The second person to enter for inspection was the middle-aged female cultivator Zhang Wenjun. But when Liu Changxu said he would use special methods to conduct the inspection, alarm immediately appeared on her pretty face.
"Is there something you're hiding from me, fellow cultivator?"
After hearing Liu Changxu's question and considering it for a moment, Zhang Wenjun said:
"Please forgive me, senior! Zhang Wenjun isn't my real name. I fled here to escape a powerful enemy. I concealed the truth only to protect myself, and I bear the Liu Household no ill will whatsoever."
As she spoke, she swept her left hand across her face, revealing beauty that could topple cities and kingdoms. The sight immediately sent Liu Changxu's blood surging and his heart racing.
"My real name is Zhang Junru. I'm nineteen this year, and I come from the Zhang Household of Jinhu City, thirty thousand li away. Chen Yifan, the only son of the City Lord's Manor's Golden Core True Person Chen Liyuan, coveted my beauty and came to our door intending to force me to become his concubine.
"Chen Yifan is notorious in Jinhu City. Although he's a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Cultivator, his cultivation came entirely from draining his wives and concubines to replenish himself. He already has no fewer than a hundred of them, but for the sake of his cultivation, he still isn't satisfied.
"Worse still, he has an exceptionally cruel temper. Whenever something displeases him, he subjects his wives and concubines to inhuman abuse. More than a dozen concubines have already been tortured to death by him.
"But our Zhang Household has only one cultivator at the Foundation Establishment early stage. We simply couldn't afford to offend the City Lord's Manor. Left with no other choice, our patriarch told me to flee at