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After returning from the trip to Medicine King Valley, Profound Heaven Sect

Lead-gray clouds hung low, dyeing the sky a blue-gray. Weak sunlight filtered through the heavy cloud cover, casting down a hazy, gentle halo. The mountains and halls of Profound Heaven Sect lay shrouded in that strange light, like an ink-wash painting.

The long bluestone steps before the mountain gate had been quietly dampened by morning dew. Amid the interwoven light and shadows, they gleamed with a mellow luster, as though scattered stars had fallen across the ground and shone brilliantly. A breeze swept past the bronze bells beneath the eaves, their crisp, pleasant chimes drifting over and lending a touch of liveliness to the dreary sky.

The disciples went about their respective tasks. Some rested and recuperated in peace, some treated their injuries, while others immersed themselves in their daily cultivation, striving to improve their cultivation.

Yet compared to such routine matters, what the disciples relished discussing most were naturally the freshly released—sect anecdotes!

Events like the Flower-Appreciation Gathering, where sects gathered together, had always been breeding grounds for gossip.

And now the sect had Second Senior Brother Shen Yuxi, who could drop explosive revelations every day. He always recounted unknown secrets with such vivid detail that everyone's curiosity burst through the roof. The gossip fever remained sky-high, becoming ever more interesting.

The moment everyone returned to the sect, the disciples who had stayed behind eagerly surrounded them, their eyes brimming with anticipation as they sought to learn of the amusing incidents from the Medicine King Valley trip.

Rather unexpectedly, Fifth Senior Brother—who in the past would race through the entire sect like a whirlwind upon returning, impatient to spread every scrap of gossip—was nowhere to be seen this time.

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