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

If Ye Qiao were to break through, it would only be considered a forced breakthrough, similar to Ye Qinghan, or more accurately, even more exaggerated than Ye Qinghan, as she broke through three realms in a short period of time.

In this situation, the foundation is easily unstable, and if the secret realm hadn't insisted on causing trouble, she really wouldn't have planned to break through.

"Aren't even Nascent Soul stage demonic beasts enough for her to build a foundation?" Mingxuan stroked his chin: "Why don't you find a few sword cultivators to fight?"

"You can find someone with a similar cultivation level."

"What are you saying?" Mu Chongxi raised his chin. "Which of you disciples here isn't at a higher level than Junior Sister?"

"Hey. Yun Que." Ming Xuan clicked his tongue. "She's taller than Ye Qiao, but her foundation is weak. She's perfect for breaking through."

Zhou Xingyun: "Should I bring her here?"

"Walk."

The other four discussed it and then swaggered off to join other sects, since the secret realm wasn't targeting them anyway.

The Great Secret Realm offers many opportunities, but to be honest, ever since Ye Qiao joined, their attempts to enter the Secret Realm have either collapsed or involved in some shady dealings, leaving them with virtually no time to look for any opportunities.

"What are they fighting over?"

"Tsk." Mingxuan raised his hand to shield his forehead and looked at it. "It looks like a magical artifact."

The difference between spiritual artifacts and magical artifacts is that magical artifacts can be forged, while spiritual artifacts are mostly left behind in secret realms, and are of high grade and very rare.

Mu Chongxi wanted to join in the fun, "What kind of magical artifact is it? Why are so many people trying to steal it?"

The others claimed ignorance, but Xue Yu examined the emerging spiritual artifact, frowned slightly, and calmly said, "Spiritual artifact, the Crimson Lotus Cauldron."

"Ninth on the list of magical artifacts."

The alchemy furnace.

The group instantly lost interest. Xue Yu wasn't lacking in anything, but...

Xue Yu looked up and said, "We can help Ye Qiao get it."

She was poor and had nothing. The demon-binding rope was given to her by Duan Hengdao, and the spirit bow was someone else's, which she later gave back to Miaomiao.

"It's so high, is it even possible to climb up on a sword?"

"There's a ladder in mid-air," Xue Yu said. "You'll have to climb up there; you can't fly up on your sword."

This ladder is invisible and intangible, but it has a certain range, and it's easy to fall off if you're not careful. Moreover, the position in mid-air is quite intriguing.

Was this secret realm deliberately gathering so many people together just to target Ye Qiao and prevent others from helping her?

"You guys hold out a little longer." He remembered Ye Qiao's words clearly as she left, "I'm going to blow up this idiot's house in a bit."

The Crimson Lotus Cauldron floated in the uppermost sky, where several disciples who needed the alchemy furnace gathered together.

Xue Yu asked, puzzled, "What does Yun Que need this for?"

She's not a pill refiner.

"Who cares?" Mu Chongxi rubbed his hands together, eager to grab it.

As he spoke, he bent his knees and used the momentum to jump up. Sure enough, there was an invisible ladder in mid-air, and the surrounding area was not large, making it easy to fall down.

Yun Que was the closest to the Crimson Lotus Cauldron. She bypassed several people and stood at the top. When Mu Chongxi caught up, he didn't pay attention to her. He was fast and used to it during his training. Before Yun Que could react, she saw that the people from the Changming Sect had already climbed up.

She bit her lip, looking pitiful, "Why are you, a sword cultivator, trying to take it from me?"

Mu Chongxi: "What do you, a talisman cultivator, need a pill furnace for?"

His question was too direct. Yun Que hesitated slightly. Seeing that Mu Chongxi was about to catch up, she decided to go all out. She took out the Xuan Sword from her storage bag and swiftly slashed down at him with a sword technique. The sword light flashed, and a bloody wound appeared on Mu Chongxi's arm. The boy's pupils shrank slightly. He looked up and met Yun Que's cold gaze, only to be knocked off the ladder by her sword.

Zhou Xingyun reached out and grabbed him to prevent him from falling face-to-face with the ground. He looked up at Yun Que's sword-wielding moment and uttered two words: "Sword cultivator."

