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

Zhou Yizhe stood secretly next to Ye Qinghan, feeling a little pleased with himself.

It's embarrassing to admit, but his sword gestures and movements were all imitations of Ye Qinghan's.

The point is-

He doesn't like Zhou Xingyun! Ye Qinghan and Zhou Xingyun both became famous at a young age, and since their fame was similar, of course he would choose to like Ye Qinghan.

Seeing Duan Shui take human form, he made no attempt to hide the admiration and amazement in his eyes. "As expected of Senior Brother Ye, the speed at which the sword spirit takes human form is so fast. He truly is the number one swordsman."

These familiar boasts reminded Zhou Xingyun of Chu Xingzhi. He glanced at Zhou Yize indifferently and said, "After this is over, you can have a good chat with Chu Xingzhi."

Chu Xingzhi is Ye Qinghan's only fan, and with another brainless fan, Zhou Yizhe, the Sword Inquiry Sect is sure to be quite a spectacle.

Zhou Yizhe: "I know Chu Xingzhi."

His voice carried a hint of disdain and contempt, "If the Zhou family hadn't forbade me from joining the Sword Inquiry Sect back then, I would definitely be the one fighting alongside Senior Brother Ye now."

"How laughable is Chu Xing's insignificant behavior!"

Ye Qinghan and Zhou Xingyun: "..."

Both of them were rendered speechless.

Chu Xingzhi alone is already terrifying enough; there's no need for another one.

If it's because of the sword spirit's human form, then Ye Qiao has two sword spirits.

However, Ye Qiao's two sword spirits, once in the Sword Cave and once in the Land of Inheritance, only saw the direct disciples and never displayed their skills in front of outsiders.

Ye Qinghan thought he needed to find time to let him go see Ye Qiao's sword spirit.

Seriously, please stop idolizing him!!

……

Everyone had their own tasks to do. Mu Chongxi and Chu Xingzhi were assigned the mission of intercepting the young master of the Demon Clan. This young master of the Demon Clan had at least seven experts by his side, all of whom were around the Nascent Soul stage. This astonishing number caught the two of them off guard.

Chu Xingzhi, who had been injured, clutched his chest and almost laughed in anger. "Did the demons grow up eating shit? There are so many of them at the Nascent Soul stage."

"Stop talking nonsense."

Mu Chongxi grabbed him, the Chaoxi Sword in his hand flashing. The boy suddenly turned around, drawing a dazzling light and sending the two Nascent Soul stage cultivators who had been chasing after him flying.

The young demon lord behind them was still relentlessly pursuing them. Compared to the two's continuous dodging, he seemed leisurely and didn't even need to use any magical artifacts. He followed behind the six experts, his fingertips forming several purple lightning bolts that struck the two in succession.

Chu Xingzhi was bad at dodging, so Mu Chongxi cursed and dragged him around, her voice urgent, "We have to think of a way, this can't go on."

The young demon lord leisurely followed behind, saying, "Stop them both."

"We can't stop them." The Nascent Soul stage expert spoke solemnly, "Those from Changming Sect are too fast."

Their Nascent Soul stage is inherently weak, so trying to intercept two powerful disciples is simply wishful thinking.

The demon lord waved his hand dismissively. "Useless."

"If we can't catch you and go kill those cultivators in the main city, I don't believe they'll remain indifferent."

"The main city..." The Nascent Soul stage expert paused, "...can't get in. If we forcibly break the formation set up by the main lineage, we'll lose a lot of people."

Upon hearing this, the young demon lord's expression finally darkened.

Weapon cultivators, talisman cultivators, and those damned pill cultivators!

They actually managed to find so many helpers.

He was blocked from entering by his two trusted disciples and couldn't get an inch in. Frustrated, he thought, "Surely I can wear them down by now."

They have seven Nascent Soul stage cultivators, plus the Demon Clan's young master's strength at the mid-Nascent Soul stage, so defeating two direct disciples shouldn't be a problem.

Two distinct sword energies were unleashed one after the other, with totems appearing on the swords and transforming into two completely different dragon-shaped sword energies that soared into the sky and swooped down with a dragon's roar.

...Is it a dragon?

The slow-reacting demon had its neck snapped off by the dragon with a crisp sound.

The Chaoxi Sword slashed fiercely, and blood spurted from the demon's chest. After confirming that the demon was completely dead with another sword strike, Mu Chongxi turned back to help Chu Xingzhi.

The two of them had to contend with seven Nascent Soul stage cultivators, while also dodging the occasional lightning strikes from the Demon Clan's young master.

Moreover, his actions are quite egregious.

