She started developing a little late.
Chen Yi quickly helped Ei up, allowing her clothes to automatically dress her. He stepped back two paces, frowning at Shen Fang:
"Manager Shen, what do you an?"
Shen Fang stifled a laugh as she put away a recording jade:
"Doctor Chen, I didn't expect you to take the opportunity of treating people to commit such a beastly act."
"Should this recording get out, Doctor Chen, I wonder if you'll still wish to stay in Wangyue City!"
"What do you want?" Chen Yi was very calm.
"Hmph, don't you just need to give a Beauty Pill? I consider it a favour letting you give one. You better know your place. I may co to like you and give you a bit of sweetness. Otherwise, I'll show you what happens when you offend an immortal."
"Oh."
He casually responded, then asked the young girl.
"What about you? You also believe I assaulted you?"
"No...no." Little Ei waved her hands, trembling. She didn't dare offend the madam behind her, but she also didn't want to falsely accuse anyone—it was wrong.
"It... It was my own fault that I fell. It has nothing to do with Doctor Chen."
Slap!
Before the girl could finish her sentence, Shen Fang slapped her.
"You ungrateful thing! Go kneel down!"
Then, she finally revealed her actual intentions: "Doctor Chen, I don't want your Beauty Pill anymore. Either you leave this market town, or wait for to hand this recording jade to the Yang Family, the managers of Wangyue City. Your fate then will be worse!"
On the other hand, Chen Yi didn't bother responding to her.
Chen Yi made a few gestures with his hand, and suddenly, images and sounds were projected throughout the room.
"Doctor Chen, I need dical attention~"
The projection displayed Shen Fang entering Huichun Hall, swaying her waist with her revealing clothes.
It also showed how Shen Fang secretly manipulated a spell to make the little girl's clothes drop and her fall into Chen Yi's arms.
Everything was clear.
It even had the young girl's testimony affirming Chen Yi's innocence. If this recording were to get out, Shen Fang's reputation would be ruined.
"Manager Shen, if there's nothing else, please leave. This recording array is also available in Huichun Hall."
Chen Yi's voice remained calm.
Shen Fang's face turned ashen.
"Good, good, good. Wait for !"
She turned around to leave, not caring about Chen Yi's threat.
...
Slap! Slap! Slap!
"Leave! You ungrateful thing, go back to your slum and take care of your dying parents!"
Liu Ei was brutally beaten and then chased out of the Inner City.
...
After Shen Fang left, Chen Yi contemplated for a while.
He needed to maintain a good image, and hopefully avoid unnecessary conflicts. But everyone probably knew what kind of person Shen Fang was. He should avoid her in the future.
But,
if left alone, she would definitely cause trouble. She was a middle-ranking mber of the Fabric Workshop and possibly had a male cultivator supporting her from behind.
Chen Yi would need to investigate before finding a secure opportunity to strike a fatal blow.
The audacity of this wench to slander , I'll rember this!
For now, Chen Yi needed to co up with a way to prevent Shen Fang from bothering him so easily.
These thoughts flashed briefly in his mind.
What really concerned him was the little girl's health.
She was severely ill, and it was an inherited disease that was difficult to treat.
"Also... what was that thing that could freeze my soul through my mana?"
Chen Yi furrowed his brows, starting to look through his books.
"Uncertain Diseases of the Immortal Cultivation World," "Ten Absolute ridians of the Immortal Cultivation World," "Heavenly Favorites - 49 Innate Treasure Bodies of the Immortal Cultivation World"
He flipped through one book after another...
.....
Elsewhere, in the slums outside the city,
Liu Ei returned to her parents, Pillar and Cui Hua, with wounds all over her body and tearfully told them she had been chased away.
"Oh dear, my sweet child, what happened...?"
Seeing her wounded daughter, Cui Hua started crying.
After a while, the couple understood the situation.
"i'er, you did the right thing. We are good people. Even if this person were not Brother Chen, you cannot falsely accuse others."
"We'll just stop working at the Robe Shop and find another way!"
Pillar was relatively calm. His family had always valued honesty, and he was relieved his daughter hadn't lost her way despite being so badly treated.
"But my child is hurt like this. If we can't get into Inner City, what can we do? Can we rely on the ten spirit stones Brother Chen gave us? They won't last long!
Pillar, dear, think of a solution!"
Cui Hua was only concerned about their daughter and couldn't keep still.
Pillar took another puff from his pipe, sighed deeply,
"If things go badly, we must seek Brother Chen's help.
Our precious daughter, whom we worked all our lives to raise, can't be ruined like this.
Brother Chen is a superior individual. He should be able to save i'er."
"But won't that trouble Brother Chen? His shop is close to i'er's."
"There's no other choice. I'll offer myself up to serve Brother Chen in this life and the next if I must! Let's go, there's no ti to waste. Let's head into the city!"
The couple agreed, and were about to leave with their daughter.
Liu Ei, who heard the entire conversation, felt sorrow in her heart. "My parents have sacrificed too much for ! Why is the life of us low-level cultivators so cheap?"
.....
That night, Chen Yi t the three of them who ca bearing gifts and pleading for assistance. He instantly understood what had happened.
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