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Qian Yan seemed serious, and Ye Huaifeng didn’t doubt her. It made sense for cultivators to see glimpses of celestial secrets, though it was still an incredibly rare opportunity, nonetheless.

“Do you know why I rushed to save you, my disciple?”

Ye Huaifeng had always maintained a calm demeanour, but now he couldn’t stay composed. “Master, did you see what would have happened to me?”

“Yes, I saw that you would be cast into the Abyss of Malevolent Souls by Yu Xing. You would have all the malevolent energy then, and then kill all the cultivators in the world.”

Ye Huaifeng felt his scalp tingle. Could he ever be that ruthless?

“What happened after that?”

“You suffered heavenly retribution and died.”

“Master, did you also see what happened to my junior brothers and sisters later?” Ye Huaifeng continued to ask. He believed this explanation, as it would account for his master’s drastic change in character.

“They all died,” Qian Yan replied.

Ye Huaifeng tightly pursed his lips. How could they all die? Who was responsible for this?

Could it have been the Chu family?

Ye Huaifeng clenched his fists. He had a gloomy expression on his face, and he exuded a murderous aura. Even if the Chu family wasn’t completely responsible for his junior brothers and sisters’ deaths, they must be involved somehow,

Was this what caused his master’s change?

“Go and treat your wounds. As your master, I won’t let you be bullied again.”

One look at Ye Huaifeng’s expression and Qian Yan knew that she’d succeeded in deceiving him, too. She didn’t want to say anything more to him.

This little boy was so easy to fool.

In truth, Ye Huaifeng wasn’t as young as he seemed anymore. However, he was very talented and had reached the Nascent Soul realm very early in his life—before he had his spiritual root shattered. That caused him to retain his young appearance. Even though he was no longer nineteen years old, he still looked that age.

However, in the eyes of the original host, he was still just a child whom she had picked up and raised.

“Master, are you going to not prioritise the Chu family in the future?” Ye Huaifeng still had doubts. He had been by his master’s side the longest and was well aware of the tactics employed by the Chu family.

These tactics were almost foolproof when used on his master.

Even though the master knew that they were using tactics on her, she still couldn’t escape the Chu family’s influence.

The Chu family incessantly claimed that his master owed them. His master, unable to get around this, also felt that she owed the Chu family.

It was hard to believe that a cultivator of her calibre, a Core Formation cultivator, could be pushed into such a state by a mundane family from the mortal world.

But what could Ye Huaifeng possibly do about it?

The Chu family was present in his master’s life long before he ever was. Of course, they occupied more space in his master’s heart than everyone else.

“From now on, I will.” Qian Yan was not surprised by Ye Huaifeng’s suspicion. “Since you have reached the middle stage of Foundation Building despite your broken spiritual root, I’ll help you find a way to fix it.”

Ye Huaifeng’s eyes glistened. He turned his face to the side. “You don’t have to worry about it, Master. As long as you stop treating the Chu family as you used to… Over the years, my junior brothers and sisters have suffered a lot because of the Chu family. If you can be kinder to them, that’s enough.”

With that, Ye Huaifeng quickly ran off.

Qian Yan watched him go. She didn’t stop him. In truth, she was deep in thought, considering whether she should craft some pills and go down the mountain to sell them. However, before she could make a decision, a service disciple came to report that someone from Dengyun Peak had arrived and called her over.

“I’m being called over?”

The person sent by Dengyun Peak was a service disciple who carried himself arrogantly. Even though he hadn’t even reached the Foundation Establishment stage, he looked down on her with disdain in the presence of the original host, who was a Core Formation stage cultivator.

In Qian Yan’s eyes, this service disciple was undoubtedly seeking death.

“Yes, you’d better go quickly. Master and Mistress Chu are quite angry right now. If you don’t go over there promptly, you’ll have a hard time explaining yourself to them when they get even angrier.” The junior disciple saw no issue with his attitude; he had always acted this way before.

So what if she was powerful? His master was still her parent. No matter how powerful she was, she still needed to behave respectfully to her parents.