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

Mingxuan felt that Su Zhuo was probably already furious.

My condolences.

Su Zhuo clenched his fist slightly, "He didn't even comfort us!" Of the four of them, Yun Que, who should have been the beloved junior sister, was even more miserable, being looked down upon from beginning to end by someone like Song Hansheng.

Mingxuan: "First of all, you are not Ye Qiao."

Xue Yu: "Secondly, you are not Ye Qiao."

well.

The unprecedented tacit understanding between the two junior brothers left Su Zhuo speechless.

"What did you two talk about?" Song Hansheng couldn't help but be curious, after all, he himself didn't seem to have been beaten up by Ye Qiao unilaterally. At most, the two of them hurt each other.

How did that protégé manage to provoke Ye Qiao so precisely on their first meeting?

Ye Qiao was studying the function of the jade pendant in her hand. Generally speaking, the eight great families never gave cheap gifts. "He talked a lot of useless nonsense to me, so I hit him."

"The cultivators of Penglai seem to be a bit strange." Both Chu Ling and Yue Qing'an had an indifference that refused to associate with such people.

"Your reclusive mind isn't working properly anymore," Song Hansheng said with a hint of mockery. "Isn't that obvious?"

Seeing that the two were engrossed in their conversation, Ming Xuan, the second senior brother, decisively barged in. At that moment, Ye Qiao was idly fiddling with the jade pendant that Song Hansheng had given her, lying on the table. When she saw them come in, she only raised her eyes slightly. She sensed that someone was there, but she didn't expect it to be Ming Xuan and the others.

Oh, and Su Zhuo is standing next to him.

Ye Qiao: "How did you all end up together?" She knew that the people of Changming Sect didn't really like Yueqing Sect.

Mingxuan felt she was accusing him first. He glanced at Song Hansheng, a smile playing on his lips, and said, "I'm also very curious. How did you two end up together?"

The senior and junior disciples accused each other, acting as if getting involved with the Yueqing Sect was an unforgivable sin.

Su Zhuo said with dissatisfaction, "Why are you two making it sound like our Yueqing Sect is so unpopular?"

Seeing this, Xue Yu chuckled twice, "But our Changming Sect really doesn't treat you very well."

Su Zhuo was a little angry, but then he calmed down after thinking about what he had just witnessed. His voice was neither warm nor cold, and his tone was strange: "It doesn't matter. The fact that your Changming Sect doesn't like us doesn't affect the fact that the people of our Yueqing Sect like you."

Ha! If he weren't outmatched by Ye Qiao and Song Hansheng, he would have sneered.

The Moon Purity Sect!! A great sect of orthodox talisman cultivators throughout history, are their direct disciples destined to be sycophants?

His tone was too harsh; Song Hansheng must have somehow touched a nerve. He asked, puzzled, "Have you taken the wrong medicine again?"

Su Zhuo was still consumed by his anger and embarrassment: "I didn't!"

He never imagined that someone like Song Hansheng would one day become friends with Ye Qiao.

He looked somewhat awkward and strange; after all, that was Ye Qiao.

They used to be fellow disciples...

Seeing this, Xue Yu pulled Su Zhuo away.

Damn it, if we keep talking, they'll figure out they're eavesdropping.

Although Ye Qiao's divine sense may have already detected them, as long as they don't admit it, no one can question whether they were eavesdropping.

……

After both groups left, Ye Qiao examined the jade pendant in her hand. It was a clear, bright ring with a rich spiritual energy, seemingly a very good auxiliary spiritual jade.

Shortly after they left, Xie Chuxue casually sent him a message.

"Xiao Qiao, you two still need to ease up a bit," Xie Chuxue calmly informed her. "We'll need your cooperation with Penglai later on."

"Why?" Ye Qiao was slightly taken aback. "I've already hit him, and you're telling me I should cooperate with someone like him?"

On the other end of the jade slip, Duan Yu was currently giving Xie Chuxue a good beating, "Always pretending to be profound. A pig beforehand, a wise man afterward. Why didn't you tell Xiao Qiao about something so important beforehand?"

Now that the fight has already started, it's too late to say anything.

Xie Chuxue, as clueless as a pig: "..."

To be fair, Xie Chuxue could be described as meticulous in his calculations, but even with all his calculations, he probably never expected that Ye Qiao would slap the disciple of Penglai twice in a fit of anger.

After giving Xie Chuxue a good beating, Duan Yu asked her a few questions: "I heard you got into a fight with that disciple from Penglai?"

"Yes."

Duan Yu: "Did we win?"

This is what a qualified sword cultivator elder cares about most.

Fighting is fine, as long as his disciple is the best!

Ye Qiao: "I pinned him to the ground and punched him."

"Great, great, great!" Duan Yu exclaimed excitedly.

Xie Chuxue, who had been beaten up for no reason, snatched the jade slip back, her voice becoming much more serious, "Xiao Qiao, we really need their help."

Ye Qiao tilted her head back slightly: "But he's annoying."

What's even more annoying than the pretentious direct descendants of the Eight Great Families is his silent pretentiousness.

"You know, he's not just annoying, he's really amazing."

He added calmly, "Penglai's predictions of good and bad fortune have an extremely high probability of accuracy; you should listen to him."

Ye Qiao didn't argue about it. "I'll try my best not to get into a conflict with him."

However, once she went to Wuzong, it became her territory.

At worst, she and Ye Qinghan can beat him up together.

Hearing Ye Qiao's perfunctory words, Xie Chuxue paused, then smiled and brought up a topic that interested her, "Aren't you curious about who got Yun Que to get involved with the demon race and instigate the cooperation between the two races?"

Ye Qiao's interest was piqued: "Curious. Who did it?"

Xie Chuxue shrugged: "I don't know, so Yun Que needs to lure that person out."

Compared to the person behind the scenes, Yun Que was not so important; her delicate, parasitic nature posed no threat whatsoever.

Xie Chuxue wanted to use a sting operation to lure out the person behind Yun Que, so he casually dropped a bombshell: "Yun Que let her get away."

Ye Qiao knew his nature well, and remained calm and composed. "So, is this also part of your plan?"

Xie Chuxue smiled: "Xiao Qiao, how could you think of me like that?"

Alright, Ye Qiao understands now; this is also part of his scheme.

Did he deliberately release Yun Que to find her mastermind?

"Then why didn't you send someone to follow her? Or could you have our sect's elder from Penglai calculate her location?"

"Your purpose is too obvious, Xiao Qiao." He said cryptically, "We can't rule out the possibility that someone within our sect is tipping us off. We might be doing everything under someone else's surveillance. If we suddenly leave the sect to look for someone, it's easy for them to notice our intention to lure them out."

Ye Qiao and the others left the island for Penglai, which weakened the purpose of Yun Que's "escape".

"After being abandoned by both the demon and monster races, who do you think a dodder vine would most likely seek refuge with after escaping?"

Ye Qiao said thoughtfully, "She will go to the person who gave her the idea."

"Yes." Xie Chuxue was also thinking, "I guess that person was also a cultivator who survived the tribulation by accidentally borrowing some kind of spiritual artifact."

His most likely guess was that those cultivators and demonic practitioners who failed to ascend, or were unable to ascend at all, had gone mad with the desire to survive. They wanted to seize the moment when the Heavenly Gate opened and ascend, rather than eke out a living and wait to die in the cultivation world.