The Thunder God Hall Sect Master's Adopted Daughter

He immediately summoned his bonded artifact and prepared to leave.

Li Zi hurriedly held out the fox in her arms. "Master, don't you want your daughter?"

The Fifth Elder waved a hand without looking back. "Keep her. Play with her."

Li Zi was speechless.

Could he really hand his daughter to someone else to play with?

[Host, your master is a wildly unreliable father.]

[He is. But Lin Ninger has been saved by Master now, and her mother didn't die either. Does that mean her fate has changed?]

The system answered with certainty. [Yes, it has. Luckily, your master saved them. From now on, Lin Ninger's fate will be different.]

The Fifth Elder let out a small breath of relief.

Thank goodness!

If he hadn't heard Li Zi's thoughts and rushed to save the foxes, he might never have seen his wife and child again.

With that thought, he looked at Li Zi with even greater affection.

No longer in a hurry to leave, he turned back, flipped his palm, and handed Li Zi a jade-green bracelet.

"Little disciple, Ninger is a girl. It's inconvenient for her to stay with me, so I'll leave her with you for now. Wear this bracelet. There are some Medicinal Pills, Spirit Medicines, and cultivation manuals inside. They're all yours."

Delight lit up Li Zi's face. "Master, I'll take good care of her!"

Before the Fifth Elder had even left, he heard the system cheer.

[Host, we're rich! We're rich! There's so much good stuff in here. The Medicinal Pills are all fourth- or fifth-grade, and the Spirit Medicines are all Mystic-rank. Your master is so generous!]

[Ran Zirou deserves what's coming to her. She joined such a wonderful Sect and didn't even appreciate it. System, let's do our best. We can't let the Sect fall apart.]

Hearing the two of them chatter so happily, the Fifth Elder couldn't help laughing.

Good. When everyone gathered for the Secret Realm this time, he would have to pay Wind God Sect a visit.

Just what sort of person was this Qu Cang?

After getting the little fox, Li Zi took her everywhere.

Even when she practiced swordsmanship with Ji Zheng, she brought over a stool and set the little fox on it to watch from the side.

After several days of practice, Li Zi's cultivation had settled firmly at the peak of the Fourth Tier of Qi Refining.

She had learned three sword techniques and thoroughly mastered the first level of the Sect's Inner Sect cultivation method, the Primordial Sage Secret Art.

By the time the Secret Realm opened, she had earned a place beside the Fifth Elder and could accompany him to its entrance.

More than ten Sects were taking part in this Secret Realm expedition.

Each Sect could send five Foundation Establishment Realm disciples.

There would be a crowd, and Li Zi was already impatient with excitement on the way there.

[System, is there any juicy gossip about the people going to the Secret Realm this time?]

The Sect's powerful cultivators traveling with her all pricked up their ears.

[Oh, yes! Lots! Spirit Beast Sect, Demon-Refining Sect, Five Elements Sect, Medicine King Sect, Thunder God Hall... There's plenty of gossip about these Sects.]

[Take Thunder God Hall. Its current Sect Master didn't awaken his Thunder Spiritual Root for years as a child. When he was seven, he was peeing under a big tree in red underpants during a thunderstorm. Lightning struck, and his Thunder Spiritual Root awakened. But ever since then, he's been afraid of thunder on rainy days.]

Li Zi blinked. [That doesn't work for me. I don't know the Thunder God Hall Sect Master, so I can't picture it at all. Gossip is best when you hear it right in front of the person.]

Everyone else turned their faces away and clenched their teeth to keep from laughing.

They knew the Thunder God Hall Sect Master!

They could picture it!

He was an outgoing, dark-skinned giant of a man, two meters tall.

In red underpants?

Besides, the Thunder God Hall Sect Master had already become a powerful Spirit Transformation cultivator. Was he still afraid of thunder now?

The Spirit Sword Sect Master stroked his beard. As he pictured the Thunder God Hall Sect Master's dark face, the corners of his mouth rose of their own accord.

That brat had played plenty of dirty tricks on him when they'd both been pursuing the same woman. This time, he would bring Li Zi over and let everyone hear about the man's embarrassing past.

He wouldn't be satisfied until the whole of Thunder God Hall was in an uproar.

[Host, there's another explosive bit of gossip about the Thunder God Hall Sect Master. He has an adopted daughter he brought home from outside. Actually, I'll tell you when we see him.]

The Thunder God Hall Sect Master's Adopted Daughter

The Secret Realm would open in a remote, primeval forest.

Blackglow Beast Forest.

Powerful spirit beasts were thick on the ground there. The Foundation Establishment Realm disciples entering the Secret Realm could only venture in under the protection of their Sects' powerful cultivators.

Near a valley, at the edge of a cliff, the powerful cultivators from other Sects arrived one after another.

They all knew one another and exchanged greetings with smiles and laughter.

The Thunder God Hall Sect Master, however, couldn't shake the feeling that the people from Spirit Sword Sect were looking at him strangely.

The Thunder God Hall Sect Master was a burly, powerfully built man.

Even from a distance, Li Zi thought he looked like a small mountain.

His rough, dark face, heavy with flesh, gradually matched the image from the system's gossip.

Li Zi rose onto her tiptoes to look his way. [I wonder if the Thunder God Hall Sect Master wore red underpants today.]

Every Golden Core Stage cultivator present heard her clearly.

Silence fell for a moment.

Then their eyes turned toward the Thunder God Hall Sect Master and slid downward.

Red underpants?

The Thunder God Hall Sect Master's face darkened. "Who said that? Get out here!" he roared.

The people from Spirit Sword Sect spoke up first.

They looked around in bewilderment. "Said what? Did someone say something?"

The Spirit Sword Sect Master smiled. "Old Thunder, are you getting on in years? Hearing things?"

The people from the other Sects exchanged puzzled looks.

Could no one else hear it? Were they the only ones?

The Hehuan Sect Master, who had just arrived, was already used to it. His gaze swept over the people from Spirit Sword Sect, then lingered on Li Zi for an extra moment.