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

Zhou Xingyun stared blankly at the recording stone in the sky, remaining motionless for a few seconds. As the stone shattered, the fragments drifted into her palm. Ye Qiao's lips curled into a smile, and she kindly asked, "Is it pretty, Senior Brother?"

Zhou Xingyun: "..."

He was silent.

Although Ye Qiao's identity is still in doubt, the image-recording stone in her possession cannot be faked. As for the disguise pill and the like...?

Zhou Xingyun can be said to know Ye Qinghan very well.

That expression and awkward movements were those of Ye Qinghan herself.

Unexpectedly... Ye Qinghan, who looks so respectable, actually has this kind of unknown quirk.

Ye Qinghan has always been admired by people in the cultivation world for his aloofness and detachment from worldly affairs. He is the number one swordsman in the world and is called the young sword immortal by some cultivators.

A young swordsman who likes to cross-dress?

Zhou Xingyun struggled to tear his gaze away from the photo stone, his expression dazed. "Are you very familiar with him?"

How did she get her hands on this private photo stone?

Ye Qiao remained silent, after all, she possessed not only the extraordinary moments of Ye Qinghan and Ming Xuan, but also those of the five eccentric masters of Chengfeng Sect.

After all, it's always better to be prepared; you never know when you might need it. She's the kind of person who likes to plan ahead.

Mu Li was amazed; she was so sexy.

Failure in the Trial of Tribulation means being reduced to one's original form. However, there is a significant difference between the Trial of Tribulation and the Trial of Nascent Soul: if she is killed too many times, the trial will fail outright.

Of course, Ye Qiao was unaware of this, as it was her first time participating in the Tribulation Trial.

Seeing her nonchalant expression, Mu Li worried that she might mess things up and implicate him, so he kindly told Ye Qiao that being killed too many times would lead to failure in the trial.

Upon hearing this, Ye Qiao quietly grabbed the mustard seed bag. It was good; she began to feel fortunate that the trial grounds were a world she was familiar with.

After all, if she were to go to a trial ground that was completely unfamiliar with her, she might face some unknown dangers. Now, she was surrounded by familiar faces, and all she needed to do was convince the people of the Changming Sect that she was a good person to be safe for the time being.

Ye Qiao's mustard seed bag contains everyone's dark history.

In this tribulation trial, who would dare to provoke her easily? She has everyone's dark history in her hands, and any one of them could cause the enemy's social death.

Zhou Xingyun observed her for a moment, then reached out and tugged at her sleeve. The feel of it was indeed the robe of the Changming Sect. He looked at her and felt that her whole being was simply too strange.

"You said you're my junior sister?"

he asks.

Ye Qiao nodded.

"What evidence do you have?"

Ye Qiao thought to herself, "Of course there's evidence. She can just casually pull out a recording stone and make you beg me not to take it."

Despite her thoughts, she suppressed the impulse. The moment Zhou Xingyun stabbed her without a word, Ye Qiao knew that even if she presented evidence, Zhou Xingyun would not believe her.

On the contrary, it will only make things more complicated.

She put her hands behind her back, sheathed her sword, and suggested, "Senior Brother Zhou, why don't you take me back to Changming Sect? We can go inside and have a chat?"

"..."

Zhou Xingyun never expected that when he went out to hang himself from a tree, he would come back and find a wild junior sister.

Next, Ye Qiao was brought to Changming Sect in a manner that was almost coerced by her senior brother.

She didn't seem to care much, but her gaze wandered around, observing the scene of the trial. She found it wasn't much different from the sect she remembered. Could it be that this trial had been thrown into a parallel universe by those unscrupulous judges?

This is the world she knows, yet not entirely.

If this trial grounds were a parallel world, then if she remembered correctly, her unreliable senior brothers would be diligently and conscientiously acting as Yun Que's sycophants right now.

Meanwhile, Yun Que also had a group of men by her side and was doing very well.

If Ye Qiao wants to kill Yun Que again during the trial, it will probably be difficult.

"Xiao Ai, Xiao Ai." Ye Qiao frantically called him in her mind, "Are the scenes in the Tribulation Trial all fake?" Her last Nascent Soul Trial was fake, but this Tribulation Trial felt like the real world.

