"La Jiao, watch your mouth! He's the benefactor who saved Little Radish!" At that moment, Big Radish grew anxious and hurried forward to mediate.
"So what? He saved Little Radish, and I'm grateful for that. But he can't use the name Chu Feng — that's a completely different matter."
"Let me tell you, you'd better change your name right now. Otherwise, don't blame me for getting nasty." La Jiao's little face flushed red as she pointed at Chu Feng, her voice full of threats.
"Benefactor, La Jiao has lost her mind. She's been bewitched by that Chu Feng — the one wanted by the Four Great Imperial Clans. Please don't take her seriously." Seeing that his efforts to calm La Jiao down were futile, Big Radish hurriedly turned to Chu Feng and explained.
"Oh my, Big Radish, I'm giving you face and you dare call me crazy?" La Jiao pursed her lips and shot back.
"You are crazy! That Chu Feng has scrambled your brains. What's so great about him? You're not even related — why go this far? Keep this up and he'll be the death of you!" At this point, Big Radish had also lost his patience.
"You can say whatever you want about me, but absolutely do not insult Chu Feng! Mark my words — say something like that again and we're through!" La Jiao's fury intensified. Unlike Big Radish, she was genuinely angry, truly incensed from the bottom of her heart.
Chu Feng could guarantee that only Big Radish could get away with saying such things and remain unscathed. Anyone else, and La Jiao would have probably attacked on the spot.
"Oh, Big Sister La Jiao, please stop arguing! He is my benefactor after all — he saved my life. If he hadn't stepped in, I would have been eaten by the Fierce Beast." Seeing this, Little Radish also hurriedly spoke up.
"Hmph." Upon hearing those words, La Jiao let out a cold snort, flicked her sleeve, and strode away.
"Benefactor, please don't mind her. Senior Sister La Jiao is actually a really wonderful person. She just can't tolerate anyone saying a single bad word about Chu Feng — absolutely no one is allowed." Little Radish apologized to Chu Feng with a face full of shame.
"It's fine." Chu Feng smiled and waved his hand. He naturally wouldn't get angry. Even though he knew full well that La Jiao was being unreasonable, she was being unreasonable for his sake.
So not only was Chu Feng not angry — he actually found La Jiao rather endearing. Still, he was curious about why she defended him so fiercely when, before this, they had never crossed paths.
"Well, well, brother, you've had us searching high and low! We were starting to think you'd run off." Not long after La Jiao left, a cold sneer suddenly sounded.
Looking toward the voice, five people were walking toward Chu Feng. They were five disciples of the Heavenly Dao Palace. The two leading the group were both Eighth-rank Martial Kings, and the three behind them — Chu Feng recognized them — were the very same ones who had stood by and watched as Little Radish fell into danger in the forest earlier that day, doing nothing to help.
The one who had spoken just now was the same person who had explained things to Chu Feng back in the forest. This one was truly scheming.
"Big Brother, earlier in the forest, those three not only refused to lift a finger to save me, they also mocked me," Little Radish told Big Radish.
"What do you want?" Upon learning the situation, Big Radish's expression turned cold as well.
"We're here to talk to him. It has nothing to do with you people from the Hell Palace. Step aside and don't look for trouble where there is none." The leading Eighth-rank Martial King spoke in a domineering tone.
"Talk to me? Fine. Let's go into the forest and have a nice chat." As he spoke, Chu Feng began walking toward the woods.
He had already let those three off the hook once before. He hadn't expected them to be so lacking in self-awareness that they would bring two Eighth-rank Martial Kings to cause trouble for him.
Chu Feng had already decided to eliminate them. It was just that there were too many eyes and ears here — even hiding his identity, he couldn't very well kill them outright.
He was already being hunted by the Four Great Imperial Clans, and he had no desire to also offend the Heavenly Dao Palace. After all, the Heavenly Dao Palace's power far surpassed even the Four Great Imperial Clans combined.
So, he planned to lead them into the forest, where he could dispose of them quietly without anyone being the wiser.