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

……

Ye Qiao sneezed: "Is someone thinking about me?"

Liu Yun spoke lazily: "I think that apart from those disciples who hope to be saved by your divine intervention, under normal circumstances, no one will miss you."

"Really?" She touched her chin. "I think quite a few people in the cultivation world like me."

"..."

"Who's blind?" Liu Yun sat cross-legged within the domain. He admitted that Ye Qiao was very famous, but shouldn't normal cultivators prefer someone as gentle and charming as his senior sister?

"Because I'm fast and handsome."

Liu Yun rolled her eyes: "But in fact, the only things your Changming Sect can boast about are speed and strength. Your overall quality is worrying."

While engaging in meaningless conversation with him, Ye Qiao observed the changes in the magical artifact.

As each stalactite was added, the magical artifact absorbed it rapidly, devouring all its essence, and its effects gradually became apparent. The scene before them was replicated inch by inch by the magical artifact.

"Open it and try it."

Ye Qiao softened her breathing slightly and flicked her fingertips at the magical artifact.

She was carefully searching for a way to use a magical artifact to open the domain.

"Can it be opened?" Miao Miao asked anxiously.

"I don't know." Si Miaoyan frowned slightly.

She simply listened to Ye Qiao and chose to trust him; whether it will work out remains to be seen.

Ye Qiao looked at the domain that had taken shape on the magical artifact and rotated it several times, trying to open the domain in a scientific way.

She studied it for a long time and finally found that science was useless. Even if it was shrunk down on the blueprint, there was no way to open the domain. Ye Qiao remembered that she had once shattered Ye Qinghan's domain with a single sword in the place of inheritance.

Similarly, it's also okay to shatter your own domain with a single punch.

Ye Qiao acted immediately. She gave Liu Yun a heads-up beforehand, telling him to protect himself. Under Liu Yun's horrified gaze, she swung her fist and smashed it down on the small domain on the water-type magical artifact.

The small domain and the domain are one entity; when she made her move, the inside of the domain began to shake violently.

She swung her fist fiercely, and in an instant, the airtight domain she had been protecting was pierced by the light.

Ye Qiao struck again with her hammer, shattering the enormous Wanwu Sheng into dust inch by inch.

The area that had previously instilled endless fear in people visually vanished completely at this moment, causing the eyes of Si Miaoyan and the others outside to twitch.

"Shall we make a bet, senior brother?" Miao Miao asked.

Still shaken, Liu Yun stammered, "What...what are we betting on?"

"One punch from her and you're dead."

Liu Yun: "..."

"Although the process is a bit abstract," Ye Qiao said, shaking her fist, "at least it's open."

Miaomiao touched her little bow and arrow. "So what kind of place is this? Why is my attack being reflected?" It was really unexpected that Ye Qiao could be trapped by her own domain.

Si Miaoyan recalled the books she had read and slowly pieced together the situation. "Perhaps it is one of the ancient and mysterious sacred sites? Many predecessors would take special measures to defend their spiritual abodes from outsiders."

"But that's something only powerful beings at the Tribulation Transcending stage can do. Usually, these kinds of places contain treasures that ordinary people can't even imagine." Si Miao said, "We don't have time to go in and explore right now."

Indeed it is.

They only glanced at it twice before leaving without a second thought.

On the way, Ye Qiao asked them what kind of vehicle they had taken to get there.

Si Miaoyan pointed to the spirit cranes that our sect raises themselves. Their sect often feeds these cranes with some slightly inferior-quality pills, and eventually they have successfully tamed quite a few domesticated spirit cranes.

Ye Qiao didn't have a spirit crane to ride, so she rode a proper phoenix. Phoenixes, being ancient creatures, are particularly eye-catching when they fly through the air, but thanks to the Half-Moon Clan's concealment technique, no one noticed her on the road.

"I'm going to the Ye family's house. Are you coming with me?" she asked.

