While walking towards the location of Yueqin Wen's residence within the Sect, Dana quickly became interested in the events which have happened within the Sect since her closed door-cultivation, with her especially focused in wanting to find out how they transformed the Sect disciples into a bunch of fanatical followers in just a mere three month period.
Seeing their Master's obvious interest in their exploits in the past three months, both Lavendia and Maia quickly became nervous as they shown an apparent reluctance in spilling the exact details which happened the past few months.
But, being a Dryad, a race is known for both their 'Shamelessness' and 'Straight-forward' nature, Lavendia previous expression quickly changed and she decided to spill everything to Dana about what happened, without a care of the consequences.
After all, she is a masochist, so there wasn't much that Dana could which would harm the Dryad anyways, and maybe even saying all this information would allow her to be 'Rewarded' by Dana herself, something she sorely lacked these past three months as Yueqin Wen still felt guilty about her treatment towards the Dryad with it just being their first meeting.
At the end of the day, Yueqin Wen was one of the rare few in the cultivation world that is a genuinely caring person, and her character has only morphed into the emotionless mask which others currently see, as a result of her circumstances.
Back, when both her daughter and Husband was alive, Yueqin Wen was famous within the continent for her benevolent nature, and it would be difficult to even anger her, and it was well known that Yueqin Wen spared the majority of her opponent's lives due to her soft-heartedness, with the few that ended up losing their lives being done in her name in order to protect her, as before Yueqin Wen met her husband she was in a fairly powerful clan which protected her heavily, thus they would often remove threats to her life, no matter how small it may appear to be.
However, this all crumbled at the death of her family, and Yueqin Wen instead became a cold woman, devoid of emotion, with her previous reputation thoroughly forgotten.
It had even resulted in Yueqin Wen possessing the first killing intent she had ever experienced towards an individual, with the Yueqin Wen in the past would of never even have the slightest thought of killing another human being.
This was all contributed towards her being brought up under a large clan, with the younger Yueqin Wen never having to witness the evils of the cultivation world, making her innocent and even naive towards how horrible people can be within such an environment where the strong will devour the weak.
So, it could be seen even with Yueqin Wen's personality becoming many times cold than before, it still couldn't prevent some of her true nature from emerging, and the earlier incident was only as a result of her comparing Dana to her daughter, becoming thoroughly paranoid about her safety.
Thus, since her experience with the Dryad, Yueqin Wen ended up thoroughly ignoring the duo and letting them do as they please, as she felt remorseful about her earlier behaviour towards Lavendia.
Therefore, Lavendia ended up with no 'Beatings' at all for these past three months, with her thoroughly being starved of pleasure, as apart from Dana and Yueqin within the current Sect there was no one who could even match her strength, so how could her masochist tenancies be dealt with?
"Well... It begins like this Master, both I and Maia ended up exploring the Sect, with us quickly finding the strength of the current teachers within the academy, and of course the students. So, due to us finding the teacher's strength within the Sect are so pitifully weak, we both thought together that wouldn't it be easy to recruit these humans to serve under our Master's monstrous strength?"
Pausing her speech for a few moments, Lavendia showed a prideful look, as if all of the hard work both she and Maia did in the Sect were to selflessly appease their Master.
However, Maia who is currently seeing such a smug look of Lavendia's face couldn't help but blurt out her true reasoning, "Hmh. Didn't you say it was an absolute travesty in the Sect that everyone was so clueless about sex, and heavily emphasised on their 'Virginity', in addition to protecting their 'Purity', where they should be having no shame about it all, and instead have regular orgies in order to 'Bring the Community Closer'. Hmm. I even thought I heard you talk non-stop about how much of a crisis this is, and how you needed to begin a 'Noble Conquest' to save the Sect from their clueless, and foolish culture, with introducing the 'Correct Path' by converting them into the Dryad's way of doing things. Oh, and I forgot to mention, I heard you saying about how backwards human are, and that they are in dire need of reforming their entire society into a Dryad one?"
Hearing that her true reasoning was revealed, Lavendia's previous proud look immediately distorted after her true intentions were revealed, and Dana snickered seeing Lavendia's grand over-exaggeration of her apparent generous deeds has been openly revealed by Maia.
But, being thick-skinned, Lavendia didn't pay the contemptuous looks of the watching Dana and Maia, as she continued her narration of the events that happened in the past three months.
"So, as I was saying before somebody's rude interruption... Myself quickly took the forefront of this operation, with Maia originally being very slow with her part at converting the disciples due to her finding it insulting for a Griffin to do such a thing.
Oh, and we first established our authority by defeating a bunch of arrogant nobles, who continuously created trouble with us in the Sect as a result of causing them to lose face on so many occasions. Thus, our strength was openly revealed to the disciples, aiding us greatly in our recruitment of our separate factions which the teachers at the beginning didn't care about, as they assumed it was just some basic fan club of some sorts, being completely harmless to them.
Anyways, as mentioned Maia disinterest caused my faction to naturally be superior to hers within the first few weeks, causing her to step up her game in order to not bring shame to herself by having the much weaker force compared what she calls a 'Sexual deviant,, so as a natural competitor I did partake, in what the humans call trash talking?"
Lavendia titled her head looking towards Dana and Maia while saying this, as if to reconfirm this statement.
Dana quickly nodded at Lavendias answer, wondering within her mind that it seems despite being within the cultivation world, trash talking was still a thing?
Well, hearing Lavendia she can quickly guess what happened as a result of her so called 'Trash Talking'.
