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

"What are you muttering about?" Si Miaoyan asked, looking at her.

Ye Qiao pointed: "Look up."

Si Miaoyan calmly raised her eyes, catching a glimpse of blue, and asked with some surprise, "The domain... is it ending?"

Ye Qiao nodded. The domain was almost over, so they no longer needed to take action. Since the Heavenly Dao had no intention of intervening, Yun Que was doomed this time.

Faced with the discussion, Ye Qinghan was completely confused. Clearly, he was not suited to thinking about these conspiracy theories. It was better to leave such matters to those from the Path of Love.

"When you return to your respective sects, keep a close eye on them. Either the other party is an elder, or there is a traitor among the elders."

Qin Fanfan and the others didn't realize anything was wrong. These kinds of intelligence-testing tasks are better suited for smart people.

Chu Ling waved her hand: "We can help. As long as you find some items that the other party used, we can deduce some clues from them. By checking them one by one, we will eventually find the person you are looking for."

Penglai does not interfere in any power struggles, but if it concerns the cultivation world, they will do their best to help.

The purpose of my trip down the mountain was to assist these disciples.

Ye Qinghan had no objection. He wasn't good at mental work, so he didn't even want to leave the task of finding suspicious people to the disciples of Penglai.

Ye Qiao nodded, "Next, we'll go to the Demon Realm and rescue the little prince from the dungeon."

As for Qin Fanfan and the others?

They can only hope for the best; they are no match for the Demon Lord right now.

"The Demon Clan?" Yue Qing'an felt a strange sense of unease. He had consulted a divination beforehand, which predicted that someone would perish. Yue Qing'an didn't know who that person was, but he instinctively felt a resistance to the Demon Clan's stronghold.

At this moment, Chu Ling sided with her senior brother: "We've never been inside before. One wrong step and it's a one-way street."

She thought for a moment, then pointed at Yun Que: "Why don't we take her with us and have her lead the way?"

At least Yun Que had been in the Demon Clan for a few years, so it was a bit easier for her than for them to be completely clueless.

"No way." His words were almost unanimously rejected. Mu Chongxi said, "If you don't deal with her today, do you believe she'll magically escape tomorrow? Or some powerful and difficult-to-deal-with hero will come to her rescue."

Zhou Xingyun, deeply agreeing, slowly replied, "She's quite terrifying in some ways."

Yue Qing'an was skeptical.

Is it really that weird?

"When are you going to make your move?" Chu Xingzhi asked hastily, his sword already itching for a strike. "If not, let me do it."

What are you dawdling about?

Ye Qiao: "No need."

She slowly looked at the pale green on her fingertips. "The fourth realm is over."

As she finished speaking, a suffocating sensation, as if the distorted air around them had been sucked out, assaulted Ye Qinghan almost instinctively, causing her to assume a defensive stance.

Sensitive to danger, he sometimes resents being locked inside Ye Qiao's domain.

Once trapped, one is unable to resist or struggle at all.

"Is it very strong?" Yue Qing'an asked, looking at Ye Qinghan's tense expression.

Ye Qinghan also realized that his reaction was a bit overreacting. He turned his head away and replied in a muffled voice, "I don't know."

They had only heard that Ye Qiao had apparently killed a demigod of the Demon Emperor once using her domain.

If even a demigod at the level of a demon emperor can be annihilated, then killing them shouldn't be too difficult.

"After this domain ends, do you have a killer move up your sleeve?" Chu Xingzhi rubbed his hands together, haphazardly brandishing his spirit sword, his eyes wide with anticipation and an air of shrewdness. "What kind? The kind that kills people in a flash?"

"It's not that brutal, is it?" Ye Qiao was momentarily speechless, taken aback by his vivid metaphors. "It's just that the process might be a little bit gruesome?"

This was Ye Qiao's analysis based on the previous eliminations. The first was the Demon Emperor, and the second was a Nascent Soul stage demon cultivator from the Demon Clan.

Everyone passed away peacefully, but their expressions during the process showed extreme pain.

Ye Qiao felt that Yun Que would rather be stabbed to death by them than be obliterated by the domain.

But Yun Que clearly didn't think that way.

"You dare to kill me?" she scoffed softly.

Ye Qiao glanced at her sideways. "You think we wouldn't dare?"

She felt that the realm of all things was starving, because Ye Qiao rarely opened it to kill people. To her, opening it once would consume too much spiritual energy and divine sense, which was not worth it.

The tower spirit sympathized with this realm; it hadn't eaten in a long time either. Ye Qiao disliked killing, and all those from the Path of the Common People hated it.

Following Ye Qiao, I went hungry three times a day.

Driven mad by hunger, the domain unleashed its killing spree with lightning speed.

The materialization of the domain broadened the horizons of sword cultivators who had never seen its internal structure before.

The Ye family head was still staring at her internal structure, deep in thought. "Her final, deadly attack seems to be the result of four forms combined. So what is the result after they are merged?" Sword cultivators are generally quite interested in powerful things.

He soon found out what it was.

A bloodcurdling scream rang out. Even the most composed person couldn't help but shudder at the sound. The Ye family head looked over, his expression freezing slightly.

