Medical Sage

”Senior, hello. Sorry to have kept you waiting so long. Where’s Aya?” Chen Fei slightly bowed to the King Bear of Fury to apologize, then asked again. He had previously agreed to help Luo Aya solve the problem with her physique, yet it had been dragged out for more than a year now, which made him feel rather embarrassed.

”Aya, she, this, he, ai...” But upon hearing this, the King Bear of Fury hesitated, an expression of hard-to-speak discomfort appeared on his face, tinged with a bitter smile, as if there was some hidden trouble.

Seeing this, Chen Fei was slightly stunned, then frowned and said, ”What, did some accident happen, Senior?” He thought Luo Aya had run into trouble, but that shouldn’t be the case. It had only been a year, and moreover, she wasn’t some Yin River Spirit, she was…

”Not an accident, but, ai, I, I...” The King Bear of Fury’s expression became even more awkward, his face looking extremely embarrassed.

”Dad, since you can’t say it, let me.” At this moment, a cold voice came over. It was a woman… Chen Fei’s first impression was that it was a woman, and also, this woman seemed not very friendly toward him.

”Regarding my daughter Aya’s matter, thank you for your kindness, but this matter no longer requires you to trouble yourself.” The woman opened with these words. Though her phrasing sounded polite, her tone, just as Chen Fei had guessed, was anything but polite. Very stiff.

Hearing this, Chen Fei’s eyes narrowed slightly, then he chuckled softly and raised his head, looking at the woman in front of him.

She wore a light-red phoenix robe, looking elegant and noble. On her head was a hair ornament, phoenix-shaped, as if about to spread its wings and fly, emitting a faint aura. Clearly, this hairpin was quite a good item.

And the main point was her cultivation strength: Great Heaven Rank. Although not especially powerful, considering her current age, it was already a terrifying thing.

After all, didn’t you hear what she said? She was Luo Aya’s mother?

But even so, this woman’s attitude at the moment still gave people a feeling of being rather high and mighty, as if very proud.

Also, Chen Fei faintly felt, perhaps it was his imagination, that on this woman he could sense some of those haughty women from wealthy families back on Earth; they seemed just like this. A face full of contempt for others.

”Tianling, I, ai... Little friend, in this matter it’s we who are at fault, I apologize to you. As for Aya’s problem, we’ll handle it ourselves. You needn’t trouble yourself over it.”

Seeing the woman looking so overbearing, the King Bear of Fury’s face also changed slightly, but in the end he still shook his head, slightly bowed to Chen Fei, and apologized.

”Dad, this man is just a fraud. Why are you apologizing to him? You’re insulting your own status!” Seeing the King Bear of Fury apologize, that overbearing woman immediately changed expression, let out a cold laugh, and spoke.

”Shut up!”

”Be quiet!”

The King Bear of Fury, Luo Xiong, and the Elder of Hundred Knowledge Palace, both of them, upon hearing this overbearing woman’s words, almost simultaneously changed face and shouted at her.

The former was because he understood that Chen Fei’s identity and background were probably not simple, otherwise Hundred Knowledge Palace wouldn’t have needed to invite him to help. Besides, in this situation it was clearly they who were in the wrong first, and yet she spoke like this—wasn’t that courting offense?

As for the Elder of Hundred Knowledge Palace, the reason he became angry and scolded her was obviously because he stood on Chen Fei’s side.

During that year in Ghost City and the Yin River, Chen Fei had saved his life more than once, and had even shared with him the Dragon Essence Liquid, a sacred treasure of a holy grade. Adding Chen Fei’s methods and Chen Fei’s mystery, all this filled him with awe. Accumulated like this, how could he not know which side to choose!?

As for Luo Tianling, at most she’d found some second-rate power in Triple Emperor Domain to join as a sect disciple and gained a sect. This sounded quite formidable, and in many people’s eyes might seem frightening, but in the eyes of him, an Elder of Hundred Knowledge Palace, it was worth nothing!

When had their Hundred Knowledge Palace ever truly looked straight at any second-rate power within the Triple Emperor Domain?

Never!

Not even one...

Seeing the King Bear of Fury and the Elder of Hundred Knowledge Palace simultaneously speak out to scold her, that proud woman—Luo Tianling—her expression changed, she stared at Chen Fei, eyes sharp, and said, ”I don’t know what tricks you used to deceive my dad, deceive Elder Xue, but as for my daughter’s matter, I already know what’s going on. You may fool them, but you can’t fool me!”

”Boom!”

Hearing this, the Elder of Hundred Knowledge Palace immediately stepped out with a cold face, a terrifying aura surging toward Luo Tianling, causing her body to tremble in panic. The King Bear of Fury’s expression also changed and he quickly said, ”Brother Xue, don’t!”

”Don’t?” The Elder of Hundred Knowledge Palace laughed coldly and said, ”Luo Xiong, I treat you as a friend, what do you take me for? Don’t you know where you’re standing right now? Luo Tianling, do you think that just because you joined Yellow Dragon Immortal Sect, our Hundred Knowledge Palace has to show you respect and let you run wild here?”

”Throwing a tantrum!?” Luo Tianling’s face suddenly changed, turning green then purple, and in the end she still didn’t dare offend a Mystic Heaven Position King, much less Hundred Knowledge Palace. She lowered her head and said, ”I wouldn’t dare…”

Yet barely a moment after her words fell, her stubborn voice rang out again: ”What a damn impressive con man… My daughter doesn’t need you meddling!”

”You!” The Elder of Hundred Knowledge Palace glared angrily at Luo Tianling, but was interrupted by Chen Fei’s wave of the hand.