—Can she use a sword?

This caused a huge uproar both inside and outside the venue.

"She's a sword cultivator?"

"Wow, just like Ye Qiao?"

Ye Qiao concealed the fact that she was a Fu Xiu from the beginning, and then caught everyone off guard in the second round.

Suddenly, a 2.0 version of Ye Qiao appeared, and they were no longer as excited as the first time; they were just filled with emotion.

"So they were all hiding something."

"I always thought that the disciples of the Five Sects were not that simple, but I never expected that the Moon Clean Sect's trump card would be Yun Que."

Her performance was terrible; she was despised by countless people in the first four matches, and even the elders who had high hopes for her were somewhat disappointed.

The fifth game turned out to be something no one expected.

Mu Chongxi was caught completely off guard and his sword was knocked down. He returned, clutching his injured arm and grimacing, saying, "She knows how to use a sword."

Xue Yu tossed him the pill, "It's for clotting blood. Be careful with her, she's not quite right."

Mu Chongxi gave a vague reply: "I was careless."

By now, many disciples had gathered around, some from the Azure Water Sect and others from the Sword Inquiry Sect. The Azure Water Sect was the weakest in combat, and they were basically out of the running for snatching spiritual artifacts, but they were the richest.

The Wenjian Sect and Bishui Sect have been cooperating since entering the secret realm.

The moment Si Miaoyan saw the Crimson Lotus Cauldron, she made a promise without hesitation: "Help us get the Crimson Lotus Cauldron, and in the future, the Azure Water Sect will give you all the pills for free."

The Sword Sect members were all penniless; they couldn't afford any pills. Hearing that there was free money to be had, Chu Xingzhi immediately drew his sword without hesitation: "Go!"

The remaining sword cultivators were no pushovers either. They left only as afterimages as they climbed the ladder in a few quick steps. Yun Que gritted her teeth and threw talismans without looking back.

She had many talismans in her hand, and when she threw them down, the sword cultivators couldn't even touch her.

"My God." Zhou Xingyun reacted a beat late, uttering two words in a low voice, expressing his amazement at the speed of the other sword cultivators.

Mu Chongxi frantically patted him, yelling, "Stop yelling 'Oh my god!' Senior Brother, hurry up and get him!"

Didn't you see it was about to be taken away?

Yun Que was very fast, climbing all the way to the top of the Heavenly Ladder. Her eyes brightened slightly, and she reached out to touch the Red Lotus Cauldron, but in the next second she disappeared.

She was stunned.

Duan Hengdao slowly took a box out of his mustard seed bag, waved his hand, and the Red Lotus Cauldron flew towards him.

Yun Que watched helplessly as the alchemy furnace she had almost obtained flew away. She cried out anxiously, "Give it to me!"

Duan Hengdao ran off without looking back, saying, "Nah neah neah, no way."

Yun Que leaped up to grab it, and the group started fighting on the ladder.

Zhou Xingyun was urged to go up the ladder as well. With Ye Qinghan and Qin Huai, the sword cultivators, out of the game, he was practically invincible in the secret realm. He easily stood at the top and met Yun Que on the same ladder.

The two met unexpectedly, and Mingxuan below immediately shouted, "Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"Kick her!" Mingxuan: "Senior Brother."

Mu Chongxi shouted, "We have no manners, we'll go first, kick her off the stage quickly!"

Seeing this, Zhou Xingyun calmly glanced at Yun Que. Meeting his emotionless eyes, Yun Que panicked for a moment: "Senior Brother Zhou, you..."

The next second, Zhou Xingyun kicked her down without any hesitation.

Those with higher cultivation levels climbed directly to the top, eliminating Qin Huai and Ye Qinghan. The sword cultivators present were unable to stop Zhou Xingyun.

Duan Hengdao was simply unwilling to see Yun Que take it. Seeing Zhou Xingyun chasing after him, he knew that since his senior brother was out of the running, he couldn't protect this spiritual artifact either. But it was still a spiritual artifact on the Spiritual Artifact Ranking, after all. He wanted to struggle a little longer, hugging the shrunken Red Lotus Cauldron tightly, "Wait a minute!!"

