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

KFC asked, "Ye Qiao, what good would it do you to deceive them?"

Ye Qiao: "It can give me a brief moment of happiness."

Once a cultivator reaches a certain level, they can choose to maintain their appearance at a certain stage. Xie Chuxue chose the appearance of a young man around twenty years old, while the other sect leaders, perhaps to maintain their dignity, all appeared as a bunch of old men.

Although Xie Chuxue is disliked by both people and dogs, at least the image of the junior uncle is pleasing to the eye.

This excuse makes sense. Ye Qiao said that she was over sixty years old and had a young child with her. In the spirit of respecting the elderly and caring for the young, it was difficult to refuse.

Moreover, they gradually discovered that this person was not only old, but also a little hard of hearing.

"May I ask your name, senior?" he asked tentatively.

Ye Qiao: "Huh? Young man, what did you say?"

Xiaoqi leaned close to her ear and repeated it before she could hear it clearly. She smiled and said, "Oh? Me? My surname is Li. You can just call me Grandma Li."

"..." To be honest, looking at her face, I really couldn't bring myself to call her "Grandma".

"Miss Li."

After thinking about it, he decided not to follow Ye Qiao's suggestion and instead politely declined, saying, "It might be dangerous for us to travel with you."

Their team itself wasn't particularly strong, but they were all young masters and ladies from prominent families with plenty of resources, so at least they were safe and sound.

Nowadays, people are generally reluctant to bring along an elderly woman who is over sixty years old.

It would be fine if she were a powerful being, but she only reached the Golden Core stage at the age of sixty. Everyone else is worried about being dragged down if they bring her along.

Ye Qiao shook her head and smiled with relief: "It's okay, I just like younger teams, they're more energetic." She was relieved that these geniuses of the cultivation world were still so naive.

The other person's face stiffened. Seeing that the other person didn't seem to understand his subtle refusal, he could only chuckle awkwardly and turn to chat with his companion. The journey was rather boring, and there weren't many topics to discuss in the cultivation world; it mostly revolved around these geniuses.

"I can hardly believe that Ye Qinghan didn't get first place on the sword cultivator ranking." A little girl hugged her sword, feeling depressed.

"I heard they ran into Ye Qiao. They had a really bad run of points, and Mu Chongxi took them all. They were really unlucky."

The boy lowered his eyes. "To warrant an arrest warrant from the Eight Great Families, I wonder what these disciples did."

As the saying goes, "family scandals should not be aired in public." No matter how despicable the actions of those close relatives were, they were still their own children. They didn't have the habit of letting outsiders watch their misdeeds, so outsiders could only speculate and couldn't figure out exactly what had happened to the eight major families.

"However," he changed the subject, "if I were one of those direct disciples, I would have kept a low profile long ago."

"This kind of news spreads very quickly, doesn't it? I bet those people are hiding in some shady corner right now."

Everyone dislikes those direct disciples. The cultivation world's vast resources are all concentrated in the Five Sects, leaving the rest to be divided up by the Eight Great Families. Direct disciples are destined to be superior. It's quite unpleasant.

"A bunch of people who've barely even left their sects, and they call themselves the future of the cultivation world? I'm better than them."

"That's true," the girl in green explained, "Ye Qiao, who came in first place, is quite impressive."

Strictly speaking, Ye Qiao was not number one, but the team won the competition under her leadership, so no one would argue that Changming Sect was number one.

"Ye Qiao?" The boy blinked, frantically recalling for a few seconds. "I remember her bounty was pretty high, right?"

"I think it's nothing special, just hype," he muttered.

Ye Qiao glanced at the boy who had spoken, and this time, no longer pretending to be deaf, she suddenly asked, "What's your name?"

The other person was taken aback, not understanding why the old lady suddenly asked this question. "Me? My name is Zhou Xiu."

"Xiuer?" Ye Qiao called out naturally, patting Xiao Qi's head. "If my child gets married and has children, my grandchildren should be about your age by now."

She gave him a gentle smile. "I see you as my grandson."

Zhou Xiu didn't know why, but he felt like he was being taken advantage of. He didn't say anything. Ye Qiao suddenly stopped halfway through her walk. The others turned to look at her. Considering her age, Zhou Xiu, as the leader, asked her what was wrong.

Ye Qiao: "I'm getting old, my legs hurt."

I want to take a break.

Zhou Xiu: "..."

"Why don't you find a sedan chair to carry me? It'll be a good opportunity for me to rest my feet."

