Teacher by day, Farmer by passion

Aulus screamed, "He's toying with us!! That stupid beast is mocking us!!"

Aulus roared, veins bulging as he threw another wave of soul force at the Spirit Sovereign wolf.

"Die, you mangy mutt! Go meet your ancestors!!"

Bryan casually stepped aside, the soul blast whooshing past him and detonating against the wall behind him.

The ancient wolf tilted his head slowly, a smug gleam in his eye, as if silently asking:

"This is your best? Really?"

Then, with perfect timing, Bryan opened his maw…

Aulus panicked. "A Soul Breath attack?!"

He slapped a defensive charm on his chest faster than thought because no one survives a point-blank blast from a legend level demon beast!

But what the wolf did next shocked him to the core.

Bryan has just opened its mouth and yawned.

A long, slow, jaw-cracking yawn.... complete with a lazy tongue flop.

Aulus's eye twitched. "D-did he just yawn at me?! You!!"

As if on cue, the section of the Sky High Sect's wall that got hit then cracked and crumbled dramatically behind the wolf.

Elder Mati squinted at the damage, then at Bryan.

The wolf didn't even glance back.

She narrowed her eyes and muttered, "That damn mutt is doing this on purpose. I swear, I'm gonna punish him for real after this…"

Somewhere between smug and divine instinct, Bryan shivered.

His ears perked, tail froze mid-wag, and a faint whimper slipped out of his throat.

Elder Mati smirked darkly. "Ah. So you can sense incoming doom."

Bryan immediately sat straighter.

"Elders! Disciples! Charge together!" Aulus screamed at the same time, flinging his arms in the air.

The white-robed army surged forward with a thunderous war cry.

And then…

Chaos. Absolute chaos.

Bryan spun once, a lazy tail swipe sending half the frontline cartwheeling into the horizon.

One elder tried to sneak around and attack from behind, only to have Bryan sit on him.

With full weight. Like a boulder made of shame and fur.

"Help—! I can't breathe—!"

Another elder tossed a flaming talisman at the wolf's back.

But Bryan caught it in his mouth, chewed thoughtfully like it was a spicy snack, and spat the ashes back in the thrower's face.

Several disciples screamed, "He's a demon! A devil in wolf's skin!"

One even broke formation and knelt. "Please adopt me instead!"

Aulus, now breathing heavily, his robes tattered and hair singed into what looked like a fried mushroom cap, hovered in the air trembling.

"Impossible… This can't be happening…"

Bryan leapt again, fangs flashing, and—

"RETREAT!" Aulus shrieked, flailing mid-air.

"ALL UNITS FALL BACK! FALL BACK! WE CAN'T WIN!"

The White Snow Sect turned tail as one, like synchronized dancers of disgrace.

They tripped over one another, scrambled down the mountainside, dragging wounded elders and disciples.

Bryan let out a final, arrogant woof and trotted back through the gates with the swagger of a seasoned war general returning from battle.

The entire disciples of Sky High Sect stood in complete silence.

Until Grand Elder Lily, returned, folding her arms. "Well, guess that solves that then."

"You were so useful during that whole mess," Elder Mati said dryly, arms crossed, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

From the side, Grand Elder Lily stiffened. "Wha—!? Hey, you bald lady! Even your eldest sister speaks to me with respect! With respect! You hear me?!" she snapped, caught off guard by the jab.

Mati didn't even flinch. "Yeah, yeah. Anyways , Ishould probably reward this good little wolf for all his hard work… destroying our walls, after all," she added, completely unbothered, as she began walking toward Bryan.

Bryan didn't run. The spirit sovereign ancient wolf didn't run as it's instincts itself seemed to have deemed the bald lady in front to be crazy and strong enough to subdue him.

So instead, he slowly bowed down, ears flat against his head. Then, very deliberately… he shut his eyes. Hoping the time would pass by very fast.

He looked like a child bracing for a spanking, with full spiritual resignation. No intentions of protesting.

Lily's eyes widened. She quickly shot forward, landing in front of him with a whoosh of wind.

"Stop right there!" she barked, stretching out an arm like a bodyguard shielding a celebrity.

Mati stopped and glanced up lazily. "What is it now?"

Lily hesitated, suddenly unsure. "Well… you know… uh…"

Then her own title kicked in.

"Hey! I'm the Grand Elder here, show some respect!"

Mati blinked.

"Oh, right," she replied blandly, her tone suggesting she didn't really care, not one bit.

"What do you mean oh right?! Hey!!! You bald girl—!"

Suddenly, a sharp glint hit Lily's eyes. She flinched, squinting.

The sun had shifted, and its full rays bounced straight off Elder Mati's smooth, polished head like a divine mirror.

Mati smirked, tilting her chin upward.

"You keep calling me bald, so what if I'm bald?" she said proudly. "I am invincible under the sun. Dare to take me on?"

Her scalp shimmered like a holy artifact.

"Have some shame and dignity!" Lily yelled, shielding her eyes with her sleeve. "Ah! My eyes!"

Elder Mati didn't miss a beat.

She began casually shifting from side to side, tilting her gleaming head just enough so the sunlight persistently bounced right into Lily's face.

Mati chuckled. "Oh please. You're the last person qualified to talk about shame or dignity."

"Stop that!" Lily swatted at the air like she was fending off spiritual wasps. "I'm serious! I'm starting to see my spirit bot ancestors!"

"Nope. I'm making sure you never forget who the real shining star is," Mati said with a smug grin.

Gasps echoed across the courtyard.

Disciples who had once seen their elders as lofty, untouchable paragons of cultivation…

now watched in horrified silence as their Grand Elder and their herbalist elder devolved into petty light-slinging children.

One of the disciple muttered, "Is this… sect leadership?"

Another one nodded solemnly. "I want a head like that and learn her techniques."

And yet, not a single soul dared to interrupt them.

Because you never get between a woman with something to prove and a head with solar panel-level reflectivity.