The poorest member of the Imperial Guard, the Empress begged me to embezzle.

Lin Chongyang, the young man from the Lin family who had been specially noticed by Chu Xiu, turned his head slightly after hearing someone mock him and saw a pale-faced man with a sinister smile behind the group of people who had spoken.

Young Master Li!

The mocking laughter did not stop Lin Meng in his tracks. As a competent servant, he naturally knew what was important and what was urgent.

Lin Meng stepped into the clinic, helped Lin Chongyang to a private room, then knelt on one knee, looking at Lin Chongyang with a red glint in his icy blue eyes:

"Master?"

Lin Chongyang did not take him to the Chu family that day. If he had been there, he would not have allowed his master to suffer any harm.

"Go, but be careful not to hurt civilians."

Lin Chongyang nodded slightly, reached out and accepted the tea offered by the clinic owner who had been waiting nearby, and sipped it gently.

Upon hearing this, Chu Xiu, who was silently observing the scene with his divine sense, raised an eyebrow and couldn't help but look at Lin Chongyang with new respect.

Upon receiving his master's order, Lin Meng snorted and grinned as he stood up and strode out of the clinic, heading straight for the few people who had been foul-mouthed earlier.

His action startled the servants opposite him who had been mocking him, causing them to immediately stand up, draw their weapons, and become extremely wary.

The young man surnamed Li was a clever man. Seeing this, he immediately abandoned his servants and fled out the door.

Even Chu Xiu couldn't help but chuckle at such a scene.

Although this is the southern part of the city, it is the territory of the Chu family.

But Lin Meng is notoriously brainless. As long as his master Lin Chongyang gives the order, he dares to twist the head off anyone who is gossiping, even in front of the Chu family.

Ignoring the wailing and howling around him, Chu Xiu focused his attention on Lin Chongyang.

If we want to use that teleportation array, Lin Chongyang is the key to our breakthrough, the most crucial one!

Inside the clinic, Lin Chongyang ignored the commotion of fighting and screams outside. He watched as the clinic owner, holding a small bowl of steaming medicinal soup, obsequiously offered it to him.

"Young Master, why have you come in person today?"

"This is the medicine for this month. As instructed by the Supreme Elder, I specially added a few extra Frostbite Grasses to help you better suppress the fire poison."

Lin Chongyang glanced at the shopkeeper, took the medicinal soup, and drank it all in one gulp without the slightest hesitation.

Seeing this, the boss's smile grew even brighter.

Sure enough, to get this guy to obediently drink the medicine, we still had to bring out the Supreme Elder, this great Buddha.

Chu Xiu learned through intelligence that although the clinic was located in the Chu family's territory in the southern city, it was actually owned by the Lin family.

The four major families of Yucheng were vying for resources among themselves, and naturally, many suffered heavy losses.

Based on the consumption of medicinal herbs in the southern city, and combined with other intelligence, the Lin family was able to roughly estimate the martial arts prowess of the Chu family.

The owner of the clinic is the head of this intelligence agency, directly under the jurisdiction of the Lin family's Supreme Elder.

The shopkeeper then added, "Also, all the medicinal herbs you ordered are packed up and here."

He called his helpers to load several large sacks of medicinal herbs onto the carriage.

"As long as you follow the doctor's instructions, I guarantee you will be able to get out of bed and walk briskly again within three months!"

"But this dantian... since even the Supreme Elder can't do anything about it for the time being, please forgive my incompetence, Young Master."

Lin Chongyang nodded, pretending to suddenly think of something, and said, "I heard that you have acquired another batch of ten-thousand-year-old fire spirit mushrooms?"

Upon hearing this, the boss's face immediately fell, and he said with a bitter expression:

"Young Master, half of this batch of Fire Spirit Mushrooms is for the Supreme Elder, and the other half has already been reserved by Miss Chu. If you take it, my whole family will lose our heads!"

Before he could finish speaking, a bloody human head was thrown in from outside the door, stopping right in front of the boss, startling him so much that he fell to the ground.

Lin Meng returned with blood on his fists and a murderous aura: "Even if you don't give it to me, you might not be able to keep your head."

