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The powerful cultivators present could barely hold back their laughter. They hurriedly turned aside and pretended to drink tea, hiding the smiles tugging at their lips.

Li Zi scratched the back of her head. Wait, System. If the Ghost Shadow Sect has always been this lazy about things, someone would have noticed. Surely not everyone in their sect is like this?

The System said, Of course not. The Ghost Shadow Sect really does have a few tricks up its sleeve. It's just that its members are a little strange—and membership is only their side gig.

Li Zi: "??"

A side gig?

Onstage, the next match had already begun. Both contestants stepped up, bowed politely, then launched straight into battle at the signal.

Li Zi watched with relish while listening to the System talk about the Ghost Shadow Sect.

She glanced around without thinking, looking for other Ghost Shadow Sect disciples in the arena.

There wasn't a single one.

The spectators around her seemed to be watching the contestants intently, but their attention was actually fixed entirely on Li Zi.

The Ghost Shadow Sect is made up of people with unusual abilities.

Some have strange conditions. When one person's condition flares up, all the blood in their body turns poisonous. Another was raised by spirit beasts until a woodcutter found him and forced him into the care of adoptive parents. But his temperament is odd, and he can't adapt to human life.

Others have Spiritual Roots, but their abilities make them grow a pair of wings. There's even someone whose body hair suddenly grows every time he breaks through, turning him into a gorilla.

*The most famous is the Ghost Infant. That story is real, except the mother was a spirit beast that had lived hidden in flowering trees for years.