If you can't dodge it, you'll be electrocuted and paralyzed on the spot.

Chu Xingzhi was so shocked by the electric shock that he almost vomited blood. He hated people with lightning spiritual roots!

This young demon lord didn't seem to want to kill them; he seemed to be enjoying the pleasure of torturing them. As expected, demons are all a bunch of perverts. Two of the seven Nascent Soul cultivators were killed, leaving five. With the five of them working together, the spiritual energy of the two remaining was quickly depleted.

Mu Chongxi and Chu Xingzhi didn't have the opportunity to take drugs during the battle.

When their spiritual energy was exhausted, the spirit of the Morning and Evening Sword came out to shield them. The red sword spirit opened its eyes, and flames rushed towards them, transforming into a bright red bird that encircled the two of them.

The demon lord's previously nonchalant eyes widened. "A sword spirit?"

He chuckled softly, "Finally, you've decided to give it up."

The boy raised his hand, and purple lightning flashed. His handsome face was ruined by a twisted smile. A dozen bolts of lightning formed a shield, sealing off all the sword spirit's dodge positions.

The sword, drawn between dawn and dusk, is unavoidable.

"Come back! Chaoxi!" Under Mu Chongxi's forceful recall, the sword spirit immediately chose to dissipate and disappear into the sword.

The lightning tribulation in mid-air continued to fall, and Mu Chongxi couldn't figure out who had advanced, but at this moment they definitely had to stop the Demon Clan's young master and these seven Nascent Soul stage cultivators, otherwise, once they entered the main city, it would be no less than a small-scale massacre.

With his spiritual energy depleted, Chu Xingzhi clenched his hands. "There's still the Dragon Clan's legacy, isn't there?"

Dragons are warlike creatures, known for their strength and resilience. Even without spiritual energy, they can still be stopped by physical skills alone, but the process requires injuring a thousand enemies while suffering eight hundred casualties themselves, making for a very tragic scene.

Ye Qiao forced Su Zhuo and Ming Xuan to undergo their Nascent Soul stage lightning tribulations without any preparation. As a result, she had to repeatedly jump around them to catch most of the lightning bolts, preventing the two unprepared individuals from being struck dead.

Su Zhuo's teeth were chattering. The tribulation lightning at the Nascent Soul stage was far beyond what the Golden Core stage could handle. He gasped, "Can I break through now?"

Half the time has already passed.

He was worried that the main city would have been breached while the two of them were away, and at this moment he just hoped that Ye Qiao would be gone as soon as possible.

Ye Qiao's face was also distorted by the lightning strike. The lightning tribulation washed over her meridians again and again, making her want to curl up on the ground and roll around. She exhaled a puff of black smoke, feeling weak and powerless. "If I leave, the two of you will have to bear the rest on your own."

As long as the tribulation lightning is powerful enough, she can break through at any time.

The lightning tribulation brought by Su Zhuo and Ming Xuan was more intense than that of other disciples undergoing tribulation. Ye Qiao could feel her spiritual root growing rapidly, quickly absorbing the lightning tribulation into her body.

Mingxuan: "Hurry, hurry, Junior Sister! We're direct disciples, a little tribulation like this is nothing to us. If you don't go soon, our main city will be destroyed!"

Su Zhuo: "You should leave quickly."

Both of them seemed to be in good condition, and Ye Qiao didn't want to take the hit herself, so she ran towards the main city to save them.

After she left, Su Zhuo and Ming Xuan's calm expressions vanished, and they began to break down.

Ouch, it really hurts!

……

With the direct descendants of the eight major families in the main city, as well as the eldest brother and the Wenjian Sect members, there shouldn't be any major problems guarding the city for the time being. The fact that the Demon Clan sent people to delay her made Ye Qiao wonder if they might have some other plans.

Then the matter of the main city can be put aside for now. She looked at the sky in mid-air, where sword shadows flew on one side and the sounds of fighting could be heard on the other. She quickly locked onto the location of Mu Chongxi and the others.

Ye Qiao rode her flying sword and quickly arrived at the battlefield. What she saw was a scene of devastation, with all sorts of debris. The swords of the two sword cultivators had been put away, and their hands were covered in blood. They were only holding on by sheer willpower.

The young demon lord leisurely observed the scene before him, and exclaimed, "Ah."

"The reinforcements have arrived."

Ye Qiao waved her hand and greeted him with a smile, "Oh my, it's been a long time, young master of the Demon Clan."

The young demon lord paused for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Ye Qiao."

He narrowed his eyes. "I didn't expect that even five Nascent Soul cultivators couldn't stop you, Ye Qiao."

