Immortal Ziyang Was a Pitiful Soul Too

The Fifth Elder's voice trembled as he held the woman in his arms tight, as though he had found her after losing her. "Thank goodness. Thank goodness," he murmured.

[Host, the Fifth Elder saved his wife. She was badly injured, though, so she went into seclusion to recover. In a few days, the Fifth Elder will come back with a little fox.]

After Li Zi tried and failed several times to achieve Qi Attraction into the Body, Ji Zheng took her to Fu Chaoqing's courtyard.

She was there now, drinking medicine.

Nearby, Ji Zheng and Fu Chaoqing discussed the Secret Realm they would enter next.

Her miserable face was scrunched into a knot.

The system was enthusiastically recounting what had happened after the Fifth Elder left the Sect to save his wife.

Neither she nor the system knew why the Fifth Elder had rushed off so suddenly, or how he had found and saved the fox without a wrong turn.

But hearing that the fox had been rescued put her a little more at ease.

[The way the Fifth Elder left was strange. He went completely off the novel's plot. I'd barely finished thinking about it when he ran off. I almost thought he could hear what was going through my head.]

The moment Li Zi began thinking, Ji Zheng and Fu Chaoqing lowered their voices in perfect accord and pricked up their ears.

What they heard made them both jolt.

The Sect Master had called a meeting specifically to discuss this: they must never let Li Zi know they could hear her thoughts.

The things Li Zi thought about might turn the Sect's fate around.

What had happened with the Fifth Elder's fox wife was proof enough.

Ji Zheng cleared his throat and pretended to chat casually with Fu Chaoqing.

"If Master hadn't received a message through a talisman yesterday and left, we could ask him about our junior sister's condition now," Ji Zheng said.

Fu Chaoqing nodded. "Right. I've searched every ancient text I could find, but I haven't found a medicine to treat the poison in her body. I'm afraid only a Marrow-Washing Pill will work."

Hearing them, Li Zi finally relaxed.

[So Master received a distress call. Looks like I was overthinking it.]

The two exchanged a glance. Crisis averted.

Li Zi finished her medicine, and Fu Chaoqing stepped forward to take her pulse.

He found that the meridians in her body were blocked solid. She could not cultivate at all, and whenever she took a spirit medicine, its effects were stripped away and vanished without a trace.

If he had not been able to hear Li Zi's thoughts, Fu Chaoqing would have seriously doubted she had a spirit root at all, let alone anything called the Myriad Flower Divine Bone.

He shook his head gravely. "I may not be capable of curing our junior sister. Shall we speak to the senior masters?"

Ji Zheng sighed. "It seems we have no choice."

And so the two took Li Zi to the main peak to find the Sect Master.

The Sect Master immediately summoned the First Elder, Third Elder, and Fourth Elder for a meeting.

They gathered to discuss how to awaken Li Zi's constitution.

They still had not found any records concerning the Myriad Flower Divine Bone.

The Third Elder said, "The Medicine King Sect, Five Elements Sect, and Flying Immortal Sect should have more records on ancient divine constitutions. Once the Secret Realm opens in a couple of days, we can discuss it when we pay them a visit."

The First Elder's brow furrowed. "I've heard there's a Marrow-Washing Spirit Pool inside this Secret Realm. We should have the disciples bring some back."

Listening from the side, Li Zi clicked her tongue in wonder.

Having powerful people to rely on really was wonderful.

The vicious supporting actress in the original novel was bullied and beaten every day.

She wanted to cultivate but could not even achieve Qi Attraction into the Body. If she wanted spirit medicine for Body Tempering, she had to knock her head against the ground before her senior brothers before they would deign to spare her a single stalk.

Now she did not have to do a thing. All the Spirit Transformation powerhouses in the Sect were trying to find a way to help her.

[Host, there's more gossip.]

Bored out of her mind, Li Zi found the system's voice a godsend.

The elders' discussion grew quiet again. They all pricked up their ears and waited.

[It's about the Second Elder.]

Everyone perked up.

What had the Second Elder done now?

[After the Sect's disciple selection, the Second Elder wandered off to the mortal realm again. Maybe he was sick with longing, because he went to Immortal Ziyang's cave dwelling in the Hehuan Sect. He didn't expect to find Immortal Ziyang Dual Cultivating with his Dao companion. He caught them right in the act.]

[The Second Elder charged straight in and gave Immortal Ziyang's Dao companion a sound thrashing. His cultivation was so high that neither Immortal Ziyang nor his companion could stop him. He beat the companion's face into a pig's head. Then Immortal Ziyang called over the Hehuan Sect disciples to surround him.]

The eyes of everyone in the Main Hall gleamed green.

The system spoke in an electronic voice, but its dramatic rises and falls brought the whole affair vividly to life.

They could practically picture how thrilling it must have been when the Second Elder caught the pair in bed.

[Host, five Hehuan Sect elders joined forces and defeated the Second Elder. He sliced the peaks off two of their mountains, and they say they're bringing him to our Sect to demand compensation. They've already set out.]

Li Zi gave a little snort in her thoughts.

[They can't keep their own disciples' love lives in order, and now they want to squeeze money out of our Sect? What bullies!]

The elders all nodded in agreement.

Immortal Ziyang had wronged the Second Elder first. The Second Elder had only sliced the peaks off two mountains when he went to their Sect. They had gotten off lightly.

And they still dared to demand money? This time, the elders would have words with them.

Sure enough, a Spirit-Pigeon Message arrived from a disciple at the foot of the mountain.

It said a large group of Hehuan Sect disciples was approaching aggressively. They looked bent on trouble.

The Sect Master slammed his hand down, shattering the jade table beneath it.

"The Hehuan Sect dares come looking for trouble with us? Call everyone over. We'll show them we have people of our own!"

Li Zi cheered inwardly. [Watching the drama unfold in person is so much more exciting than hearing about it secondhand! Am I finally going to see them tear into that woman with a sea of lovers? I can't wait!]

The system said, [Host, messy love lives are normal in the Hehuan Sect. You have no idea how tangled things get. The Hehuan Sect Master coming here has a huge scandal of his own, but we'd better wait until they arrive and enjoy it live. Gossip hits harder when you can watch the Hehuan Sect Master's face.]