After the main character who took the blame retired, the female lead quit.

Furthermore, the Yang Lei method emphasizes a mind free of distractions, a state of purity of the six senses, and the preservation of one's virginity. No one is perfect, and even a saint would not dare to claim to be free of distractions.

Your allure is so captivating, yet you fail to conceal it, causing my senior brother to be distracted during the battle, his spiritual energy to surge downwards, and he carelessly allowed you to seize the first victory.

After the war, his Dao heart was further damaged. My poor senior brother... He sits by the window all day in a daze, his thunder magic almost completely destroyed. Your Five Poisons Sect's use of such tactics truly reveals your wickedness and viciousness.

Lei Huang's words were full of emotion, and his long and well-reasoned accusation surprised not only Xiao Yu, an outsider, but also Zi Yun, who was in the room.

Well... how should I put it!

Xiao Yu remembered that Xuanlei Mountain was opposite the Hundred Flowers Sect, which only accepted female disciples. It was a sect of monks, not that Xuanlei Mountain did not accept female disciples.

However, Mount Xuanlei emphasizes using celestial thunder as a seed to cultivate and refine thunder, which is extremely yang and pure. Therefore, the requirement for cultivating this method is naturally that the person must be a man with abundant yang energy in his body, rather than a woman with yin meridians.

There are also female disciples in Xuanlei Mountain, but because they cultivate the Supreme Yang Thunder Technique, they are slightly more robust and lack the delicate femininity that is unique to women.

Growing up in such an environment, coupled with the fact that the senior brother cultivated the Yang Thunder Technique, which prevents the body from being broken, the upper echelons of the sect would not allow him to have any contact with men and women.

By sheer coincidence, he encountered Zi Yun, who had come to challenge him. As a saintess, her appearance was naturally quite striking. He thought about how she had developed a unique method of fighting by stripping off her clothes due to the drawbacks of her Five Elements Poison Body.

For the senior disciple of Xuanlei Mountain, this was like a mouse encountering a cat—a natural nemesis. In his anger and frustration, he suffered a crushing defeat, which is not hard to understand.

Thunder magic is of the highest yang nature, and it naturally has some restraint over insidious methods like poisonous fog.

It seems that Zi Yun's victory back then was somewhat exaggerated. After defeating Xuanlei Mountain, she became arrogant and complacent, and did not pay much attention to Lei Huang, who was also a thunder cultivator. Under such carelessness, it is no wonder that she was injured by this young punk.

From their conversation, Xiao Yu, an observer, understood the general situation and the current circumstances. Judging from the injuries Zi Yun had sustained, if the two were to fight Lei Huang, Zi Yun would surely lose.

The two battles with drastically different results have, to some extent, demonstrated that Zi Yun was not skilled enough and was eager to make a name for herself.

Presumably, the higher-ups of the Five Poisons Sect realized that Zi Yun's victory over the senior disciple of Xuanlei Mountain was due to clever tactics, taking advantage of favorable timing, location, and popular support.

That's why she went to the back mountain for seclusion and further study; her strength is still insufficient when she comes out of the mountain now.

Unfortunately, Zi Yun seemed unaware of this fact. Facing Lei Huang, who could suppress her with his poisonous mist technique, she continued to speak:

"In the end, it's all because your senior brother isn't skilled enough and can't unleash his full potential. I've finally found his weaknesses and filled in the gaps for him. He can't even handle my flat figure. He should never go out and see any girls again. He should just stay in your Xuanlei Mountain for the rest of his life and be a guard dog. That wouldn't be bad."

Your Xuanlei Mountain sect is truly something else, insisting on teaching its disciples such flawed and troublesome methods, misleading and corrupting them. You should close down as soon as possible; it would be better for everyone involved.

Lei Huang laughed, but he was laughing out of anger. No wonder it was said that the demonic path and the righteous path were irreconcilable enemies, with a natural hostility between the two sides, and that they could not reach an agreement by simply talking.