Undoubtedly, the scene was horrific, with blood everywhere and demons whose throats had been slit by swords, each dying a gruesome death. One of them even had his head blown off.

Ye Qiao raised an eyebrow, speaking in an even more nonchalant tone than he did, "Five Nascent Soul cultivators certainly can't stop me? Oh, you mean those five good-for-nothings? They were stopped by Qin Huai."

The Demon Lord: "..."

Why is this person so foul-mouthed?

"Junior Sister..." Mu Chongxi was somewhat exhausted.

He opened his mouth, but said weakly, "It's up to you now."

Both of them had completely exhausted their spiritual energy and had only managed to hold on until now thanks to their physical skills. Fortunately, the dragon clan's heritage allowed them to withstand beatings and fight even without spiritual energy; otherwise, they would have both been dead long ago by the time Ye Qiao arrived.

The sword spirit of the Chaoxi Sword provided them with many opportunities to attack, and they were almost shattered by the young master of the demon race. In the end, they could not withstand it and hid in the sword to recuperate.

"Kill him." Chu Xingzhi smiled slightly. As for why he dared to make such a boastful statement, asking Ye Qiao, who was at the peak of the Golden Core stage, to fight a Nascent Soul stage cultivator?

Don't ask, the answer is simply my confidence in Ye Qiao.

He had a fairly good understanding of Ye Qiao; she wouldn't come unless he was absolutely certain.

"I know." Seeing that the two of them seemed almost exhausted, she patted his shoulder. "Let me do it."

The two of them had already tried their best to intercept.

All seven Nascent Soul stage cultivators were killed.

It was much better than she had expected.

Of course, it doesn't matter if all seven survive.

In short, remember this: under the thunderbolt, all beings are equal.

Ye Qiao tossed the pills to the two of them, and the Frost Sword landed in her hand. The light blue sword spirit materialized and stood in front of her.

The white-haired little girl stood still, warily watching the demon before her, adopting a protective stance, her face radiating frost.

"Another sword spirit?" He widened his eyes in surprise. "You have more than one sword spirit."

He had seen the Sword Spirit before, and he knew that the Sword Spirit was extremely ruthless.

But it's okay.

The sword spirit of Chaoxi Sword was almost shattered by his lightning strike.

The lightning spirit root is very strong, especially under the transformed lightning, which is enough to give these reckless sword spirits a hard time.

Purple lightning condensed around the boy, and as a bolt of lightning struck, Ye Qiao slightly moved her wrist to disperse the lightning. Her sword light was as sharp as if it were cutting through the sky. Seizing the opportunity, she slashed down with two consecutive sword strikes. The pale green sword shadow cut through the defensive magic weapon on his body, making a piercing friction sound.

Her voice was calm. "I'm here to kill you."

"You think you can take me?" He smiled, admitting that the experience had been quite enjoyable. The boy stepped back. "Then you can try."

This feeling of being high above and in control of life and death is much more comfortable than being in the demon realm.

He had just controlled the lives of two Nascent Soul stage cultivators, let alone a Golden Core stage cultivator.

Ye Qiao was surprised by his confidence, and she mimicked his smile, saying, "Then let's give it a try."

The spiritual energy spread rapidly, allowing the spiritual energy in her dantian, which was about to burst, to surge wildly into her body. A layer of pale golden light enveloped the girl, and her peak Golden Core realm loosened for a moment. After a brief pause, she repeatedly broke through the shackles of the peak Golden Core realm, heading straight for the Nascent Soul stage.

Ye Qiao had always lacked a tribulation of lightning. At the moment when spiritual energy overflowed, the golden inner core in her body burst forth with light, and then a miraculous scene unfolded.

The golden core within his body gradually began to transform, slowly evolving into human form.

In the end, he turned into a baby.

Ye Qiao had learned from the records in the library that after the Golden Core is transformed into the Nascent Soul stage, a small Nascent Soul will replace the Golden Core and sleep in the body.

This is also known as the Nascent Soul Transformation.

In other words, this is one's true nature as an infant.

After the inner core within the body completes its transformation, the infant form takes its place in the position of the golden core, lying quietly in the location of the inner core in the chest, curled up there. This is a state that everyone has after breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Ye Qiao frowned. The legendary Nascent Soul Transformation?

The moment the nascent soul formed within the body, it seemed to sense some aura. Thunderclouds churned at that moment, and the world under the pitch-black night underwent a transformation.

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If you're generous with your donations, I'll try to get up early tomorrow and add another chapter ahead of schedule—these three chapters total 7,600 words.