"Last year, he couldn’t resist his craving for alcohol, so he snuck into the Drunken Immortal Lord’s stash and stole over a hundred pounds of his Drunken Immortal Brew. This kind of wine is really hard to make because the ingredients are rare, and it’s almost impossible to buy on the market. The Drunken Immortal Lord got so angry that he ca straight to our sect to make a complaint. When the third elder found out that his disciple had stolen the wine and didn’t even share any of them with him, so the two of them tead up to sell the stolen wine. Our sect leader, knowing the third elder’s habits, asked Master Lian to step in," Renshu Chang explained, chuckling as he spoke.
"This caused quite a stir last year. The third elder was also locked up by Master Lian, and it doesn’t look like he’ll be getting out anyti soon."
Amalia was surprised. She had thought the Green Lotus Sect seed like a serious and proper sect, but it turned out they had people like this.
Suddenly, she found the situation more interesting. "And what about him?" she asked, pointing to soone else standing in the corner. It seed like everyone was avoiding him, like he was being left out.
She didn’t notice him because he was being ignored, but because his cultivation level was also quite high.
"Oh, him." Renshu Chang sighed deeply, sounding a bit drained. "His na is Seongwoo Jin, but everyone calls him ’The Wanderer.’ He doesn’t have a drinking problem, but he does have a thing for won."
Amalia laughed. "The top talents of this sect sure are interesting. One loves alcohol, and another loves won."
"Who would have guessed that Senior Brother Jin who once so elegant and refined, would turn out to be such a womanizer? By the ti we realized, it was too late—Peak Master Huoyan had already taken him in as a disciple."
"You an that serious and proper Peak Master Huoyan?" Kenny Lin asked, suddenly more interested.
Renshu Chang coughed lightly. "Yes, that’s the one. There was almost a fallout between Peak Master Huoyan and Senior Brother Jin because of this."
"Did he force himself on innocent won?" Kenny Lin asked with a playful smile.
Renshu Chang began coughing harder. "No, no, Senior Brother Jin may love won, but he’s not that kind of person. It was all consensual."
"Consensual?" Amalia raised an eyebrow.
It was hard to believe that a womanizer like him could be with so many won and still have them be willing.
"Senior Brother Jin may love won, but he has his principles. During any given ti, he only gets involved with one woman, and he won’t move on to the next until things are over with the first. And it’s always with their consent. He doesn’t like to force anyone. If it weren’t for this, Peak Master Huoyan would have cut ties with him long ago. However..." Renshu Chang coughed even more when talking about Seongwoo Jin, "he’s also been locked up this year."
"Did he break his principles?" Amalia asked curiously.
"No, not really. Before he was locked up, the female cultivator he was with already knew about his reputation as a player, but she still chose to be with him. The problem was her background—her father is a powerful cultivator in the Body Integration Stage, Tubang Yeling. He was against his daughter being with Senior Brother Jin from the start. When he found out they had already... well, been together, and his daughter still defended Senior Brother Jin even though she knew he would eventually leave her, Tubang Yeling was furious. He ended up stripping Senior Brother Jin of his clothes and hanging him at the city gates..."
"Even though Green Lotus Sect couldn’t bear such embarrassnt, they let Senior Brother Jin hang there for a few hours to teach him a lesson and calm Tubang Yeling’s anger."
These events had all happened before Amalia and Kenny Lin joined the sect. Since both of the people involved had been locked up, people eventually stopped talking about it.
"Although their behavior is questionable, their strength is real," Renshu Chang quickly added, worried they might get the wrong impression of Green Lotus Sect.
"I get it. Otherwise, soone like him would’ve been sent to the outer sect by now," Amalia said with a smile.
"No wonder they still look at with appreciation," Kenny Lin suddenly muttered.
Renshu Chang was puzzled.
Amalia just smiled silently. It seed Kenny Lin knew very well that he was causing trouble too.
Compared to the sses made by Jinhwa Hou and Seongwoo Jin, Kenny Lin’s little tantrums were nothing. For the elders who had seen far worse, his small quirks were easily forgivable.
"Are those two the only oddballs in Green Lotus Sect? No one else?" Kenny Lin asked.
Renshu Chang hesitated.
Amalia gave him a knowing look. "Of course, there’s more. Can’t you tell there’s a third one here?"
"Really?" Kenny Lin looked around, pretending not to realize that Amalia was hinting he was the third oddball.
Aside from the four geniuses Renshu Chang had introduced, there was Jirandai Tang, who was also at the peak of the Soul Formation stage. Including him, Green Lotus Sect had six cultivators at the peak of the Soul Formation stage participating in Path of All Immortals.
Three of them were geniuses, while the other three were ordinary talented disciples. They were older than the three geniuses, and it had taken them longer to reach the peak of the Soul Formation stage.
The rest of the disciples were in the Soul Formation stage as well, with only Amalia that was still in the Nascent Soul stage.
Originally, Renshu Chang had been in the Nascent Soul stage like Amalia, but thanks to the Golden Solarian Tree Fruit and a top-level spiritual vein, he had recently broken through to the Soul Formation stage. However, even at the early Soul Formation stage, surviving in Path of All Immortals would still be difficult.
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