And this picture within Dana mind soon played out what is expected as Lavendia continued and said, "So all of a sudden my trash talking seemed to trigger Maia greatly, ending up with her becoming fierce fully competitive with my faction. This resulted in us both coming up against each other in numerous occasions, with the factions growing at a monstrous pace as a result of our competition with each other. It even led to us commonly having fierce battles with bets on the line, which always ended up as a draw of course, not fulfilling any of them unfortunately. But, this also led to the teachers getting involved, which soon found even themselves powerless against us, which resulted in the teachers completely giving up on this matter entirely, as if Yueqin Wen or the Sect Head who is still away at the moment make a move, there is nothing that can be done against us. So, as you see our factions have developed smoothly for the past few months to the point it is now."
With Lavendia finishing informing her of her perspective of the events, Maia also quickly added her opinion which was more or less similar, but just worded differently with the addition of the frequent complaints against the Dryad who turned her faction members into shameless folks, who openly discussed and partaken in numerous sexual activities, which ended up resulting in quite a few orgies within the Sect much to Maia's displeasure.
Surprisingly though, Lavendia didn't attend any of these events, and didn't even have any relations with a single disciple, causing Dana to be greatly astonished by Lavendia's behaviour.
Not blaming Dana of course, since the Dryads sexual preferences has been changed by Dana as a result of the beatings she has developed a strong urge to be beaten by those stronger than her, and with their being none in the Sect who could 'Play rough with her' it ended up causing the lewd Dryad in not even having any partners, despite there being many numerous individuals which would jump at the opportunity to be with her.
As a result this caused Lavendia to be greatly sexual frustrated, as she couldn't get no were near the amount of pleasure similar to that provided by Yueqin Wen as a result of the beating she gave her, causing her outlook on sex to be ruined as she couldn't find pleasure at all with any 'normal' activities anymore.
Unknowingly, the trio already found themselves outside of Yueqin Wen's residence causing them to discard their current thoughts as they are now about to meet Yueqin Wen.
Standing in front of the entrance an excited look appeared on Dana's face as she couldn't wait to speak to her Master after having experienced months of isolation away from her these past months, knocking the door loudly, she soon heard the hurried footsteps of Yueqin Wen.
As Yueqin Wen opened the door, the expression on her face isn't the one which Dana would expect after not seeing each other so long.
Witnessing Yueqin Wens facial feature she seemed to have aged by years, and seems to be going through a great deal of stress this moment at time.
When Yueqin Wen's tired eyes regarded Dana, her face lit up as she tried to put on a cheerful front towards Dana, to show that there isn't anything wrong.
"Dana! Your finally out of closed door cultivation, so have you made great progress this time? Oh, never mind about talking about cultivation, I'm sure you had enough of it by now, why don't you come in and Master will show you a reward which awaited you these past few months" Yueqin Wen said
Not waiting for Dana's answer, Yueqin Wen have already turned and started walking into the direction of presumably the 'Reward', thus Dana silently followed her Master as she knew that even though Yueqin Wen is putting on a joyful front, that doesn't hide from Dana's observant eyes that something big must have definitely happened.
Both, Maia and Lavendia similarly followed Dana obediently, as they to felt the same with there being something different about Yueqin Wen.
Arriving at the location of the reward, Dana found it is actually something she lives very much, and maybe if this was an ordinary time she would rush over towards it merrily, but now Dana knew it wasn't the time for such a thing.
"So, do you like the reward? The Sect Head said you greatly loved 'Chocolate' so I gathered all of these different luxurious goods for you to try..."
As Yueqin Wen continues talking about the goods she retrieved, she finally looked at Dana with an expectant look who currently has a troubled expression on her face.
Worried that Dana doesn't like any of what she had gotten her, Yueqin Wen said, "Do you not like any of it? It's fine if you don't, I'm sure Master can go find something else you like instead."
But, Dana couldn't hold it back anymore and blurred out. "What's wrong Master? Don't hide the truth from me, if you truly see me as your disciple, then trust me and do not keep this to yourself!"
A worried look emerged on her face as Yueqin Wen hurriedly said, "Umm... Nothing is wrong at the moment! It's fine!"
But, before she can continued, Dana said, "Don't lie to me! Remember Master your not alone anymore, you do not have to keep this burden to yourself. If you think your protecting me by doing this, your not. Just reveal the truth."
Seeing Dana staring into her eyes with such resolution, Yueqin Wen sighed before she said, "Alright, Dana I will tell you the truth, it's about the Yearly Sect Gathering!"
Hearing that it's something to do with the Sect Gathering, Dana raises her eyebrow before she inquired, "So what about it?"
Yueqin Wen expression turned grave before she said, "It's been moved to an earlier date, with it only beginning within a week time and not to mention there is another troubling thought and that is if the Elemental Sect cannot get into the Top 3 within the gathering then the Sect will be disbanded, and if we dare muster any form of resistance then destroyed. By doing this the Heavenly Noble Sect promised to distribute our students, teachers and resources to the other Sect and many of our geniuses has also betrayed us and left to join some other Sect, so everyone within the Sect has lost hope! Not to mention even if we still had all the geniuses it would be lucky if they even make it within the top 100, never mind top 3 like required!"
Hearing the problem firsthand from Yueqin Wen caused Dana expressions to turn serious, before she thought 'It seems my fated meeting with Chao Sung will be earlier than expected'
With this in thought a determined glint appeared within Dana eyes as she planned on dealing with the crisis of the Elemental Sect, and she wasn't just going to aim for a measly top three spot, but her aim was to remove Chao Sung from the top of the younger generation, and thoroughly crush him while doing so!
After all, her pride as a dragon won't allow her to achieve nothing less!