Tu Lingxi (1)

During the treatment session, the couple of mother and child introduced themselves.

The mother went by the name Wu Ya, and her daughter was called Wu Xin. They were both from a village not far from here.

After Feng Luotian finished treating the mother, he said: "Your wound will be healed within two days, Aunt Wu."

"Thank you, Benefactor. We don't know how we can repay you with all your help." Wu Ya said with a helpless smile.

"It's alright. You don't have to repay me with anything, but I'd like to ask about one thing." Feng Luotian looked at Wu Ya as he requested.

Wu Ya avoided his gaze and sighed in her heart, thinking: "After learning their goal, he must want to ask about what we have in the village that can entice the troupe to act. Well, all men are the same, aren't they?"

Even with such thoughts, she had no choice but to oblige because Feng Luotian had just saved their live: "You want to ask what they want from us, right, Benefactor?"

Her voice dropped down by several degrees as she was inwardly looking down on him.

"Why would I want to know that? I just want to ask if you know their hideout's location." Feng Luotian asked.

"What?" His demand surprised Wu Ya.

"You don't know where they are, Aunt Wu?" He asked again.

Wu Ya did not know what to say as the conversation did not go in the direction where she expected. And it was on the opposite.

It took a while before she recovered and responded: "I know where they are, but … what are you going to do, Benefactor?"

"Nothing. I only want to pay them a visit." He said with a playful smile.

"No, you can't go there, Big Brother!!"

Suddenly, a small voice sounded from behind Wu Ya.

"Xin'er!!" Her mother berated her daughter for speaking out of line before she turned toward Feng Luotian: "I'm sorry. My daughter didn't have many chances to interact with anyone outside the village, so she's not quite disciplined."

"It's okay, Aunt Wu." Feng Luotian waved his hand before he turned to the girl and asked with a gentle smile: "And why can't I go there, Little Girl?"

"Because they are all bad guys, and they are all strong!!" Wu Xin honestly answered like a normal child.

Feng Luotian chuckled and crouched down until his height was about the same as her: "I think you're stronger than them in a certain aspect, especially your will to protect. You stood up against the bandits to protect your mother even when you knew that you did not stand a chance against them. I admire you a lot for that."

He placed his hand on her head, then stroked it gently. He felt touched that he could come across a child with this much courage and strong will.

But after that, he pinched both of her cheeks before asking the girl again: "And how did you know that I'm not strong enough to fight them, huh?"

"Aww!! That's hurt, Big Brother." Wu Xin struggled away before glaring back at Feng Luotian and saying her piece: "It's because I've seen their boss before."

"Oh? What's he like? How strong is he?" Feng Luotian raised his brows with interest.

"He was super strong!! There's no one in the village who can fight him. If not for Big Sister Tu, that bad guy would have already killed us."

Feng Luotian turned to Wu Ya as he did not get his answer.

Wu Ya elaborated in her daughter's place: "He was an Eight Fangs Fighter. There's also another guy, probably a vice leader of the troupe. He was at Seven Fangs."

"Mhm." Feng Luotian nodded and calculated something in his mind while his fingers played with his chin.

For him, he might have a way to fight an Eight Fangs Fighter one-on-one, but together with another Seven Fangs cultivator and the rest of his troupe, that was practically impossible.

"And who is this Big Sister Tu?" Feng Luotian asked.

"I think she came from Vermillion Kingdom. I noticed a sigil unique to the kingdom on her spatial bag. She helped us fend off the troupe by ambushing their hideout every time their boss came out to deal with our village." Wu Ya explained.

"Your village and their hideout must be quite close then." Feng Luotian commented.

If someone could ambush the bandit's hideout after seeing them coming their way, not only must that person be really fast, but the two places must also be approximately close to each other.

"No. It's a few kilometers apart." It was a little Wu Xin who answered.

Feng Luotian turned to the girl and curiously asked: "Then how could Big Sister Tu ambush their base that fast?"

Wu Xin giggled before saying: "She can fly."

"!!" Feng Luotian was amazed, albeit just a little bit. He turned to Wu Ya and asked: "Is she a Wing Realm Master?"

After stating that question, he felt himself to be quite stupid. If this Big Sister Tu was a Wing Realm Master, why would she need to ambush the troupe's hideout?

If she was a Wing Realm Master, she could blast the troupe's leader to bits with a flick of her finger.

Seeing an embarrassed expression on his face, Wu Ya chuckled and replied: "No, she's at Six Fangs."

"Hmm?" The answer was much higher from what he expected, prompting Feng Luotian to inquire again: "How old is she?"

Wu Xin called her "Big Sister," which meant she was probably in her teen or maybe about the same age as him.

Wu Ya now giggled a bit too: "I think she's younger than you, Benefactor."

"Interesting!!" Feng Luotian exclaimed as he thought: "Someone in this part of the world under fourteen years of age, yet achieved Six Fangs and was able to fly? She's quite talented."

The bloodline abilities that allowed users to fly at Fang Realm were super rare. Their number could be counted with one's fingers. Even the dragon or phoenix's direct bloodlines could not do such things.

As one of the phoenix bloodline's descendants himself, he had no way to fly at Fang Realm.

"Mother, let's take him back to our village. I think he wants to meet Big Sister Tu. Hehe." Wu Xin proposed an idea before she gave a teasing glance at Feng Luotian.

"Mhm. It would be better for him to know more about the situation than to charge into their hideout right away. Isn't that right, Benefactor?" Wu Ya also agreed with her daughter.

She was doubtful earlier, but ever since the start of their conversation, Feng Luotian never once mentioned the item the bandit wanted. Also, he never suggested visiting the village, meaning he had no hidden agenda against the village.

"Is it really okay since I am not from your village?" Feng Luotian was considerate when it came to entering other's territories.

"It will be fine as long as we say it!!" Not waiting for any answer from Feng Luotian, Wu Xin pulled his hand and led him towards her village.

"What is your village called, Little Xin?"

"It's called Raven. Raven Village."

"Raven Village?" The name made Feng Luotian ponder.

———

Two hours later, they reached the village.

Although the village was not that far from where they fought with those bandits, they chose to walk instead of traveling at full speed, so it took some time to arrive at their destination.

The village only consisted of twenty-some huts made of mud and straw. A single swipe from his training partner, Blade Tail Silver Lion, could obliterate their home. Yet, even living amongst thousands of monsters, they seemed to be spending their lives just fine.

As for the villager, all of them held the same bloodline including Wu Ya and Wu Xin.

///// Underworld Raven

///// [Guide of Soul] : Allow the user to deport a soul to the underworld. A successful attempt will give the user a fragment of the deported soul's remnant power.

Coupling with a familiar feeling exuding from the village, Feng Luotian could roughly guess the situation here.

For normal cultivators on a lower planet, the notion of the underworld would only be said as a myth.

Underworld resided in another dimension paralleling the current world. Only a few people knew how to cross over without dying. That was why the underworld was just a myth because there was no way to prove its existence.

No one on this planet knew whether the underworld actually existed or not, including these people who had the bloodline and ability directly related to the underworld could say for certainty about its existence.

But Feng Luotian knew all about this underworld too well.

Why? — It was because this so-called underworld was his home, the house of the Demon God Clan, ruled by his father.