Ye Qiao was genuinely afraid that these people would kill Ye Qinghan.

Si Miaoyan nodded slightly: "Of course." Their elders had already led the inner and outer disciples to evacuate. Returning to the sect was not safe, and they only felt safe by following Ye Qiao.

……

After the five sword cultivators of the Sword Inquiry Sect gathered, a group of disciples rushed into the Ye family and brought the injured Ye Qinghan to them. The Ye family was in an uproar. Seeing the nervous look on everyone's faces, Mu Chongxi and Zhou Xingyun exchanged a glance and breathed a sigh of relief.

At least the Ye family values ​​Ye Qinghan.

With the Ye family around, even if the demons arrive, they can hold out for a while.

Perhaps fearing the strength of the Ye family, the demons observed for a day before concluding that the Ye family was not a threat. They then led their forces to slaughter the Ye family, displaying the same unbridled and arrogant behavior as when they massacred the dragons.

Accompanied by several screams, Mu Chongxi and Zhou Xingyun tensed up slightly. Having witnessed the slaughter of the dragon race, they were all too familiar with such screams.

The moment the Ye family's direct descendants were attacked, the Ye family elders sensed something was wrong, and a group of them immediately grabbed their swords and rushed out.

Outside the Ye family mansion, the once bustling streets were deserted, with hundreds of demons dressed in black standing in the distance.

They neither dodged nor flinched, but instead, with an absolutely defiant attitude, they slightly raised their eyebrows, torturing a member of the Ye family while holding him in their hands. As they watched the member writhe in pain, the corners of their lips curled into an ever-widening grin. "Go ahead and get Ye Qinghan to help you."

"The only Nascent Soul cultivator is truly pitiful. Does he even have the time? If he chooses to break through, how long do you think it will take him to complete the Nascent Soul stage tribulation?"

"If he doesn't break through, what can a cultivator who's only at the Nascent Soul stage do for you?"

As far as they knew, the last Nascent Soul cultivator stayed for a full thirty days. Ye Qinghan's talent wouldn't take that long, but it would still take at least seven days. After seven days, it would be too late.

These people looked at each other and chuckled softly, which made everyone extremely angry.

The direct descendants of the Ye family simultaneously drew their swords, their snow-white sword shadows intertwining, and a sword formation soared into the air. The approaching demons were stopped in their tracks by the swords, leaving a trail of afterimages. Blood light spread and the sword energy was chilling. The demons who originally tried to rush in directly like they had slaughtered the dragons stopped in their tracks.

Anyone who dared to break in was immediately beheaded by the sword's shadow.

The scene was deathly silent.

After a while, they heard a soft, mocking laugh: "You've got something."

The Ye family, which has managed to maintain its position as the number one family in the cultivation world, has something special about it.

The leader was a near-Nascent Soul cultivator. The Right Protector looked at the demons lying dead with their eyes wide open in disgust, then looked away. "But did your Ye family's ancestor only teach you this one sword formation after hundreds of years of ascension?"

One of the direct descendants of the Ye family raised an eyebrow. "If our ancestor were still here, how could you demons be so presumptuous? We would have driven you back to the Demon Abyss long ago!" Their ancestor had already ascended to heaven a hundred years ago.

After ascending to immortality, one is not allowed to interfere in matters of the cultivation world.

The Right Protector's lips curled into a smile: "He's courting death."

They had absolutely no idea what the difference was between the Quasi-Nascent Soul stage and themselves.

The Right Protector was a talisman cultivator. He was originally supposed to be working with the impulsive and foolish Left Protector, but since the other party's whereabouts are currently unknown, he had no choice but to go into battle alone.

The formation for Nascent Soul cultivators doesn't require prior planning. The man lightly pinched a talisman, and in the blink of an eye, a nimble talisman reached Mu Chongxi, sealing off the area from top to bottom, thus forming a killing formation.

Stepping inside means certain death.

