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

If the timing hadn't been so inappropriate, she would have shouted "Detective!"

Where did the demon race find these two geniuses?

The analysis was so intense it terrified her that she was ready to kill him to silence him.

So these supposedly brilliant minds ultimately concluded that she was the daughter of the Demon King?!

The Demon King in the underworld would weep upon hearing their brilliant conclusion.

Ye Qiao's wildly beating heart calmed down a little. Seeing that she couldn't eavesdrop on anything useful, she lowered her eyes, quickly pinched the butterfly, and quietly left.

……

Back at her residence, she calculated that the opening date of the Cloud and Mist Secret Realm was only a few days away. She quickened her reading pace, flipping through a book left behind by her ancestor, which recorded many weaknesses and habits of the demon beast race, clearly outlining their weaknesses and attack methods.

Their ancestor was truly a great person.

Ye Qiao was flipping through a book when a group of illiterate sword spirits saw this and immediately ran away. Fighting and killing were fine, but reading? They couldn't understand any of this.

She finished reading the book the next day. KFC, bored, blew on his bangs and said, "Ye Qiao, what exactly did Heaven give you that gives you the confidence to act so arrogantly among the demons?"

KFC couldn't stand spending all his time reading books with Ye Qiao in the demon realm.

She wanted to go out and cause trouble with Ye Qiao.

Reading books is simply making things difficult for this uncultured phoenix.

Ye Qiao snapped out of her reverie and truthfully replied, "I don't know." In fact, the things Heaven gave her always seemed to be usable at each level, whether they were sword techniques or incantations.

But this time, Ye Qiao couldn't quite figure it out.

"Does it have a name?"

"have."

Ye Qiao said, "But I haven't figured it out yet."

How to put it? She knew it must have a name, but she didn't know what it was. It was said that she needed to figure it out herself.

"What I mean is, that's a control group compared to all living things?"

"Control group?" The young prince, who had been bored and almost dozing off, suddenly opened his eyes wide. "Then that means they're very strong?"

All things are born from the source of life, so what is the control group... its destruction?

The destructive power is terrifying just to think about.

Actually, you can find something to experiment with.

However, Ye Qiao has not yet found a suitable candidate.

No matter how you look at it, the control group of all living things is in danger, right?

She had studied it at first and concluded that this move was quite time-consuming and needed to be prepared in advance when fighting against others. Ye Qiao couldn't possibly have time to prepare a powerful move while fighting the Demon Emperor, so she could only keep running away throughout the entire process.

Now that we have the time, we can't find suitable candidates for the experiment.

"If I were in the Changming Sect, the elders could help me with the experiments." Unfortunately, I can't return to the sect for the time being.

Moreover, not only did the founder refuse to give her a cheat code, but he also lightly tapped her brow before. Whenever Ye Qiao closed her eyes, she could recall the scene of the founder wielding his sword, which made her feel quite uneasy.

She doesn't have a particular style; she likes to improvise and is very good at observing and adapting to the instructor's movements.

This leads to Ye Qiao being able to subconsciously imitate whoever she learns from. For example, when she practices sword wielding now, she has picked up some of the style of her master.

Even an elder who understands swordsmanship would say it's similar.

Unfortunately, right now it's just the little prince and KFC, and the two of them are almost falling asleep watching it.

Over the next few days, while Ye Qiao continued to explore and scout out locations in the demon realm, she discovered something quite interesting. She wondered if the absurd conclusions of those two powerful demons had spread internally, as some of the less intelligent demon kings actually believed them.

The frequency with which powerful demons cause trouble has visibly decreased in the past few days.

Although demon kings still occasionally look down on her with disdain, it's still much better than having several people trying to kill her every now and then.

The demon race doesn't believe in hereditary succession, but if she really is the daughter of the Demon Emperor, they have to be more cautious. No one knows what this dog in the sky is up to.

Fortunately, she was weak enough.

This can be considered a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

With five days left until the opening of the Cloud and Mist Secret Realm, Ye Qiao was learning about the weaknesses of the various demon kings and repeatedly practicing the Qingfeng Technique, which she knew by heart. Then, she remembered something and told the little prince, "There is actually a Mingyu in our forbidden area."

She suddenly remembered the Mingyu incident; she hadn't had a chance to ask about it before because the young prince was imprisoned in the dungeon.

"Huh?" The young prince, holding his teacup, looked somewhat bewildered. "Aren't those ancient creatures? Species from our time, how come they're in your forbidden area?"

"It's said to have been sleeping in the forbidden area for nearly a hundred years." Ye Qiao also found it strange, but it didn't affect her next plan: "I'm going to release it."

If you're after excitement, then go all the way.

