After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

Chapter 33 You're Kind, So Save Me 1
The Canghai Continent is so vast, and to encounter this can only be attributed to the powerful plot, which allowed this plot device to run into the female lead.

Running into the main characters would be bad luck, and she didn't want to get involved with any bad luck!
Seeing that his junior sister had taken a liking to a small spirit beast, Gu Zhu said, "Junior sister, we have a mission this time and can't bring the little guy with us. If you like it, we can talk about it when we return. We can take it back and raise it then."

Tao Zhizhi looked regretful and said to the spirit beast in the cage, "What a pity." Turning her head, she saw someone holding a white rabbit with two tufts of red fur on its ears. She pointed at it and said in a coquettish tone, "Senior brother, senior brother, someone else is holding a little spirit beast too."

Holding a little spirit beast? Upon hearing this, Lin Yan shifted her gaze and saw that the other person was pointing in her direction. She took a step to turn onto another street, but unexpectedly, someone who didn't know any better stopped her.

"Oh my, why is this lady all covered up?"

She remained silent, her eyes sharpening as if to say: If you stop me again, I'll kill you!

"Tsk tsk tsk, my wife's eyes are so fierce. I just want to go inside the house with you and make some friends..."

Lin Yan concealed her strength. In the eyes of those of the same realm or with lower cultivation levels, she was just an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator in the early stage.

Because she was still young, she didn't want to reveal her cultivation level too early before she could roam freely across the Canghai Continent, lest it attract jealousy and lead to her death. Once she could roam freely, others' jealousy would be powerless against her.

I never expected that hiding my cultivation level would attract thugs and bullies!

The male cultivator blocking her way was pot-bellied, dressed in luxurious clothes, with a lewd smile on his face, and his small eyes lewdly roaming over her body.

"Young lady, where are you going? I'll take you. I know this place very well!" the male cultivator said, reaching out his greasy hand to grab her arm.

Her brows furrowed, her eyes filled with undisguised disgust. Lin Yan sidestepped the filthy hand.

"Get out of the way!" she said coldly.

The male cultivator not only refused to give way, but also ordered his men to surround him.

His cultivation level was at the early stage of Qi Refining, while his subordinates were all at the peak of Qi Refining. The only way he could get people with higher cultivation levels than himself to be his subordinates was through money and power.

The town is quite large, and there must be some powerful force entrenched there besides the Chamber of Commerce.

This male cultivator is so audacious; it seems he's succeeded quite a few times and hasn't received any punishment yet.

The vendors and pedestrians didn't stop him; they seemed unfazed, probably because they'd seen this kind of behavior from male cultivators before. They all lived in this small town and wouldn't easily offend anyone.

The fact that no one dared to stop him shows that the forces behind him are influential in this small town.

Large families wouldn't send their direct descendants to small towns; it would only be the descendants of collateral branches or small families that were based in the town.

She wasn't afraid of small families, and if a collateral branch of a large family died, others wouldn't mobilize much power to seek revenge. That put her at ease!

She said nothing more, and with a wave of her hand, everyone was thrown back and fell to the ground. Lin Yan didn't make things difficult for the workers; she used a hidden weapon, plum blossom darts, to pin the male cultivator's limbs to the ground and said, "The rest of you, I'll give you three seconds to escape."

Those men, fearing for their lives, scrambled to their feet and ran away.

Other vendors and passersby continued with their own affairs, pretending not to see anything and nothing happened. The male cultivator kept shouting about who he was and what his backing was, making a lot of noise, so she conjured a qi blade and cut off his tongue.

She's incredibly kind. If she had encountered a bad-tempered cultivator who had been verbally offended like that, she would have killed the instigator long ago. The fact that she spared his life speaks volumes about her kindness.

She was just about to finish him off to stop him from harming others when a kind person appeared and stopped her.

"How could you be so cruel!" Tao Zhizhi walked over and accused her. She seemed to be condemning her behavior.

She raised an eyebrow, not understanding the female lead's behavior.

"He merely insulted you verbally, yet you treated him with such cruelty. You are truly wicked!"

Good heavens, what kind of talk is this? She's vicious? If she were really a low-level female cultivator, wouldn't she have been taken advantage of by this person? When she was being harassed earlier, the female lead didn't even step in to stop her. Why is she pretending to be a good person now?

She glanced at the ground, then at the female lead, and scoffed, saying "fake kindness." Then, her hidden weapon flew over and pierced the male cultivator's throat.

Lin Yan said to the female lead without any politeness, "You're kind, go and save her."

Seeing his junior sister being bullied, Gu Zhu quickly pulled her behind him and glared angrily at the person who was dressed simply, wearing a veiled hat and completely concealing himself.

Her veil and robes were both of the highest grade, only capable of protecting against the spiritual sense of cultivators below the Foundation Establishment level. Gu Zhu was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so her veil couldn't protect her. Therefore, she used her spiritual power to suppress the other party's spiritual sense.

Seeing his embarrassed expression, she glanced at him coldly, as if he were trash, and then left with the rabbit in her arms.

This was the first time Gu Zhu had ever been looked at like that. His face turned pale and then red, and he was filled with anger! He was the personal disciple of the peak master of Wenxin Peak. In the Xuantian Sect, everyone had to give him some face.

Having been used to being fawned over, and not being a particularly magnanimous person, he naturally became angry and held a grudge when someone disrespected him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have remembered being humiliated by Lin Yan at the Xuan Tian Sect and still want to see her beg him on her knees.

"Third Senior Brother," Tao Zhizhi called out. Seeing no response, she grew a little angry, shook his arm, and called out several more times, "Third Senior Brother, Third Senior Brother..."

Gu Zhu then came to her senses and looked at Tao Zhizhi apologetically, saying, "Junior Sister, I'm sorry, I was lost in thought just now."

"It's alright, senior brother. But what should we do now? The person is gone and can't be brought back." She said with a regretful expression, as if she were mourning a life lost.

"It's alright. His men ran away, didn't they? Someone will go back and report to the master. Let's not get involved. After we finish shopping, let's go back to the flying boat."

Gu Zhu brought his junior sister out because there was news that a new secret realm had appeared in Lishan, and the sect had already sent many people there. Originally, he and his junior sister were not supposed to be on this mission, but his junior sister said that she had never left Xuantian Sect before and wanted to go and see it, so she begged him to take her with her.

Thinking that with several sect elders overseeing the operation, he and his junior sister should be fine, so he agreed. When the flying boat passed through this small town, it stopped to resupply for a day. His junior sister playfully insisted on getting off the flying boat to do some shopping, which led to the incident earlier.

"Hmm..." Tao Zhizhi pouted, looking somewhat unhappy. She reluctantly agreed, then added, "Then I'll pray for him. Although I couldn't save him, I hope he has a safe journey."

(End of this chapter)