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Xu Cai was her master’s youngest disciple—the sixth—and also the least talented. Among the original host’s disciples, she was the one who had received the most bullying.

The only thing that she would be stubborn over was the spiritual herbs. She would always refuse to let Chu Xiaoyue take away her carefully nurtured spiritual herbs, even if that meant she would get beaten for it.

Most spiritual herbs had a one-month growth cycle, so Xu Cai practically got beaten every month.

Xu Cai was fifteen now. She had lived on the peak for eight years and had been diligently tending to the spiritual herbs for just as long. In other words, she had been enduring beatings for the last eight years. Usually, if her fellow core disciples were with her, they could get beaten together, and she could suffer less.

However, when Chu Xiaoyue couldn’t win, she would call Chu Pingyu, the original host’s brother. Chu Pingyu was a late-stage Foundation Building cultivator and the master of Dengyun Peak. Her fellow disciples also didn’t stand a chance against him, and they all would always end up getting beaten together.

The original host was a cultivator, but within her body, there remained boundless anger and despair.

Unlike the original host would have, Qian Yan didn’t suppress her emotions and let herself vent.

“Ah! Sister, I was wrong! Please, Sister, stop…! Ah!”

Chu Xiaoyue begged for mercy, but did she understand what she had done wrong?

No. She just wanted to escape this beating and return later with reinforcements.

“Sister, if you keep hitting me, how will you justify it to our parents and younger brother!?” Chu Xiaoyue realised that her older sister wasn’t stopping and resorted to threats.

She seemed to be in a foul mood today. She hit her the moment she saw her! If Chu Xiaoyue didn’t get back to her for this, then she wouldn’t be Chu Xiaoyue.

The response Qian Yan gave to Chu Xiaoyue was a lash in her mouth. Chu Xiaoyue’s mouth instantly swelled up and several of her teeth fell out.

She screamed in agony. She was then occupied with trying to avoid the lashes and couldn’t threaten Qian Yan anymore.

Chu Xiaoyue lay on the ground. She had no strength left to fight.

This was when Qian Yan finally stopped. She channelled her spiritual energy and shattered the whip in her hand. At the same time, Chu Xiaoyue spat out a mouthful of blood. That whip was her treasured artefact!

Qian Yan glanced at Chu Xiaoyue. Chu Xiaoyue’s eyes were filled with resentment, but Qian Yan couldn’t care less about that.

“You have been continuously stealing things from Baoyue Peak. The only reason why I haven’t had you expelled and stripped of your cultivation is because you are a fellow disciple of mine. Someone, throw this little thief out.”

Chu Xiaoyue’s eyes widened. That, coupled with her swollen mouth, made her look especially ugly.

No one moved. Qian Yan glanced at the dumbfounded service disciples around her.

They looked at each other and quickly knelt. Qian Yan could see the frightened expressions on their faces.

She didn’t blame them for their reactions. Because of the original host’s inaction, the Chu family, who lived in Dengyun Peak, had freely bullied the disciples of Baoyue Peak for a long time.

These service disciples were probably worried that Qian Yan only wanted to throw Chu Xiaoyue out today out of fleeting anger. When Chu Xiaoyue inevitably came to take her revenge, they were worried that Qian Yan wouldn’t help them.

“Enough.”

Qian Yan didn’t bother with the service disciples, who were still kneeling on the ground and trembling. The original host had left a very bad impression on them.

Baoyue Peak had once been considered one of Xuanyue Sect’s better peaks. However, because the original host kept tolerating the Chu family’s mistreatment towards her disciples, nearly every disciple who had a chance to do so joined other peaks.

Baoyue Peak ended up consisting only of the original host, her six direct disciples, and these service disciples. Newcomers to the sect, regardless of their talent, no longer would consider joining the original host’s peak.

Only a fool would knowingly come to a place like this to be bullied.

Qian Yan walked towards where Chu Xiaoyue lay. Chu Xiaoyue was so scared that she tried to crawl away.

She was really scared. Chu Qianyan was really terrifying today.

“You… What are you going to do? Chu Qianyan, you have gone too far today. I am your sister!” Chu Xiaoyue, despite the pain in her mouth, managed to say these words in short, broken sentences.