Now that she has the young prince as her protector, she naturally wants to challenge the legendary Mingyu.

No matter what kind of fish it is, it has to lie down when both the dragon and the phoenix are present.

"……???ah?"

"Do you want that giant fish to destroy the Changming Sect?"

"No." Ye Qiao's thoughts were crystal clear. "The current situation is that the demon race and the monster race are joining forces to deal with the cultivators. The first battle was halted and the powerful beings retreated, but there will be a second and a third battle."

She knew that her few disciples, who were not yet fully grown, were not capable of resisting for the time being. The only way to temporarily stop them was to create something else to distract the demons.

"That fish must be a creature from ancient times, right?"

"Releasing it out will be enough to cause widespread panic, won't it?"

Whether it's the demon race or the monster race, they would all be wary. Who wouldn't be afraid of a fish that looks like a mountain swaying around?

"But how can you guarantee it won't destroy the Changming Sect in a fit of rage?"

"Have you ever seen a monster destroy its own lair?"

The fish didn't seem to be imprisoned; it had been sleeping. Changming Sect was, after all, their stronghold. Moreover, Ye Qiao was more inclined to believe that the fish posed no great threat, otherwise the elders would have warned them.

"If it really poses a threat, I can try the blessing from Heaven." Ye Qiao was somewhat eager to try. "Heaven usually doesn't lie. If that's the case, then it means the destructive power is very strong."

"Alright." The little prince blinked, flicked his exposed tail in boredom, and promised, "Anyway, we'll help you."

Even if the power bestowed upon her by Heaven is weak, it doesn't matter, because the Dragon Clan will be there.

Both are ancient creatures, but in terms of bloodline, the dragons still have a clear advantage over the sea fish. With the dragons around, there shouldn't be much of a problem.

Having prepared the young prince and the others for the worst, Ye Qiao listened quietly as the demon kings talked about how they would conquer the cultivation world during the Demon King Assembly. When the atmosphere was getting intense, she casually interjected.

"If you want to conquer the cultivation world, I can actually lead you to attack the Changming Sect."

Ah? ? ?

If KFC, who was listening quietly to the side, were in his beast form, his fur would be standing on end by now.

"Changming Sect?"

Soon after she finished speaking, the entire conference fell silent.

Someone burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha—"

"Hahaha, you're such a weak demon, yet you dare to dream of attacking the Changming Sect?"

"Not to mention the Changming Sect, the top of the five sects, you can't even handle the weakest Biyue Sect."

Ye Qiao raised an eyebrow slightly. This Demon Emperor, to be honest, truly had no dignity whatsoever. But she didn't care what they thought of her. With a smile, she said, "But now I am the Demon Emperor. If you're not happy, come and hit me!"

I owe you so much.

They couldn't laugh at Ye Qiao's cheerful voice.

That snobbish tone makes you want to punch her in the face.

Some people were surprised by the sudden change in the usually quiet Demon Emperor.

Was she like this before?

"No."

She had been completely invisible before, and no one knew how she managed to conceal her presence so completely.

The great demons collectively narrowed their eyes in a dangerous manner.

She used to be so timid and submissive, but now she's suddenly launching a powerful attack on the demon race. She must have some kind of backing.

Several demon kings were preparing to test her abilities. The demon king closest to Ye Qiao suddenly stretched out his claws to try to grab her, but the girl's figure blurred, and the two demon kings at the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm couldn't even touch the hem of her clothes.

What kind of speed is that?!

That shouldn't be the case. Those who reached out to grab her just now were all powerful demons at the Nascent Soul stage.

Under their gloomy gazes, she didn't even bother to sit down. She brazenly stepped onto the Demon Emperor's throne, and facing the great demons' sharp, piercing stares, she said, "If you're still not satisfied, then come and fight me!"

"ha."

I've never heard of someone willingly asking to be beaten up. If she says that, the other demon kings won't hold back.

After she finished speaking, the two demon kings vanished from the spot.

Ye Qiao assessed the strength of both sides and felt that there shouldn't be any major problems.

The demon kings didn't really want to kill her, so both sides were in a probing phase. One of the demon kings transformed into human form and appeared in mid-air. Without warning, he brought down his fist on her head, raising dust. Ye Qiao's leg collided with his fist at the same time, and she kicked him away ten meters away with a spinning kick.

The attack from the other demon king came one after another. The demon king that had been kicked away quickly returned, preparing to launch a pincer attack. Ye Qiao leaped into the air, stepped on his shoulder, and easily flipped over him, hitting them on the head and throwing the two demon kings away again.

The other demon kings tacitly stepped aside, watching helplessly as the two demon kings flew low from the middle and were quickly smashed into the ground, unable to be pulled out.

In a mere instant, the difference in skill became immediately apparent.

