Everyone was dumbstruck: so unhinged, so shocking

Everyone went pale at what they heard. A few cautiously glanced up at their refined, scholarly-looking Martial Uncle Han Zhongjin.

The next instant, as though terrified of attracting that depraved monster's attention, they whipped their gazes away at lightning speed.

Holy mother!

They never could have imagined it, not in a million years!

Such a cultured martial uncle was secretly doing the most uncultured, perverted things imaginable!

Fuck, he hid it way too well!

Since the disciples could not make any indecent gestures, the male cultivators all formed spiritual energy barriers in front of their crotches.

They made sure they were protected.

Those who were especially terrified did not feel safe with just one barrier. They stacked on several more before they felt a little more at ease.

They were afraid Tang Yan would notice their strange behavior and figure something out.

Everyone promptly stuck on a Qi-Concealing Talisman.

Then countless disciples found themselves wondering something else.

If that pervert Han liked castrating male cultivators, where did he find so many of them?

Quite a few disciples thought of an exceptionally gifted artifact-refining disciple from Artifact Peak who had mysteriously disappeared not long ago,

and of how one or two disciples had gone missing from the Ten Thousand Swords Sect every so often over the past two years. By now, nearly ten disciples had disappeared.

Ever since the first disappearance, Sect Leader Fu Shouci had ordered the Law Enforcement Hall to investigate, but they had found nothing.

Most importantly! Everyone silently reached the same conclusion.

Those missing people were all male cultivators! Not a single woman!

Fu Shouci's expression was extremely grave. He had arrived at the same conclusion as those disciples.

He now strongly suspected that Han Zhongjin was most likely connected to the missing male disciples.

Jiang Mei said, "Senior Brother Sect Leader, Han Zhongjin never went over to the sect tournament earlier, and now he's showing no reaction whatsoever to little Tang Yan's thoughts. It must be him."

Xu You and the others nodded in agreement.

Fu Shouci said, "Keep listening. I want to see what other outrageously inhuman atrocities he's committed."

Below, Han Zhongjin's gaze rested on the disciples in the competition arena.

He had no idea what had happened, so even though he sensed a few disciples stealing glances at him, he thought nothing of it.

Meanwhile, Tang Yan took a moment to collect himself. He even stopped drinking, afraid that whatever he heard next would be so shocking he would choke.

He asked the system in his mind.

[Go on. Let me hear what other shocking, diabolical things Han Zhongjin has done.]

At those words, the panicking gossip-hungry crowd pricked up their ears too.

They were scared to death, but they were just far, far too curious!

The system brought up a crystal-blue screen filled with gossip about Han Zhongjin for Tang Yan to read himself.

Tang Yan jolted in shock and instinctively read it out in his mind.

Only this time, his voice was even more astonished and disbelieving than before.

[Huh?? Han Zhongjin doesn't just castrate male cultivators. He... he also likes to pickle, air-dry, and preserve their parts????]

[Then he holds them in his hands and plays with them, like prayer beads or collectible walnuts??!]

[His favorite place in the world is his own Secret-Realm Base outside the sect? He keeps loads of air-dried things there, and whenever he has time, Han Zhongjin runs off to his secret base?]

(Based on a real case!! Just treat this as ordinary gossip. This isn't aimed at anyone, so please don't take it personally! Warning: do not, under any circumstances, imitate this!!!)

"??????"

Everyone, including Xiao Jixue and the female cultivators, looked as though they had been struck by tribulation lightning. They were utterly dumbfounded.

Their heads were buzzing.

What the hell?

AAAAAAH!

What the actual fuck!!

That's horrifying!

Countless people let out piercing screams inside their heads.

The disciples in the arena were already preparing to refine the magical treasures and Spirit Artifacts they would enter in the competition.

Those who had sealed off their five senses were completely unaffected.

Those who had not felt as though they had taken billions upon billions of critical hits.

Their minds were filled with those colossal, utterly shocking revelations.

Li Jiang, Liu Yunsheng, and Jiang Xiao, the three people Han Zhongjin had called out before the competition, were all his disciples.

The first could not hear Tang Yan's thoughts, but the other two could. Both were among the small handful who had not sealed off their five senses.

At that moment, Liu Yunsheng and Jiang Xiao still had not recovered from the shock. Their expressions looked awful, and a hint of pallor had crept into their normally rosy faces.

They never could have imagined it, no matter how hard they tried.

Their usually gentle, kindly master was secretly a monster like that!

Such behavior was nothing like that of someone on the righteous path.

In fact, even demons were not this... this perverted.

As though remembering something, Liu Yunsheng's expression suddenly changed, and he glanced sideways at Li Jiang a short distance away.

Then he withdrew his gaze without even realizing it.

Tang Yan sat frozen in his seat, his head buzzing too, still utterly unable to believe it.

After a long while, [What the actual fuck!! My CPU is smoking! What kind of deranged fetish is this?! Is Han Zhongjin out of his mind?]

[That's Daddy Pervert opening the door for Little Pervert—perversion has come home.]

The system drawled, [When I detected this juicy scandal, my backend nearly started smoking too.]

[Host, I may only be a system, but I have to say this: you humans are fucking twisted.]

Tang Yan replied, [Bullshit. Han Zhongjin isn't one of us humans. He's just a depraved monster wearing human skin.]

Everyone silently nodded in heartfelt agreement.

Meanwhile, the system spoke to Tang Yan again, sounding utterly casual.

[Host, Han Zhongjin has a few other perverted habits too. Want to hear them?]

Tang Yan: *[...]*

His eyes suddenly widened, and his heart lurched wildly in shock once more.

[What?! Han Zhongjin has other perverted habits?]

Everyone: ????

Those all-too-familiar words left everyone even more horrified.

Huh? There was more?!

Liu Yunsheng's and Jiang Xiao's pupils abruptly constricted. Their hearts, once filled with reverence for Han Zhongjin, had already shattered into pieces.

Now those pieces were ground into powder.

Meanwhile, Han Zhongjin noticed more and more covert glances directed his way.

Thinking he had maintained a particularly impressive air today and that the disciples all admired him, he unconsciously puffed out his chest.

His sharp eyes silently began inspecting the disciples in the spectator stands one by one.

His gaze was full of appraisal, as though he were selecting merchandise.

The male disciples his gaze swept over nearly went pale with terror. Every one of them lowered his eyes, afraid that even the slightest movement would attract that monster's attention.