The instant the voice arrived, Lin Ke was sent flying backward.
The advancing old woman also staggered back several steps, her feet thudding against the ground.
A young scholar holding a scroll stood in the air, gazing down with an indifferent expression.
"It's that Imperial Academy Doctor from earlier!"
"Wonderful! A high official has come to do something about this!"
"There's hope! My mother can be saved!"
The crowd's voices rang out loudly as the Imperial Academy Doctor slowly descended from the sky.
"Mother, I told you not to act rashly!"
The Imperial Academy Doctor came to the old woman's side, his tone somewhat helpless. "There are many powerful officials in the court. What if that man really is the son of someone too influential for us to offend?"
However, he spoke the latter half to the old woman using the Voice Transmission Technique, so no one else could hear it clearly.
Still, many people could tell that this Imperial Academy Doctor was taking his mother's side.
"My young friend..."
At that moment, the Imperial Academy Doctor turned around and said pleasantly, "My mother has lived deep in the mountains for years and rarely ventures out. Please forgive any offense she may have caused."
Forgive her?
Lin Ke slowly climbed up from the ground.
Just now, the Imperial Academy Doctor had not only stopped the old woman's Plague Wind, but also sent Lin Ke flying.
With the power of the fourth realm, the bookman realm, he had shattered all the power of Lin Ke's poetry and hurled him backward in the process.
After intervening so blatantly in her favor, he wanted forgiveness?
Lin Ke's anger rose.
The Imperial Academy Doctor took in Lin Ke's unfamiliar face, along with the ordinary carriage lying in pieces beside him-a two-horse carriage of the