The fight against the two demon kings was so fast that it ended before anyone else could react.

"So fast."

"In the blink of an eye, those two good-for-nothings were taken care of?"

It was too fast, a complete annihilation, with absolutely no entertainment value.

"This physical skill?" The demon king was incredulous. She had this physical skill. Why did she slack off during the meeting in the first place?

"Her?"

They were convinced.

If she had this ability, what was she doing in the first place? While a group of demon kings were fighting fiercely for the position of demon emperor, she was fanning the flames and slacking off like crazy.

Are you kidding me?

At this moment, the demon kings couldn't help but start conspiracies, thinking that she might actually be the daughter of the demon emperor, and that she had been pretending to be weak from the beginning. In an instant, everyone looked at her with great fear.

I never expected someone so young to be so shrewd and calculating.

Ye Qiao could only say that overthinking is a disease.

But this kind of speculation was obviously advantageous to her. The way the powerful demons looked at her was as if she were some kind of monster. Ye Qiao's two moves had intimidated them. The daughter of the Demon Emperor couldn't be too weak, which could only mean that she was after the Demon Emperor's position. Therefore, from a conspiracy theory perspective, she might still have some tricks up her sleeve.

Out of caution, fearing that Ye Qiao might act rashly, the demon kings finally stopped opposing her and relented: "Then we'll do as you say."

"We will set off tomorrow to attack Changming Sect."

When KFC and Little Prince heard this, they almost couldn't hold back their laughter.

Did they hear that right? Attack the Changming Sect?

Are you serious?

But judging from Ye Qiao's posture, it didn't seem like she was joking.

What's this called? "A drop of kindness deserves a spring of gratitude," and after leaving the sect, she led a group of demonic beasts to repay the sect? That's too darkly humorous.

……

Meanwhile, Elder Zhao, far away in the Changming Sect, suddenly sneezed.

"What's wrong, Elder?"

"I don't know why," he said, stroking his chin, "but I have a very bad feeling about this."

"Perhaps it's because there are too many demons lurking at the foot of the mountain lately?"

Not only was Elder Zhao panicked, but Steward Yu, who had never left the library all day, also sat with Elder Zhao, feeling the same panic.

In the past few days, he had several disciples who knew formations guard the sect's protective formation. The formation was always open, and the Changming Sect could only leave, not enter, in an absolutely sealed-off state, to prevent demons from infiltrating or the sect from being attacked.

It wasn't that no demonic cultivators tried to attack the sect, but they were all blocked by the formation, wave after wave returning empty-handed.

However, formations are not a panacea.

The repeated attacks gradually weakened the formation.

The formation requires a continuous supply of spirit stones to replenish it.

In other words, activating the sect's protective formation consumes a lot of money. The formation is consumable; after it breaks once, it can be upgraded a second time, but this requires continuously consuming spirit stones. After the first breakage, spirit stones need to be replenished immediately to prevent the formation from being interrupted.

The sect's protective formation was guarded by several talisman cultivators, and an elder also volunteered to help guard the formation.

Elder Zhao was temporarily acting as the sect's representative. After the kind-hearted elder consulted him, he nodded and allowed that elder to go and guard the formation together.

"Which elder is guarding the formation?" Steward Yu asked.

"The twelfth peak."

Qin Fanfan was not present, so she left the Sect Master's Token with Elder Zhao. The position of Sect Master is determined by strength, with character and ability being secondary considerations.

Back then, when Qin Fanfan and Xie Chuxue were at the same cultivation level, Qin Fanfan was more reliable. Therefore, Qin Fanfan was ultimately chosen as the sect leader. Steward Yu was also somewhat curious about this, "So, the former sect leader was initially more satisfied with Xie Chuxue, right? You could tell from her name that she cared a lot. It was just that Xie Chuxue was unreliable, so she chose Qin Fanfan?"

According to his age, Elder Zhao was Qin Fanfan's senior, and he knew much more than Steward Yu.

"Xie Chuxue?" Elder Zhao stroked his beloved beard, quite surprised. "His name is rather perfunctory. When you took him back, it happened to be the first snowfall at Changming Sect. Why do you think his name is more meaningful than Qin Fanfan's?"

"Speaking of which, it has been a hundred years since Changming Sect last saw snow."

The first snowfall, so the name is Xie Chuxue (Thank You for the First Snow)?

Seeing that Elder Zhao couldn't help but reminisce about the past again, Steward Yu looked at him strangely and said, "...Oh."

He thought there was some kind of background to it, or perhaps the previous sect leader was quite satisfied with Xie Chuxue, so he took extra care in choosing the name.

Little did I know that this was the truth.

As they chatted, they inevitably drifted off-topic.

