After sending Qi Jialue away,
Su Huaijin did not immediately head to New Bamboo Hall. The so-called verification of the assessment results was basically just going through the motions. Not to mention that Qi Jialue had already smoothly passed most of the assessment, with his Earth Soul Realm-level strength alone, the villa would generally not turn him away.
Letting her conduct the verification was nothing more than giving her the title of guide, so that after Qi Jialue entered the villa, no one could gossip that he had come in through the back door.
She did not know much about Qi Jialue, only that he came from the Grand Prison. But judging by the fact that he still had to pass the assessments step by step to enter, his status in the Grand Prison was evidently not high. Otherwise, he could have simply been recommended in directly.
By comparison, what Su Huaijin cared more about was how to gain more favors from Lu Feng.
This was also a choice born of the shrewdness she had cultivated over the years. For people of limited value, she preferred clean-cut transactions. But for someone like Lu Feng, whose depths she could not see through, she preferred favors.
Once a transaction was completed, it was over; it could only help for a time. But favors flowed without end, and the value they could sometimes yield was beyond the reach of any transaction.
After hearing the sounds of Qi Jialue leaving, Ye Fan and Ning Xiang also came out of the Cultivation Room.
With Ning Xiang's safety weighing heavily on his mind, Lu Feng asked Su Huaijin, "Do you know where Elder Chihuo is now?"
Su Huaijin froze for a moment, but did not think too deeply into it, assuming that Lu Feng wanted to