"Valley Master, please calm down. This subordinate truly did not know that this
"Didn't know?" The master of Luoxia Valley looked at him with suspicion.
"To answer the Valley Master, this subordinate would not dare deceive you. I truly did not know," Li Rui's Master continued to explain.
"You didn't know? Chief Law Enforcement Elder, did you truly not know that I am a Royal Spirit World Master?"
"If you didn't know I was a Royal Spirit World Master, then why did you give me that pill — the one that prevented me from speaking and sealed away my power over barriers?"
"Could it be that you weren't doing it because you were afraid the Valley Master would learn that I am a Royal Spirit World Master?" Chu Feng questioned Li Rui's Master, his words sharp and cutting straight to the heart of the matter.
"What? You actually gave him a pill that sealed his power over barriers and even prevented him from speaking?" Upon hearing this, the master of Luoxia Valley was quite shocked.
"Valley Master, please do not listen to his nonsense. I never gave him any pill," Li Rui's Master hurriedly tried to explain.
"Silence." The Valley Master's voice turned cold and harsh. Li Rui's Master, for his part, did not dare offer any more excuses, and simply knelt there obediently.
Only then did the Valley Master turn to Chu Feng and ask, "You are called Chu Feng?"
"I am," Chu Feng replied.
"Chu Feng, if you have suffered an injustice, I will see that justice is done. However, right now I have an impolite request," the Valley Master said.
"You want me to treat your mother's illness, is that correct?" Chu Feng asked.
"Would you be willing?" the Valley Master asked.
"Please lead the way," Chu Feng said.
"Good. Please follow me." Only after Chu Feng agreed did a trace of relieved warmth finally appear on the Valley Master's face.
But before leading the way, he once again turned his stern gaze upon Li Rui's Master and said, "Elder Tuoba, wait here for me. You are not to leave before I return."
"This subordinate obeys," Li Rui's Master replied respectfully.
Gone was all his earlier smugness. His face was now filled entirely with tension and unease.
Under the Valley Master's guidance, Chu Feng arrived deep within the Valley Master's residence and entered a neat, clean sleeping chamber.
The chamber was not particularly large, and its furnishings were quite simple — nothing of the lavish grandeur one might expect — but it was very clean and pleasant to look at.
The moment Chu Feng entered the chamber, he heard the pained voice of an elder.
It was a woman. She was already advanced in years, so old that her entire body was covered in wrinkles and age spots. She had lost nearly all of her hair, and her teeth had all fallen out.
At this moment, she was being tormented by illness. Lost in unconsciousness, she lay upon the bed, emitting pained sounds without awareness.
No introduction was needed. Chu Feng had already guessed that this elder had to be the Valley Master's mother.
What surprised Chu Feng, however, was that the Valley Master's mother was not particularly strong in cultivation. Quite the opposite — her cultivation was very weak.
She was only a Martial Emperor, and only a first-grade Martial Emperor at that.
In the Hundred Refinements Realm, such a level of cultivation was truly pitifully low.
But that was not what Chu Feng was focused on. What mattered to him was the elder's condition.
Upon seeing her, Chu Feng did not even wait for the Valley Master to speak. He stepped forward and immediately began stabilizing the condition of the Valley Master's mother.