I have a strong feeling that I've been thrown into a parallel universe.

Unexpectedly, those damned judges had the ability to tear through the void and actually managed to bring her into a parallel world.

Mu Li was taken aback, and slowly began to recall his glorious past. He cleared his throat and said, "I once participated in the Tribulation Transcending Tribulation Tribulation. Not all trials are fake. Your world may actually exist."

Ye Qiao fired off a barrage of questions, "What was your trial like? What exactly was the trial?"

She and the monk were completely baffled.

"Ask your heart, ask the Way." Mu Li recalled his glorious past, then said, "What is your inner demon? When you sword cultivators encounter difficulties, don't you usually choose to break through them? It's a very simple principle. Find your inner demon and crush it."

Mu Li felt that taking care of a child was exhausting. Seeing that Ye Qiao still didn't understand, he continued with an example, "Otherwise, why do you think some ruthless cultivators would choose to kill their wives as part of the righteous path?"

Humans have seven emotions and six desires, which are the source of their inner demons. For those cultivators who are so extreme that they want to attain enlightenment or go mad, the only thing that is one step away from the tribulation stage is killing their wives, which is not something they are not afraid to try.

...To kill one's wife and prove one's path?

"The problem is..." Ye Qiao blinked, slightly puzzled, "Many paths, in the end, aren't they all about having emotions? Can such a wicked method as killing one's wife to prove one's path truly lead to ascension?"

The Way of All Living Beings is about cultivating great love for all people.

The Way of Passion is to have affection for all things.

The same applies to the ruthless path.

The ultimate goal of the Path of Ruthlessness should be to sever the seven emotions and six desires, and to treat all living beings equally. In the end, it is just a different path from the Path of All Living Beings.

Ye Qiao had never understood how the Ruthless Path major, with countless applicants, could maintain a zero graduation rate year after year.

Mu Li chuckled after hearing this, her words tinged with coldness: "Of course not. That's why those righteous cultivators who kill their wives generally fail to ascend."

Those ruthless cultivators only gradually came to understand that the Great Dao's forgetting of emotions does not mean being heartless. Such a simple truth—yet those who lived hundreds of years ago chose to kill their wives to prove their Dao during their trials.

Ye Qiao's words, "There is affection," seemed to tickle his funny bone. Mu Li laughed loudly, "It's a pity that those people have lived for hundreds of years, yet they can't understand as well as a teenager like you."

Ye Qiao couldn't help but roll her eyes.

Although she didn't understand the ruthless path, she could imagine that the Heavenly Dao advocated love for all living beings. As the order of the cultivation world, it couldn't possibly advocate killing anyone who hindered its ascension, right?

The path of slaughter has never been recognized by the Heavenly Dao, and all those cultivators who sought to ascend through killing ended in failure.

Isn't Mu Li, who's right next to her, a perfect example? Because he cultivated the path of slaughter, he failed to ascend.

Ye Qiao pondered for a moment. In her trials, if there was a demon in her heart, it would be Yun Que, right? She tapped her chin: "Could my demon be Yun Que?"

"Then you'll have to ask yourself."

Ye Qiao thought it wasn't necessarily true. She was indeed quite ruthless in being controlled by Yun Que, but the idea of ​​inner demons was a bit too exaggerated.

Her trial grounds encompassed the entire cultivation world; accurately locating one's inner demons within such a trial was quite difficult. Ye Qiao clasped her hands together and earnestly asked, "Demon Lord, may I ask how you found your inner demons?"

Mu Li was kind, "Naturally, I killed everyone I encountered during the trial."

It was just a trial, a mix of truth and illusion.

What does it matter if it's false or true? To him, nothing is off-limits to killing.

This is the fastest way to pass the trial.

Ye Qiao couldn't help but gasp.

You people of the Killing Path are indeed direct.

But she couldn't do it. Not to mention that the people inside were all her senior brothers, she couldn't just turn into a murderous maniac and kill everyone she saw just to pass a trial, could she?

