A god-level alchemist, starting by manually crafting forbidden pills.

He added some Soft Fragrance Powder to the jade bottle; its medicinal properties were extremely mild and harmless when taken alone.

However, if combined with certain healing techniques...

It will cause one's spiritual energy to dissipate, one's body to become weak, one's temper to rise, and one's mind to gradually lose its senses.

"Junior sister? If you don't speak, shall I come in?"

While asking the question aloud, Ji Kun acted without hesitation, saying, "I'm doing this for your own good. If you were to suffer a qi deviation, the consequences would be unimaginable."

Squeak!

The door opened, revealing Bai Jie sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed.

In the shadows, Luo Fan's eyes were bloodshot.

He could no longer care about anything else; his spiritual energy surged wildly within him as he prepared to rush out.

Just as he was about to take a step, the fluctuations of spiritual energy inside the room suddenly changed.

After absorbing a massive amount of spiritual energy, the embroidered shoe's array patterns shone brightly.

The devoured spiritual energy, along with the restless medicinal power, was compressed and transformed by the array inside the shoe.

It transformed into sharp, condensed, pale golden aura that exuded an aura of destruction!

These vital energies flowed back along the meridians in Bai Jie's feet!

"This is?"

Luo Fan froze, his eyes filled with horror.

That's not just a simple feedback of spiritual energy; it's a qualitative change triggered by quantitative change!

boom!!!

A sharp and incomparably sharp aura suddenly erupted from Bai Jie's body.

She remained seated cross-legged on the bed, her eyes closed and her brows furrowed, as if she had not yet regained consciousness.

But her right leg seemed to have a mind of its own and suddenly sprang up.

boom!

Ji Kun walked in, but before he could even see the room clearly, he was already inside.

A blurry leg shadow, accompanied by a piercing whistling sound, hurtled towards his face.

Those legs were too fast, too urgent!

Before he could think, his protective aura instinctively shone.

however--

"Sizzle!"

The pale golden leg shadow easily tore through his protective aura.

Ji Kun's expression changed drastically. In a hurry, he raised his hand to block, but an unimaginable force slammed into his arm.

Click!

The cracking sound is clearly audible!

"what!"

Ji Kun screamed and flew backward, spitting out blood as he was in mid-air.

He fell onto the bluestone slab in the courtyard and rolled several times before stopping.

My mind went completely blank.

What happened?

Bai Jie...kicked him?

But how could that kick be so powerful?!

He was at the second level of Foundation Establishment, while Bai Jie was only at the first level.

Even if I reacted hastily, I shouldn't have had my arm broken by a kick!

Before he could figure it out...

Whoosh!

The figure darted out of the house.

She kept her eyes closed, her face flushed, and her spiritual energy swirled violently around her.

Bai Jie's movements were completely erratic, unlike her usual conscious state, yet her speed was astonishing.

Especially those legs.

Ji Kun felt a chill run down his spine after just one glance.

Those long, slender legs, usually hidden beneath her skirt, moved with every step...

Each footprint leaves a deep imprint on the bluestone slab, and the edges of the footprint cause the slab to crack inch by inch.

"Junior sister! Wake up! It's me!"

Ji Kun endured the excruciating pain, trying to get up so she could see him clearly.

Bai Jie wouldn't listen at all.

As if driven by instinct, she rushed in front of Ji Kun and kicked him!

It wasn't a kick, it was a stomp!

Simple, brutal, and utterly unskilled.

Each kick carried a faint golden aura, shattering Ji Kun's protective spiritual light time and time again.

The kick caused his blood and qi to churn and his spiritual energy to dissipate.

Foot to foot!

Chest, lower abdomen, shoulders, face...

He became a human punching bag, being kicked and rolled around in the yard, screaming in agony.

"Junior sister! Stop! Ah—!"

"It's me! Ji Kun! Wake up!"

"Ouch! Stop kicking! You'll break your bones!"

God!

What's going on?

He only put some medicine in her mouth, how did my junior sister turn into a rabbit?

That kick was incredibly powerful!

What drove him even more to despair was that Bai Jie would kick people, specifically targeting the most painful spots.

His face was swollen like a pig's head, his nose was crooked, and his teeth were loose.

Needless to say, my chest felt suffocated, I could hardly breathe, and my lower abdomen was cramping unbearably. The worst part was...

One of the kicks almost hit a fatal spot.

Ji Kun was terrified, clamping his legs tightly together and curling up on the ground.

But Bai Jie didn't care.

She got hooked on kicking, each kick harder and heavier than the last.

finally--

boom! ! !

A powerful downward kick landed squarely on Ji Kun's back.

"puff!"