Mu Chongxi was somewhat bewildered when he was trapped by the formation, and Zhou Xingyun quickly stepped in to rescue him.

The two entered the killing formation one after the other.

Both of them had entered killing formations, but none of them had ever been to a formation for those at the Nascent Soul stage, where a slight mistake could lead to death.

"We can test out the weak points of the formation one by one," Mu Chongxi suggested.

Zhou Xingyun: "Good idea. But we need to survive inside first."

"I'll test the weak point, Senior Brother, you cover me." Mu Chongxi gripped her spirit sword tightly and handed her back to Zhou Xingyun without hesitation. With the help of the sword spirit, the two of them weren't having too much trouble in this formation, but it certainly wasn't easy either.

Before long, the two were tormented by the killing formation and were covered in wounds.

Mu Chongxi tirelessly tried this unpredictable formation again and again. The red sword light burst forth with a bright light. As he gradually became more engrossed and his heart burned with anger, no one noticed that the sword energy of all the longswords outside was quietly gathering on Mu Chongxi's spirit sword.

Zhou Xingyun noticed that the Chaoxi Sword was absorbing the sword energy of other swords.

He had known for a long time that innate sword bones have a unique attraction to sword spirits. When they draw their swords, countless swords tremble and submit at that moment. This time, when Mu Chongxi drew his sword, countless Xuan swords gathered a huge amount of sword energy, enough to cut through the formation with one strike.

The two sword spirits provided cover for Mu Chongxi, while Zhou Xingyun also quietly protected his junior brother, trying to prevent the formation from disturbing his enlightenment.

The seemingly unbreakable formation began to tremble uncontrollably. Mu Chongxi seized the opportunity and swept the formation open with a single sword strike. A burst of red light pierced and tore the formation apart. As the two of them ran out one after the other, the Right Protector's expression changed slightly.

"That's...?" The Ye family elder's eyes widened. "A natural sword bone?"

She has the same aptitude as Ye Qinghan.

One of the most elite types in the cultivation world, a unique genius in swordsmanship.

"They actually came out?"

The talisman array, which was created by cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage, was broken by two cultivators at the Spirit Transformation stage.

The Nascent Soul and the Divine Transformation Realm are not even in the same league; a dimensional reduction attack would not be an exaggeration. However, the two Nascent Soul imps worked together to break through it.

That's really unbelievable.

The clear, melodious sound of a sword rang out, and the sword light tore through layers of killing formations. When Mu Chongxi emerged, his eyes were filled with an inescapable killing intent towards the demon before him.

Xue Yu put his mind at ease, raising his eyebrows slightly. To be honest, the fact that he could see killing intent in his naive junior brother showed that he and his senior brother had not had a pleasant time in the killing formation.

Two Nascent Soul cultivators had broken his killing formation, and the Right Protector was somewhat displeased. "Since Ye Qinghan refuses to come out, then surely he'll come out after we slaughter this place?"

For them, slaughtering the Ye family was like slaughtering the dragon clan.

The demons' surging sword energy condensed, and if they couldn't withstand a single attack from hundreds of demons, the entire Ye family could be razed to the ground. Ye Qinghan could no longer sit still. He made a hand seal with his fingertips, and a quasi-divine sword technique leaped forth.

Ye Qinghan's appearance made the atmosphere in the Demon Clan even more frenzied.

"Grab him!"

Shouts like "Kill him!" continued to rang out.

"Has he gone mad?" Mu Chongxi knew his current situation. Not to mention the wounds from being stabbed twice before, there wouldn't be any problems with Dan Xiu around. But he was already at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, and suddenly using a quasi-divine sword technique could easily lead to him going into qi deviation.

It could be said that he was completely forced into this situation.

As Ye Qinghan condensed a sword technique that was on the verge of becoming a Nascent Soul, he swallowed the churning bloody stench without making a sound. Almost simultaneously, the spiritual energy within his body began to surge wildly. He had been suppressing his peak Nascent Soul state for a long time, and if he didn't break through, the only option he could choose was to suffer a qi deviation.

