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

If she kept laughing, she almost thought the Dark God of Guna was about to appear in the world. Ye Qiao quickly tore off the talisman stuck to Mu Chongxi: "It looks like it's working well."

Mu Chongxi laughed for a long time until his face stiffened. After stopping, he shook his head and slumped to the ground, letting out a faint voice: "More than that, that sound just now. I almost thought I had gone mad."

That laughter was terrifying to anyone who heard it.

"Seriously, are all you talisman cultivators this good at using them?" Mu Chongxi had been spending the last few days with his junior sister experimenting with all sorts of talismans, and was almost forgetting that Ye Qiao was a sword cultivator.

Whose sword cultivator can draw talismans so skillfully?

Ye Qiao didn't even lift her eyelids. "Don't slander me. I'm a proper sword cultivator."

"Drawing talismans is just a hobby." You should know that the original owner chose to be a sword cultivator even in a sect like Yueqing Sect, which was full of talisman cultivators.

Ye Qiao prefers being an assassin to a mage.

Mu Chongxi chuckled twice, thinking of the power of her talismans.

amateur?

Whose amateur equipment produces such good results?

Taking advantage of the time she was skipping class, Ye Qiao refined some Rejuvenation Pills, intending to take them down the mountain to resell.

I don't know if it's because she doesn't have a proper alchemy furnace, but the pills she makes in the big pot are all strange.

It was full of potholes and oddly shaped rocks, all rough and uneven.

Because of her unattractive appearance, she set the price very low. Even so, no one would want a pill that looked so strange. Everyone was afraid of getting sick from taking it. Ye Qiao sighed inwardly, how could she judge a book by its cover?

……

"You haven't finished drawing this talisman yet?" Mu Chongxi rested his chin on one hand and leaned over to watch Ye Qiao sketching on the talisman paper.

Ye Qiao picked up the ruined talisman in her hand. "Another one ruined."

Mu Chongxi witnessed her repeated failures, pondered for a moment, and offered a suggestion: "Why don't you go ask Mingxuan?"

"I'll try again. If I fail again, I'll ask my second senior brother." Although Mingxuan would probably suspect that he'd lost his mind, abandoning a proper swordsmanship to learn talisman drawing.

"Are you drawing talismans at the Yueqing Sect?"

Ye Qiao turned to look at him, thought for a moment, and said, "Yes." She did indeed learn how to draw talismans by following the images of the Yueqing Sect talisman cultivators in the original owner's memories.

"The Moon Purity Sect is known in the cultivation world as the home of orthodox talisman cultivators." Mu Chongxi said slowly, "There is a hierarchy of contempt in the cultivation world. They look down on talisman cultivators from other sects. If the people of the Moon Purity Sect find out that you have learned their talismans, I can imagine how ugly their faces will be."

This was the first time Ye Qiao had ever heard of such a statement.

Thinking about it carefully, the discrimination and comparison within major sects are indeed no less than in modern workplaces. In the original owner's memories, the Moon Purity Sect was just like that: disciples looked down on inner disciples, inner disciples looked down on outer disciples, and outer disciples looked down on servants.

The servants, on the other hand, looked down on the people from the minor sects.

It's pretty outrageous.

Mu Chongxi's gaze shifted to the pen in Ye Qiao's hand, and then he sighed heavily, "Also, Junior Sister, I heard Second Senior Brother mention that if you want to improve the quality of your talisman drawing, it's best to use a better wolf hair brush."

Ye Qiao was taken aback. "Oh."

"But the other pens are quite expensive."

"Just make do with it," she said casually. "After all, you shouldn't compare yourself to others too much."

Mu Chongxi looked at Ye Qiao's brush, which had already split open, and his lips twitched. He realized that his junior sister was really stingy.

It would be a miracle if you succeeded with this kind of pen.

"I have an unused wolf-hair brush here." He rummaged through his mustard bag and quickly took out a brush that shimmered with a purple light, engraved with special runes, and felt heavy in his hand.

"It should fall into the category of mid-grade magic artifacts." Mu Chongxi was probably giving something away for the first time, and he scratched his head: "I'll find you a better one later."

He wasn't a talisman cultivator; he'd gotten the wolf-hair brush from the black market.

Ye Qiao didn't hesitate and accepted it immediately. As it turned out, there were advantages to the high price. There was no hesitation when drawing the talisman. The intricate talisman patterns were engraved into a golden seal. With the speed increasing, she quickly finished the drawing and the talisman was completed in one go.

The light golden glow slowly illuminated the talisman, indicating that it had not been rendered useless.

Ye Qiao's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down.

However, the next second the talisman burst out with dazzling light, and small black characters appeared under the corner of the talisman, like some kind of special symbol, or like ancient script.

Ye Qiao stared blankly at the strange ancient characters under the corner of the talisman, "What is this?"

The moment the golden light appeared, all the elders of the Changming Sect looked up in unison at the direction from which the light had fallen.

