I saved the entire sect by playing idly by letting things fall apart.

Two artifact cultivators worked together to bind the two demons with magical artifacts. To prevent any mishaps, several alchemists took turns feeding them Spirit Sealing Pills. "When will the elders come in?"

"It'll probably be early tomorrow morning."

"So what exactly happened?" Chu Xingzhi seized the opportunity to get revenge, kicking the two demons hard. "How did these Nascent Soul stage cultivators manage to sneak in?"

In theory, even if someone enters a secret realm, they should be suppressed to the Golden Core stage and not reach the Nascent Soul stage, which is a much smaller realm.

Yun Que was too weak to speak. She clenched the Origin Bead tightly in her fingertips, found a secluded spot, and quietly absorbed the energy inside. The bead, which could forcefully suppress the cultivation level of the secret realm, was surging with unbelievable spiritual energy.

With just a little spiritual energy entering her body, she could feel her cultivation level loosening.

Xue Yu shook his head. "I don't know."

We'll have to wait until they get out and the elders can explain what happened.

The secret realm finally opened on the second day.

No one dared to sleep all night, guarding the two demons. When they saw the secret realm open, they couldn't wait to run out. Ye Qiao, however, was carefree and slept the best. She leisurely walked at the very end of the group.

As soon as the results came out, an apple came flying at her.

Ye Qiao caught the apple with perfect accuracy, took a bite as she did so, and asked, puzzled, "What are you doing?"

What did she do wrong to make the audience hate her so much?

"Ah! Sorry, I hit the wrong one." The little girl who threw the apple looked nervously at her: "I meant to hit the magpie."

Ye Qiao: "..." She took another bite, and it was quite sweet.

The other party immediately let out a howl: "Ahhh, Ye Langlang ate my apple!"

Ye Qiao walked away nonchalantly, munching on an apple, while the remaining elders had to stay behind to clean up the mess left by these brats, such as the Origin Pearl hidden in Yun Que's hand.

Seeing that everyone had come out safely, the cultivators breathed a sigh of relief. Who would have thought that these children would cooperate so well at such a crucial moment?

"A bunch of ignorant brats." Qin Fanfan laughed and cursed. To be honest, he was quite excited watching this competition.

"That's normal." Elder Zhao chuckled. "Young people are impetuous and reckless; of course they won't consider so many things."

After Ye Qiao came out and saw all the elders were there, she raised an eyebrow and asked, "Just wondering, do the results from the competition still count?"

As of now, Changming Sect is in first place and Wenjian Sect is in second place. If we take that into account, then regardless of the outcome of the team competition, Changming Sect will be in first place.

"It counts." The elder of the Sword Inquiry Sect nodded, as compensation for Ye Qiao's final act of saving the world.

Originally, the secret realm was interrupted halfway through, so in principle, an extra round should have been added. But Ye Qiao turned the tide at the crucial moment, so it's no wonder that Changming Sect got first place.

After Song Hansheng left the secret realm and regained his martial arts skills, he began to berate Yun Que. He asked coldly, "You have a top-grade spiritual root, yet you don't even have the basic ability to protect yourself?"

If it weren't for the quick reactions of the other disciples, those two demons would have really gotten away.

"I didn't do it on purpose." Yun Que's eyes suddenly reddened. "You've always looked down on me, and I've never seen you protect me."

Song Hansheng, who had cleaned up countless messes for her, was speechless.

Mingxuan leaned lazily against Ye Qiao, his voice nonchalant: "Wasn't she just talking nonsense?"

Who does that jerk Song Hansheng even look down on?

Even a dog passing by him that happens to glance at Song Hansheng will be met with a disdainful look.

Song Hansheng was so angry that he blurted out, "Why should I respect you? Because you can only draw one talisman in half a year?"

"You're both direct disciples, so why don't you reflect on where you fall short compared to her?" He pointed at Ye Qiao.

Ye Qiao waved her hand, "No."

Why did you call her?

Yun Que realized for the first time what it meant for fortune to turn around. She was the center of attention before, but now she was being compared to Ye Qiao by everyone.

After leaving the secret realm, a group of disciples gathered for a meeting. The elders, their heads aching from the noise, clapped their hands to signal them to be quiet: "Yun Que stays. The other disciples are free to leave or stay."

Wow.

Did Yunque stay behind?

This is going to be interesting.

Everyone wanted to join in the fun, so no one was willing to leave. Being stared at by so many people made Yun Que feel a sense of panic, like sitting on pins and needles. She pinched her palms and barely managed to calm herself down.

"Where is the Origin Pearl?" The Sword Inquiry Sect elder stared at her, his voice suddenly turning cold: "Take it out."

Yun Que didn't want to give it, so she pleaded, "Elder, we've already given it, what's the point of going back?"

The fact that she didn't trigger the barrier only proves that it should have belonged to her.

No one else can get it even if they want to.

