Mu Bai ignored the disciples whispering among themselves. After leaving the pavilion, he walked on with his head lowered in gloomy silence, but happened to hear them discussing the Thirteenth Sect Heir, Zhou Dekai. He immediately spread his divine sense to listen.
"The Thirteenth Sect Heir is in serious trouble this time. Who would have thought he was that sort of person? You really couldn't tell!"
"Yes, they've come all the way to the sect. Tell me, how could someone as dashing as the Thirteenth Sect Heir force himself on a woman?"
"You don't understand! When women are always obedient, it takes some of the fun out of it. Some men just like using force. Mm, so manly..."
"You wretched Xiaodie! Aren't you ashamed to say such things?"
The girl called Xiaodie widened her round eyes, planted her hands on her hips, and began shouting.
"What else could it be? With the Thirteenth Sect Heir's talent, looks, and status, which of the sect's hundred-odd thousand female disciples couldn't he have? Yet he insisted on forcing himself on some woman out in the countryside!"
As Xiaodie spoke, she gestured at the senior and junior sisters before her one by one, her voice rising higher.
"You're just jealous because the Thirteenth Sect Heir didn't take a fancy to you..."
"Exactly!"
"Hurry up and offer yourself to him, then! The Thirteenth Sect Heir isn't a gentleman anyway. You'd make a perfect match..."
As he listened to these disciples discussing Zhou Dekai so freely, Mu Bai's expression gradually darkened. Sure enough, the father and daughter surnamed Su had harbored ill intentions and laid a trap for Zhou Dekai, with someone else directing and arranging everything behind them.
Back at Hundred Flowers Peak, Mu Bai hurried to Zhou Dekai's cave abode. Zhou Dekai was inside,