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

"..."

"You damned little bitch." His eyes darkened, and he convulsed with rage. "You've got quite a few tricks up your sleeve."

Ye Qiao said modestly, "You flatter me, you old scoundrel."

"..."

Ye Qiao rarely lost a verbal battle, and that evil cultivator could only repeat those two phrases over and over again, which had no real deterrent effect. She sincerely invited him, "Look, it's fate that we've met, so why don't you join forces with us to deal with the demon kings?"

"Join forces with you?" He chuckled. "You bunch of trash think you can handle so many demon kings? Don't dream about it. Why don't we join forces with the demon kings and wipe you all out?"

Don't think he didn't realize that the Demon King's target from the beginning was Ye Qiao and her group.

Teaming up with them will only make us pawns.

"Join forces with the Demon King..." Ye Qiao drawled, tilting her head slightly, "Do you think the Demon King would even listen to you?"

He copied his question, then countered, "Do you think the Demon King would even bother with you?"

"Why can't you do it?"

She blinked. "If you won't join forces with us, then it'll be our turn to join forces with the monsters."

...What a despicable tone.

Would the leader of the evil cultivators tolerate her? Of course not. He immediately sneered, "Go ahead and join forces. I want to see how you two work together."

He wasn't unaware that the monsters weren't attacking her.

But he felt that there might be something about this cultivator that made the demon beasts particularly wary of him.

They all subconsciously denied the possibility. How ridiculous! Demons and cultivators have been at odds for thousands of years. How could there possibly be a demon king who would obey a human cultivator?

In fact, he was right.

The demon kings who came in from the outside knew that Ye Qiao was the newly chosen demon emperor, so it was normal for her to be a little weak. The demon kings inside the secret realm were out of touch with the news because they had been imprisoned in the secret realm for a long time. They only knew the aura of the former demon emperor. Since Ye Qiao held the inner core of the demon emperor, they naturally assumed that Ye Qiao was the demon emperor.

If the information from both sides matches up, then she is the only true queen in the secret realm.

As a result, both the demon kings inside and outside the country unwittingly accepted Ye Qiao's identity.

For some reason, seeing Ye Qiao's confident attitude, the leader of the evil cultivators turned his head uneasy and asked, "Does anyone know the background of this group?"

"I know!"

One of the heretical practitioners spoke up.

Ye Qiao looked in the direction of the person who was speaking.

It was that evil cultivator who recognized her not long ago.

Knowing Ye Qiao's identity, the evil cultivator couldn't wait to tell his boss, "That female cultivator in red is Ye Qiao."

Who is Ye Qiao?

"That's the female cultivator in red. Be careful of her; those who oppose her are usually buried with weeds three feet tall by now."

"Shut up!" He roared in anger, feeling that this person was toying with him, and slapped him across the face. "What kind of power does she have?"

The evil cultivator was suddenly slapped across the face. His eyes widened slightly as he looked at his leader in disbelief.

The leader's expression was cold. "What? You're not convinced?"

The man, whose moral character was inferior to his, feared being held accountable later, so he lowered his eyes, spat out a mouthful of blood, and fell silent.

What kind of strength do they have? You'll find out when the time comes.

The leader didn't even realize that the only evil cultivator who knew Ye Qiao's background had been wiped out by his slap.

He was filled with anxiety, and the evil cultivator's boasting about Ye Qiao only fueled his anger. The longer he stayed in the Cloud and Mist Secret Realm, the worse it would be; ten days had already passed.

The longer the time went on, the more the pills were used up. Not long ago, a group of evil cultivators were all fighting over the pills, their expressions were frenzied, and it was only when he took action that they were forcibly suppressed.

He hadn't said more than a few words in the valley, and now he was already feeling a bit dizzy.

"Kill them!"

He immediately gave the order.

At the same time, Ye Qiao did not sit idly by and wait for death. She drew a spell mark on her palm and blasted it down at them.

This incantation has the effect of the Nascent Soul stage.

The valley trembled, and the ground was blasted into a huge crater by the cursed seal. Those who couldn't dodge in time were crushed flat by the cursed seal with the power of a Nascent Soul.

With a single strike of the curse seal, Ye Qiao forced back countless evil cultivators. Her mind raced as she considered the items in her hands. The Dark Book was meant to be used against the Demon King, so she couldn't touch it for the time being. That book had been sealed for too long and couldn't be used without restriction. Every time she took it out, she would have to rest for a long time. The Ghost King Tower was also useless. The only thing she could use was the Spirit Sword.

"Are we going to keep fighting them like this?" Song Hansheng's brows furrowed with seriousness, but the leader of the evil cultivators was clearly determined to fight to the death.

"Do you think—" Ye Qiao tilted her head, "that we still have a way out?"

Zhai Chen pursed his lips. "So what should we do now?"

"If we don't deal with these evil cultivators quickly, we won't be able to spare any time to help the other cultivators."

Running is an option, but running indefinitely isn't a solution; the only way is to kill them all.

The problem is that there are so many evil cultivators, it would take forever to resolve them all, and given their reckless fighting style, they might not even be able to secure a victory.

Su Zhuo urged, "Think quickly, what sword techniques can we use for area-of-effect attacks?"

Ji Huan shrugged: "Our Chengfeng Sect sword techniques, when broken down, are all single-player sword techniques. There is no group attack; we will never have any in this lifetime."

"Moreover..." He paused, a half-smile playing on his lips, "At this time, those evil cultivators are quite powerful. I'm afraid only sword techniques from the Nascent Soul stage can effectively eliminate them all."

"Ten Thousand Swords Return to One?" Song Hansheng probed. This sword technique was the most famous group attack sword technique.

Ye Qiao flicked her hand, holding the sword horizontally in front of her. She stared thoughtfully at the Swift Shadow sword in her hand, "If I could unleash the Myriad Swords Return to Origin technique, would those evil cultivators still have the chance to stand arrogantly in front of us?"

"……oh."

The Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin is a quasi-divine sword technique. How could she, a mere Golden Core cultivator, possibly use it?

Having just adapted to the Nascent Soul stage, Ye Qiao was suddenly suppressed back to the Golden Core stage, which made her quite irritable. She squinted at Qin Huai and suddenly said, "However, I do have a sword technique."