384: Chapter 384 Sect Leader Xiao, Let's Have a Chat

"What's there to pity? Senior Brother Zhou, you're just heartbroken that the beauty is suffering, right?"

"Senior Brother Zhou is the most tender-hearted to beauties. How about we invite the beauty back on his behalf and 'take good care' of her?"

"Right, right, right! Our Taihu Clan is the most hospitable; how could we let a guest suffer grievances?"

Xiao Nianyin's expression could no longer be described as merely ugly.

She bit her lip tightly, hands clenched so hard her nails almost dug into her flesh.

Those filthy words were like daggers, stabbing fiercely into her heart.

She felt as if she had been stripped of her clothes, standing naked before these people, letting them judge her and humiliate her at will.

In the past, she was high and mighty; who dared to say a single word of dissent before her?

In the past, her word was law; who dared to look at her with such eyes?

But now...

She kept her head down, saying nothing, just wanting to leave this place as quickly as possible.

But just as she took a step, Senior Brother Zhou blocked her path.

"Sect Leader Xiao, don't be in such a hurry to leave." He said with a grin, opening his folding fan again and waving it with affected elegance, "Let's have a chat. I have long admired your great name and have always wanted to meet this legendary, pure-as-ice-and-jade Ice Queen."

Xiao Nianyin said coldly, "Move."

Her voice was trembling, not from fear, but from a mixture of anger and humiliation that threatened to burst from her chest.

Senior Brother Zhou remained unmoved, instead leaning in closer.

The scent of incense on him rushed towards her, making Xiao Nianyin almost want to retch.

"Sect Leader Xiao, I heard that you and that disciple of yours... Xu Ruyu, have a bit of a story?"

He lowered his voice, his eyes filled with mischievous amusement.

Xiao Nianyin's face turned deathly pale instantly.

Mo Ran added sarcastically from the side, "More than just a bit of a story? I've heard quite a lot of inside information."

He paused deliberately, building up suspense before speaking slowly, "Back at the Hehuan Sect, Sect Leader Xiao treated Xu Ruyu as a Cauldron. She climbed into his bed every night to heal her injuries using Dual Cultivation. Tsk tsk, a dignified Sect Leader engaging in Dual Cultivation with her own disciple—if this got out, it would be truly explosive."

"What? Sleeping with her own disciple?" A lackey exclaimed, eyes wide.

"That's incest! Between master and disciple, that's a huge taboo!"

"Who would have thought, who would have thought—appearing pure and clean on the surface, but so... wanton in private."

"No wonder it's called the Hehuan Sect; so that's the 'Hehuan' way."

Senior Brother Zhou laughed even more wantonly, reaching out to touch Xiao Nianyin's face. After she dodged, he wasn't annoyed, but laughed instead, "Sect Leader Xiao, tell us, what does it feel like to Dual Cultivate with your own disciple? Is it particularly thrilling? I've heard the method of Dual Cultivation is indescribably wonderful, especially with one's own disciple. Is that feeling exceptionally soul-stirring?"

Xiao Nianyin's face turned so red it looked like it was about to bleed. It wasn't shyness, but shame, humiliation, and utter disgrace!

She wanted to refute, to lash out, to cut out the tongues of this scum!

But she opened her mouth and couldn't say a single word.

Because she could not refute it.

Because those... were all facts.

Her silence was taken by those people as an admission.

"Hahaha! She admitted it!"

"I told you, how could anyone coming out of the Hehuan Sect be clean?"

"What Ice Queen, she's just a slut! Playing with her own disciple, what else wouldn't she do?"

"Maybe that disciple of hers was Plucked and Supplemented by her, which is why he went from a Mortal to the Qi Refinement Stage. This is called karma!"

The laughter became even more grating, and the filthy words even more unbearable.

Xiao Nianyin trembled all over, her eyes reddening, but she held back with all her might, refusing to let tears fall.

She could not cry.

If she cried, she would lose.

"Move." She spoke again, her voice already trembling.

Senior Brother Zhou still blocked her path, his gaze scanning her body unscrupulously, the lewdness in his eyes growing stronger.

His gaze slid from her face to her neck, then to the slightly heaving curves of her chest, and finally landed on her slender waist, as if he wanted to strip her naked with his eyes.

"Sect Leader Xiao, why are you in such a rush to leave?" He said slowly, his folding fan tapping gently against his palm, "We haven't finished chatting yet. I heard that you've lost all your cultivation because you were Plucked and Supplemented by Xu Ruyu? He sucked all your cultivation dry and now uses you as a Bed-warming maid? Tsk tsk, this is truly... the Heavenly Dao has its Reincarnation."

"Right, right, right! It must be like that!" A lackey egged on, "For Xu Ruyu to go from a Mortal to the Qi Refinement Stage, and even beat a Nascent Soul, he must have sucked a lot of cultivation from her! Otherwise, how could it be possible?"

"Tsk tsk, what retribution! Sleeping with a disciple, only to be Plucked and Supplemented by him, going from a Sect Leader to a Bed-warming maid—just thinking about this contrast is thrilling."

"Sect Leader Xiao, how does it feel to be whipped by your own disciple? Is it particularly enjoyable?... Hehehe."

The filthy words surged in like a tide.

Xiao Nianyin felt the world spinning, her vision blacking out in waves.

She bit her lip so hard it bled, the crimson blood trickling down the corner of her mouth and dripping onto her moon-white dress, a shocking sight.

But she couldn't feel the pain.