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

None of the four sword spirits were willing to go and scout ahead, and in the end, Flying Immortal Sword sighed.

"I'll do it." Fei Xianjian thought they were all useless, and in the end, he would have to rely on himself.

The task of scouting was assigned to the Flying Immortal Sword. Its light attribute was ideal for exploration in this pitch-black place, illuminating the surroundings clearly. The forbidden area of ​​the Sword Inquiry Sect was exceptionally vast, the surrounding stone walls covered in white frost, the chill seemingly penetrating to the bone.

As the darkness surrounding the forbidden area was gradually dispelled by the light, two divine senses spread out to probe the true nature of the forbidden area.

At first, no one noticed anything strange about it.

Until Ye Qiao's divine sense suddenly swept over a certain place.

In the pitch-black forbidden area, countless tentacled-like things stretched out and approached the two of them. Like a spider's web, they silently enveloped everyone. The forbidden area was terrifyingly large, and the tentacles were like lurking beasts, ready to pounce and tear them to pieces at any moment.

Ye Qiao's gaze sharpened slightly.

"What's wrong?"

Sensing that something was wrong with her, Ye Qinghan turned her head away.

Ye Qiao did not withdraw her divine sense; it continued to spread outwards. She calmly replied, "It's nothing."

To prevent the other spirit swords from disappearing as well, she had placed them inside her domain beforehand. The moment she caught a glimpse of the tentacles, she understood how the Moon Arrow had vanished right under their noses.

Ye Qinghan withdrew his probing gaze and walked inside step by step. "Spiritual artifacts are roughly equivalent to the guardians of forbidden areas. It's fine as long as you don't step into their territory, but once you do, the ill-tempered artifact spirits will get angry."

They lost their bow and arrow and longsword as soon as they entered.

Ye Qinghan was in low spirits. The knife in his hand disappeared before he even used it. He could feel the connection with the longsword, but it was as if something had blocked it, which made his face darken slightly.

"Don't worry." Ye Qiao reassured him while keeping a close eye on the tentacles that were slowly approaching. "You won't get lost in the forbidden area. Besides, there's no use in worrying. Even if you turn back and tell the elders, you'll only get scolded."

After she finished speaking, she imitated the cold tone that the elders of the Sword Inquiry Sect always used, "You have disappointed me too much, Ye Qinghan."

"..." He blinked, seemingly comforted: "Are you so calm because you know this, that's why you're not in a hurry?"

Ye Qiao's expression didn't change at all when she threw away the magical artifact.

"Ah, no, that's not it." If Ye Qiao's sword were lost, she would turn this forbidden area upside down until she found it.

She answered honestly, "Mainly because it was Song Hansheng's arrow. It's easy for me to say this when I'm not in his shoes."

"..." Ye Qinghan turned her head: "Don't tell me such sincere words again next time."

Her honesty sometimes gave him a heart attack.

The Flying Immortal Sword led the way, and with the help of the light, Ye Qiao didn't see anything strange at all. She walked through the forbidden area, which was cold and eerie, and there was an unknown creature that was watching her intently. She kept her divine sense focused on the movement of the tentacles, so much so that she ignored her surroundings.

Suddenly, a whooshing sound rang in her ears. Ye Qiao tilted her head to dodge, glancing sideways. Faced with this bizarre attack, she was almost pierced through the heart. She rubbed her neck, her tone a mix of surprise and sarcasm: "Wow~"

She found it quite interesting.

The arrows that attacked them were actually Moon Arrows.

She thought she probably knew what the tentacles' abilities were.

At the same moment, Ye Qinghan caught the arrow that flew towards him, which was just a hair's breadth away from taking his life. If he had been a step slower, the arrow would have pierced his throat and left a bloody hole. He opened his palm, and the arrow turned into a stream of light. The boy lowered his eyes and recognized it as well. "That's the arrow of the Bright Moon Arrow."

