After hearing Chu Feng's words, Linghu Yueyue was at a loss for what to say. After all, what Chu Feng said was perfectly reasonable — he had only intervened to help her.
"Young miss."
Just then, a young nun came running over.
In truth, the pressure Chu Feng had released had caused quite a stir. Nearly every nun in the White-clothed Convent had noticed the commotion here.
However, because Chu Feng's strength was far too great, most of them didn't even dare to show their faces. Instead, they hid in the shadows and watched from afar. Some of the more cowardly ones had even fled the premises entirely, terrified of being implicated.
But now, this young nun — whose features were rather delicate but whose face was gaunt, as though she were gravely ill — came stumbling out.
And she had tear streaks running down her face.
For her to have the courage to come out at a time like this, she clearly had a purpose.
However, what surprised Chu Feng was not the young nun's courage to step forward.
It was her identity.
She was not only a junior, but she also called Linghu Yueyue "young miss." Inside the White-clothed Convent, these disciples should have addressed each other as senior or junior sisters. Yet she called Linghu Yueyue "young miss," which was rather strange.
Moreover, her cultivation was even weaker than Linghu Yueyue's — she was only at the True Immortal realm.
The reason for this was that her cultivation had also been crippled at some point. Her original level of cultivation was certainly far above the True Immortal realm. It was only because her cultivation had been destroyed that she had fallen to this state.
This made Chu Feng suspect that this young nun was not an early disciple of the White-clothed Convent, but rather a member of the Linghu Heavenly Clan who had come here together with Linghu Yueyue.
Thud—
"My lord, I beg you to seek justice for my young miss."
"Those three women are not fit to be nuns."
"Please, my lord, deliver justice for me and my young miss."
The young nun walked out and immediately dropped to her knees before Chu Feng.
She then proceeded to explain the situation in broad strokes.
The White-clothed Convent was a minor sect.
There were no elders here. Apart from a single Martial Immortal realm abbess, everyone else was merely a disciple.
Those three nuns whose cultivation had been crippled were the abbess's three most prized disciples. They had originally been the most likely candidates to receive the convent's inheritance.
But ever since Linghu Yueyue had arrived, the abbess had placed tremendous importance on her.
This had aroused jealousy among the abbess's three disciples.
Originally, out of respect for the abbess, they wouldn't have dared to make things difficult for Linghu Yueyue.
However, starting a few days ago, the abbess had suddenly fallen ill. From that day onward, the three senior sisters had begun to bully Linghu Yueyue, and their mistreatment had only grown worse with each passing day.
And just now, the young nun had discovered that the abbess had never fallen ill at all — she had been poisoned. The three senior sisters were the ones who had administered the poison.
"An'an, is what you're saying true?"
Upon learning this, not only did the disciples hiding in the distance cry out in shock, but even Linghu Yueyue shot to her feet.
"Young miss, for these past days the abbess has been cared for exclusively by those three. They wouldn't allow anyone else to approach. They were the ones who spread the news that the abbess was ill, and they even declared that the abbess would see no one."
"I had long sensed something was amiss, so today, while all three of them were away, I snuck into the abbess's residence."
"But they had set up a trap formation to prevent anyone from entering, which made me even more suspicious."
"So I used the treasure you had previously bestowed upon me to break through the trap formation and managed to see the abbess."
"It turns out that all this time, they had been poisoning the abbess. They intended to use the poison to strip the abbess of her reason, then manipulate her into passing the position of abbess on to them."
"And they also planned to frame you, young miss. After the abbess died, they would accuse you of being the one who poisoned her — frame you for the abbess's murder."