nan Lei. On his right was Nan Yuan and Nan Lin.
Sensing the carefree tone, Wang Lin asked one more. "I said why are you guys here? Tell me your business."
This time, it was Chen Yuan who replied. "Please drop the threat, city lord. You know you can not take us at all."
Surely if they were just one of them, the city lord could easily take him down. But unfortunately for Wang Lin, there were five of them. Combined, their group would be annihilated.
"We were just here to collect something. And we accidentally came here. We are sorry for that."
"Then, continue your business. We are leaving." Smiling, Nan Yuan said.
Without bordering to elaborate further, they left.
Shooshh...
One by one, they jumped away.
Standing there with his sword drawn, Wang Lin looked at the direction they left.
He knew he could not chase them down.
Taking a breath, he turned to the Li clan members and asked. "Do you anything about them? Them appearing here means they are from a nearby place."
Upon hearing his words, all the Li clan members shook their head, indicating that they don't know anything. Except for Li Fei. He just stood there with some hesitation on his face.
When Wang Lin saw that, he was surprised. He simply asked that question fully expecting that no one would know. But he was wrong.
"What do you know about them?" He asked.