"I'm too lazy to talk to a defeated opponent like you. Hand over the land deed of Xuanlei Mountain, and I'll let bygones be bygones."

Zi Yun's eyebrows twitched at the mention of "defeated opponent," and she immediately retorted, her mouth opening and closing.

Judging from the shape of his mouth, he probably meant, "You're dreaming..."

The land deed cannot be handed over, as it is fundamental to the establishment of the Moon Shadow Sect. Without land, the sect would quickly disintegrate and fall apart.

Since she had already made a promise to Xiao Yu that she wouldn't treat opening a sect like a game and then abandon it in the blink of an eye, Zi Yun naturally wouldn't easily hand over the Suspended Thunder Mountain land deed, especially since... it was her spoils of war.

"Hmph! A bet's a bet, but the Five Poisons Sect has no regard for honor?!"

Lei Huang snorted coldly, the sound forced out of his throat, clearly indicating that they had made an agreement regarding the land deed long ago.

Upon hearing this, Zi Yun grabbed the clothes Xiao Yu was wearing and threw them hard on the ground: "It's just a halftime break. I haven't lost yet. If you're so tough, come up here and fight me in another place. This time, we'll settle the score."

After saying this, her body soared into the air, transforming into a plume of poisonous smoke. Lightning struck down, and Lei Huang transformed into lightning bolts that followed closely behind.

"How dare you speak so arrogantly! Watch me chop your entire body into charcoal this time, so you'll never use this method to harm or bewitch people again."

In an instant, poisonous fog blotted out the sky, and lightning flashed.

Amidst the rumbling and clamor.

Xiao Yu looked down at the clothes that had been thrown on the ground.

Chapter Twenty-Five, Something Was Hidden

Meow!

A soft meow came from inside the cave, and a pair of eerie green lights floated around. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the Three-Flower Goddess who had returned to normal.

When did she wake up?

Turning his gaze away from his discarded clothes, Xiao Yu asked the Three Flower Goddess, who had been specifically instructed to keep a close watch on Zi Yun inside the cave.

Meow!

"I barely stepped into the cave and she woke up right after? Ugh... What terrible luck! Why did I have to fight? I wasn't fully recovered yet!"

Why did he have to wake up at this particular time? Xiao Yu felt a sense of malice directed at him.

As Xiao Yu's slightly annoyed voice fell, the next second...

Peng!

A pale purple figure fell straight down from the sky. The girl in black robes crashed to the ground, and the huge drop caused a large crater to form in the scorched, soft soil.

Zi Yun, the Holy Maiden of the Five Poisons Sect, lay motionless in the pit, her body crackling with tiny bolts of lightning.

He collapsed from exhaustion.

Although I had expected Zi Yun to lose, since she was still injured and I had only used poison to wake her up, her injuries were not fully healed, but it was still unexpected that she would fall down so quickly.

Was it five seconds?

Looking at the way the girl in black robes fell in the pit, Xiao Yu couldn't help but think to himself, "What do you mean?"

"Ugh... my body... my body is numb."

goo~

A muffled thud came from beneath her, and the purple-haired girl's fair face flushed red.

"I'm hungry..."

On an empty stomach, and with injuries all over my body... what's the point of fighting?

Xiao Yu remained silent, but he had roughly guessed what Zi Yun was thinking. She wanted to handle her own affairs and didn't want to cause herself any trouble.

After all, in Zi Yun's view, the whole incident originated from her.

First, she lost the cat that Bu Suantian had entrusted to her. To make amends, she decided to go find it. However, on the way, she ran into the group from Xuanlei Mountain, with whom she had a grudge. Due to her own actions, the two sides got into a fight, and she almost lost her life there.

Fortunately, the Three-Flower Goddess, who revealed her true form, carried the cat back to a cave to recuperate. The cat was found, but it brought a huge trouble to Xuanlei Mountain.

