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

"Stop fighting!" Chao Xi urged after seeing that no one moved. "There's really nothing on the eighteenth floor. If we have to say there's anything, would the row of little devils count?"

The friction and collision between the two Nascent Soul stage realms caused the seventeenth floor to tremble. Chao Xi had no reason to lie, and Zhu You also wanted to go to the eighteenth floor. Seeing Chao Xi say this, Mu Chongxi did not continue to stop them, and the group immediately headed to the bottom floor.

Then I was stunned by what I saw.

Q: What's on the eighteenth floor?

A: Yes, there's Ye Qiao and her gang of devils.

A group of kids were hung in a row, their pants pulled down by some scoundrel. Ye Qiao was still there, hypocritically saying something, "Hey, hey, don't be nervous, we're not devils."

The remaining few people had been there for quite some time; Mingxuan and Qilu were having a great time playing rock-paper-scissors.

It's not hard to understand why the two of them get along well.

But it depends on the occasion.

Two Nascent Soul stage cultivators on the seventeenth floor are fighting tooth and nail over whether to go or not, with domain sword spirits taking turns attacking, while you guys on the lowest floor are peacefully playing rock-paper-scissors?

The two groups of people who rushed over after hearing the commotion were collectively silenced.

"Sometimes I feel..." Mu Chongxi tilted his head back, unable to help but touch his arm and sigh, "Even dogs are more human than them."

Zhou Xingyun was also speechless with shock at the scene before him.

"Who pulled down their pants?" After a long pause, the eldest brother finally managed to ask.

When Mingxuan saw them follow him in, he clapped his hands and demonstrated his artistic act to them: "This is me and Qi Luqian's."

Seeing so many direct disciples, Qi Lu didn't forget that his purpose this time was to make more connections with them. So the young man happily abandoned Ming Xuan and introduced himself to them with an elegant demeanor, "Qi Lu, a direct descendant of the Qi family, late stage of Golden Core, please give me your guidance."

Unexpectedly, his close associates looked at him with even more complicated expressions.

Is this direct descendant really upright, pulling down someone's pants with Mingxuan?

"You guys were fighting earlier?" Ye Qiao could feel the airflow from the activated domain, her eyes sparkling. "Was it Senior Brother's domain?"

"Oh yeah, oh yeah. Want to see? Senior Brother's domain." Seeing her interest, Mu Chongxi frantically urged her to go in and take a look.

Ye Qiao's domain is said to be uncontrollable, so if they can't see it, then they can at least see the senior brother's domain, right?

Seeing that both of them seemed eager to watch, Zhou Xingyun ignored Ye Qinghan's icy gaze, activated his Void Domain, and the two disappeared from the spot.

The moment Ye Qiao stepped in, she felt nothing. In this state, anyone who enters the domain without knowing anything will be instantly killed. She moved tentatively, but there was nothing under her feet to support her, and she found herself in a void.

It's a very dangerous area; it's practically a perfect place for assassinations.

Released from the domain, Ye Qiao lowered her eyes, recalling her feelings just now. Mu Chongxi also recovered from his shock. He was incredibly excited when he thought about the feeling of being enveloped by the domain and reduced to nothingness. "Senior Brother, after your domain is activated, does it feel like you have the power of life and death, with the opponent's life and death completely in your hands?"

Seeing that Zhou Xingyun was really about to answer, the others immediately perked up their ears, wanting to hear the name of his domain, but were interrupted by Ye Qiao.

"Stop asking so many questions." Ye Qiao kicked him twice, signaling, "Now, it's time to get to work."

Having your domain name leaked is never a good thing.

"What kind of work are we doing?" Mu Chongxi poked the kid who was hanging up, "Joining in this kind of perverted performance art?"

Qi Lu seemed to realize that his actions had made his disciples distrust him. He hurriedly tried to salvage his image, so he told them the truth he had deduced: "Ghost King Tower is a good place to raise Gu."

"This tower is more of a spiritual artifact than a Ghost King Tower."

"Although it is not listed on the Spiritual Artifact Ranking, it is undeniably a spiritual artifact. It was just that the Ghost King obtained it and cultivated it into a good place for raising Gu."

"After half a month of exceptionally rich prison experience, we have concluded that he is not powerful, nor did he become the Ghost King through any cultivation level. The key is this Ghost King Tower."

