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

Xue Yu was self-aware; he was merely a weak and helpless alchemist. Judging solely by their physical skills, Xue Yu estimated he could probably hold his own against Yue Qing'an and Chu Ling.

Although he was not a sword cultivator, nor did he possess the unpredictable methods of a talisman cultivator, Xue Yu could easily handle these two Penglai disciples in terms of physical skills.

Xue Yu murmured, "I still don't know what Yue Qing'an and Chu Ling are good at."

Since they dared to come down the mountain, they must have their own means of self-protection, so there's no need to worry about that.

"I'm also afraid of getting beaten up." Ye Qiao said sincerely, then lay on the ground for a while with nothing to do. Seeing that the others were still busy, she simply took a nap.

"..."

In a daze, I was suddenly grabbed and shaken violently a few times.

"Look! Ye Qiao."

Ye Qiao was a little dazed from Yue Qing'an's vigorous shaking of her head.

She opened her eyes and quickly looked up, only to find that, for some unknown reason, the ground, which should have been calm, was shaking and the air currents were distorted as if they had been torn apart. For a second, even from a distance, she could feel the oppressive atmosphere.

Not understanding, she asked, "What's that?"

"An unusual phenomenon." Yue Qing'an slammed his fist into his palm and murmured, then whispered to them, "It's probably a battle between powerful beings."

"Someone has made a move..."

Sooner or later, demonic cultivators and cultivators in the cultivation world will fight each other, and a victor will be decided.

Chu Ling felt uneasy. "To create such a celestial phenomenon, one must at least be at the Integration Stage, right?"

In other words...

"Master and the others are fighting the Demon Lord?" Ye Qiao blinked. "So fast?"

Completely, much faster than she expected. Ye Qiao thought they would wait. That meant they really didn't have much time left.

"Yes, what are you planning to do?" Yue Qing'an could see that these disciples were the best candidates to be relied upon, and the entire cultivation world was looking forward to them. Ye Qiao was the one who received the most attention among them.

"Let's go, let's hurry up and leave." Ye Qiao stopped paying attention to the strange phenomena and dragged the three people who were happily taking pictures in the opposite direction.

Mu Chongxi uttered two "eh"s, then turned his head away. "Where are you going?"

He hasn't finished filming yet!!

The inner disciple who recorded the image said that if he sold his image stone, the spirit stones could be split 50/50, and Mu Chongxi was cooperating enthusiastically.

"Enter the forbidden area."

"Huh?" The group was all confused. What were they going to do in the forbidden area?

……

Amidst the constant upheavals in the outside world, people were filled with anxiety. The cultivation world had been peaceful for nearly a thousand years, and no one expected that the demon and monster races would cause trouble again. All a group of ordinary cultivators, whose highest cultivation level was no more than the Golden Core stage, could do was to guard their own little plot of land.

The rest can be left to the major sects.

This has been the case for thousands of years.

"If the sect leader were to fight the Demon Lord/Demon Emperor, who would win?"

"We don't know. We don't even know what level they've reached."

"What should we do if we lose?" This is the question that cultivators are most concerned about. What should they do? If all the sect leaders lose, who can they rely on?

"If we lose, who will be able to take over? Let me calculate for you. Excluding those who live in seclusion, there are twenty-three Nascent Soul cultivators and two Deity Transformation cultivators from the five sects' direct lineages."

The vast world of cultivation may never lack geniuses, but very few are discovered and grow into truly great talents.

Didn't you see that those who can enter the Five Clans are generally direct descendants or collateral descendants of aristocratic families?

Many geniuses, lacking family support, died from various accidents long before they were even discovered.

"Wait a minute, one is a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Sword Inquiry Sect, and who is the other one?"

"That's none other than the famous Ye Langlang, Ye Qiao."

"Is Ye Qiao a Nascent Soul cultivator?"

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

"Foolish. She was the first to reach the Nascent Soul stage. Her cultivation level is also more stable than Ye Qinghan's. In other words, if the sect leader loses, we can still rely on her, right?"

"He reached the Nascent Soul stage at eighteen, but if he had been born a few decades earlier, he wouldn't be in this situation today." In the end, the demon race has appeared in the world one after another, and countless cultivators have fallen into demonic possession. These geniuses are living in the worst of times.

"What can a bunch of kids do at most, even if they're at the Nascent Soul stage? They'd better hide themselves; the Demon Lord won't let them get away with this."

"Aren't the Eight Great Families going to do anything at this time? Some of their older ancestors probably haven't ascended yet, right?"

"The Eight Great Families? They're just a bunch of idiots!"

"I've wanted to say this for a long time. The Eight Great Families are a bunch of complete idiots, the kind who occupy positions without doing their work, but I didn't dare to speak up before because of their intimidation."

"So relying on anyone is useless. In these turbulent times, just take care of yourself and live one day at a time."

"..."

"Hey, but I think that even if geniuses in the cultivation world are dying out and the eight great families are doing nothing, Ye Qiao can still save the world."