When he turned and stood before Lin Chongyang, he had already suppressed his fierce aura, scratching the back of his head and grinning sheepishly, his voice hoarse:

"Sir, there are five in total, all of them are dogs of the Li family."

"Only this one was weak; the others survived, so we let them go."

"Hmm, no rush, we'll go find their owner in a couple of days."

Lin Chongyang smiled and nodded, pointing to the cup of tea that he had only taken a sip of and that was still steaming, and then to the boss who was slumped on the ground.

Lin Meng immediately understood, took out a large stack of silver notes from his storage bag, threw them at the boss, covering his obese body, and then grabbed a teacup and drank it all in one gulp.

The amount of silver coins Lin Meng casually grabbed was enough to cover half a year's revenue for the clinic.

"This money should be enough."

Lin Chongyang smiled and said, "Don't worry, I bought it to give to the Supreme Elder and Miss Chu."

Upon hearing this, Chu Xiu chuckled.

To be given to Miss Chu?

His dantian and legs were both destroyed, and he's still licking them?

If Lin Chongyang's behavior in public truly reflects his true nature, then the Lin family is doomed to perish sooner or later with such a remarkable individual...

The clinic owner had a smile on his face, but in his heart he was just as annoyed as Chu Xiu. Even though he was annoyed, the owner still ordered his staff to pack up all the Fire Spirit Mushrooms and serve them to him.

As a member of the Lin family, he naturally understood how terrifying Lin Meng, this loyal yet wicked dog, was. If he didn't know what was good for him, he would be the next one to lose his head.

Before the two left, the boss offered them some intelligence and information:

"Young Master, according to the waiter's report a quarter of an hour ago, Miss Chu should be at the Jade Pavilion at this time."

"In addition, the Supreme Elder instructed me to deliver a message that he will be seeking an explanation from the Chu family tomorrow regarding your injury, and that you should not cause trouble in the South City today and should return home as soon as possible."

"Oh, I see."

Seeing that Lin Chongyang stopped talking, Lin Meng drove the carriage towards the Jade Pavilion, the largest restaurant in the southern city.

Across from the clinic, in a restaurant, Chu Xiu drank the last sip of peach blossom wine and got up to leave.

The place they went to was also the Jade Pavilion.

According to his investigation, the Jade Pavilion was owned by the Chu family. Lin Chongyang must have known that Miss Chu was currently at the Jade Pavilion.

Chu Xiu had always been skeptical of Lin Chongyang's character. He couldn't believe that someone who had also seen through the illusion of the void could really be such a brainless sycophant!

Perhaps this trip to Jade Pavilion will allow him to obtain the information he desires!

A condition and leverage that would be enough for the Lin family to agree to let him use the teleportation array!

With Chu Xiu's speed, he arrived outside the Jade Pavilion in just a few breaths.

He used the technique of concealing his aura to temporarily erase his own presence, leaped from the outside into the Jade Pavilion, found an empty pavilion, and extended his divine sense throughout the entire Jade Pavilion.

Soon, Chu Xiu sensed the presence of a sixteen-year-old girl at the Transcendent Realm within the pavilion listed as the number one in the Heavenly Realm.

It was that Miss Chu!

"As expected, she's here!" Chu Xiu smiled with satisfaction, using his aura-observation technique to highlight Miss Chu's aura.

Only now did he realize that this Miss Chu also possessed remnants of the Shattered Void realm, indicating that she must have recently advanced from the Shattered Void realm to the Transcendent Realm!

"Two Void Shatterers..."

Chu Xiu muttered to himself that all the fellow cultivators he encountered on his way from Senior Yao's tomb to Yu City were at the Void Breaking stage.

As Senior Yao said, the path of cultivation today has long since deviated from the grounded approach, with later practitioners choosing what he called the "shortcut with endless troubles"—the path of breaking through the void.

Unexpectedly, in just one day, he encountered two prodigies who had chosen the Shattering Void Realm!

Such a coincidence made Chu Xiu suspect once again that the true backgrounds and relationship between Lin Chongyang and Miss Chu were not as simple as the information he had received suggested!