Once inside the secret realm, each person does their own thing and leaves the other alone.

This was something Feng Ling mentioned when they gathered in the divination room when they first founded the sect, and Zi Yun has always kept it in mind.

Therefore, the moment she woke up in the cramped cave, she realized that she had once again incurred the favors of Bu Suantian and Ye Ba.

Just then, Lei Huang outside the cave inquired about her whereabouts, repeatedly calling her a witch and accusing her of being cunning and unethical. Enraged, she disregarded her injuries and rushed out.

They then suggested going up to a different location to fight, in order to avoid affecting Xiao Yu and to lure Lei Huang away so as not to cause them any more trouble.

But right now... hasn't she caused enough trouble already?

Having discerned Zi Yun's general thoughts, Xiao Yu sighed and took a few steps forward.

In the sky, Lei Huang's green eyes shone brightly, as if lightning was brewing within them. He slowly descended from the sky, looking down at Zi Yun, who was lying in the pit in a Yamcha pose. A curved, S-shaped yellow flying sword floated beside her.

"Witch, is this... admitting defeat? Realizing the sinfulness of your actions, you've fallen from the sky?"

He looked at me like, "I haven't even used any force yet, how come you've already collapsed?"

However, it seems that the injury from the previous fight caused him to relapse and lose his balance. In addition, he was struck by the lightning he was hit by, which made him unsteady and caused him to fall.

That's alright, Zi Yun's injuries were all thanks to him, so Lei Huang had a smug look on his face, as if he had won without a fight.

"As agreed, the land deed for Xuanlei Mountain is mine. You're a man of your word. Hand it over. Give me the land deed, and I'll spare your life and forgive everything that happened before."

"I...can still..."

Zi Yun struggled to lift her head, her pink eyes showing remarkable determination beneath her disheveled purple hair.

"Still want to fight? Sigh! Grandma, you should just lie down."

Xiao Yu approached and stood directly in front of her, his gentle brown eyes staring directly into Lei Huang's thunderous eyes in the sky.

"No...ok, no..."

Zi Yun struggled and tried to say something, but the Three Flower Goddess leaped over and stepped on her, pressing down her head, which she had managed to lift slightly.

Meow!

"Big Flower..."

Amidst the meowing, Zi Yun's expression was complex, her pink and white eyes flashing between gray and bright, before she finally lowered her head in a gesture of resignation.

"understood……"

Xiao Yu: "..."

Unexpectedly, his words were less effective than those of a cat.

"That's a spirited wildcat?"

Lei Huang's eyes lit up when he saw the Three Flower Goddess appear. "Good, good, so you're here. You've teamed up with this demoness."

"It's perfect timing to capture you and hand you over to the sect to be trained as a guardian spirit beast. Combined with the merit of reclaiming the land deed, the two together will be enough to wash away my senior brother's bad reputation within the sect."

Having said that, he stepped forward. His bright green eyes and light yellow hair made him look like a weasel eyeing the fat chickens raised in the enclosure, even though he was a young man.

Feeling that gaze sweep over her, the Three-Flower Goddess immediately bristled, her beautiful fur standing on end. However, her previously injured left leg trembled involuntarily.

Lei Huang's thunder magic contains a trace of heavenly thunder unique to the heavens. It cannot be said to restrain a pure-blooded demon like the Three Flower Goddess, but rather that being tainted by such thunder energy would greatly diminish the cultivation that the Three Flower Goddess has accumulated over the years.

Xiao Yu remained silent, but silently shifted his body again, his eyes meeting those bright green eyes.

Under his brown gaze, Lei Huang's eyebrows furrowed tightly.

"Here we go again? Fellow Daoist, I think I have made the stakes between us clear, haven't I?"

"Don't be so stubborn. This is a matter between Xuanlei Mountain and this demoness. If you rashly interfere, this demoness, who's currently sprawled on the ground and can't even protect herself in this secret realm, can't protect you."