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

"Have you ever considered that she doesn't have a superior or top-grade spiritual root? Rather, she's the legendary..." Zhu You barely managed to suppress his agape expression and calmly said, "A Heavenly Rank."

Her feelings were complicated at that moment.

That was a top-grade item! What was Yueqing Sect thinking back then? They just let it go like that?

Ye Qinghan: "I've thought about it." Back when he was going through the tribulation of the Nascent Soul stage, she insisted on coming over, and not only did she come over, she also helped him share most of the burden.

He had considered this possibility back then.

But he had no chance to confirm this guess; he couldn't very well drag Ye Qiao and force her to press her hand onto the testing stone to interrogate her.

All the cultivators outside the arena automatically cleared a path for the secret realm, and heavenly lightning fell continuously from mid-air, giving no one a chance to catch their breath.

He went berserk and started hacking at Ye Qiao in the secret realm.

At first, they were still able to be shocked, but later they were too busy to take care of themselves, because this heavenly lightning would affect innocent people outside the arena. Even if it didn't strike them directly, the aftershocks of the lightning tribulation would be enough to cause trouble for some people with low cultivation levels.

Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, the sect leader of the Sword Inquiry Sect frowned and quickly stepped forward to take charge. "Yunhen."

"Set up a protective barrier."

Seeing this, Yunhen calmly stepped forward. He stood with his hands behind his back, and white runes were cast out in an array, creating a barrier that protected all the cultivators under the array, preventing them from being affected by the lightning tribulation and fleeing in panic.

Yunhen's feelings were also complicated. He had never seen a Golden Core stage lightning tribulation cause such a commotion in his life, to the point that he had to personally set up an array.

"Is Ye Qiao really alright?" Mingxuan pressed his face against the barrier, looking worried. Although he knew she could absorb it, her appearance was still quite frightening.

"Don't worry," Xue Yu said calmly, his eyes equally fixed on the scene. "The problem likely lies with the secret realm."

I hope the people in the secret realm are alright.

The Changming Sect knows the inside story, but the outside world doesn't. Ye Qiao is a very tenacious creature, which is specifically reflected in the fact that she can be so carefree and still be alive and well.

The situation is different now.

Under the tribulation of lightning, all things are like ants.

That lightning tribulation was even more terrifying than the one Ye Qinghan experienced last time.

It was clearly not a lightning tribulation; it was an attempt to strike her to death.

"In this situation, either the spiritual root is of the highest grade or above, or it has offended the Heavenly Dao, or..." The elder paused, then said in a low voice, "...both."

The combined power would be too much for even a Nascent Soul cultivator to withstand, let alone a Golden Core cultivator.

His words caused a huge stir.

Above the highest grade, only the highest grade remains.

Several sect elders' gazes also darkened slightly. If Ye Qiao could come out alive, then Changming Sect would have really hit the jackpot.

Who wouldn't want a Heavenly Spiritual Root? If they could, everyone would want to drag Ye Qiao out right now, and maybe even take the opportunity to bring her into their own sect.

But how could Ye Qiao, who was only at the Golden Core stage, withstand such a tribulation?

Based on Ye Qiao's long experience of being struck by lightning, it would take at least three days to finish. At that point, there were two possibilities: either the lightning tribulation would collapse the secret realm, or the secret realm would throw her out.

The question is whether the secret realm can hold out until the fifth day before they can throw her out.

The situation reversed at this moment. Ye Qiao, who was being targeted, lay on the ground like an old man. Before each lightning tribulation in mid-air, it would tear through the secret realm and then fall down on her with perfect accuracy.

Ye Qiao's long eyelashes trembled slightly as the heavenly lightning struck her, washing over her meridians and crushing her internal organs. Although cultivators heal quickly, the pain was real.

The faster the lightning tribulation struck, the faster the entire secret realm would teeter on the brink of collapse. Ye Qiao sensed its distortion and agitation, calmly lying in the center, and even had the mind to slowly give the secret realm the middle finger.

Ahhh.

The secret realm is furious.

"Get out."

"Get out of my secret realm!!"

The sounds from this secret realm are quite childlike.

Ye Qiao said innocently, "But my identity token is broken."

"Didn't you want to keep me in the first place?" she calmly replied. "Perhaps I can stay until the lightning ends."

The secret realm, enraged, scattered and then reassembled. If it were to be cleaved until the end, would it even survive?

But at this moment, it couldn't kick her away. The lightning kept striking, and it didn't even have a chance to get close to Ye Qiao, let alone kick her away.

The elders, who had initially thought Ye Qiao wouldn't make it to the next day, gradually noticed something strange: "She seems... like nothing's wrong?"