"Let me ask you a question," he said, trying to sow discord. "You only have one alchemy furnace. Who will you give it to when you take it away?"

There are two alchemists.

"Give it to Ye Qiao." Xue Yu stroked his chin, his voice calm. "Her pills are a bit ugly. Maybe we can try to use a higher-grade one to see if we can salvage them." Although he felt that the ugly appearance of the pills Ye Qiao produced probably had little to do with the alchemy furnace.

"You don't want it?" Liu Yun asked in surprise. He admitted that Ye Qiao was very capable, but Xue Yu was also quite skilled in alchemy. Why should Ye Qiao get what so many people had obtained together?

Xue Yu raised an eyebrow: "My surname is Xue."

"If all else fails, she can always go home and inherit the Xue family business. Besides, you don't understand," he said slowly, "she's the only hope for our entire village."

"To sum her up in one sentence, she's a genius."

After he finished speaking, the others nodded in agreement.

A genius, no doubt about it.

Liu Yun: "...Are you guys out of your minds?"

"..."

Song Hansheng, watching from the sidelines, scoffed, "Tsk..."

So you think your Changming Sect is the only one that's united?

"Brother Song Hansheng! We will always support you!" A muscular man outside the seats shouted, twisting and turning as he began to yell.

The cold smile on Song Hansheng's lips froze in shock.

Duan Hengdao was holding the Red Lotus Cauldron and didn't want to give it up. He hesitated for a long time, and just as Zhou Xingyun was about to snatch it, a blue phoenix suddenly swooped down from mid-air and crashed into him.

Before the alchemy furnace was contracted, it was not large to begin with. The Azure Phoenix easily bit it with its beak and tried to throw it to the Cloud Magpie.

"Azure Phoenix!" Yun Que's eyes lit up. "Quickly, bring it here."

Zhou Xingyun frowned, drew his sword, and chased after the bird. The blue phoenix let out a long cry, the piercing sound causing countless people to instinctively cover their ears.

…It hurts so much.

In the blink of an eye, the blue phoenix flew away, creating distance between them.

"Don't let her get it!"

But at this distance, it was already too late to stop it.

"You guys are really making a lot of noise."

Really.

Ye Qiao could hear the noise from a great distance.

With lightning speed, she grabbed the sleeping KFC and hurled it at him. The phoenix, king of birds, instantly unleashed its oppressive aura. Bloodline suppression is extremely serious in the cultivation world. The two birds collided, and the Azure Phoenix instinctively prostrated itself on the ground.

Yun Que was still unwilling to give up. She gritted her teeth and continued to apply pressure: "Come here."

The master-servant contract only restricts the spirit beast itself. It let out a mournful cry, and only Ye Qiao and Yun Que remained unaffected by the ear-piercing mental attack.

KFC is her contracted beast, and mental suppression is useless against her.

Yun Que was quick-witted and tried to rush over to take the Red Lotus Cauldron, but Ye Qiao decisively got up to meet her. She wanted to break through, but a forced breakthrough required time to prepare. Ye Qinghan had prepared for several days last time, but she had only sat down for a few hours and they were already fighting.

The Crimson Lotus Cauldron is still below, and neither of them has gotten it yet.

Yun Que's eyes turned cold. He wanted to break her sword, but her stick, made of some unknown material, wouldn't budge even when he struck it.

She pursed her lips, seemingly lost in thought, and leaned closer, smiling softly, "During the competition, Senior Sister Ye Qiao, you wouldn't be using that brat with the domain, would you?"

Ye Qiao: "No need."

The moment Yun Que approached, she activated the third move of the Qingfeng Technique, forming a white arc with her sword. The Qingfeng Technique exploded at close range. Yun Que's magic weapon was activated in time, but she still couldn't withstand it and was shoved into the ground.

Ye Qiao, lacking any manners, stomped on her face, saying, "Whether you have a domain or not doesn't affect my ability to beat you up."

She didn't hold back at all this time. Yun Que's expression changed slightly, and she blocked it in time with the Vajra Talisman.

Mu Chongxi hurriedly shouted, "Ye Qiao, she can use a sword."