Qi Lu clicked his tongue twice. "This is a perfect place to raise Gu. With a single command, he can command hundreds of ghosts at will. Moreover, there might even be our companions among them."

That's what makes the Ghost King so disgusting.

In the Ghost Realm, the strong rule and the cultivation world does not care. As a result, an evil entity completely took over the tower, nurtured it, and tricked cultivators into entering. It then strangled everyone inside the Ghost King Tower, creating a large area of ​​the dead.

Of course, he was also clever. He knew to let a few cultivators out alive so that the Ghost King Tower could promote its miraculous effects on cultivation. This caused cultivators to keep entering the tower even if they thought it was dangerous.

"If you want to get out, you need to get close to that Ghost King first."

"Excuse me for interrupting." Mu Chongxi raised his hand. "The Ghost King shouldn't be able to hurt it, right? As far as I know, little ghosts are all a kind of gas, so they can't be hurt at all. My Morning and Evening Sword and Ye Qiao's Flying Immortal Sword can, but the damage is negligible."

The sword spirit is indeed powerful after transforming, but it's still too difficult to deal with just one transformed sword spirit like Chao Xi.

As the group chatted, the familiar mist drifted over again, and Wenjianzong, being a beat slow to react, almost got infected.

Qi Lu quickly threw out several defensive magical artifacts to block the mist. "Be careful. If you get touched by this thing, it will burrow into your bodies and devour a part of your consciousness. You will always feel like something is missing, and no medicine can make up for it. Over time, you will go crazy and be assimilated."

The magical artifact couldn't hold out for long. Ye Qiao leaped to the back, her movements almost blurring into a blur, and tossed Xiao Qi over, gesturing for him to eat it all. Seeing the others' surprised reactions, she explained:

"Ghosts can devour each other. You can think of it as ghosts devouring each other; the strong can devour the weak."

It's just like playing Snake.

"Cut it into pieces and let the little perch devour it."

"You want to raise a Gu, huh?" Ye Qiao planned to let him raise it to his heart's content. She quickly added, "As long as Xiao Qi doesn't get caught, once we've raised Xiao Qi enough, we'll go find the Ghost King to play with."

Ghost King...

Hearing her say that, Zhu You, who had been lifeless, raised her head slightly, her voice filled with hope, "If we find the Ghost King, does that mean he can bring my second senior brother back?"

In fact, within the sect, the person with the best relationship with Chu Xingzhi was not Ye Qinghan, but her.

Ye Qinghan was not a teacher; she was introduced to the profession by Chu Xingzhi. Zhu You tried her best to suppress her emotions and carefully asked this question. Ye Qiao felt that if she shook her head, she would burst into tears.

However, she really couldn't say whether the Ghost King could do it.

So Ye Qiao didn't respond.

"Junior Sister, Junior Sister." Mu Chongxi noticed the awkward atmosphere and quickly nudged her arm to free Ye Qiao. He asked, "How did you get up here?"

Seeing Zhu You's reaction, Zhou Xingyun remembered Chu Xingzhi, who had been left behind. He grabbed Ye Qiao with his other hand, his expression turning serious: "What price did you pay?"

As one of the first people to come up.

Did they not encounter any phantoms? Or did they encounter something else entirely?

Ye Qiao turned around and saw her two senior brothers speaking cryptically, as if exchanging a riddle. She pondered, "The price? You paid the price?"

She had always heard from ghost cultivators that the first seventeen levels were not very friendly, but she had never actually seen what they were like.

Mu Chongxi shook his head. "We don't have any either, but Chu Xingzhi was left on the sixteenth floor." He lowered his voice to avoid hurting the feelings of the Sword Inquiry Sect.

Therefore, he could understand why Wenjianzong was in such a bad mood that he wanted to go straight to the eighteenth level.

Ye Qiao suddenly realized, "No, we started on the eighteenth floor." And they didn't plan to enter the tower at all.

"Let's get to work." Mingxuan, having heard the whole story, no longer cared about Wenjian Sect's feelings. "We need to try to know if the Ghost King has any solutions. The longer we delay, the more dangerous it becomes."

Previously, there were only two talisman cultivators on site. He took on the responsibility of shifting the battlefield most of the time, while Ye Qiao, who was both good at fighting and defending, also took on the responsibility of protecting this group of people. With the addition of the sword cultivator, things will be much easier.