Thinking of the missing Moon Arrow, Ye Qinghan felt something was amiss.

The Moon Arrow wouldn't attack unless controlled by someone, yet it suddenly shot two people in the back shortly after disappearing.

Could it be that the forbidden artifact's power is control?

"Ye Qiao." He looked at the other person. "You guessed it, didn't you?"

"Hmm, could it be—" Ye Qiao's thought process clearly didn't match his, and she slammed her fist into her palm: "Has Bright Moon Arrow entered his rebellious phase?"

Flying Immortal Sword: "Hmm?"

She paused slightly, then whispered to Ye Qiao, "The Bright Moon Arrow is already seven hundred years old."

"Oh." Ye Qiao immediately understood: "It's a belated rebellious phase. Nobody says you can't have a rebellious phase at seven hundred years old."

Ye Qinghan: "..." He glanced at Ye Qiao and felt that it was better to find a solution himself than to consult her.

He didn't speak, and Ye Qiao didn't respond either. She was still staring at the tentacle. After Ye Qinghan guessed the ability of the spiritual weapon, the tentacle had begun to gradually move closer to Ye Qinghan.

The pitch-black tentacles resembled countless black threads wrapping around him, gradually binding him like a spider spinning its cocoon. Strangely, Ye Qinghan seemed completely unaffected.

Perhaps it was Ye Qiao's outrageous statement that made the tentacles decide to target Ye Qinghan first. They decided to start with the clever ones, as the smart ones were more likely to disrupt their plans first; the less clever ones didn't matter, they could be left for last.

Ye Qiao noticed this unusual scene and chose to stay away from Ye Qinghan for the time being. Who knows what would happen if these tentacles stuck to her?

Her mind started racing.

The Moon Arrow was probably pulled away by tentacles; those thread-like things could forcibly rip it off if it stuck to a little bit.

However, Ye Qinghan did not disappear immediately after being entangled by the tentacles.

Could it be understood that the other party needs time, or that if they want to control someone, they need time to slowly, like a spider cocooning them before they can be considered successful?

These fine threads are generally undetectable to ordinary people. Ye Qiao is an exception; her divine sense is a level higher than that of the Nascent Soul stage, around the Void Refinement stage. However, even she would find it difficult to notice if she wasn't paying attention. The faint, hair-like things behind Ye Qinghan were gradually flying and wrapping around her body.

Ye Qinghan hadn't noticed that Ye Qiao had fallen behind a bit. As time passed, the two had been in the forbidden area for almost half a day, yet they still hadn't found anything. He pursed his lips, deeply worried about his missing sword and saber. "We can't find any hiding places for the magical artifacts inside the forbidden area. Do you have any ideas?"

Spiritual artifacts are very good at hiding. Ye Qiao forced the Bright Moon Arrow out by causing trouble in the forbidden area.

"I didn't find it either," Ye Qiao replied. All she could detect with her divine sense were dense tentacles, which couldn't possibly be the true form of the magical artifact.

If these are truly the original forms of a spiritual artifact, then the Sword Inquiry Sect is quite perverse, using these tentacles as their sect's most prized possessions. The Sword Inquiry Sect is so strange; I wonder what the Changming Sect is capable of.

Without the help of the Moon Arrow to remove the restrictions on all sides, the two stepped across the ground one after the other, and their feet began to explode without warning.

"Depend on."

The two cursed under their breath and jumped back quickly. However, there was still a restriction under their feet. They stepped on something and started to explode in a series of explosions. The inside of the barrier was gradually cracking. Ye Qinghan's face turned cold. "Go."

After he finished speaking, he found that Ye Qiao had already slipped away. He could only see her blurry back now. Ye Qinghan's lips twitched. The Changming Sect's ancestral technique of stepping on the clear wind was truly worthy of its name.

Every time they fled, Changming Sect was always the one in the lead.