He had just finished reminding her when Yun Que's sword came slashing down straight down. The Yueqing Sect's sword technique was both offensive and defensive. If it were the first time Ye Qiao had seen it, she would have been hit squarely. However, the illusion had just demonstrated the Yueqing Sect's sword technique not long ago, so she had a better idea of ​​what to do and used the Stepping Breeze technique to dodge.

Just barely grazing past, Ye Qiao tilted her head: "Dual cultivation of sword and talisman?"

Her eyes lit up.

Among the many disciples present, those who were stronger than her were either alchemists or weapon cultivators. The only one whose Golden Core stage was weak was Yun Que, but Yun Que was a talisman cultivator, and Ye Qiao had no intention of using her to break through.

It turned out she had a trick up her sleeve.

Ye Qiao perked up, barely suppressing a laugh, and almost couldn't resist beckoning her to come and hit her.

Yun Que gripped the Xuan Sword in her hand. Seeing Ye Qiao's disheveled and dodging appearance, she felt slightly relieved: "You've come at the right time."

She also needed an opportunity to fully prove herself.

Although the Yueqing Sect mainly focuses on talismans, it doesn't mean they don't have sword cultivators. They are just not particularly noticeable among a group of talisman cultivators. Their swordsmanship is both offensive and defensive, continuing the Yueqing Sect's consistent approach.

Yun Que had been waiting for this day for a long time. Yun Hen insisted on locking her in the forbidden area because of the fourth secret realm incident, but she discovered a legacy inside, which contained many strange curse marks.

The swordsmanship passed down is based on the swordsmanship of the founder of the Yueqing Sect.

"Two sword talismans cultivating simultaneously." An elder of Chengfeng Sect stood up. "This generation of disciples is extraordinary."

"Can Ye Qiao fight?" Qin Fanfan asked Duan Yu.

Those were his students.

Duan Yu answered truthfully, "I can't beat them."

The suppression of realms is there for all to see.

Inside the arena, Ye Qiao was forced to constantly dodge using the "Stepping on the Breeze" technique. Yun Que's swordsmanship was cunning, and as she approached, she said without any politeness, "Is the Three Cultivations so powerful?" She smiled slightly, "You're nothing special."

Ye Qiao couldn't pinpoint her location. The two formed a formation at the same time, but Ye Qiao was clearly slightly faster.

Her formations combined the strengths of two sects: the speed of the Changming Sect and the power of the Yueqing Sect. As a result, Yun Que's expression stiffened slightly, and she was clearly struggling.

The scene of two sword talismans facing off in dual cultivation is unprecedented in the cultivation world for a hundred years.

"Heavens. The Moon Purity Sect has also been holding back this year."

"No wonder she had the Xuan Sword in her mustard seed bag."

"No wonder Yunhen was reluctant to punish her. She's a genius on par with Ye Qiao; who would be willing to punish her?"

"But we have Qiaoqiao and Sanxiu, Yunque can't."

"Stop bragging. If we're really comparing, Yun Que's spiritual root is actually higher than hers."

"Ye Qiao has improved; she's almost a completely different person from before," the elder of the Sword Inquiry Sect commented calmly, observing the arena. "But if this continues, Ye Qiao will lose."

Yun Que is two realms higher than her.

Unless she can break through, she will only be able to be completely dominated throughout the game.

Ye Qiao also felt the pressure. Apart from having a slight advantage in formations, she could only be suppressed and beaten. She couldn't help but sigh that she was indeed the female lead. Even without an inheritance, there was a second one. Was the Heavenly Dao making its favorite daughter have to cultivate two paths?

After the two started fighting, the disciples who had been attacked by the divine sense quickly got up and tried to retrieve the Red Lotus Cauldron.

Finally, Zhou Xingyun rushed ahead of them and picked up the Red Lotus Cauldron from the ground.

"A fight broke out."

Duan Hengdao: "Aren't you going to help?" The situation is clearly one-sided.

Mu Chongxi: "Don't you trust your good brother? We're brothers who've been through thick and thin together."

There's no use in being anxious. At this moment, Xue Yu pulled out some melon seeds. "You can eat them. Anyway, your Chengfeng Sect can't get second place. Third place is fine too. Stop struggling and just give up with us."

Duan Hengdao: "..."