After the mind-reading cripple junior sister, the entire sect rose to prominence.

Chapter 225 Confession
After discussing the visiting card, Zhao Ning remained standing there, not leaving immediately.

"Is there anything else?" Xu Yihan asked.

Zhao Ning pursed her lips, seemingly caught in some kind of dilemma.

Seeing her expression, Xu Yihan seemed to have a premonition of something, but he didn't urge her. He just lowered his head and drank his tea, waiting for her to speak.

"Sect Leader, I've remembered everything about my past."

Finally, Zhao Ning, looking like she was waiting to die, blurted out everything—

“I used to be a disciple of the Qingyue Sect. There were some things that happened in the sect back then, which I'm sure you've all heard about. Our spiritual spring was acting strangely and could no longer be used by the disciples. I happened to be out at the time, and Sect Leader Liu mistakenly thought I was a traitor and that the matter of the spiritual spring was related to me. He forced me to tell the truth, but he didn't believe me and even instructed the elders to use a soul-searching technique on me…”

The unusual occurrence at Qingyue Sect's spiritual spring caused such a stir that it couldn't be kept secret. So even though Liu Wuhan demanded that everyone keep quiet, people outside gradually learned about it, and now everyone knows about it.

Qingyue Sect seems to still want to find Quanling, but they have no clues and can't find any suspicious people.

But no matter how anxious and desperate they were, no matter how hard they tried to salvage the situation, the decline of Qingyue Sect was inevitable.

From the day the news of the disappearance of the Spirit Spring spread, Qingyue Sect was removed from the "Top Ten Sects" ranking. It was no longer one of the top sects, but had fallen to a lower level.

This was just the beginning of its decline.

The normal development order of a sect should be from small to large, from low to high, which is a positive process.

However, it is rare for a place like Qingyue Sect, which clearly had a spiritual spring, to suddenly disappear and likely never have it again.

Its development sequence is naturally the complete opposite of the former, and its decline always occurs faster than its development.

What awaits them next is that, with fewer spiritual springs available, the cultivation speed of elite disciples drops drastically. Then, the number of disciples joining the sect decreases year by year, and among these disciples, the number of true geniuses and elites also decreases, becoming worse year by year.

Correspondingly, the sect's resources and reputation will only deteriorate, not improve.

Even without the Spirit Spring, a sect can still develop. As long as the sect's leader has great strategy, is intelligent and composed, and maintains a clean and upright sect, it can still be managed well over time.

However, judging from the fact that even the elders of Qingyue Sect dared to search souls, it's clear that their higher-ups are all rotten to the core; they simply don't have the ability to do that.

"...After my soul was injured, they abandoned me in a nearby village. Later, I don't know how I ran away, but you rescued me and even used the calming wood to heal me."

As Zhao Ning spoke, she knelt down, feeling both grateful and sorrowful.

There was something she was hiding in her words: the fact that the Nine Nether Spring of Qingyue Sect had become a spirit, and that the spirit had left.

This matter remains a secret to outsiders, known only to a very small number of people in the Qingyue Sect, with Zhao Ning being an exception.

Her silence was not due to any intention to conceal anything, nor was it because she distrusted the Xianlai Sect.

On the contrary, it was precisely because he loved this place so much that he didn't want the Immortal Sect to become an enemy of the Clear Moon Sect if they knew this secret, so he deliberately kept it to himself.

Anyway, whether the spring is spiritual or not is irrelevant to the Immortal Sect, so it doesn't matter whether you know it or not.

"So that's how it is. You're from the Qingyue Sect. No wonder Liu Feng and the others rescued you by chance near the Qingyue Sect." Xu Yihan said, as if he had just found out. "So what are your plans for the future? You're not a formal disciple of my Xianlai Sect. Now that your injuries have healed and your memories have returned, we won't stop you if you want to leave."

"No, please, Sect Leader Xu, don't send me away!"

Zhao Ning suddenly looked up, somewhat flustered, "I... I like the Immortal Sect, I like my senior sisters and brothers, I like my junior sister, I like everything here... I want to stay and become a formal disciple!"

Xu Yihan frowned, "But you are, after all, a member of the Qingyue Sect..."

Zhao Ning panicked, which was precisely why she hadn't confessed that she had regained her memories.

She was afraid that no one would believe she wasn't a traitor, and she was afraid that the Immortal Sect wouldn't want to keep her and would even send her away!

The days Zhao Ning spent here were probably the happiest days of her life. There was no competition, no backstabbing, no double-dealing, and no stern seniors or cold managers.

Everyone here is like family, kind and gentle, and she is very happy.

Even in cultivation, she felt that perhaps because things were going too smoothly, she was not at all slower than Qingyue Sect.

In fact, Zhao Ning was an elite disciple of Qingyue Sect before, and she was outstanding among all her fellow cultivators in the sect. Otherwise, she would not have been qualified to cultivate in the Nine Nether Spring.

Because of this, she has a deeper understanding of the Qingyue Sect's higher-ups and can see further, which makes her superior to the Xianlai Sect immediately apparent.

Even if the Immortal Sect were no longer a small sect of a few dozen people, Zhao Ning would still be willing to stay forever and cultivate with her senior brothers and sisters.

"Sect Leader Xu, no one knows I'm still alive. They all think I'm dead. Besides, I've broken with the Qingyue Sect and will definitely not go back." She explained hastily. "Or do you not believe what I'm saying, and think I've betrayed the Qingyue Sect and am untrustworthy?"

That's not true.

Zhao Ning is someone Mo Jiuwei trusts, so what she says must be true, and she would not do anything detrimental to the Xianlai Sect.

However, Xu Yihan couldn't appear too trusting of her, as that would be illogical.

So he then asked Zhao Ning a few more detailed questions, and after she answered, he made her swear an oath to her heart demons, promising not to betray the Immortal Sect.

After he finished making the sample, he nodded, which was considered as permission for Zhao Ning to stay in the Immortal Sect from now on.

Zhao Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief, her happy eyes beaming with joy.

"By the way, Sect Leader, I would like to take charge of the sect's stewardship from now on. Please grant my request!" she volunteered.

This is a pleasure she has only recently discovered.

She hadn't noticed it before, but recently she's found herself enjoying handling miscellaneous sect affairs, whether it's dealing with external relations and other sects or arranging internal affairs.

The Immortal Sect is undoubtedly still a "seedling," lacking everything and incomplete in every aspect. As the number of disciples increases in the future, there will be many more complicated matters to handle.

She wanted to be the head manager, to handle everything properly, and to see the Immortal Sect become more and more organized and stronger!
"Are you sure?" Xu Yihan wasn't actually surprised, because he had noticed it in the past few days. "This way, you might delay your cultivation time."