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Li Zi nodded vigorously to herself.

[The gossip-hungry crowd is waiting to be fed...]

The Great Elder looked at Li Zi, Ji Zheng, and Fu Chaoqing. "You three may leave."

Li Zi, especially, needed to leave.

Every cultivator above the Golden Core Stage could hear her thoughts.

That meant the people from the Hehuan Sect could hear them too.

What if Li Zi uncovered one of their private secrets, and that old bastard, the Hehuan Sect Master, killed her in a fit of rage?

[Ah, we're doomed. They won't let us stay. System, do I have to see their faces to get this gossip?]

The system sounded a little deflated too. [Yes. It's about the deep bond between the Hehuan Sect Master and his son. It would be better to see their faces.]

The Sect Master cleared his throat. "You three may stay after all. But you must not breathe a word of this to anyone."

The Hehuan Sect and their Sect had some history.

The Hehuan Sect had always been dominated by women, with men holding a low position within it.

Yet its current Sect Master was a man.

That was because the previous Sect Master had sent her son to the Spirit Sword Sect to study swordsmanship under one of its elders. After spending several years earning the Sect's trust, he had sneaked into the treasure vault and stolen the latter half of the Spirit Sword Sect's Inner Sect cultivation art, the Primordial Sage Secret Art.

The Cultivation Method was vast and vigorous, its sword intent surging like a torrent. It bore some resemblance to a lost Cultivation Method once practiced by the Hehuan Sect's founding ancestor.

The Former Sect Master was a genius of extraordinary talent. After mastering the Primordial Sage Secret Art, she had fused it with her own Sect's Cultivation Method, creating an even more formidable Inner Sect Cultivation Method for the Hehuan Sect.

The current Sect Master had demonstrated this new Cultivation Method. With his overwhelming strength, he had won the recognition of the entire Sect and become the Hehuan Sect's first male Sect Master.

Ordinarily, it would not have been such a serious matter. If a Cultivation Method was stolen, that only showed the Sect had lacked the strength to protect it. They could hardly blame anyone else.

But not long after the latter half of the Cultivation Method was stolen, the war between immortals and demons began. Every veteran elder and Sect Master who knew that half of the Cultivation Method died in it.

From then on, the Hehuan Sect Master became the only person left who had seen the latter half of the Primordial Sage Secret Art.

The Spirit Sword Sect had approached the Hehuan Sect many times to negotiate its return, but each time, they were flatly refused.

That had become the greatest source of conflict between the two Sects.

The Hehuan Sect's grand arrival this time was surely a show of force.

If Li Zi's gossip could send the Hehuan Sect into a flap, he, as Sect Master, would be delighted.

At those words, all three of them brightened.

"Yes!"

Less than two hours later.

A large group from the Hehuan Sect swept into the Sect.

In the Main Hall, the Second Elder stood with his chin raised in a proud pose, despite having been beaten black and blue.

However wretched he looked, he refused to bow his head.

Beside him, a striking middle-aged woman in a flamboyant red dress held the hand of a delicate-featured man and tenderly applied medicine to the wounds on his face.

"Sect Master Jiang, an elder of your Sect barged into the Hehuan Sect and attacked someone. He has shown no respect for our Sect whatsoever. Do you really think we have no one to stand up for us?"

The Hehuan Sect Master looked to be in his thirties. He had a gaunt face and a rather mean appearance.

His words were even more merciless. Today, he was determined to make the Spirit Sword Sect pay dearly.

The Sect Master pretended to know nothing. "Hm? What happened? Second Elder, please tell us the whole story from the beginning."

The Second Elder clearly felt not a shred of love for Immortal Ziyang anymore. All that remained was anger at having been deceived.

In front of everyone, he flung the red sash to the floor. "That wretch deceived me for hundreds of years!"

He started from the beginning: Immortal Ziyang's pursuit of him, her lie that they had already been intimate as husband and wife, and how she later tricked him into descending to the mortal world for training...

Every word seemed to bleed.

His story broke hearts and brought tears to every eye.

The Second Elder had even kept himself pure for Immortal Ziyang.

Yet Immortal Ziyang had long since become another man's cultivation partner.

No one from the Hehuan Sect knew any of this. One after another, they turned uncertain, startled looks on Immortal Ziyang.

Immortal Ziyang was thick-skinned. Far from feeling ashamed, she scolded him with a stern face. "Why don't you take a piss and look at your reflection? Who do you think you are? How could you compare to my husband?"

The Second Elder's face shifted from green to purple.

"I may look old now, but once I break through to the Void Refining Stage, I'll be young again."

Immortal Ziyang spat. "Pah! With your aptitude, you think you can reach the Void Refining Stage?"

The Sect Master's expression abruptly darkened, and he cut off Immortal Ziyang's increasingly vicious words.

"Sect Master Chen, Immortal Ziyang was the one who deceived him first. The fault is yours, yet you still have the gall to come to our Sect demanding justice? Have you no shame?"

This was a grievance between the powerful, and Li Zi had no place to intervene. Even so, she could not help frowning at Immortal Ziyang's cruel words.

[Why is Immortal Ziyang acting like a shrew? What on earth did Second Martial Uncle see in her?]

Every expert present above the Golden Core Stage heard her thoughts clearly.

The voice rang right beside their ears.

Immortal Ziyang exploded on the spot.

A shrew?

Who dared insult me like that?

Immortal Ziyang planted a hand on her hip and shouted furiously, "Who called me names?"

The Sect Master reacted quickly. He frowned at once. "What? Saying you deceived him counts as calling you names? Immortal Ziyang, just look at what you've done. It's too shameful even to speak of. The Hehuan Sect owes our Second Elder an explanation!"

Immortal Ziyang's chest heaved with anger. "That's not what I—"

She pointed her bright-red nails at the people around her.

"Did you hear that? Did you hear it? Someone insulted me!"

Everyone from the Spirit Sword Sect shook their heads in unison. "No."

The people from the Hehuan Sect exchanged glances.

[Host, I'll start with Immortal Ziyang's gossip, then. She looks like a shrew on the surface, but it actually has to do with her childhood. She grew up in a household with a timid mother and a violent father. Acting like a shrew became her way of protecting herself. And her cultivation partner isn't sincere with her at all.]

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