Junior Sister must ascend this time!

Fortunately, Yun Qing often poisoned Yan Li, so refining an antidote wasn't too difficult.

Half an hour later, Ling Yue slowly woke up, her gaze towards Yun Qing even more intense. "Wow! Junior Sister Yun Qing, you actually took me down without making a sound!"

"This is so exciting! I love it! Please teach me how!"

Yun Qing: ………

Ling Yue thought Yun Qing was unwilling to teach, so he said pitifully, "Every time there's a competition between secret realms or sects, our Biyun Sect always comes in last place. Even when we encounter demons or evil cultivators, we alchemists can only do logistical work in the back."

"We also want to charge into battle like you, at least to have some ability to protect ourselves..."

"That's why...that's why I've taken the liberty of coming to your sect." Ling Yue said, getting up. "If Junior Sister Yun Qing is in a difficult position, it's alright for me to leave now..."

"Just pretend... just pretend I was never here. I'll think of another way..."

Having drunk too much of Yan Li's aged green tea, Yun Qing immediately realized that Ling Yue was using a feigned retreat as a tactic to advance.

However, there's no need to hide the formula for her poison pill; it would be best if it could be used to repel the demons.

As one of the seven major sects, the Biyun Sect primarily focuses on alchemy. Giving this pill formula to the Biyun Sect might allow them to use it as a basis to develop more types of poison pills.

In conjunction with their medical skills, some are responsible for detoxification and healing, while others are responsible for making and administering poisons. They are well-rounded in both offense and defense, and do not need to rely entirely on the protection of other sects.

Yun Qing pulled Ling Yue to sit on a stone chair. "I didn't mean I didn't want to teach you. I was just going over the order of releasing the poisonous plants."

Ling Yue exclaimed happily, "Really?! You're really willing to hand over the pill formula to us?"

As Yun Qing wrote down the pill formula, she said, "Senior Sister Lingyue, have you ever thought about using the pill furnace as a weapon?"

Ling Yue: "Huh? Is this okay?"

Yun Qing pulled out a handful of explosive talismans. "Fill the alchemy furnace with explosive talismans and throw it out to blow him up!"

She then pulled out two more black iron rods. "If the opponent's cultivation level is much higher than yours, use these to tap the edge of the alchemy furnace to increase their physical attack. While they're distracted, run away quickly!"

Finally, she pulled out an iron chain. "This is a spiritual energy chain forged by my second senior sister. It's incredibly sturdy. Lock it to the alchemy furnace, then throw the furnace out, smash one to death, and bring it back to continue smashing."

Lingyue listened with stars in her eyes, writing it all down!

Under Yun Qing's persuasion, Ling Yue spent 100,000 spirit stones to buy a bunch of poisonous spirit plants, explosive talismans, spirit power chains, and even a black iron rod.

Both sides felt they had made a huge profit.

It was already evening when Ling Yue left. Yun Qing sat on the stone bench, happily counting spirit stones. It had to be the richest Biyun Sect, they were so generous!

But as she counted to the end, Yun Qing suddenly realized there was a great deal of resentment behind her, and her body stiffened.

Are there vengeful spirits within the sect?

Yun Qing slowly turned her head, already prepared for battle...

"Second...Second Senior Sister?"

Cen Ning leaned against the courtyard gate, her stray hairs blowing in the wind across her face. Her once upturned, almond-shaped eyes now drooped into two pitiful lines.

"You call her senior sister..."

"I was repairing that spear for you in the weapon-refining room, and here you are affectionately calling someone else 'Senior Sister'..."

Yun Qing quickly stood up, scattering spirit stones all over the ground. She ran over and hugged Cen Ning tightly, rubbing against her. "Second Senior Sister, you're finally out of the weapon-refining room! I missed you so much!"

She released Cen Ning and stuffed the spirit stones on the table into Cen Ning's hand. "Look, these are the spirit stones I earned today. Give them all to Second Senior Sister! Second Senior Sister, don't be angry, okay?"

Cen Ning couldn't hold back any longer and said with a smile, "Second Senior Sister was just teasing you, how could I be angry with you?"

"Come on, I'll take you to see that spear. I've repaired half of it. The other half is more complicated, but it should be finished before the sect competition."

"Really?! Second Senior Sister is the best!"

As she spoke, Yun Qingqing couldn't help but kiss her.

Cen Ning's face instantly turned red. Junior sister is so cute!

…………

With the sect competition approaching, the elders of Chengtian Sect unanimously decided that they could no longer let these kids run wild.

Xuanwei, Mingyuan, Linxu, Yuehua, and Yanli reached a rare consensus: they must train them until they were completely exhausted in the next two weeks.

Yun Qing was still asleep when Pei Shubai dragged her to the back mountain. "Senior Brother, what mission requires us to get up so early? Can't we wait until later?"

She didn't hear Pei Shubai's reply; instead, a beast's roar completely snapped her back to reality.

"Huh... what does that mean? We've fallen right into a spirit beast's den?"

Si Mingche grabbed her hand and ran, "Run, junior sister! If you don't run, you'll be eaten!"

"Ouch! Don't bite my butt!"

Mingyuan stood on a high place, holding a megaphone, and said, "Kids, starting today, you all have to get up at the turn of the day and run fifty laps around the back mountain. If you're fifteen minutes late, you'll have to do ten extra laps!"

After taking a couple of bites of the spirit fruit, he continued, "To motivate you, I've borrowed five Nascent Soul stage spirit beasts from the Spirit Control Sect. Note that they're borrowed! So you can't harm them, understand?"

Si Mingche wailed, "Isn't this just letting us get beaten up unilaterally? No, it's letting us get devoured."

"Uncle-Master Mingyuan, how cruel you are..."

Yun Qing couldn't help but ask Cen Ning, "Second Senior Sister, was Master Mingyuan always this abnormal?"

Cen Ning shook her head. "He's probably gone astray."

She wouldn't say who she learned it from.

Even the usually expressionless Jiang Mian couldn't hold back anymore, "Uncle-Master Mingyuan, I hate you!!!"

Mingyuan happily finished a spirit fruit, then took out a plate of steamed buns from his storage ring. "I've never found these steamed buns so delicious! Seeing these little brats suffer makes me so hungry. Delicious, so delicious..."

His voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for the five running people to hear.

What followed was a series of greetings from the five people, filled with birdsong and the fragrance of flowers...

After running fifty laps, the five men felt as if their legs were having a mind of their own and were completely out of their control.

Si Mingche was the first to collapse to the ground, lying on his back. "I can't go on. Tomorrow, I might as well just get eaten by a spirit beast. I can't even run one lap!"

The others lay down beside him, and Pei Shubai said calmly, "Don't worry, given Uncle Mingyuan's personality, he'll probably make you run fifty laps before he eats you."

Si Mingche wailed again, "Ah! Help! I'm not going to survive!"

Suddenly, a face appeared above the five people's heads, and Linxu said with a smile, "My dear disciple, what's wrong? Your master has come to save you."

The five people trembled and slowly began to roll away from Lin Xu. "You...don't come any closer!"

Lin Xu smiled like a villain as he slowly approached the five people. "Children, don't be afraid, I'm very gentle..."