"Big brother, why did you have to go and suffer so much? Come on, take this pill — whatever recovery you can get is better than none. Otherwise, you won't be able to mine properly tomorrow and you'll probably get beaten again."
As he spoke, the young man brought the pill to Chu Feng's lips.
But just then, a voice transmission entered the young man's ears:
"Young brother, are you truly a young master of the Ancient Battle Clan?"
There was no need to guess — the transmission had come from Chu Feng.
The houses here had no doors, let alone protective barriers, so everything was under the surveillance of the Ancient Demon Clan. If Chu Feng wanted to discuss anything secretive with this young man, he had no choice but to communicate through private voice transmission.
"You… you're alright?" the young man asked in surprise.
Although Chu Feng's external injuries were severe, his voice was firm and resounding — not at all like that of a wounded person. This left the young man utterly baffled, finding it quite extraordinary.
"Don't worry, I'm fine. Answer my question first," Chu Feng continued.
"Big brother, I, Zhan Lingtong, have never deceived anyone. I truly am a young master of the Ancient Battle Clan. My father is the clan leader of the Ancient Battle Clan." This Zhan Lingtong was quite clever — he pretended to be tending to Chu Feng on the surface while secretly conducting a voice-transmitted conversation with him.
"Good. Then answer me three questions."
"First, what exactly is the relationship between the Ancient Battle Clan and the Ancient Demon Clan?"
"Second, what is the cultivation level of the strongest among the Ancient Demon Clan?"
"Third, why did you come to the Ancient Demon Clan's territory?"
Chu Feng asked all three questions in succession.
Zhan Lingtong began answering through voice transmission as well.
Through this, Chu Feng came to understand the situation at hand.
First, the Ancient Battle Clan and the Ancient Demon Clan were indeed hereditary enemies.
The two forces were evenly matched, and only when Zhan Haichuan appeared did he suppress the Ancient Demon Clan — but Zhan Haichuan had not annihilated them.
He had never explained his reasoning for this, so neither the Ancient Demon Clan nor even the members of the Battle Clan themselves understood why.
As for the strongest individual in the Ancient Demon Clan currently, he was an Martial Ancestor, and he possessed combat power equivalent to a four-grade rank above his cultivation level.
However, this level of strength left Chu Feng rather disappointed. While a Martial Ancestor with four-grade rank-bypassing combat power was undeniably formidable — and even Chu Feng would be no match for it after recovering his own cultivation — such a level of power was utterly ordinary if placed in the Hundred Refinements Mortal Realm.
Forget the powerhouses of the first-tier forces — even some experts from second-tier forces could fight him on equal footing, or perhaps even surpass him.
After all, this was the Ancient Domain of the Battle Clan, the place where Zhan Haichuan had risen to prominence. For the strongest being here to possess only this level of cultivation was, frankly, a bit underwhelming.
But what disappointed Chu Feng even more was this: although the leader of the Ancient Demon Clan was already weak enough, the leader of the Ancient Battle Clan — Zhan Lingtong's father — was even weaker.
Zhan Lingtong's father, the current leader of the Ancient Battle Clan, also possessed four-grade rank-bypassing combat power, but his cultivation base was merely that of a fourth-grade Martial Ancestor — a full grade below the leader of the Ancient Demon Clan.
If not for the fact that the Ancient Demon Clan still feared Zhan Lingtong's grandfather, that existence who had remained in seclusion for so long, along with the Ancient Battle Clan's grand defensive formation, they would have long since led their armies to slaughter the entire Ancient Battle Clan.
"So why did you come here?" Chu Feng asked again once he had grasped the situation — this was something he was personally curious about.
"There's a girl I like. She's a member of the human race, but not part of my Ancient Battle Clan. My family has never allowed me to be with her."