However, if it breaks, not to mention whether the lightning tribulation will go berserk due to interference, there are still more than ten days of trials left, and the Ye family simply cannot withstand that long.

Despite the violent and chaotic surge of spiritual energy within his body, the young man remained expressionless as he stood before the crowd. The moment he appeared, countless demonic attacks were directed at him.

Their target is not the Ye family.

Instead, it was this one, the legendary chosen one.

"Commendable courage." The Right Protector clapped his hands. "I didn't expect you to actually dare to come out."

He chuckled twice and said softly, "Then get ready, the number one in our cultivation world."

The moment Ye Qiao saw all the demon sword cultivators below swinging their swords, she withdrew her divine sense and quickly searched the surroundings for anything useful. Then, seeing that there was nothing she could use, her gaze suddenly turned to Liu Yun, who was leisurely riding a crane.

She leaned right next to him, grabbed Liu Yun, and said, "Hey, hey, do you trust me, friend?"

"Who the hell is your friend?" He looked horrified. Being friends with Ye Qiao was terrifying; if she didn't have money, she could drag her friends to jail.

Ye Qiao pressed down on his shoulder and pointed down: "You ride the spirit crane and crash into it. Si Miaoyan will bring you into the domain, and then leave the rest to me."

She was confident she could control the situation. Even though there was a quasi-god-level being, Ye Qiao's divine sense was more than that of a quasi-god-level being. Her Void Refinement level divine sense could easily overwhelm this group of demons. She could guarantee that every step would be foolproof.

"Huh?" Liu Yun's eyes widened.

Run him over? He had this "you're fucking kidding me" look on his face.

Seeing that Liu Yun didn't move for a long time, and seeing Ye Qinghan's expression of heroic sacrifice, Ye Qiao got anxious, grabbed KFC's fur, and gestured for it to come.

KFC almost shouted out loud.

Enraged, it flapped its wings violently, releasing the aura of the king of birds. The startled crane cried out and flapped its wings, crashing downwards.

History always repeats itself. Liu Yun was thrown off with a miserable scream. The crane swooped down with unstoppable momentum, and Liu Yun tumbled and crawled into it, instantly shattering the demons' formation and the powerful spells they were preparing to unleash.

"..."

The Ye family members, who had already prepared their killing moves, were speechless.

Liu Yun scrambled to his feet, the next second the tip of a knife was pressed against his throat. The boy pushed it away little by little with his fingertips, grinning obsequiously, "Sorry to bother you."

"I'm leaving now."

Damn you, Ye Qiao!

He tried to retreat, but the demon in front of him grinned and slashed down with his sword without hesitation. Ye Qiao immediately launched a divine sense attack, crushing the demon's expression blank and his movements froze. The Liu Yun alchemy furnace suddenly grew larger and swung him away.

"This alchemist... has quite a few ideas." One of the direct descendants couldn't help but murmur.

The green clan robes she wore quickly confirmed Liu Yun's identity to everyone present.

The five sects are indeed full of talented people. Even alchemists have managed to come to the rescue?

Xue Yu's eye twitched slightly. He knew Liu Yun well; she was someone who knew how to protect herself. No matter how he looked at it, he couldn't possibly do such a thing.

This idea probably came from someone else.

In fact, he guessed correctly.

Taking advantage of Liu Yun attracting the demons' attention, Ye Qiao commanded KFC to lead the people away. Bright phoenix fireworks cleared the way, and the fear of flames caused it to clear a large open space.

The phoenix flew low and swooped down in front of Ye Qinghan. In full view of everyone, Ye Qiao grabbed Ye Qinghan and dragged him away, scoffing rapidly, "Stop pretending and run away."

He, a Nascent Soul Peak cultivator, dares to go head-to-head with a Deity Transformation cultivator? Does he want to die?