A Must-Have for Gossip: Redeeming the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart

"Ah, Martial Uncle, I was just thinking how good this tea tastes."

[This gossip is delicious.]

[Host, Huo Fei's fate has been so rough it's making my blood pressure rise.]

The Sect Master's eyes widened. He was about to interrupt her thoughts.

But then he reconsidered. The little teahouse was full of mortals. There probably wasn't anyone here above the Golden Core Stage.

Only the few of them from the Sect needed to hear this.

The Sect's other powerful cultivators had already pricked up their ears, waiting for the gossip.

When Huo Fei had made a name for herself, they had been green newcomers to the Sect. They were from different generations and genuinely had no idea what terrible things she had done.

[Huo Fei came from Golden Radiance Village and had a thin trace of True Dragon Bloodline. Born with a Supreme Pure Fire Spiritual Root, she was already at the fifth level of the Qi Refining Stage at birth. She was Heaven's Chosen in every sense. After entering Flame Hall, she became the former Sect Master's sole Direct Disciple. She grew up pampered, showered with everyone's affection.]

Li Zi marveled. [That's the perfect start to a life!]

The system sighed. [It was. Too bad she played a winning hand so badly.]

Everyone was absorbed in the gossip. None of them noticed the ragged beggar in the corner outside opening his bleary eyes.

[One day, a male disciple joined the Inner Sect. His talent was unremarkable, and all he wanted was to practice the sword. Huo Fei thought he was different. Unlike everyone else, he didn't fawn over her or flatter her, so she paid him special attention. As time passed, she fell for him.]

Everyone was spellbound.

Li Zi guessed what came next. [Did he fall in love with another woman, and Senior Huo Fei got jealous?]

The system's electronic voice wavered. [If only it were that simple. The man was devoted to cultivation. Huo Fei could sense he had feelings for her, but something held him back, and he never dared show them. One day, Huo Fei drugged both of them, intending to make their relationship a done deal. The man panicked and fled. He spent the night under the rushing water of a spring, then returned to the Sect the next day after the drug wore off. By then, word had spread that Huo Fei was going to marry another man. In a fit of anger, she had kissed that man in front of everyone.]

What a story. It left them sighing.

Li Zi grew wary. [The man she married is no good?]

The powerful cultivators present all shook their heads.

What happened afterward had long been the talk of the world.

The man Huo Fei married was Wen Yun, the First Painting Immortal of the present day.

Painting Immortal Wen Yun was a close friend of Flame Hall's Sect Master.

That day, Wen Yun had happened to visit Flame Hall to see his friend, and Huo Fei had set her sights on him.

Immortal Wen Yun was said to be a good man, one of the few in the world.

Word was that after their wedding, the two had been inseparable. Immortal Wen Yun had fallen deeply in love with Huo Fei, and together they envied neither mandarin ducks nor Immortals.

But Huo Fei hadn't known how to treasure what she had. She was always turning their home upside down.

Later, in a fit of anger, she had even injured Immortal Wen Yun and hidden herself away in Flame Hall.

The couple had spent many more years entangled with each other.

They often fought, sometimes even dragging the mortal realm into it.

That was all just a married couple's squabbling.

But of all the times Huo Fei could have thrown a tantrum, she should never have done it during that all-important Immortal-Demon War.

A Must-Have for Gossip: Redeeming the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart

In the final battle between the Immortal Realm and the Demon Realm, Flame Hall was part of the rear guard. It needed to use the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation in the southwest to seal off the Demon Realm army's retreat.

A sea of fire would rage for ten thousand li, trapping the Devil Race army in the flames and burning it to ash.

But when the Demon Realm army retreated, Huo Fei delayed giving the order.

Because Flame Hall had stalled, the Devil Race army activated a formation and summoned back the Demon Realm Saint Son.

To seal him away, the elders of the great sects sacrificed every scrap of their cultivation. They died, their paths to immortality extinguished.

The Cultivation World lost countless powerful cultivators in that battle.

Fortunately, the Demon Realm Saint Son was sealed, and the Demon Realm suffered grievous losses too. Only then could the Three Realms remain at peace until now.

Huo Fei might have been misunderstood in other matters, but no one could let go of what she had done in the Immortal-Demon War.

The system said, [Let's just say this man has a lot of love to give—or, as you'd put it, he's a scumbag. Wen Yun, the First Painting Immortal, uses flowers as his brush and all things as his blade. What he actually cultivates is the Amorous Dao. He has affection for all living things across the three paths. Even a dog passing by on the street gets a couple of compliments. Women often throw themselves at him, and Wen Yun never turns them away. He has a fine public reputation, but as a Dao Companion, he's truly unsuitable.]

[Though she hadn't married the man she loved, Huo Fei still wanted to make the marriage work. But she soon discovered that Wen Yun had a harem of more than a hundred people.]

Li Zi sprayed out the water she had just drunk.

She fumbled to wipe up the water. "Hot! It's hot."

Two of the Sect's powerful cultivators nearby had sprayed out their water too.

They hurriedly wiped themselves down. "What's going on? Shopkeeper, why is this water so hot?"

A harem?

More than a hundred people?

Wen Yun?

The Wen Yun they knew, the First Painting Immortal?

Wasn't he supposed to be a man of spotless virtue who kept his distance from women?

Wasn't it said that since getting married, he spent every day at Huo Fei's side?

So where had this harem come from?

Li Zi was stunned. [Wait, system. Wen Yun gets around that much?]

The system added, [Men and women both.]

Everyone from the Sect: "!!"

He went for men and women alike!

Wen Yun was supposed to be a cool, aloof immortal lord!

The Sect Master seemed to have thought of something. His eyes flickered, and he had the waiter bring three more pots of tea to steady their nerves.

Suddenly, it all seemed to make sense.

No wonder, after the two had married, everyone said Wen Yun was patient and tender toward his wife while Huo Fei did nothing but stir up trouble.

Could a woman as proud as Huo Fei accept discovering that her husband had a harem of over a hundred men and women?

Li Zi marveled. [But didn't Senior Huo Fei marry Wen Yun just to spite someone? If she didn't love him, she shouldn't have minded his harem, right? Did she fall in love with her husband later?]

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