When Ye Qiao heard about the Origin Pearl, she tilted her head and thought for a moment. Was it mentioned in the original work? It should have, but it seemed that there was no mention of the Demon Clan, and it didn't seem to have caused such a big commotion.

After the female protagonist obtained it, she immediately reached the Nascent Soul stage.

Such speed at which he broke through the barrier was enough to make anyone who witnessed it call him an unparalleled genius.

Yun Que feigned composure: "The Changming Sect has also destroyed secret realms before. I only took the Origin Pearl and did not cause any damage."

Seeing that she was still trying to argue, the elder of the Sword-Asking Sect's voice turned completely cold: "It collapsed. The secret realm will find a suitable vessel to reappear in a hundred years. If you take this away, the secret realm will lose its realm suppression. In the future, any Nascent Soul cultivator can be slaughtered. What will happen to the rogue cultivators who enter the great secret realm then? If there are casualties, will you be responsible?"

The members of the Changming Sect, who had been innocently mentioned, lowered their heads once again.

I don't understand, I don't understand.

The elder of the Azure Water Sect coughed, his words carrying a pointed meaning: "The Changming Sect should reflect on why you're always involved."

"And Ye Qiao."

"Bringing a contractor with a domain into the secret realm without authorization is a violation of the rules."

"I'm giving you a public reprimand. Don't do this again."

A contractor with his own domain was brought into a secret realm, and the elders just let it go so easily?

"That's unfair." Su Zhuo frowned. "She brought a contractor with a domain into the secret realm without permission. The number of demonic beasts should be invalidated."

"I already criticized her by name just now." The elder of the Sword Inquiry Sect glanced coldly at Yun Que. "Oh, by the way, the number of demonic beasts in the Moon Purity Sect has been reduced to zero this time."

The Yueqing Sect will take responsibility for the mistakes made by Yun Que.

"It's impossible for the Changming Sect to be abolished." The elder chuckled and retorted, "Without Ye Qiao, do you really think you could have made it out on your own?"

"She just gave away a mustard seed bag, right?" All the disciples present saw it; the ones who saved the person were two weapon cultivators from the Chengfeng Sect.

The elder waved his hand, not wanting to say more to him, "Go back and look at the memory stone yourself, let's not talk about this for now."

"Yun Que." The sect leader of the Sword Inquiry Sect unleashed his overwhelming aura upon Yun Que alone.

A suffocating sense of oppression washed over her, and Yun Que was forced to kneel down.

"You took the Origin Pearl; do you know what mistake you made?"

Yun Que had never been forced to kneel by a superior in such a coercive way. Now, she could see Ye Qiao standing to the side, looking at her calmly, whenever she looked up.

She felt increasingly humiliated.

"Forced to kneel," Xue Yu said in a clear, gentle voice, blinking slightly. "This is the first time I've ever seen something like this."

"I've knelt before too." Ye Qiao hadn't expected this practice to be so uncommon. She glanced at Yun Hen: "Sect Leader Yun used to do this all the time."

Good guy.

Qin Fanfan immediately turned her head, "What did she do wrong? You made her kneel?"

He always raised his disciples in a hands-off manner. Ye Qiao was taken in halfway through, but even someone taken in halfway shouldn't be bullied like this. What serious mistake did he make by forcing her to kneel under duress?

Yunhen never expected that the fire would spread to him.

Ye Qiao was right in the center of the conversation, and all the cultivators outside were listening intently. How could he possibly admit that he forced her to kneel down because he stole a spiritual herb from her? How shameful!

Song Hansheng also found it strange.

He always believed that Ye Qiao disregarded the kindness of raising him and chose the Changming Sect over the inner sect position of the Yueqing Sect and the position of personal disciple of the Changming Sect. He believed that Ye Qiao left the mountain without looking back because he wanted to be a personal disciple.

Yunhen dared not answer.

Ye Qiao shrugged, and seeing that he didn't speak, she spoke for him: "Maybe it's because I brought back spiritual plants, and Sect Master Yun wanted to give them to his little disciple. I didn't want to give them to him, so he forced me to kneel down."

"..."

"Ye Qiao." Yun Hen's face turned cold. "We'll discuss this when we get back."

The longer they talk, the worse it will be for him.

The sect leader of the Sword Inquiry Sect gently pinched the space between his brows, glancing at Yun Hen with surprise. He hadn't expected that Ye Qiao and the Moon Cleansing Sect had such a story behind them.

"Alright. Where's the Origin Pearl, Yun Que?" Afraid that Ye Qiao might reveal something else, Yun Hen could only quickly change the subject, looking at Yun Que and saying in a deep voice, "Take it out."

Yun Que pursed her lips and knelt on the ground, trying to buy more time, but the other elders would not give her that chance. The oppressive aura continued to fall on her without making a sound, and the sound of her delicate bones breaking made her face turn pale suddenly.

I wanted to speak, but I couldn't say a word.