Zhou Xiu forced a smile and said, "There are no sedan chairs here."

Ye Qiao sighed, her tone tinged with regret, "Then please pour me a glass of water. Getting old makes me tired easily."

Zhou Xiu suppressed his anger and gave her a glass of water. Ye Qiao had been tormenting him all the way, always saying she was tired or thirsty, which made him furious. Every time she was about to lose her temper, Ye Qiao would lift Xiao Qi forward, cry to him, and say that her life was so miserable.

He couldn't vent his anger.

He endured it!

When he gets to the human world, he will definitely throw this damned old woman down there.

KFC asked her, "Why do you keep teasing him?"

Ye Qiao: "Because I lack manners."

"..."

Ye Qiao felt no psychological burden when directing people. Watching them busy themselves made her feel comfortable. Weren't they planning to encircle and annihilate them? She was just giving them a rehearsal beforehand.

"Her?" the boy exclaimed angrily. "She's too much trouble."

Throughout the day's journey, he listened to Ye Qiao's incessant chatter, which gave him a headache. How could a sixty-year-old person talk so much?

Ye Qiao: "Hey, Xiu'er. Come help Grandma tidy up."

He yelled angrily and stormed in, shouting, "I know!"

There's a junction between the mortal realm and the cultivation world. Reaching this junction will take you to your destination, but it's several days' journey from there. The junction is very close to the Eight Great Families, but the Eight Great Families don't allow sword-flying. Without a mount, you can only travel on foot.

Ye Qiao spent three days with these people, and they were all driven to the brink of collapse by her. In their eyes, this old woman was nothing more than a lazy, good-for-nothing scoundrel. There's always a reason why someone is pitiful.

Since no one was on guard against her, obtaining information was very easy.

Ye Qiao has a knack for manipulating people's minds. First, she tries to gain their sympathy to get them to let her in, then she pretends to be hard of hearing to lower their guard, and finally she resorts to shamelessness to torment them mentally.

Who would be wary of a lunatic?

She originally planned to test each of the many cultivator teams one by one, and find the dumbest team to get information out of them.

Her excuse was not clever; in fact, it was full of loopholes. A smart person would refuse it and then go with the flow to leave, joining a less clever team instead.

Of course, it's also possible that some clever people might think she's a master and invite her to join their team.

Regardless of which one, the goal has been achieved.

The information has been obtained.

The boundary between the human world and the cultivation world is located at the very center. At night, evil spirits will appear. These evil spirits are formed by the gathering of yin energy and are somewhat similar to ghost energy. They are afraid of light and cannot be completely eliminated. They multiply extremely quickly.

Ye Qiao had accidentally caught a few while traveling. Her spiritual sense was comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator. The other young men and women were indignant and condemned her. Fearing that these little lambs might get into trouble, Ye Qiao called out.

Zhou Xiu stormed over, furious: "What's wrong with you now?"

Ye Qiao: "I'm tired. Let's continue our journey tomorrow."

Zhou Xiu opened her mouth to refute her, but Ye Qiao continued her moral blackmail, "At your age, how can you bear to see an old woman like me walk such a long way?"

Of course, there were also good-tempered people in the group, such as the boy who called her "grandma" at the beginning, who was quite tolerant of Ye Qiao.

After all, in his view, Ye Qiao was the same age as his grandfather, and it was understandable that she would be a little eccentric after experiencing such a misfortune when she was young.

He nodded and glanced at the sky. "There's no rush. Let's go to the human world tomorrow."

Zhou Xiu: "This isn't a matter of whether it's urgent or not. Don't you think she's treating us like servants?!"

The girl in green nodded slightly. "Why are you so irritable? I feel like this old woman is a powerful figure with a story to tell."

People with great abilities often have rather eccentric tempers, and I always felt that this old woman wasn't just making things up.

Zhou Xiu: "A powerful cultivator at the Golden Core stage in his sixties?"

The girl hesitated for a moment, then said, "Don't you think she has a calm and collected demeanor, as if she has the whole situation under control?"

"She calls that having the big picture under control?" Zhou Xiu exclaimed, jumping up and down. "She's just giving us orders with ease, isn't she?"

"Can we take this opportunity to dump her?"

The good-natured boy shook his head. "That's not good." Although the other person did indeed have a lot on their plate.

She treated them all like her grandchildren. Whenever they tried to reason with her, she would use the ghost baby as a moral blackmail, constantly accusing them of not respecting the elderly.

Depend on.

I'm so angry!