He had just woken up and the disciple he had his eye on for the future sect was crying nonstop.

What should he do?.

Xiao Shou looked helplessly at the two brothers and asked, "What happened to her? Why is she so emotional all of a sudden?"

"Senior Xiao... sob..."

Chen Yufei clung to his arm and continued crying, unable to speak clearly.

Chen Qingzhi’s mouth twitched as he sighed helplessly.

"This morning, she took my storage bag to collect Spirit Sand. When she came back with it filled, she heard people near the gate saying that last night after you left, there was another child who also disguised herself as a boy to make a living here. Her name was Su Rourou, and she had taken a guiding job, but she never returned."

"Uncle Su and Aunt Su searched everywhere for her but could not find her. Only after dawn today, when the city gates had been open for over an hour, did someone finally see Rourou... Rourou she... sob... I went to see her... both of her hands were gone, and she was very weak... the doctor said without proper healing medicine... sob... Rourou would not survive."

Chen Yufei sobbed as she continued Chen Qingzhi’s words.

And then she said: "That bad guy... if I hadn’t met Senior Xiao, the one who would lose her hands would be me... I would have died too... sob... it would have been me... I am the one who harmed Rourou."

"Why would you think that?"

Thinking of what the original story mentioned about Chen Yufei dying young, Xiao Shou suddenly felt a little uneasy.

He bent down and gently patted Chen Yufei’s hair, then looked into her eyes and asked seriously.

Through Chen Yufei’s broken, sobbing explanation, Xiao Shou and the Chen family brothers gradually understood what had happened.

Half a year ago, after the YChen brothers returned injured, Chen Yufei learned through questioning them that only mid-grade antidote pills could fully restore them.

From that moment on, she began searching everywhere for information about mid-grade antidote pills.

Later, she heard from an old cultivator in the city that White Silver City was remote, poor in resources, and had no major merchant houses stationed here.

Mid-grade antidote pills were commonly used by Foundation Establishment cultivators and could only be refined and used by them.

However, in White Silver City, aside from the city lord who was a Golden Core cultivator, the other Foundation Establishment cultivators would not stay here long.

There were no alchemists either.

As a result, even if one had spirit stones, there was often nowhere to buy such pills.

Only cheap items like antidote powders, spirit gathering powders, and recovery powders could be purchased with spirit beads.

If one wanted mid-grade antidote pills, there were only a few options.

One was to save up enough spirit stones and wait for the city lord to come out of seclusion and ask at the city lord’s residence.

Another was to wait at the city gate for passing Foundation Establishment cultivators.

But the city lord rarely left seclusion, so that option was basically unreliable.

The only real chance was waiting at the city gate for luck.

After hearing this, Chen Yufei went to the city gate to wait for passing Foundation Establishment cultivators.

At first, she knew nothing.

It was only later that Su Rourou noticed she was actually a girl and came to talk to her.

Su Rourou was the daughter of a martial cultivator couple surnamed Su in White Silver City.

She was the same age as Chen Yufei and had five siblings.

The entire family were martial cultivators.

Although her name sounded soft and gentle, Su Rourou herself was strong and independent.

Because her family had many children and limited resources, she had been earning resources on her own since childhood.

She had been surviving at the city gate since she was six years old.

Later, Chen Yufei told her about her situation, and Su Rourou kindly helped her.

Not only did she teach her how to approach passing cultivators for work, she would also give her the better jobs whenever she saw Foundation Establishment cultivators with good temperaments.

Even last night, Su Rourou originally could have taken the job herself, but she let Chen Yufei go instead.

No one expected that she would later encounter a madman.

By the time she was found, she was extremely weak, yet she still forced herself to stay conscious long enough to tell the Su family couple what the attacker looked like last night and also the reason she was harmed.

It turned out that the cultivator was mentally ill.

Whenever he saw hands that he considered unattractive, he would have an episode.

He would cut off the hands he judged as not beautiful enough and destroy them, while also torturing and insulting the owner of those hands.

Su Rourou was a martial cultivator.

Her hand joints that was hardened through training were larger than those of ordinary girls and her hands were covered in layers of calluses from constant refinement.

In the eyes of most people, they were indeed not considered beautiful. Yet this had become the reason she was attacked.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Shou immediately thought of that madman who liked to torture beautiful children that Fu Young had encountered before.

There truly were such domineering and unreasonable lunatics in the cultivation world.

But soon after, Xiao Shou realized something else.

In the book Longevity Love, the female martial cultivator named Su Rourou only appeared once, during the female protagonist’s ascent to the spirit realm, when she entered a secret realm and competed for sword seeds.

She successfully obtained one.

After leaving the secret realm, the author never mentioned her again.

If the Su Rourou in White Silver City was truly that same Su Rourou, then her fate should not have been like this.

She should not have lost her hands and been left on the verge of death.