Holy crap.

Chu Xingzhi opened and closed his mouth for a long time but couldn't utter a single word.

When Ye Qiao said it was somewhat tragic, she was absolutely right.

The pain from the pressure on Yun Que's pitiful face gradually made her expression contort into a grimace.

She screamed for help, disregarding her image.

Si Miaoyan noticed that her whole being was dissipating, from her feet to her body, gradually being erased of all traces.

She stared at Ye Qiao in silent shock.

Is this what Ye Qiao meant by "a little bit tragic"?

The Ye family head's eyes lit up. Ignoring Yun Que's contorted and painful expression, he quickly asked Mu Chongxi, who seemed to be in a daze, pointing at the constantly disappearing demons, "Little Mu, what kind of ability is this?"

Mu Chongxi was also taken aback. "I...I don't know."

Ye Qiao rarely mentioned this kind of issue, and they were too lazy to ask. Although they had seen it in the Land of Inheritance, they had only seen the fourth one in the mirror before Ye Qiao broke it with her own hands.

Who knows what will happen after the fourth one disappears?

The Ye family head recalled Song Hansheng's frequent visits to the Changming Sect a few months ago and couldn't help but speculate: "Did the Song family poach Ye Qiao beforehand?"

Otherwise, it's hard to understand why Song Hansheng would later seek to collaborate with Ye Qiao.

It's already a miracle that the Changming Sect and the Yueqing Sect don't start fighting.

"Hmm." Mu Chongxi nodded, noticing that these family heads were all quite quick-witted.

"Have the Song family members seen her domain?" Patriarch Ye was still pondering. With a Nascent Soul cultivation level and this strange and powerful domain, how could the Song family possibly win her over? Was it because they were rich?

"Of course, we've never seen anything like it before." Mu Chongxi put his hand to his forehead and looked around for a moment before saying, "It was the first time we'd ever seen Junior Sister finish fourth."

Ye Qiao usually throws them out before the annihilation is activated.

Ye Qiao said that the fourth one would be the final blow, and they were really curious about what kind of final blow it would be.

The problem is, in any field, isn't there a decisive advantage?

Even the relatively weak Si Miaoyan Domain, upon unfolding, could eliminate all the cultivators it dragged in.

Unless the difference in their cultivation levels is extremely great, those who are pulled into the realm basically never come out alive.

Therefore, the domain is also regarded by cultivators in the cultivation world as one of the strongest killing moves.

The head of the Ye family seemed to be deep in thought. No wonder the Song family was secretly recruiting her. No matter how you look at it, or from the perspective of human development, Ye Qiao meets the requirements of the eight great families for recruiting experts.

Most importantly, she's a promising prospect.

"Haha, Xiao Mu." The Ye family head pondered for a moment, then chuckled twice and used his skillful way of getting close to her, "Ye Qiao, who knows, we might have been related by blood thousands of years ago."

"...You old man, you're really shameless." Mu Chongxi suppressed the urge to retort, remembering that the other party was, after all, the head of one of the eight great families. The young man chuckled twice and swallowed the words that were about to come out.

Seeing that the old man from the Ye family was pestering Mu Chongxi, Zhou Xingyun reached out and pulled his naive junior brother away in time.

People from the Eight Great Families have always been shameless.

It's not surprising that they can use such rhetoric.

Ye Qiao's surname is Ye, and her swordsmanship is no less than Ye Qinghan's. It would be strange if the Ye family wasn't envious. If the two Ye families could recruit Ye Qiao, they would probably be eager to announce that she was a bloodline of their Ye family that had been lost to the outside world.

Not only Yun Que was experiencing this, but all the demons were precisely targeted by the domain, and they were devoured and disappeared much faster than Yun Que.

Watching helplessly as they vanished one by one, Yun Que was terrified and trembled uncontrollably. She never expected that Ye Qiao would actually dare to kill her.

As those people say, I am always lucky and always manage to escape from a desperate situation.

Even those capricious demons dared not truly harm her.

How dare Ye Qiao?

These thoughts were shattered by the pain that followed. The girl began to writhe on the ground in agony, her fingertips digging into the earth, blood seeping through and dripping everywhere. Her sharp screams pierced everyone's eardrums. The disappearance was instantaneous, but the pain she endured was a million times greater than that of a normal death.

Yun Que's tragic fate left everyone else stunned.

Unlike the previous four novelties, the combination of these four states is truly terrifying.

Si Miaoyan gasped, "So, after the four states are combined..."

She murmured, "It's annihilation."

This ability is terrifying.

Si Miaoyan also has a domain. After the plants and trees revive, she can freely control the people entangled by vines within the domain, and she can also provide the effect of restoring spiritual energy within the domain.

Although both are wood-based, they are fundamentally different from Ye Qiao's "All Things Grow".

Her domain is dominated by control, while the domain of the Path of Passion is either dominated by control or by illusion. Cultivators of this path generally have a more changeable personality and a certain desire for control.

The habit of gathering intelligence and keeping accurate information in one's own hands has given rise to this field, so it's not surprising that it has given rise to such insightful remarks.

But Ye Qiao realized that the last one was annihilation.