After explaining his strategy, Mu Li glanced at her and then chuckled gloatingly, "However, my method only works on cultivators with high cultivation levels. You, a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, can't do much."

He was at the true peak of the Integration Realm at that time, and he was the only one in the cultivation world at that peak.

Naturally, they also possess the ability to break through the entire trial.

Ye Qiao doesn't have that ability.

Ye Qiao silently endured the discrimination. She had no experience with the Tribulation Tribulation Trial, and no one had told her how to deal with it. It was not the elders' fault. Under normal circumstances, they would not have expected someone to go from Nascent Soul to Tribulation Tribulation in such a short time.

Ye Qiao herself hadn't expected it to happen so quickly.

Therefore, Mu Li is the only one who can help her. In addition to judging whether his words are true or false, Ye Qiao also has to figure out how to outwit her senior brother from another world. Damn it, this trial is making her so tired.

……

Zhou Xingyun held her down and led her to the main peak. The main peak was where the inner sect elders held meetings. In Ye Qiao's personal understanding, the main peak was more like an office, or even the principal's office. When you opened the door, you would see the various high-level leaders sitting there.

Normally, no disciple would want to go to a place like the school office to make themselves uncomfortable.

The moment Ye Qiao saw the main peak, the corner of her mouth twitched.

She hadn't gone to the main peak when she hurriedly led the demon beasts back to Changming Sect last time, but she didn't expect to be taken there by Zhou Xingyun.

Ye Qiao felt a headache coming on just thinking about facing the group of elders and uncles from the main peak later.

"The steps on our main peak are still this long..." Zhou Xingyun was a taciturn person, and Ye Qiao looked down at the steps under her feet and started to make conversation.

Zhou Xingyun ignored her.

Ye Qiao estimated that there were at least ten thousand jade steps, and it took a long time to climb them.

During this time, she frantically prepared her mental rebuttal, already figuring out how she would argue with those elders and teachers later.

Lost in thought, Ye Qiao kept her head down the whole way. When she was brought to the main hall, she looked down at the ground and suddenly leaned in close.

Ye Qiao's lowered eyes suddenly met Xie Chuxue's smiling eyes, and she was so frightened that her heart almost jumped out of her chest. She reflexively wanted to kick her.

Xie Chuxue deftly dodged, holding his teacup without the slightest ripple. He smiled and asked casually, "Zhou Xingyun, what's the cultivation level of the person you brought back?"

He was so fast that he almost got kicked squarely.

Xie Chuxue hadn't even seen through her cultivation level.

Upon hearing this, Ye Qiao couldn't help but glance at the tea in Xie Chuxue's hand, which remained perfectly still without the slightest ripple, and thought to herself, "Stop pretending."

Ye Qiao's disdain was so undisguised that Xie Chuxue was momentarily stunned, then chuckled, "Do you know me?"

Ye Qiao denied it: "I don't know him."

As expected, no matter how the world changes, Xie Chuxue, that cheeky and cunning martial aunt, remains the same. That puts her at ease.

"Zhou Xingyun, what are you doing bringing a teenager to our Changming Sect?" The other elders from the main peak who rushed over upon hearing the news glanced at Ye Qiao and all of them made no attempt to hide their disgust, and their expressions were surprisingly consistent.

Ye Qiao: "..." Damn it.

She was once the pride of their Changming Sect.

Zhou Xingyun immediately pointed to her clothes, "She's acting strangely."

As elders of the Changming Sect, they could tell at a glance that what she was wearing was not a counterfeit.

That's strange.

"Oh?" An elder approached her with a smile, a hint of coldness hidden in his eyes, but his mouth remained cheerful. "Whose descendant are you, child? Why are you wearing the robes of a direct descendant of our Changming Sect?"

Ye Qiao glanced at the elder and said obediently, "Please stop laughing, it's scaring me."

In her memory, this elder always had a sullen face.

The elder's smile froze on his face.

Upon hearing this, Xie Chuxue looked her up and down, then, holding her teacup, smiled and playfully circled around her several times.

He spun around and around until Ye Qiao almost got dizzy.

Mu Li asked, "Is he an idiot?"