—"Heaven's Blessing".

Qin Fanfan stood up. Because of the protection of the Heavenly Dao, he couldn't sense where the golden light was falling. He looked up at the sky, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

Was it Mingxuan who received the blessing? Or was it Xue Yu?

Not only them, but this commotion was so great that even the sect leaders of the other sects were alarmed.

"Who is it?"

"Heavenly Blessing? It seems to be from the Changming Sect."

"Mu Chongxi? Or Zhou Xingyun?"

"Mingxuan?"

For a time, various sects were abuzz with speculation, all eager to go to Changming Sect to find out what was going on.

The person involved, who caused the sensation, was still in a daze.

"Heavenly blessing." Mu Chongxi murmured, repeating it over and over, his expression gradually turning serious. "You really are a talisman cultivator?"

He quickly changed his tune, his gaze intense: "So you really can cultivate both sword and talisman skills."

Mu Chongxi had never seen anyone truly practicing dual cultivation of two paths; he had only heard that their Changming Sect's founder was such a brilliant and talented individual.

I never imagined that one day my junior sister would be able to do it too.

Ye Qiao had no idea what this meant. "So, Fourth Senior Brother, what is Heavenly Blessing? Does it have any special uses?"

More than the blessing from heaven, she was concerned about what benefits this thing could bring her.

Mu Chongxi pondered, "Special use? Being blessed by the Heavenly Dao means it has been recognized by the Heavenly Dao. The price of the talismans you sell in the future will be at least five times higher."

Ye Qiao's eyes lit up.

—Can such a good thing really exist in the world?

"Moreover, as far as I know, even those self-proclaimed orthodox talisman cultivators of the Moon Purity Sect haven't received the blessing of Heaven. It won't be long before news spreads that someone from our sect has received the blessing of Heaven, and their faces will probably turn black then." Mu Chongxi became more and more smug as he spoke, the corners of his mouth turning up, as if he could already see the scene of them being slapped in the face in the future.

He turned to look at his junior sister.

"By the way, Ye Qiao, what kind of talisman did you draw?"

A formation talisman? A defensive talisman? Or an offensive talisman?

Under the expectant gaze of her fourth senior brother, Ye Qiao hesitated and said, "Crawling Talisman."

What is this thing? Hearing the name, Mu Chongxi felt a sense of unease. "What specific function does it have?"

Her voice trailed off: "The person who gets stuck on it will crawl on the ground like an animal."

He was silent.

What should he say? After a long pause, the young man forced out a sentence: "As expected of you, Junior Sister."

Even being blessed by Heaven doesn't follow the usual path.

Ye Qiao held her talisman, looking very sad.

If she had known she would be blessed by Heaven, she would have drawn a more normal talisman.

These past few days, Ye Qiao has been engrossed in tinkering with her quirky things and hasn't had time to attend classes. Mu Chongxi has also skipped classes with her, which makes the other two senior brothers feel like they're missing out on something.

"What have you two been secretly doing behind our backs these past few days?"

Mingxuan pushed open the door to the room, his eyes filled with suspicion.

Ye Qiao put away her talisman, and when she saw the person, she waved enthusiastically, "Good evening, Second Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother."

Xue Yu smiled and nodded, then grabbed his fourth junior brother's arm. "Good evening, junior sister. I'm here to see you, junior brother."

Mu Chongxi: "Huh?"

He had a strange, ominous feeling.

Xue Yu said, "I have some newly refined pills here, and I'm short of people to test them." As he spoke, he put his hand on Mu Chongxi's shoulder and smiled slightly, "Come on, junior brother."

"..."

Let's talk this out, Third Senior Brother.

He remembered clearly the incident where Xue Yu poisoned several inner disciples and was punished by being imprisoned in the forbidden area. Upon hearing this, Mu Chongxi felt a chill run down his spine and ran away.

No!

Seeing this, Ye Qiao put away the talisman and followed them out.

*

"Heaven's blessing. Who caused such a commotion?" Zhou Xingyun lowered his eyes, lost in thought. Junior brother? Or... his new junior sister?

Qin Fanfan said, "I don't know. We'll find out later when we call those brats over and ask them."

"Speaking of which, they've been skipping class for several days now."

He was somewhat worried.

Zhou Xingyun's expression turned slightly serious. "They skipped class?"

Qin Fanfan got angry when she talked about this, banged on the table, and gritted her teeth: "Not only did they skip class, but they skipped class as a group under Ye Qiao's leadership."

Forget it.

"I'll go see them," Zhou Xingyun said helplessly under his master's pained gaze.

He felt that if he didn't intervene, his junior brothers and sisters might get out of control.

……

Before Ye Qiao arrived, Ming Xuan and the other two always liked to get together. Xue Yu wanted to study his pill formulas, and Ming Xuan, a weak and helpless talisman cultivator, certainly couldn't be used as a test subject, so they could only use their junior brother.