Meeting the slightly cold gaze of the Sword Inquiry Sect Master, she instantly understood that this was a threat to her, and Yun Que tremblingly returned the bead.

But the oppressive aura didn't recede. The other party said calmly, "Keep kneeling. What is the punishment for betraying your comrades according to your Moon Purity Sect rules?"

"Song Hansheng," he called on Yue Qingzong's top student, "you recite it."

Song Hansheng withdrew his gaze, "At best, they will be confined to the forbidden area to reflect on their mistakes; at worst, they will be expelled from the sect."

Expelling him from the sect is definitely out of the question. With the Grand Competition just around the corner, where would they find another direct disciple?

"I will give you all an explanation." Yunhen felt bad being stared at by so many elders with accusatory eyes.

He was extremely disappointed in Yun Que, unable to understand why his once exceptionally talented disciple had turned out this way. Even now, he couldn't help but think that if Ye Qiao were still alive, perhaps he wouldn't be in this predicament today.

"Is spiritual root really that important?" Ye Qiao finally understood. So the two Nascent Soul cultivators who entered the secret realm were the female lead's doing.

Even after all this, aren't you going to kick them out of the sect?

Qin Fanfan knew that these children all had objections and were extremely indignant. He gave a wry smile: "Now that we can't find any other top-grade spiritual roots, if we really give them up, wouldn't that just benefit other sects?"

"We can't just give up a top-grade spiritual root like that."

"Oh." Ye Qiao understood. She began to extrapolate: "So, in our cultivation world, the higher the spiritual root, the more powerful you are. Since I have a Heavenly Spiritual Root, does that mean I can kill her without any problem?"

Anyway, those with high spiritual roots are awesome.

Qin Fanfan: "..."

Makes sense.

That makes no sense whatsoever!

However, Ye Qiao was right about one thing: in the cultivation world, the higher the spiritual root, the more powerful one is. Ye Qiao's Heavenly Spiritual Root will probably be known to all the elders when she undergoes her Golden Core stage tribulation.

Yun Que was forcibly taken away, and the other disciples, seeing that there was not much to see, gathered in twos and threes to try to review the situation in the previous secret realm.

"Junior Sister." Mingxuan pinched her cheek, puzzled, "How come you're playing with Song Hansheng?"

Ye Qiao can indeed team up with anyone, but the combination with Yue Qingzong seems a bit too strange.

She slapped him away, saying, "It was just a coincidence." Ye Qiao then pointed out Ming Xuan's actions, adding, "Also, don't pinch the number one's face; it's expensive."

Mu Chongxi chuckled, "Oh, oh, oh, so you've got it all set up?"

Xue Yu: "Isn't the Sword Inquiry Sect number one?"

They remembered that at the beginning, Wenjian Sect was far ahead, but later a group of people fled together. Logically, Wenjian Sect should have been in first place.

"Yeah, right." Chu Xingzhi, hearing the commotion from the Changming Sect, casually squeezed in. "Shouldn't we be in first place?"

He even took a look at it at the time.

Seeing this, Ye Qiao took out the jade slip and showed it to them. It also contained a ranking of points.

"Do you see this? This is all the empire I conquered for you."

The top spot on the list prominently features the name Changming Sect.

"Damn, Your Majesty is brilliant!" Mu Chongxi exclaimed obsequiously, not knowing what had happened, but praising her was the right thing to do.

Mingxuan glanced at him: "If your father knew, he would break your legs." He's a prince, yet he calls you "Your Majesty" so naturally.

"It's alright." Mu Chongxi waved his hand. "He's in the mortal realm and doesn't know anything about the cultivation world."

After Ye Qiao said that, the disciples who were originally planning to disperse subconsciously glanced at the rankings.

The first one is indeed the Changming Sect.

"How did you get first place?" Ye Qinghan's gaze shifted slightly, her voice indifferent. "And where were you when Shen Ziwei and the others were rescuing people?"

All of her close disciples were present at the time, but she was the only one who disappeared.

"Of course I'm going—" Ye Qiao paused slightly, feigning seriousness, "to save the world."

The other protégés have already started rolling their eyes.

Keep bragging.

"Really." Ye Qiao expressed her dissatisfaction with their attitude, and said slowly, "Otherwise, how do you think you were released?"

She's been very busy this time. Although she's always busy, that's for sure.

Seeing this, Mingxuan patted her head and asked, "Where's the recording stone? Does anyone have one? Let's come and see what happened."

The way she rode that big bird, looking all travel-worn, clearly meant she was up to something again somewhere they didn't know.

"I have some." Zhu You took it out. Were all these trusted disciples gathered here for a meeting? Of course not, they didn't get along well with each other.

The main purpose is to review the previous secret realm and see what exactly Duan Hengdao, Shen Ziwei, and Ye Qiao, the three people who ran out, were up to.

"Shall we take a look together?" Zhu You asked for the opinions of those present.

All the disciples were present and nodded in agreement.

Ye Qinghan said calmly, "Let me see."