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As the voice faded, the beggar outside swayed and looked up at Li Zi.

Beneath the grime on his face, the sharp contours of his handsome features were still faintly visible.

Straggling long hair hid most of his face, but his dark, cold eyes stood out.

The system said, [Yes, Huo Fei really had no feelings for Wen Yun. But Wen Yun's men and women caused her plenty of trouble. Huo Fei was a little princess pampered since childhood. She had no head for schemes and was always being set up. Over time, those schemes ruined her reputation. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, she returned to Flame Hall in a fit of anger.]

Li Zi pressed her lips together and muttered inwardly, [From what I've heard so far, I still don't think Senior Huo Fei did anything wrong. Even if she married the wrong man, she was a formidable cultivator in her own right and the master of a sect.]

[Host, let me finish. After Huo Fei returned to the Sect and began Secluded Cultivation, Wen Yun often came calling. Before long, rumors spread that Immortal Lord Wen Yun was deeply devoted to Fairy Huo Fei. Later, when he couldn't win her back, he had that Sword Cultivator disciple captured and used him to threaten her.]

[That time, Huo Fei forced her way out of seclusion and nearly suffered a Qi Deviation. But the incident made Wen Yun think he had found her weak spot. Afterward, he often threatened her into doing things, and she obeyed every time. Many of the deeds attributed to her now were actually done under duress. She is paying for those sins, suffering the pain of ten thousand insects gnawing at her bones each day as her Karmic Obstruction slowly wears away.]

Li Zi fell silent for a long while before letting out a deep inward sigh.

[Never lose your head over love.]

Huo Fei had reached the Body Integration Realm.

Yet for the man she loved, she had committed one unconscionable act after another.

Now she had to endure the pain of ten thousand insects gnawing at her bones every day.

How much agony was she in?

The system couldn't have agreed more. [Exactly. In fact, Huo Fei had a chance to undergo Tribulation Transcendence to Immortality and ascend to the Immortal Realm centuries ago. Sadly, she let it slip through her fingers. From beginning to end, she loved that man. What a shame.]

Li Zi asked, [Where is that man now? Does he know how much Senior Huo Fei did for him?]

The system flipped through its book. [Oh, him? He vanished without a trace. The book doesn't say where he went. Maybe he found somewhere quiet to cultivate. He found a chance to escape from Wen Yun on his own.]

Li Zi ground her teeth in frustration.

[What about Wen Yun?]

[Fairy Wen Yun was badly wounded in the Immortal-Demon War and still hasn't recovered. But he's cultivating at Painted Abode, with a beauty by his side. Life's treating him wonderfully.]

Li Zi gritted her teeth.

[So, never lose your head over love.]

In the end, only Huo Fei suffered.

Huo Fei had given so much for that man, yet he had gone off to find a quiet place to cultivate.

And Wen Yun, the one who started it all, was living well too.

It was so unfair!

The Sect Master glanced at Li Zi again and again, looking as though he wanted to speak but held back.

There were details about Huo Fei he wanted to clarify.

If Huo Fei had another reason for not intervening back then, the implications would be enormous.

He had been fortunate enough to survive that battlefield.

The situation had been dire. The armies of the Immortal Realm and Demon Realm had clashed at the foot of the mountain. The fighting was fierce, and in the end, no one saw where the Demon Prince had come from.

But he had caught a vague glimpse of something.

The Demon Prince had emerged from the center of the battlefield.

In other words, even if Huo Fei had not led Flame Hall to set the fires, the Demon Prince would still have appeared.

Had the Demon Prince been hiding on the battlefield all along?

He had kept that suspicion buried deep in his heart, never daring to discuss it with anyone. Now it surged up again.

[Host, is your martial uncle constipated? Why does he look so awful? Some Dragon Dew of the Pill Cauldron would help get his bowels moving.]

Li Zi turned to look at the Sect Master.

He did look unwell, his face dark and grim.

[Constipated? Can people in the Cultivation World get constipated? Didn't you say cultivators practicing Immortal Cultivation don't eat or drink?]

Just like that, Li Zi forgot all about Huo Fei's gossip and began debating with the system whether people practicing Immortal Cultivation could get constipated.

The other powerful cultivators nearby covered their faces and chuckled.

After hearing Li Zi's ridiculous remark, the Sect Master decided not to question her for now.

He set down his teacup. "Have you rested enough? We're leaving for home at once."

As they left the teahouse, the Sect Master paused and glanced at the spot where the beggar had been sitting.

It was empty now.

He frowned. Perhaps he was overthinking it.

Once Li Zi returned to the Sect, Fu Chaoqing made her take a Marrow-Washing Pill and sent her into Secluded Cultivation.

He hoped she could awaken her Myriad Flower Divine Bone during the month she spent in seclusion.

Li Zi obediently went off for Secluded Cultivation.

During that month,

two major events shook the Cultivation World.

The Hall of Samsara's sect master hung the corpse of Black Crane Kingdom's ruler on the city wall for three days and three nights.

The other was the sudden emergence of a young sword cultivator in the Cultivation World.

His sword split the heavens.

One stroke cut through the mortal world.

Armed with a single sword, he traveled alone from sect to sect, challenging their strongest cultivators.

Every great cultivator he faced fell before that sword.

He cultivated neither spiritual energy nor his body, only the purest sword intent in the world.

One sword could hold back an army of a million.

Even a Mahayana Realm cultivator fell to that sword.

Yet although this formidable Sword Cultivator challenged every major sect, he alone never came to the Spirit Sword Sect.

Some guessed he was the Spirit Sword Sect Master's illegitimate son, trained specifically to humiliate the Cultivation World's greatest cultivators.

The Spirit Sword Sect Master did not respond to the rumor.

He said that if he really had a son that powerful, he would have told the whole world long ago. Why would he keep it a secret?

On the day Li Zi emerged from seclusion, the Spirit Sword Sect Master and the Hehuan Sect Master were still drinking together in the Small Courtyard.

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