Mu Chongxi felt a toothache whenever he saw Xue Yu. He used his sword to fly into the sky, intending to shake off the two of them.

Xue Yu, standing behind, smiled slightly, like a villain with ill intentions in a TV drama, and said, "Run away as much as you want, but you can't escape."

Mingxuan said with equal pity, "Even if you scream your lungs out today, no one will come to save you."

"Accept your fate, junior brother."

Ye Qiao stepped on the Xuan Sword and chased after him, shouting, "Don't run away! Fourth Senior Brother, we won't hurt you!"

But those three really do look like perverts trying to force a wayward teenager!

Two senior brothers stood on Ye Qiao's sword, chasing after him one after the other. Xue Yu didn't forget to call out, "Fourth Junior Brother!! I definitely won't make you uncomfortable this time."

The four of them moved incredibly fast.

Where they passed, it was like a locust plague, leaving nothing but barren land.

Mu Chongxi ran ahead, with Ming Xuan and the other two chasing after him.

Zhou Xingyun, witnessing this scene, was speechless.

It was quite lively.

Anyway, since Junior Sister arrived, Changming Sect has never been quiet.

Even someone like Zhou Xingyun, who was alive but practically dead, was stimulated to the point of being awake.

The eldest brother silently looked up at his junior brothers and sisters flying around in the sky like birdmen. Even he, who was usually not one to show his emotions, couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth. He raised his hand and waved his hand, sending a gust of wind that struck Ye Qiao's sword.

Xue Yu was the first to gracefully land on one knee. Before he could even strike a cool pose, Mu Chongxi was hit by the aftershock of the gale and fell off the sword in a disheveled state.

Xue Yu instinctively caught him with quick reflexes.

Finally, the two shared a deep, affectionate gaze in a princess carry.

The scene was quite shocking.

"What are you doing?" A cold, clear voice rang out.

Zhou Xingyun didn't even flinch, just calmly watching them.

Xue Yu was usually afraid of this senior brother, and when he looked up, he saw that his senior brother was looking at him with a strange gaze.

Xue Yu released his grip, trying to keep his voice calm: "...Senior Brother. Let me explain."

He's really not a pervert!

Ye Qiao and Ming Xuan's expressions also froze. Afraid of being beaten, she quickly stepped down on the Xuan Sword and swallowed hard: "...Senior Brother, please listen to our excuses."

"Things aren't what you think."

Zhou Xingyun calmed down for a moment.

Perhaps, his junior brothers and sisters... really have all gone mad?

The four of them stood in a neat row, none of them daring to utter a sound. Zhou Xingyun's eyes were cold as he slowly prepared to begin settling accounts: "I heard that none of the four of you have been to class these past few days?"

Mingxuan instinctively protested, "No. Who told you that?"

"There must be someone trying to smear our purity and kindness."

Mu Chongxi quickly chimed in, "That's right."

Zhou Xingyun gave a cold laugh, and the two of them fell silent instantly.

For the first time, Ye Qiao realized what the oppressive feeling of her senior brother was like. She keenly felt that if she didn't do something today, the four of them might be locked up in the forbidden area together.

Her mind raced, and she quickly interrupted Zhou Xingyun before he could speak: "Senior Brother, who do you think will become the number one sect in the cultivation world this year?"

Zhou Xingyun frowned. Although he didn't understand why she asked this question, he still answered, "For a thousand years, Chengfeng Sect and Wenjian Sect have taken turns in the position of the number one sect. This year, in terms of strength, the two sects are evenly matched."

"So it's still unknown who will be the first to be diagnosed this year."

Ye Qiao smiled and met Zhou Xingyun's gaze: "If Senior Brother works a little harder, can we become the number one sect in the cultivation world?"

"?"

The girl's eyes sparkled, as if if Zhou Xingyun nodded, Ye Qiao would send him to punch the Wenjian Sect and trample the Chengfeng Sect in the next second.

Veins throbbed on his forehead as he struggled to remain calm, desperately telling himself to stay composed: "No." The two words seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.

Ye Qiao immediately changed her tune: "Senior Brother, you've disappointed me greatly."

Zhou Xingyun: "?"

He choked, unable to connect with his junior sister's train of thought for a moment.

Seeing his senior brother, who was unusually speechless, Mu Chongxi instantly understood what it meant to strike first. "Yes, senior brother, you can't even lead our Changming Sect to become the number one sect in the cultivation world. You've really disappointed us."

Mingxuan smiled, sensing their intentions, and casually added, "Yeah, they've really disappointed us."

Taking advantage of her senior brother's momentary confusion, Ye Qiao grabbed Ming Xuan, who was closest to her, and ran away.

After the two quickly fled, Mu Chongxi grabbed Xue Yu, who was a step behind, and the four of them made their escape in an instant.

After realizing what was happening, Zhou Xingyun pondered for a moment: "..."

Did they all learn these skillful and shameless escape tactics from their junior sister?