Sitting there chatting and drinking tea, suddenly without those troublesome relatives, it felt rather lonely.

Just then, Steward Yu, who had been idly twirling his teacup, suddenly sat up straight. Not only him, but Elder Zhao also stood up abruptly. They could clearly sense the disturbance of the formation, and the ground trembled twice. They exchanged a glance, flicked their sleeves, and prepared to go out, only to bump into an inner disciple with a pale face.

"What's wrong?"

"What happened?"

The inner disciple calmed down slightly and replied, "The formation is malfunctioning."

"Elder Qiu, who was guarding the formation, told me to tell you that demons have infiltrated and attacked them. The formation was temporarily broken, but they quickly rebuilt the protective formation. However, demons have already rushed in and are slaughtering people. Many disciples are running away."

Manager Yu's expression darkened.

Now is not the time to issue accusations. "Are there many demons who have infiltrated?"

"Yes." The inner doorman nodded tremblingly.

Manager Yu was about to curse. He had come specifically about the formation, and he felt that even having an elder guard it wasn't necessarily safe in such a tense situation. Apart from Elder Zhao, whom he knew best, he didn't trust anyone.

After the sect's protective formation had been maintained for more than ten days, someone exploited a loophole. Manager Yu could only compose himself and "send those two Penglai disciples over."

"Yes."

Chu Ling and Yue Qing'an were initially confused by the sudden summons, but after seeing the Changming Sect disciples fleeing one after another, they exchanged a glance and realized why the Changming Sect elders had summoned them.

After briefly understanding the situation, Chu Ling readily offered, "Shall I lead them to retreat?"

The disciples of Penglai can be trusted. Penglai has not been involved in worldly affairs for hundreds of years, so there is no suspicion about them.

"Yes," said Steward Yu.

Now that the direct disciple is gone, the inner disciples are leaderless and can only try to find another direct disciple to appease the situation. Although they are from Penglai, Penglai disciples at least have the ability to handle things and have leadership skills.

Neither of them refused, and they quickly walked outside. Yue Qing'an couldn't help but whisper, "Ah, you agreed so quickly. What if that elder has ill intentions?"

After all, none of their other close disciples were around, so the two of them were the only remaining workforce.

"It's not that serious. The Changming Sect people are quite nice. They'll help if they can." Chu Ling whispered, "I think we're friends with them, right? It's just helping out, why would we think so much about it?"

Sometimes Chu Ling felt that the thoughts of these cultivators of the Common People Path were quite hard to guess. They were no less cunning than other cultivators, and she often had concerns.

Yue Qing'an forced a smile, meeting his junior sister's somewhat nervous gaze. For once, he didn't refute her. "You're right."

Regardless, we spent a few months together.

If I can lend a hand, I will.

Therefore, as he was leaving, Yue Qing'an couldn't help but remind him, "Elder Zhao, if you have time, you could investigate the people within the sect. Perhaps someone tampered with the sect's protective formation this time."

Elder Zhao was slightly taken aback, but then he realized that the other party was from Penglai, so he couldn't have made a baseless accusation. He nodded in response.

The immediate priority was to investigate the intruding demonic cultivators, but Elder Zhao soon realized he had been too optimistic.

There were countless demons lurking within the Changming Sect. As soon as the formation was broken, countless demon cultivators poured in. The formation set up by Xie Chuxue could delay for a while, but it only lasted for less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

Whether it was an offensive or defensive formation, all of them were trampled to pieces by wave after wave of demonic cultivators who were willing to die.

Looking at the crowd, Chu Ling felt a bit like cursing. This scene was far more terrifying than when the Changming Sect was in chaos before. Back then, chaos could be calmed down, but when life and death were at stake, who would listen to human words? Everyone was fleeing for their lives.

They simply lack the ability to direct these inner circle members on how to handle the current situation.

Chu Ling cursed under her breath. She saw an inner door where a demonic cultivator was tearing at the clothes. Ignoring her senior brother's obstruction, she kicked away the demonic cultivator who was trying to pounce on her. Then, the girl nimbly opened her palm, and countless chess pieces jumped and formed a grid, surrounding people and covering the retreat of most of the disciples.

This is her natal magical artifact.

It's quite useful; it can cover your teammates and buy time.

Countless panicked doors, both inside and outside, were filled with screams.

Some demonic cultivators had already gone mad and were snatching swords from the cultivators' hands, starting a massacre. Yue Qing'an let out a breath and couldn't help but curse his bad luck in his heart.

Regardless of whether the demonic cultivators are illusory or not, their cultivation level is far higher than that of both inner and outer sect practitioners.

Not to mention beginners, they are a bunch of lambs to the slaughter.

Why haven't my protégés arrived yet?!