"Lord Chu, this way, please! The eldest young master has been waiting for you since early this morning!"
The Cui Estate's steward smiled until his face was piled with wrinkles. To hold the position of chief steward in a top Noble Family like the Cui Family for so long, his discerning eye was naturally unmatched.
Though he had never met Chu Feng himself, he had long learned through exclusive channels that the man before him was the Demon Suppression Division's unrivaled Commander Chu. In Hundred Mang Mountain, he had slain several Demon Kings, and with his illustrious battle achievements, he had entered the Grandmaster Rankings at ninth place. He was at the height of his fame.
"Please lead the way, Steward." Chu Feng's tone was modest, though a trace of emotion flickered through his heart.
He still remembered his first visit to the Cui Family. Back then, he had merely been an obscure youth in the Bone Forging Realm. Forget meeting the steward—even the Cui Estate's main gate had remained closed to him.
He had only been treated as a poor country relative seeking to curry favor. Li Qingxuan had casually sent him to serve in the Demon Suppression Division, then ignored him thereafter. Yet now, when he came again, it was at the personal invitation of Cui Jingxian, the Cui Family's eldest young master and the Demon Suppression Division's Chief Commander.
Though the Cui Family had its old patriarch holding down the fort, anyone with eyes could see that the one truly holding up the Cui Family's heavens had always been Cui Jingxian, at the Martial Saint Peak Realm.
Chu Feng followed the steward around the screen wall, through corridors of carved beams and painted rafters, until they reached a quiet and elegant courtyard.
Inside the main hall, Cui