The Perfect Snack 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 is so rough my blood pressure's going through the roof.

The Sect Master's eyes widened, and he was about to interrupt her thoughts.

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

As long as only the few of them from the Sect heard it, there should be no problem.

The other Sect experts had already pricked up their ears, waiting for the gossip.

When Huo Fei made her name, they had only just joined their sects, green as could be. They weren't of the same generation, so they truly had no idea what terrible things Huo Fei had done.

Huo Fei came from Golden Radiance Village and carried 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 when she entered the world. She was Heaven's Chosen through and through. After joining Flame Hall, she became the former Sect Master's only Direct Disciple. She grew up pampered, showered with everyone's love.

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

The system sighed. It was. Too bad she played a winning hand into the ground.

Everyone was so absorbed in the gossip that they failed to notice a beggar in tattered clothes, curled up in a corner outside, opening his bleary eyes.

One day, a male disciple joined the Inner Sect. His talent was ordinary, and all he cared about was practicing the sword. Huo Fei found him different. Unlike everyone else, he never tried to flatter her or curry her favor, so she paid him special attention. As time went on, affection took root.

Everyone was spellbound.

Li Zi guessed what came next. Did this man fall in love with another woman, leaving Senior Huo Fei to fight for his attention?

A slight fluctuation entered the system's electronic voice. If only it were that simple. The man cared only about cultivating. Huo Fei could sense he had feelings for her, but he had reservations and never dared show them. One day, Huo Fei drugged both him and herself, intending to turn their relationship into a done deal. The man panicked and fled. He spent the night letting spring water wash over him, and by the time he returned to the Sect the next day, the drug had worn off. News had spread that Huo Fei was to marry another man. In a fit of anger, she had kissed that man in public.

What a story. It left them all sighing.

Li Zi grew wary. Was that man no good?

The experts present all shook their heads.

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

The man Huo Fei later married was none other than Wen Yun, the current First Painting Immortal.

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

That day, Wen Yun had happened to visit Flame Hall to meet his friend. That was how Huo Fei had become entangled with him.

Immortal Wen Yun was a rare good man.

According to the stories, the two had been inseparable after marrying. Immortal Wen Yun loved Huo Fei deeply, and together they lived a life that made others envy neither mandarin ducks nor immortals.

But Huo Fei didn't know how to cherish him. She often turned their home upside down.

Later, in a fit of anger, she even injured Immortal Wen Yun and hid in Flame Hall.

The husband and wife spent many more years tangled up with each other.

They often fought, sometimes dragging the Mortal World into it.

Those were, after all, just squabbles between husband and wife.

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.

The Perfect Snack for Gossip: Redeeming the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart

In the final battle between the Immortal Realm and the Demon Realm, Flame Hall served as a support force. It was supposed to take position in the southwest and use the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation to seal off the Demon Realm Army's retreat.

A sea of fire would rage for ten thousand miles, trapping the Devil Race army in the flames until it burned to ash.

But when the Demon Realm Army began its retreat, 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 the Saint Son, elders from the major sects sacrificed every last bit of their Cultivation. They died, and their paths ended with them.

The Cultivation World's strongest had fallen in that battle.

Fortunately, the sealing of the Demon Realm Saint Son had dealt the Demon Realm a devastating blow as well. Only then had the Three Realms remained at peace until now.

Huo Fei might have been misunderstood in other matters, but what she had done during the Immortal-Demon War still weighed on everyone's minds.

The system said, Let's just say this man loves widely. In ordinary terms, he's a scumbag. Wen Yun, the First Painting Immortal, uses flowers as his brush and all things as his blades. What he actually cultivates is the Amorous Dao. He has affection for all living beings across the three paths. He'd even praise a dog passing by the roadside. Women often throw themselves at him, and Wen Yun never refuses them. His public reputation is good, but as a Dao Companion, he really isn't suitable.

Although she hadn't married the person 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 sipped.

She scrambled to wipe up the spill. "Hot! It's hot."

Two of the Sect experts beside her spat out their tea as well.

They wiped at the spills in a fluster. "What's going on, shopkeeper? Why is this tea so hot?"

A harem?

More than a hundred people?

They were talking about Wen Yun?

The First Painting Immortal Wen Yun they knew?

Wasn't he said to be chaste, with no interest in women?

Wasn't he said to have spent every day at Huo Fei's side since they married?

Then 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: "!!"

Men and women alike!

Wen Yun was supposed to be an aloof immortal lord!

The Sect Master seemed to recall something. His eyes flickered, and he asked the waiter for three more pots of tea to steady their nerves.

Suddenly, it all seemed to make sense.

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

Could a woman as proud as Huo Fei have swallowed it if she discovered her husband had a harem of over a hundred men and women?

Li Zi marveled. But didn't Senior Huo Fei marry Wen Yun out of spite? If you don't love someone, you probably wouldn't mind them having a harem, right? Did she fall in love with her husband later?