Is it reasonable for the domain of the Path of All Living Beings to be so ruthless?

She had never heard of the four forms being combined to cause annihilation.

It twisted and melted him, then slowly dissipated like a stream of light; the whole process was utterly terrifying. Yun Que didn't even have a chance to regret it; watching herself disappear was undoubtedly devastating.

The domain has a self-awareness, and it is mocking this person.

Once you're tired of playing with it, then devour it.

Tears streamed uncontrollably down Yun Que's face from fear, her voice hoarse, completely overwhelmed by terror: "Please, Ye Qiao, let me go."

Ye Qiao remained silent.

"Senior Brother Ye..." Yun Que tried to use this form of address to evoke some tenderness in him, "Please, please help me."

Ye Qinghan also did not react at all.

In a sense, Ye Qinghan was also quite cold-hearted. Before successfully winning him over, he could withdraw all his affections without hesitation once the interests related to the sect's stance were involved.

Yun Que's figure gradually became transparent. Her heart was ashen as she lowered her hand. Even if she resented these people, she understood that after the Spirit Realm was activated, she would not even have a chance to struggle anymore.

In this world of cultivation, those who have no value are destined to be abandoned.

Whether it was the Right Protector or the Demon Clan, they all abandoned her without hesitation.

Accompanied by a blinding green light.

This time, Yun Que disappeared along with her aura.

The process of erasing the domain was swift; the bloodstains left on the ground were swallowed up. One second Yun Que was begging for mercy, and the next second he fell into deathly silence.

It was as if the person had vanished into thin air.

They held their breath slightly at that moment.

...It floated away without leaving any trace.

The last memory everyone had of Yun Que was of her face twisted with resentment.

To be honest, Yun Que is indeed quite talented, but her foundation is too weak, and she always tries to take shortcuts by relying on her senior brothers.

Song Hansheng refused to indulge her and even ridiculed her frequently within the sect. That was bad enough, but even without Ye Qinghan, she still had her master and several other senior brothers to protect her.

Everything changed after the competition began.

Especially after her performance became increasingly worse, Lian Yunhen's attitude towards her became even colder.

This made her jealous of Ye Qiao.

Along with Song Hansheng, they noticed Yun Que's strange behavior early on, and she became increasingly taciturn during the individual competition.

This situation will either erupt silently or gradually become abnormal.

Yun Que has clearly become a monster.

Compared to Yun Que, Ye Qinghan, who was also a chosen one, had a much more normal upbringing. He became famous at a young age, and after joining the sect, the elders of the Sword Inquiry Sect would occasionally beat him up, euphemistically calling it "strengthening his body." In addition, the Ye family placed high hopes on him, and the pressure piled up on him at all times was spurring Ye Qinghan to work hard to become stronger so as not to disappoint the expectations of his family and sect.

Of course, in the end, it's because Ye Qinghan has a good heart. If anyone else had been exploited like this, they would have become a monster long ago.

They shook their heads to calm down, knowing it was all over.

Three years of grudges and grievances.

It all vanished in an instant.

The domain was restored to its original state, and the demons who had not yet escaped within it were wiped out on the spot.

Zhu You sighed and returned the Broken Water Sword to his senior brother. "If Yun Que had a better temperament, she wouldn't have ended up like this."

Ye Qinghan handed the Frost to Ye Qiao, then moved his feet and quickly pulled his junior sister's wrist back.

Zhu You: "?"

Ye Qiao didn't notice his actions. With slightly complicated feelings, she looked at the others and found that none of them spoke, as if they were still in a daze.

Ye Qiao mistakenly thought they were in a daze because of Yun Que's death. After all, they had been together for more than three years, and their disciples, who had grown up under the indoctrination of righteous principles, were surprisingly soft-hearted.

Just as she was about to rejoin her team, someone suddenly jolted awake: "Wait! Don't come any closer!"

"?" Ye Qiao looked at the person in confusion.

Patriarch Ye also wiped away a cold sweat. "Xiao Qiao, take back your domain first, take it back." He repeated it twice in a row, fearing that this strange domain would get out of control.

Ye Qiao's spiritual sense was a level higher than his own cultivation level; although he was only at the Nascent Soul stage, the power of his domain far exceeded that of a Nascent Soul cultivator. Logically, such a domain should be extremely unstable.

If she doesn't control it properly, she'll be fine as the master of the domain.

They were the ones who were killed!

Seeing Ye Qiao approach, even the eldest brother silently stabbed her with his sword sheath without saying a word.

Ye Qiao, who was being scorned by her companions, widened her eyes: "Feed???" What do you mean by that?

The others returned a silent look, clearly the scene had left an indelible impression on them.

Next time we work together, we absolutely, positively must not offend her.

Seeing them staring at her with the same looks they had on terrorists, Ye Qiao felt incredulous.

"The scene was just a little bit tragic, is it really necessary to avoid me like the plague?" If she remembered correctly, she should have already given them a heads-up beforehand.

"..."

A little bit? They both swallowed hard.

Ye Qinghan gave her a forced smile, something he'd never done before, before calmly saying, "Indeed, it was only 'a little' tragic."