Whoosh—
However, the moment they entered the bedchamber, the leader of the Sacred Cave Sages swept his arm.
He released a wave of barrier power.
That barrier power sealed the entire palace from within.
It was a sound-isolation grand formation, designed to prevent anyone outside from spying on what was happening inside.
"Just say whatever you need to say. I've already set up my defensive formations," Chu Feng said.
Through the other party's actions, Chu Feng had deduced that the man likely didn't intend to do him any harm. Rather, he had something he wanted to discuss with Chu Feng — otherwise there would be no need for a sound-isolation formation to keep their conversation from leaking out.
"Heh heh, it seems Brother Shura is a cautious one as well," the leader of the Sacred Cave Sages said with a grin.
"You can just call me Shura. Honestly, even if you called me 'kid' or 'little brat,' I'd still prefer that over 'brother,'" Chu Feng said.
"Brother Shura, you're still upset about what happened before, aren't you?"
"Look, we didn't exactly get off on the right foot. Besides, every time it was our brothers who ended up on the losing end — you never came out of it worse off. So let the past be the past, and stop being angry about it, will you?" the leader of the Sacred Cave Sages said with an ingratiating smile, his attitude worlds apart from before.
"I'm not really angry. The problem is that you're all so underhanded. Now you show up here smiling at me — who knows what kind of trouble you're brewing up inside?" Chu Feng retorted sarcastically.
"There, see, that right there is exactly why I know you have a bias against us."
"Look, we brothers aren't bad people. You should be able to tell that just from how close the eleven of us are."
"I'll admit it — we brothers are a bit greedy, and sometimes we'll use somewhat unscrupulous methods to get what we want. But we do have our bottom line."
"Sure, the Sacred Cave Sages don't have the best reputation, but we've never killed innocents. Brother Shura, you can go ask around — have the Sacred Cave Sages ever committed atrocities or slaughtered innocent people?" The leader of the Sacred Cave Sages thumped his chest with an air of righteous indignation.
In truth, during his recent conversations with the elders of the Red Robe Holy Land, Chu Feng had already made inquiries about the Sacred Cave Sages.
The Sacred Cave Sages were nomadic — no one knew where they came from, and no one knew what they truly looked like.
Even the title "Sacred Cave Sages" was one they had given themselves.
They simply referred to themselves as such.
As for where the so-called Sacred Cave actually was, no one knew, and they had never said.
Their first known appearances dated back only three years.
Yet in that short span of three years, they had risen to notoriety and made a name for themselves across the heavens.
They were famous throughout the entire Starfields of the Heavens — people from countless powers had heard of them.
The reason they had garnered such fame was that they had essentially traveled to nearly every world in the Starfields, their silhouettes even appearing in the Mortal Realm.
Of course, being the shameless lot they were, they had pulled their fair share of swindling and cons as well.
These days, they had racked up quite the list of enemies.
But they were all still alive and well — their escape skills were first-rate, and they carried all manner of bizarre and wondrous treasures.
Judging by that alone, the Sacred Cave Sages did possess some real ability.
Still, as underhanded as they could be, it was just as the leader himself had said — they had never committed atrocities or slaughtered innocents.
Only their swindling and cheating had ever been heard of. There were no reports of them robbing and killing, or massacring the defenseless.
And when Chu Feng really thought about it, even though he had had unpleasant run-ins with the Sacred Cave Sages, and even though they sometimes flared up with murderous intent — it didn't seem like they had ever genuinely wanted him dead.