The most hardworking people on the scene were the few from the Sword Inquiry Sect. The black mist would automatically avoid danger. After Ye Qiao had Xiao Qi finish eating her area, she tossed it to Ye Qinghan.

Xiao Qi was thrown into Ye Qinghan's arms in a daze. The boy exuded coldness, but he didn't let go. He hugged Xiao Qi, flew into the air on his sword, pointed at the cloud of mist, and uttered a single word: "Eat."

Xiaoqi immediately tried her best to swallow it.

In order to get out of the Ghost King Tower as soon as possible and rescue Chu Xingzhi, the Sword Inquiry Sect is really going all out.

Soon, with the help of a group of people, all the gas on site was completely absorbed. Zhu You was a little anxious, "This speed is far from enough. Is there any way to attract more fog?"

The safest approach right now is to wait.

But they couldn't wait any longer; the longer they dragged it out, the lower Chu Xingzhi's chances of survival would be.

Ye Qiao really had no other choice. Zhu You pulled something out of his mustard seed bag—a dark green stone. "I have this. I can use it to make a deal with the Ghost King."

"It is said to contain hundreds of years of cultivation, which is extremely attractive to both cultivators and ghosts."

They were only teenagers and far from being able to withstand hundreds of years of cultivation. Therefore, this stone was prepared for their master, who had already absorbed two-thirds of its spiritual energy. The remaining Zhu You was originally intended to be shared with his fellow disciples, but there was no need to hide it now.

"I think the Ghost King would really like this."

The Ghost King already lacked cultivation, so there was no reason for him to refuse such a black stone that could increase his cultivation for free.

We'll use stones as bait and wait for him to appear.

Ye Qiao glanced at her: "Okay."

"But who do you plan to give the inkstone to? Xiaoxi?"

Zhu You: "Here you go. You are his master, but..." She considered for a moment: "You will also be in danger. If the Ghost King is truly attracted to the Ink Stone, he will harm you."

"I can take it too. As long as Xiaoqi is willing to come down with me." Zhu You said, glancing at the little brat.

Xiaoqi looked at the woman trying to separate her from Ye Qiao, and said sweetly, "Want to play a game?"

Zhu You took two steps back and said, "Excuse me."

It seems the other party does not accept it.

Ye Qiao didn't think much of it; the Ghost King's combat power was actually quite comical. His real headache was his massive army. With her Flying Immortal Sword, dealing with them wasn't too difficult.

Zhu You handed her the inkstone, letting out a sigh of relief. "Thank you, this is for you as payment."

Ye Qiao thought for a moment and didn't refuse, "Deal." She also wanted to play with that Ghost King.

Zhu You knew that Ye Qiao didn't need something like inkstones to improve herself, but the fact that he didn't refuse made her feel a little better.

With the presence of the spiritual object, Inkstone, the Ghost King quickly caught a whiff of its scent and came over.

Upon discovering that the Ink Stone was on Ye Qiao, he immediately abandoned his previous intention to raise the Gu. He silently approached and launched a sudden attack. A pair of black hands, formed from dense mist, reached out and tightly restrained Ye Qiao, preparing to seize the Ink Stone. However, the Ink Stone was thrown into Ye Qiao's domain the instant he got close, so he naturally couldn't take it.

Seeing the Ghost King appear, Ye Qinghan calmly said, "Use the sword formation."

The disciples of the Sword Inquiry Sect drew their swords in unison, and thousands of white, chilling sword shadows transformed into streaks that swept towards the Ghost King. The Ghost King was cut into several pieces by the sword shadows. Ye Qiao seized the time to feed Xiao Qi more, trying her best to raise him so that he could contend with the Ghost King.

The wounded demon king went berserk.

Dozens of ghostly hands reached out, grabbed Ye Qiao's ankles, and dragged her into the ground.

Having witnessed how others had disappeared, Ye Qiao was already prepared. She held Xiao Qi tightly in her arms, but in full view of everyone, she was grabbed by the ghost hand and dragged underground.

The Changming Sect members' hearts raced from the sudden turn of events, and they instinctively wanted to follow.

"Don't be nervous." The ghost cultivator who knew the situation explained with difficulty, "She was just taken down. She should appear in the same place as the people who disappeared outside the tower before. Now the Ghost King has also gone down. We are safe for the time being."