Chen Fei only smiled helplessly, looked at Luo Tianling who had her head lowered, and said, ”You say I’m a fraud—do you have proof?”

”Proof?” Luo Tianling lifted her head, staring and sizing up Chen Fei. ”Do I still need proof? Back then my father emptied out almost everything we had just to invite the famed Leading Pill Path of the Triple Emperor Domain, Grandmaster Xuan Chen, to diagnose my daughter. At the time it was already confirmed that my daughter is that one-in-hundreds-of-millions ’Yin River Spirit’. Yet you say she isn’t. Do you think you’re stronger, more authoritative than Grandmaster Xuan Chen?”

”Leading Pill Path?” At that title, Chen Fei couldn’t help but rub his ear, then he smiled again. ”Whether he’s strong or authoritative, let’s put that aside for now. But have you ever heard the saying ’the truly capable speak first’? Your daughter’s physique indeed is prone to being misjudged, mistaken as Yin River Spirit. But right now I can tell you with absolute certainty, your daughter Aya’s physique is definitely not Yin River Spirit!”

”What shameless bragging!” At this moment, a mocking laugh came from outside. Then a middle-aged man in formal robes, holding a folding fan, walked in with a face full of disdain. His gaze swept the room, and he said arrogantly, ”Those words just now—were they yours!?”

On his chest hung an extremely conspicuous iron badge. At its center was a treasured cauldron wreathed in drifting mist, and within the mist circled three bright golden pills, vivid and lifelike, looking almost real.

”An authentication badge from Pill Saint City… You’re a Three-Star King Level Alchemist?” Seeing the badge on that middle-aged man’s chest, the Elder of Hundred Knowledge Palace’s expression changed slightly.

”You’re an Elder of this Hundred Knowledge Palace branch, right? Your eyes aren’t completely useless. Good. This is exactly the rank badge certified, recognized, and issued by Pill Saint City. I am a Three-Star King Level Alchemist!” The middle-aged man swept a glance over the Elder of Hundred Knowledge Palace, speaking with arrogance and pride.

Right now, in Chen Fei’s eyes, the guy looked just like a kindergarten kid on Earth who’d gotten a big red flower—dumb as hell! Of course, a Three-Star King Level Alchemist is still quite intimidating and weighty in other people’s eyes.

So it’s no wonder this person acted like such an idiot, so damn proud of himself.

”Elder Xue, this is Master Qinghe whom I invited from Pill Saint City! And Master Qinghe is Grandmaster Xuan Chen’s Closed-door Disciple.”

At this moment Luo Tianling finally seemed to have found a chance to show off, opening her mouth in a triumphant tone.

She paused, then looked at Chen Fei with disdain and sneered, ”Didn’t you just say Grandmaster Xuan Chen’s diagnosis of my daughter was wrong? Now Grandmaster Xuan Chen’s Closed-door Disciple, Master Qinghe, is standing right here. Those words you said just now—do you dare repeat them?”

”Why wouldn’t I? Wrong is wrong. You think it can be whitewashed?” Chen Fei smiled, calmly looked at that fan-wielding middle-aged man, and said blandly, ”If it really was your master who made Aya’s diagnosis, then he truly is misleading his disciples. Yin River Spirit is unique to the Ghost Clan; it basically doesn’t appear in human bodies.”

”Hahahahahahaha~~~~~ Misleading his disciples? What a joke!”

Master Qinghe wasn’t angered but laughed instead, as if he’d just heard the funniest thing in the world. He mocked Chen Fei: ”Even if you want to keep bluffing, at least bother to make up a halfway decent excuse, okay? Do you seriously not know what the two characters ’Xuan Chen’ mean in Pill Saint City? Oh right, a country bumpkin from some barren little nation like you definitely wouldn’t know… Then I’ll tell you now. Listen up!”

”My master, Grandmaster Xuan Chen, the old man himself is a Five-Star King Level Pill Master! Do you have any idea what a Five-Star King Level Pill Master is? You don’t even know how many Mystic Heaven Position and Supreme Heavenly Position experts shamelessly cling, crying and begging my master to refine pills for them! Paying any price, taking it as supreme honor, and even a few peerless monsters in the Realm of the Saint Infant are no exception. Yet you say my master is wrong? Do me a favor and tell me you’re not just trying to be funny? Haha, hahaha… I can’t hold it in! A retard like you, this is honestly the first time I’ve seen one…”

Master Qinghe’s words were vicious, spoken with great passion and righteous vigor, every line slamming down like a hammer. He was treating the Chen Fei before him like nothing but a walking joke.

In truth, Master Qinghe wasn’t usually this easygoing. Anywhere else, any other setting, if someone dared insult his preaching master like this, he’d probably flip the table on the spot!

After all, what kind of man is his revered master Grandmaster Xuan Chen? Even in Pill Saint City, that supreme place of the Alchemy Dao, he holds a certain level of prestige and weight!

To put it bluntly, his master only needs one word and wiping out this Qiannan Ancient Kingdom wouldn’t even be hard. Yet here in this ”shitty backwater country” there’s actually some clueless nobody who dares question his master. Isn’t that a farce?

Since when did people become this ridiculous? No brains at all.

Right now, in Master Qinghe’s heart, all his feeling toward Chen Fei could be summed up in two words—utterly comical!

This guy was just like a clown. Does he really think he’s something? What a moron…

Yet at this moment, one faint sentence from Chen Fei made Master Qinghe’s expression change on the spot; his pupils shrank.

”Merely a Five-Star King Level Pill Master, that’s all. You think he’s a Pill Saint or Pill Sovereign? And when did Pill Saint City ’degenerate’ to this level, where a Five-Star King Level Pill Master actually counts as somebody?”

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