Ye Qiao ran incredibly fast. Most of the restrictions in the forbidden area were incantations carved by artifact cultivators. Everyone has their own expertise, and she really couldn't understand the incantations carved by the artifact cultivators. Running away was her only option.

Having avoided the chain of explosions on the ground, Ye Qiao rushed back, asking, "Why do you have so many restrictions?"

"You can choose to fly on a sword." Ye Qinghan suppressed the urge to facepalm again, speaking calmly, "provided you can fly in the forbidden area."

Each forbidden area contains no fewer than a hundred incantations, making it impossible to fly under certain restrictions.

"Then what if I step on the wall?" Ye Qiao suddenly stomped her foot and landed on the left wall. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, she stepped on a tentacle that was clinging to the wall, and crushed the pitch-black tentacle with her foot.

She could feel the air seem to stagnate for a moment.

Ye Qiao's lips curled up silently. She turned her head and said sincerely, "Actually, we can walk on the wall so we won't get blown up."

"Look. This way I won't get blown up." Her head was tilted to the side, her feet firmly planted on the wall, like a nail driven into the wall, her long hair hanging down like a female ghost.

Ye Qinghan: "..."

He recalled her inhuman way of walking in the Sword Cave, paused for a second, and then steered the conversation back to normal, "This magical artifact has many methods. But it seems that anyone controlled by it is helpless."

Whether it's a longsword or a crescent-shaped arrow.

The longsword is one thing, but it's just an ordinary spiritual weapon without a sword spirit.

But the Moon Arrow was a genuine, naturally formed magical weapon, and there was no way to break free from it.

Ye Qiao remained noncommittal and continued to recommend it: "Why don't you really try walking on the wall? It's very interesting, and there's a kind of inhuman joy in it."

Ye Qinghan declined her invitation, and Ye Qiao asked casually, "How long has it been since anyone brought out a spiritual artifact from your forbidden area?" Based on what she sensed with her divine sense, she felt that this thing was more like an evil artifact than a spiritual artifact.

Ye Qinghan didn't think too much about it and calmly said, "All I know is that it has been in the forbidden area for nearly a thousand years. No one has ever successfully taken it out."

Ye Qiao keenly realized that this magical artifact had existed for even longer than the Bright Moon Arrow. So, what was the reason that such an ancient magical artifact had remained untouched for over a thousand years?

There's no other possibility than that this magical artifact is strange.

"Then I can take it with me." She had a strange confidence about her. "I can give the Sword Inquiry Sect Master a surprise when we go to the Demon Realm."

By the time the other party realized what was happening, their sect's spiritual artifact had already been brought out. Isn't that something to be excited about?

Ye Qinghan: "..."

He sincerely felt that as long as she didn't cause any trouble, his master would probably already be quite pleased.

But then she thought, with so many sect leaders in the Demon Realm and no one to keep Ye Qiao in check, she could cause a huge mess even if she made a huge mistake.

Ye Qiao rarely messes up, which leads to everyone's extraordinary trust in her. The disciples of the five sects implicitly regard her as their leader.

Perhaps Ye Qiao didn't realize that the Sixth Elder had almost completely gone along with her wishes throughout the entire process.

Entering the forbidden areas of other sects is not easy. The reason why the Moon Cleansing Sect was able to enter so smoothly that time was because there were too many people involved, including eight disciples. It would be impossible to escort them to the dungeon if they were not in the forbidden area.

In a special period like the current one in the cultivation world, there is no need to confine personal disciples to forbidden areas; every personal disciple is extremely precious.

However, if that person were Ye Qiao, it might be a different story. The Sixth Elder actually set a precedent for her, allowing an outer sect disciple to enter the forbidden area.

Even the elders of the five sects were subtly indulging her.

However, Ye Qiao, who was at the center of the five sects, seemed to have no self-awareness at all. Ye Qinghan tried his best to avoid the restrictions from all directions, but when he turned around, he found Ye Qiao hopping around like a rabbit, stepping on the wall of the Wenjian Sect.

And then, his suffering began.