Ji Kun spat out another mouthful of blood, his figure embedding itself in the bluestone slab.

Like him, Luo Fan also spat out blood, but the difference was...

He spurted blood from both noses.

"..."

Luo Fan quickly composed himself and looked at Ji Kun.

He lay in the pit, groaning and unable to move.

Under the gaze of the Eye of Truth, he saw that Ji Kun's spiritual power was scattered and his face was so swollen that even his own mother wouldn't recognize him.

Ji Kun had only one thought in his mind.

who am I?

where am I?

Why did I come here?

After being kicked, the courtyard finally quieted down.

Bai Jie stood at the edge of the pit, her chest rising and falling slightly.

The moment he opened his eyes, a trace of confusion and violence lingered in them.

After seeing Ji Kun's miserable state, the scene from just now gradually flashed through her mind.

"..."

She blinked.

Blinked again.

She raised her hand to cover her bright red mouth, her beautiful eyes wide open.

How did I manage to beat Senior Brother Ji like this...?

Bear-like?

Bai Jie's face gradually turned white.

It wasn't fear, it was bewilderment.

Completely bewildered.

"Who's fighting here in the dead of night?!"

A thunderclap echoed through the night sky, and the burly figure crashed into the courtyard.

The man appeared to be in his fifties or sixties, with thick eyebrows and fierce eyes, exuding an imposing aura even without anger.

He wore a token of the Elder of the Deacon Hall hanging from his waist, with his name engraved on it.

—High ideals!

His gaze was sharp as lightning, sweeping across the entire room.

I saw the door with footprints, the cracked bluestone slabs, and the human-shaped hole.

Finally, his gaze fell on the bruised and battered object in the pit, barely clinging to life.

After looking at it several times, Gao Yi finally managed to recognize it.

Isn't that his top disciple, Ji Kun?!

Looking up again, I saw Bai Jie standing by the pit, her face pale, her little hand covering her mouth, her eyes innocent and pure.

Gao Yi's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot in an instant.

"Bai Jie!"

"What...what did you do to your senior brother?!"

His eyes widened, and he questioned sharply.

Bai Jie opened her mouth, as if to say something, but swallowed the words back.

What could she say?

She doesn't know either?

They said she seemed to have gone mad with her cultivation and inexplicably beat up her senior brother.

She herself didn't believe such a statement.

Ji Kun, who was in the pit, heard his master's voice and grasped at it as if it were a lifeline.

"Master! Junior Sister...she's gone mad!"

He struggled to lift his head, and with his last bit of strength, he managed to squeeze out these words of lament.

Gao Yi's face darkened further.

He looked at Ji Kun's appearance, and then at Bai Jie's innocent eyes.

Countless possibilities flashed through my mind in an instant.

Late at night, a man and a woman were alone; the junior sister was in her room, and the senior brother was outside the door.

then!

My senior brother was beaten until his head was swollen and embedded in the ground, leaving the yard in a mess.

Bai Jie didn't explain, her face full of grievance, helplessness, pitifulness, and weakness as she looked at him.

understood!

Otherwise, it's because Bai Yatou is sensible that she doesn't say anything even when she's wronged.

Just to save face for him.

On the other hand, Ji Kun, that rebellious disciple... is truly bewitched!

Gao Yi took a deep breath, suppressing the surging anger in his heart, and shouted, word by word.

"Ji Kun!"

"You wicked disciple!"

"What did you do to your junior sister?!"

Ji Kun, who was in the pit, froze, speechless with grief.

Holy crap?!

What the hell is going on?

He's been beaten up like this, and you're still asking him what he did?

Master, if you're blind, then find another one!

Luo Fan, hidden in the shadows, breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but smile.

It has to be Senior Sister Bai; her silent explanation is the most terrifying.

Bai Jie blinked, looked at her furious master, and then at her senior brother trembling in the pit, and suddenly understood.

The pills must have been tampered with, which is why Ji Kun was guarding outside the courtyard.

But something unexpected happened, and not only did he not succeed, he also got beaten up.

Once you've sorted out your thoughts, explaining this isn't so difficult.

"Master, please don't blame my senior brother. He is your senior brother and your eldest disciple."

Bai Jie was on the verge of tears. "I will be taking over the Hall of Affairs in the future. It's nothing for me to suffer a little grievance. Please don't get angry."

"If, senior brother, if he... really... really wants to, I... I won't resist next time..."

"I'll do as you say, Senior Brother... as a way of repaying Master's kindness in teaching me..."

She lowered her head and sobbed softly.

Ji Kun panicked!

I'm completely panicked!

The look in Gao Yi's eyes was no longer one of anger, but of utter disappointment and coldness.