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

Not only the Ye family, but other aristocratic families, after a period of anger and frustration, sadly discovered that they had no way to deal with this group of people.

The Ye family head's voice was cold and deep, "Ye Qiao, you are doing very well."

Ye Qiao kept the elder's words in mind and modestly replied, "It's alright, it's alright, thank you for the compliment."

Upon hearing this, the head of the Ye family was caught between breaths and a fierce glare at her.

"Elder," Ye Qiao raised her hand to complain, "Look, he's still glaring at me."

Elder Zhao immediately turned his head with an unfriendly expression and said in a deep voice, "Patriarch Ye, this is our Changming Sect. It's not one of your Eight Great Families. If you have eye problems, go to Danfeng and see a Dan cultivator. Don't keep staring at our personal disciples all day long."

The atmosphere was tense and the tension was palpable even from a distance. The Five Sects and the Eight Great Families had a long-standing grudge, and their open and covert confrontations were exceptionally frequent.

However, both sides also tacitly agreed not to involve the direct descendants and close disciples in the conflicts between aristocratic families and sects.

"Since you're all dissatisfied, how about I give you an idea?" Elder Yueqing Sect slowly stepped forward. "How about you lock them all up in the forbidden area for six months? During that time, we'll keep an eye on them to make sure they obediently reflect on their mistakes and repent."

"No. I think—" the Sword Inquiry Sect Master said coldly, "It's better for both us and the forbidden area to keep them out of the forbidden area."

Stop destroying the forbidden area. Even the best forbidden area can't withstand these people sneaking in every now and then. It's fine when they go in, but it collapses when they come out.

"In that case, we can imprison them in the dungeons of the Eight Great Families. Since Patriarch Ye wants to punish them, there's no need to imprison them in our sect's forbidden area." Elder Zhao immediately changed his tune, throwing this difficult problem back to the Ye family.

The heads of the eight great families all twisted their faces for a moment. Lock them up in the dungeon? Wouldn't they be miserable? Ye Qiao's feat of breaking into the dungeon with the Bright Moon Arrow was still vivid in their minds.

"No!" the Zhou family head declared emphatically. "I disagree."

This time, the eight great families and the five sects have surprisingly united on one side.

We absolutely, absolutely cannot let Ye Qiao and his group destroy the forbidden area and dungeon again!

Elder Zhao sneered, "This won't work, that won't work, what do you want?"

He knew that these powerful families were making the loudest noise and questioning, but in the end, they would only be dealt with leniently. These disciples were all from important backgrounds, and since they had all been involved, things would be simple.

Either everyone is implicated, or everyone can live in peace and swallow their anger.

The Zhou family head, his neck stiff, retorted, "No matter what, it's ultimately the fault of your five sects for not handling things properly. You couldn't even handle a bunch of demons and monsters? Yet these direct descendants can solve it? Shouldn't we start to question the five sects' competence?"

"Are you blind?" Chu Xingzhi finally snapped. "Didn't you see the lightning tribulation in Bibo City that day? Kuku was smashing down. Don't even mention the demons and monsters, even if you went there, you would have been struck so hard your parents wouldn't recognize you."

Ye Qiao felt her scalp tingle just thinking about the terrifying scene when the seventh lightning tribulation was connected.

Don't tell him that these people are blind and didn't notice, or that they did notice but didn't want to think about Ye Qiao; they'd rather believe it was a coincidence.

"Chu Xingzhi!" The sect leader of the Sword Inquiry Sect coldly reminded him, "Shut up."

Chu Xingzhi sat back down awkwardly, letting out two dissatisfied hums.

"The Sword Inquiry Sect? Your sect has always been known for its strict rules." Patriarch Zhou said sarcastically, "Now it seems the rumors need to be verified."

"Just take rumors with a grain of salt. You didn't actually believe them, did you?" Mu Chongxi interjected. "This stuff isn't reliable anyway. They even say that we Changming Sect members are a bunch of honest people."

Patriarch Zhou: "..."

That's because you guys weren't like this before Ye Qiao came.

"He's arrogant because of his talent." He coldly squeezed out the words through clenched teeth, "He really doesn't know his own limitations."

The elders of the five sects were all protective of their own. One of them could easily debate with a group of scholars, while the disciples were subservient and just watched as their elders scolded eight people at once.

Mingxuan was amazed. "So, Elder Zhao's refusal to scold us before was a sign of his true love for us."

"Elder Yueqing Sect is quite eloquent."

At the victory celebration banquet, the elder at the head of the table was cursing incessantly, and a group of people from the Changming Sect even started commenting on it.

"Speaking of Yun Que from the Yueqing Sect, how exactly was the situation handled?"

There was probably no killing, otherwise things wouldn't be so calm. Yun Que's identity is also somewhat special; it would be troublesome for whoever gets her in their hands.

"She's locked up." Xie Chuxue walked with a smile to an inconspicuous corner below them, her hands behind her back. Having restarted the game several times, Xie Chuxue had plenty of experience to keep an eye on her.

He squeezed in among the group, shamelessly blending into the group of disciples. "At least I won't be like those useless people from the Yueqing Sect, who can't even keep an eye on their own disciple and let her run away."

Whether Yueqing Sect truly failed to properly supervise the situation or intentionally released the animals remains a matter of debate.

Xue Yu: "Can't we kill her? Keeping her alive is like a variable." She's still quite dangerous.

Xie Chuxue put up a soundproof talisman to prevent those people from eavesdropping. "Not now. She is a woman of destiny. Once her destiny gradually dissipates, there will be no problem. Crushing Yun Que is easier than crushing an ant."

There's still a problem: how can we make luck favor Ye Qiao? This child has been unlucky far too often, and her luck has gone too far.

After returning to the sect, Zhou Xingyun told them that the five of them went to the inheritance site together, but Ye Qiao was kicked out by the patriarch halfway there.

This is truly the worst kind of bad luck.

This was an unsolvable problem. Even his junior uncle had given a firm guarantee, so Xue Yu could only suppress his disappointment and try to continue probing. "What are the demons looking for? They haven't set foot in the cultivators' territory for hundreds of years. There's no reason for them to suddenly have a brain fart and cooperate with the demons."

Xie Chuxue: "Perhaps, maybe."

The use of both "maybe" and "possible" creates a frustratingly uncertain vocabulary.

Ye Qiao nodded: "If that's the case, we'll take it as your tacit agreement for now. So, what are they looking for? Can you tell us?"

Xie Chuxue originally didn't want to tell this group of people, but after thinking about it, she decided to give them a hint.

Before this, he had listened to the conversation of these close associates for a while without making a sound.

As a result, Xie Chuxue sadly discovered that even with the five of them working together, they couldn't come up with a correct answer.