When Lu Feng woke, he found himself lying against a large tree. Nothing seemed wrong with his body, though his head was still a little muddled. After taking a moment to recover, he suddenly remembered that before losing consciousness, he had been wounded by a Daluo Golden Immortal and left at death's door. Fenfen Chengkuai had also been abducted, and he still had no idea how she was doing.
Panic surged through him. He immediately sprang up, only to bump into something.
Looking up, he saw a pair of filthy, blackened feet, covered in a mixture of mud and who knew what else. His stomach instantly turned. His gaze traveled farther upward, and he found a wild "porcupine" sitting on a branch, smiling down at him.
"Master!" Lu Feng cried out. He had yet to work out how he had survived, but the sight of Scruffy Old Man gave him a fair idea.
"Go on, thank me. If I hadn't arrived in time, you'd already be wolf food," Scruffy Old Man said with a grin.
"Thank you for saving my life, Master!" Lu Feng hurriedly expressed his gratitude. He was never stingy with painless gestures that required nothing tangible from him. Then he quickly asked, "Did you see Fenfen Chengkuai?"
"Fenfen Chengkuai? Who's that?" Scruffy Old Man asked, puzzled.
"Oh, a girl in purple. What was her name again? I don't remember either. Anyway, she's a girl dressed in purple, very pretty," Lu Feng explained.
Scruffy Old Man shook his head. "No idea. All I saw was you getting beaten half to death. Speaking of which, how did you offend that Daluo Golden Immortal? Were you fighting over a woman? Listen, my disciple, an eye for beauty is only human nature, but throwing your life away for a girl isn't