Junior Sister must ascend this time!

Ye Xuan immediately threw herself into Yun Qing's arms, "I...I'm scared..."

Yun Qing, who was originally squatting in front of her, almost lost her balance when she was pounced on like that. Her hands froze in mid-air, not knowing where to put them.

But sensing the person in her arms trembling slightly, Yun Qing lowered her hand from mid-air and placed it on Ye Xuan's back, patting it gently twice.

"Don't worry, everything is alright now. We will bring you back to the Ye family safely."

Ye Xuan raised her face, sobbing, and said, "Really?"

"Of course," Yun Qing said, "but you have to tell us everything you know about the underground palace and the alliance leader."

Ye Xuan rubbed her throbbing head, trying to piece together everything she had seen and heard.

"After returning from the secret realm, I have been looking for an opportunity to investigate the Alliance Leader. I want to know what he is planning to do to our five families."

"But he was too cautious. He always had people around him, and even his residence was covered with arrays. I couldn't find a way to break through. Just when I was about to give up, I accidentally saw many disciples being sent to the underground palace, but those were disciples who had disappeared and died in the secret realm."

"I had a gut feeling that those disciples might be related to the Alliance Leader, so I hid near the underground palace. After that, I discovered that whenever a batch of disciples was sent over, he would go to the underground palace once, and his aura would be stronger than before when he came out."

Su Han: "So that's why you reminded me to stay away from the Alliance Leader?"

Ye Xuan nodded. "Once, I overheard his conversation with Elder Hu outside the underground palace, and that's when I learned that they were cultivating the Five Elements Spiritual Roots."

Pei Shubai frowned. "But in the current cultivation world, there are too few cultivators who cultivate with the five elemental spiritual roots. How are they going to be trained?"

Ye Xuan continued, "So they plan to cultivate five spiritual roots with a root value of over 95, representing the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and finally fuse them into a perfect spiritual root."

"So far, they have cultivated four spiritual roots, and only the water spiritual root is left, while I... am a single water spiritual root."

"After that..." Ye Xuan paused, then said somewhat embarrassedly, "I got arrested after that."

Su Han: "No wonder he agreed so quickly when I asked the Alliance Leader to let you return to the Ye family. That way we won't be curious about where you went."

Ye Xuan looked at Su Han and asked, "Is the first hurdle to becoming an elite disciple spiritual root value?"

"yes."

Su Han nodded. The spiritual root values ​​of all ten of them were indeed above ninety-five, and their spiritual root attributes were different.

Ye Xuan: "Before I lost consciousness, I heard them mention elite disciples. They said you were 'vessels,' and your spiritual roots would grow better if they stayed in your own bodies. They said you only needed to go to the Extreme and Holy Lands from time to time to purify and nourish your spiritual roots."

"So I guess what he really needs isn't us ordinary disciples who forcibly raised our spiritual roots. His initial target was you guys. You are his backup plan. Once a certain attribute is missing, he will choose a suitable person from there to fill the gap."

Su Han chuckled self-deprecatingly. It turned out that what he thought was appreciation was just a joke. They were cultivated, trained, and given the title of "elite" all so that one day they could hand over their spiritual roots to the Alliance Leader.

Si Mingche was dumbfounded. "With a leader like this, the future of the Immortal Alliance is truly bleak."

Yun Qing crossed her arms and sneered, "No, it should be said that with such an alliance leader in the cultivation world, the future is bleak."

She glanced at everyone present, then pointed to the land, "High spiritual root value, extremely holy land for cultivation, are you familiar with it?"

Gu Changfeng suddenly stood up. "Damn it! He's got his eye on our spiritual roots too? I knew it! Why did he give us such a good place? I'll fight him to the death!"

Yun Qing opened a corner of the barrier. "Go."

"Just a heads-up, even if his foundation is weak, he's still at the Void Refinement stage, one or two realms higher than you. I have high hopes for you using your Nascent Soul to crush his Void Refinement stage!"

Gu Changfeng sat down silently. "I didn't say now..."

Si Mingche suddenly yelled, "Junior Sister, 'we' seem to have gone mad!"

Yun Qing: ? ? ? ?

Si Mingche pointed to the three puppets running ahead, "Don't you think they're strange? I've been observing them for a long time, and they've been moving in that direction the whole time."

"Look, once they get to that spot, they stop running and start acting crazy. But after a while, they start running wildly again."

Yun Qing also found it strange. She looked at Cen Ning and asked, "Second Senior Sister, how many spirit stones did you put in them? Why do they seem to have an inexhaustible supply of spiritual energy?"

Cen Ning scratched his head. "Something's not quite right. They only put in one mid-grade spirit stone. Normally, it should stop within two hours."

Yun Qing said to Ye Xuan, "You stay inside the barrier to recover from your injuries. Let's go out and take a look."

As she spoke, she took the lead and stepped out of the barrier.

The group followed Yun Qing to the spot where the three puppets had been acting strangely, and they could clearly sense that the spiritual energy fluctuations there were different.

Shen Qingchen: "Something's not right here. I can clearly feel something here attracting my spiritual root."

Lu Xingzhou closed his eyes and sensed for a moment before speaking, "No, Senior Brother, are you mistaken?"

While the group was talking, the three puppets had already completed a lap. Seeing that someone had taken over their territory, they tilted their heads, and then the next second, they charged over, even faster than when they were chasing people.

The puppet "Si Mingche" accurately struck Gu Changfeng in the lower back. The force was not great, but the angle was tricky, causing him to fall flat on his face.

Immediately afterwards, the "Yun Qing" and "Su Han" puppets crashed into the back of Wu Zheng and Yue Heng's knees from the left and right respectively. As these two fell, those nearby were also pulled down and fell in large numbers.

Yun Qing, who was crouching on the ground checking the situation, heard a series of muffled thuds and groans behind her. Turning around, she saw people lying haphazardly.

Her lips twitched. "You're all supposed to be a group of Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators, and you're being treated like footballs by three puppets?"

After the three puppets knocked the person aside, they found the spot and started dancing wildly. Strangely, after they finished dancing, it was as if they were refilled with spirit stones, and they moved even faster.

Yun Qing had some suspicions in her mind, and she needed to verify them. So she kicked each of the three puppets once, and as they turned around, she pointed at Pei Shubai and the others, "They did it!"

Then she shouted to the crowd, "Quick, take them and run in different directions, scare them away!"

Stunned by the fall, the crowd had no choice but to get up and run.