"Refugee Village?"

Tian Wenxin stared at Li Feng.

"You're not telling me you've never heard of Refugee Village, right?"

Li Feng said.

Tian Wenxin shook her head and said, "I've heard of it. They say it was built years ago by some rebels who fled and set up a village outside the influence of Ancestor Dragon City, and those rebels have never given up their schemes, often luring runaway slaves to go there."

"But as far as I know, Refugee Village is extremely well hidden. It's not like Ancestor Dragon City hasn't sent Military to wipe it out, but they all came back empty-handed. And Refugee Village has always been very wary of outsiders; I'm afraid they wouldn't easily take us in."

As Tian Wenxin spoke, her gaze turned to Li Feng. "Unless you've dealt with those people before?"

Before coming to Li Feng, Tian Wenxin had specially gone to Fengyun Pavilion to buy information on him. But what was recorded in Li Feng's intel was all about the last month or two. As for anything further back, Fengyun Pavilion claimed they had not yet collected it.

Even though Li Feng came from the Ninth Ring, and the Ninth Ring was notorious for its chaos, anywhere there are people, there will be traces. With Fengyun Pavilion's influence, if they wanted to investigate someone, even if the person had been obscure before, they would definitely be able to dig up his Life story.

Unless there were only two possibilities: first, Li Feng's background was astonishing; second, this Li Feng had not been a person of Ancestor Dragon City before.

The former was obviously impossible. If Li Feng truly had an astonishing background, he wouldn't have been forced to this point by a single Zeng Family. So it had to be the second, because people in Ancestor Dragon City rarely mentioned Refugee Village.

This woman's nose was really sharp. As he watched Tian Wenxin practically press up against him, her eyes fixed on him, Li Feng raised his hand and smacked her perky butt with a Tathagata Divine Palm.

Caught completely off guard by that slap, Tian Wenxin let out a startled cry and stumbled back two steps, her face burning red as she looked at Li Feng, who had just laid "vicious hands" on her.

"You…!"

"You're the one who begged me to come up with an idea. If you think it's not appropriate, just pretend I never said it." Li Feng finished speaking and suddenly turned to leave.

Tian Wenxin's heart quivered. Even someone as arrogant as Zeng Xingtian had never laid a hand on her, yet this guy really dared to. Watching Li Feng walk away, Tian Wenxin stomped her foot. "You stop right there."

"Miss, are we really going?"

On a luxurious carriage, a Maid with at least nine points of pure, sweet beauty looked conflictedly at her own Miss beside her, who was dressed in men's clothes.

"I've already said it several times. Stop nagging me, will you?"

The Maid wore a bitter expression as she looked at her Miss, who was clearly losing patience. "It's not like I want to nag you. But Miss, you actually want to have that Li Feng marry into our family; that's way too earth-shattering."

"Leaving aside your marriage, which you simply can't decide on your own—it has to be by your parents' order and the matchmaker's word—even if our Master doesn't object, that Li Feng was first targeted by Miss Yu. Are you really sure about this?"

The Maid tried to persuade her Miss earnestly.

"Hmph, are you my Maid or her Maid? Or do you think I should be afraid of her? I, Sikong Miao, am in no way inferior to that Sikong Yu."

"Besides, did that Sikong Yu ever say she would have Li Feng marry into her family? How come I never heard any such rumor?"

The woman in men's clothes before her was precisely the Sikong family's Third Miss, and a half-sister to Sikong Yu.

Upon hearing Sikong Miao say this, the Maid immediately said, "Miss, Miss Yu did set a three-year appointment with that Li Feng. At the time, you were even making fun of Miss Yu for it."

"Hmph, that three-year appointment—she seems to have agreed to fight Li Feng in three years' time, but she never said anything about forming a union of Qin and Jin with him."

"Enough, you don't need to say any more. I've already decided on this. And even if she set her eyes on him first, so what? Who told her not to directly bring the man home? She just has to act all reserved; that's her problem. I, your Miss, am not going to be like her."

"You saw it yourself in Underground Palace City. Li Feng even awakened the Vermilion Bird True Body. That means the Vermilion Bird Bloodline in his body is extremely pure. How could I possibly let a man like that slip away?"

Sikong Miao's beautiful eyes shimmered. No matter how lowly Li Feng's birth was, what did that matter? The Bloodline in his body was exactly what she wanted.

That woman Sikong Yu also had her eye on Li Feng's Bloodline, hadn't she? It was just that Sikong Yu probably never imagined Li Feng's potential would be so terrifying.

Within the Sikong family, those who could awaken the Vermilion Bird True Body and still live numbered no more than three. So Li Feng's value now was completely different.

By a stroke of luck, she had happened to be in Underground Palace City. She had originally wanted to stroll around the black market, but unexpectedly witnessed Li Feng fighting the Eight Families—and even more unexpectedly, saw that Li Feng's Bloodline Power was so immense it even surpassed the limits of Bloodline.

As a member of the Sikong family, she knew full well how important the Vermilion Bird Bloodline was to them. Why was Sikong Yu so favored in the family, to the point that no one dared to discipline her? Wasn't it because her Bloodline had awakened early and she had activated it to the third layer?

So she was going to cut in ahead, intercept the prize before the news spread, and take Li Feng directly as her man, making him her live-in son-in-law.

Seeing this, the Maid knew she couldn't talk her Miss out of it. She could only silently pray in her heart that Miss Yu really just wanted a duel with Li Feng, and hadn't actually fallen for him.

Li Feng and Tian Wenxin walked back to the Sixth Ring on foot, while the battle in Underground Palace City spread at a furious pace.

At the gate of the Li residence.

Li Feng and Tian Wenxin had just entered when Li Batian came hurrying up. "Family Head, Lady Fang, you're all right?"

Li Batian asked, his eyes sweeping over the two of them. After all, Li Feng and Tian Wenxin going to the Ninth Ring had been a huge risk.

Li Feng looked at the concerned Li Batian. "Steward Li, Lady Fang and I are fine. But for you, there is one piece of bad news."

"Hmm?"

Li Batian looked at Li Feng in surprise.

"I killed your fourth brother, Zeng Jingtian." Li Feng looked at Li Batian as he spoke. On hearing this, Li Batian's eyes widened and he swallowed hard.

"Family Head really killed my fourth brother?"

Li Feng nodded.

"Li Batian, my feud with the Zeng Family is only getting deeper, and we've already reached the point where it's to the death. If you stay, you'll be caught between both sides. So I'll give you a chance: you can take your family and leave."

Li Feng looked at Li Batian. Although Li Batian had brought his family to join Li Feng, even changing his surname and becoming Li Feng's retainer…

He was still a Zeng by birth, raised by the Zeng Family and having contributed most of his Life to them. And today Li Feng had killed his fourth brother.

Along the way, aside from the Fang Family matter, Li Batian had also been an uncertain factor in Li Feng's mind.

"Family Head, you don't need to test me. Since I've changed my surname and become your retainer, I will not harbor a second heart. It's not that I, Li Batian, am cold and heartless."

"I know this trip you and Lady Fang took to the Ninth Ring was walking into a trap. I had no way to stop it. But since my fourth brother wanted to kill the Family Head, and the Family Head killed him in return, it just means his skill was inferior. If he died, that was his fate."

"What shocked me is that the Family Head actually managed to kill my fourth brother. My fourth brother might look gentle and refined, but he ranked among the experts in White Horse Academy, one of the three great academies under the Confucian Sect. His own strength was at the Golden Core Middle Stage."

Li Batian explained what had just gone through his mind.