The Thunder God Hall Sect Master's Adopted Daughter

The Fifth Elder immediately summoned his bonded magical artifact and prepared to leave.

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

Without looking back, the Fifth Elder waved a hand. "You can keep her to play with."

Li Zi: "..."

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

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

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

The System answered confidently, [Yes, it has. Luckily, your master saved her. From now on, Lin Ning'er'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 hurried to save the fox, he might never have seen his wife and child again.

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

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

"Little apprentice, Ning'er is a girl, so it's inconvenient for her to stay with me. 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!"

The Fifth Elder hadn't even left when 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- and fifth-grade, and the spirit medicines are all Mystic Tier. Your master is so good to you!]

[Ran Zirou really deserves to die. She got into such a wonderful sect and didn't even treasure 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 visit the Wind God Sect.

Just what sort of person was this Qu Cang?

Ever since Li Zi got the little fox, she took her everywhere.

When she practiced swordsmanship with Ji Zheng, she even brought over a stool and set the little fox on it to watch.

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 sets of 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 was qualified to stand beside the Fifth Elder and travel with him to its entrance.

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

Each sect could send five disciples in the Foundation Establishment Realm.

With so many people gathering, Li Zi could hardly wait even while they were still on the road.

[System, is there any juicy gossip about the sects taking part this time?]

The powerful cultivators traveling with them all pricked up their ears.

[Oh, there's plenty! The Spirit Beast Sect, Demon-Refining Sect, Five Elements Sect, Medicine King Sect, Thunder God Hall... There's gossip about all of them.]

[Take Thunder God Hall, for example. Its current Sect Master couldn't awaken his Thunder Spiritual Root when he was little. When he was seven, he went to pee under a big tree during a thunderstorm, wearing nothing but red underpants. A bolt of lightning struck, and his Thunder Spiritual Root awakened. But ever since then, the Thunder God Hall Sect Master has been afraid of thunder on rainy days.]

Li Zi blinked. [No, I don't know the Thunder God Hall Sect Master, so I can't picture it at all. Gossip is only fun when you're looking right at the person.]

Everyone else turned their faces away, gritting their teeth to hold back their laughter.

They knew the Thunder God Hall Sect Master!

They could picture it perfectly!

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

In red underpants?

And the Thunder God Hall Sect Master had already become a Spirit Transformation powerhouse. 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 back when they were competing for his wife. This time, he would take Li Zi over and let everyone hear the man's embarrassing secrets.

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

[Host, there's an even more explosive piece of gossip about the Thunder God Hall Sect Master. He has an adopted daughter he brought home from outside. Never mind, 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 swarmed there. The Foundation Establishment Realm disciples coming to enter the Secret Realm could only go in under the protection of their sect's strongest cultivators.

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

They all knew each other and exchanged greetings with smiles and laughter.

But the Thunder God Hall Sect Master couldn't shake the feeling that the people from the 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 dark, rough face, with its heavy features, gradually merged with the image from the System's gossip.

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

Every Golden Core Stage powerhouse present heard her clearly.

The gathering fell silent for a moment.

Then their gazes turned toward the Thunder God Hall Sect Master, sliding downward without thinking.

Red underpants?

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

The people from the Spirit Sword Sect were the first to speak.

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

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

The people from the other sects exchanged puzzled glances.

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 across the Spirit Sword Sect's group, then lingered for another moment on Li Zi.

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