"Bah! You act so righteous, but all you want is the Sect Master's artifact forging techniques, don't you? Let me tell you, you won't get them!"
The Sect Master's artifact forging techniques, and these scoundrels actually wanted them. If the Sect Master knew they had been stolen by these people, he would surely blame himself for being incompetent, Meng Wen thought to himself as he struggled fiercely.
However, Meng Wen's actions angered his captors. He was kicked to the ground again, and the foot of the person who kicked him rubbed hard against Meng Wen's head.
Seeing this, Meng Huai immediately intervened. She plucked leaves from a nearby tree and flicked them towards the foot of the person who was kicking. The leaves were not sharp, but with spirit energy encased around them, they carved a deep gash at the man's ankle.
"Who?"
The man's ankle was injured by the leaf. He hopped back on one foot, clutching his wounded ankle with both hands, a rather comical sight.
Meng Huai stepped out. Her clothing and appearance were very different from these people. When they first entered the secret realm, they were all in their Imperial Military Academy combat uniforms. Thus, when these people saw Meng Huai appear, they first wondered who this person with strange attire was and how she suddenly appeared from over there.
With so many of them present, not a single person had noticed someone over there?
"Who are you?"
Meng Huai's appearance was certainly different from before, so these people could never have imagined that the person standing before them now was actually their so-called former Sect Master.
Meng Huai did not answer the question of who she was. Instead, she looked at the group whose attire clearly indicated they were disciples of the Xu Li Sect. The face of the leader was somewhat familiar! Meng Huai pondered who this person could be.
"Oh, it's the tenth elder's youngest son."
Years have passed, and he has only reached this realm? His heart isn't even on cultivation, is it?
Meng Huai really wanted to ask this, but her identity was special, so it was better not to reveal it.
However, this muttered remark was overheard by the disciple whose ankle was injured by Meng Huai's leaf. This person was quite fawning. Hearing Meng Huai's words, he immediately retorted, "What tenth elder's son! He's the Sect Master's son."
Hearing the injured disciple's words, Meng Huai raised an eyebrow. So, after her 'death,' the one who was usually taciturn became the Sect Master.
Meng Huai thought about the situation of the sect at that time. It shouldn't have been the tenth elder's turn to be the Sect Master. However, she didn't want to bother with these matters at the moment. She only wanted to save Meng Wen and Meng Wu.
Her own children, to be treated like this now! Meng Huai felt a pang of heartache. She first moved to save Meng Wen. Looking at Meng Wen's injuries, Meng Huai couldn't help but be a little rougher when saving him. But considering they were all disciples of the sect, she spared the lives of these people.
Meng Huai, without a sound, rescued Meng Wen from under everyone's noses. This also startled the members of the tripartite alliance. A group of people dressed in black pointed their swords at Meng Huai, saying, "Who are you, and why are you meddling in the affairs of our Tian Sha Sect?"
"Tian Sha Sect? Never heard of it."
Could it be a sect that only appeared in recent years? Looking at their black attire and the aura emanating from them, it was clear this was not a proper sect. How did the Xu Li Sect get involved with such a sect? Meng Huai was bewildered.
Meng Huai's answer and reaction were not within the expectations of this group.
"How dare you say you haven't heard of the Tian Sha Sect? I think you're here to cause trouble!"
A man in black robes standing at the edge pointed his sword at Meng Huai and said this. The people around him also shouted, "Why waste words with her? Just attack! Take her down. Those who dare to offend our Tian Sha Sect will have to taste our Tian Sha Sect's might!"
The man standing in the middle of these people, seeing his junior disciples excitedly rush to cause trouble for the woman in front of them, had no intention of making a move.
His composed demeanor indicated that he didn't take Meng Huai seriously.
Indeed, in their eyes, Meng Huai was a person of low power. However, one must know that cultivation that cannot be discerned doesn't necessarily mean it's low; it could be extremely high!
These people never imagined that the disciples in black robes would charge towards Meng Huai collectively, surrounding her completely.
They thought this way, Meng Huai would have no way to break through and wanted to restrain her movements.
But Meng Huai didn't even need to lift a finger. She directly used her spirit energy to reflect their attacking power back. These disciples of the Tian Sha Sect, dressed in black robes, were all injured by the spirit energy around Meng Huai.
The power of the spirit energy forced them to retreat steadily, and after pausing in mid-air for half a second, they directly landed on the ground.
They looked quite pathetic, their bottoms hurting from the fall.
And it wasn't over yet. While she had only used a single leaf against the Xu Li Sect disciples, Meng Huai now plucked all the leaves from a tree and gathered them with her spirit energy.
Just before striking, the falling leaves stopped in the air, forming a vortex, and then all of them were thrown into the crowd of the Tian Sha Sect. The disciples who had just gotten up were again blocked by the power of these leaves.
One by one, they were attacked and forced to retreat, spitting out blood.
There was no need to show any mercy to these people, as Meng Huai had no connection to this Tian Sha Sect.