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

Ye Qiao shrugged, seeing that he was already dumbfounded, and reached out to continue rummaging through the recording stone. "Want to see more?"

She has many similar ones.

In modern times, who doesn't like to capture wonderful moments with a camera?

Mingxuan was visibly weakened, seemingly having suffered a significant mental shock. He slowly moved to the side, sat on the ground, and stared blankly: "No. It's not necessary."

Seeing this, Ye Qiao quickly hung the mustard pouch on her waist. It wasn't that she insisted on hanging it outside, but it was more convenient to put things in the pouch than to put them in the domain. She could easily reach out and get what she needed with a simple touch.

Thinking of her own experiences since entering this training ground, Ye Qiao sat down like him, rested her chin on her hand, and stared blankly for a while: "Speaking of which, you guys are really all unreasonable."

He started hitting her right away.

Ye Qiao came to participate in a trial and was treated like a rat in the street. Is she some kind of evil person that everyone wants to eliminate her?

Do we know each other?

Mingxuan shifted and sat down next to her.

Gone was the harshness and indifference she displayed when she first entered; her voice seemed much softer at this moment.

"I know him." After Ye Qiao answered, she noticed that Ming Xuan's expression changed visibly, becoming noticeably gloomy.

"Who exactly are you?"

He had no memory of this person, and no matter what, she didn't seem like a complete stranger.

But he was also very certain that the person in the photo was himself.

"It's okay if you don't know me," Ye Qiao said in a clear voice. "It's enough that I know you."

Mingxuan didn't accept this explanation, but he was definitely not stupid. He glanced at the extremely realistic images on the recording stones and guessed that she came from another world.

That's quite rare.

However, there are examples of this not only in the cultivation world.

In this vast world, apart from the cultivation realm, there is another world after ascension, so it's not hard to deduce that she comes from another world. However, even the immortals who ascended couldn't easily break through the barrier between the two worlds, so how did she, a cultivator only at the Nascent Soul stage, manage to break through the restrictions between the two worlds?

Ye Qiao was also quite curious about which damned judge was so powerful that he could so easily break through the void and throw her into the unfamiliar original world.

Are you kidding her?!

"How's our relationship?" Mingxuan asked. In fact, he had a rather aloof personality in his own clan, making it difficult for him to make friends. Even after coming to the major sect, it was still the same. He had two or three friends in his clan who were there because of his status. In the sect, where all disciples were treated equally, he only had Xue Yu as a friend.

Others...

Actually, we're not that familiar with each other.

Even if they knew each other, he and Ye Qiao probably weren't close.

"How could that be? We're the best of friends in the world," Ye Qiao murmured. "We've even shared a revolutionary friendship—we went to Junior Uncle's classes together and got thoroughly beaten up by him. Do you think our relationship wouldn't be good?"

Don't ask, the answer is that she and the other three, besides the eldest brother, all shared a revolutionary friendship of being beaten together.

Mingxuan was slightly taken aback. "It seems so."

The first requirement for being able to take Xie Chuxue's course is having a good mindset, and the second is being resilient. In the past, he was the only person that Junior Uncle could teach, and it's hard for a fellow student in need not have a good relationship.

He fell silent, his dark eyes swirling with uncertainty.

Ye Qiao nudged him and asked, "Do you have any more talismans?" She was extremely envious when she saw him casually pick up a top-grade talisman: "If you're not in a hurry to use them, could you lend me some? I need them."

She needed talismans to set up the array. According to the original plot, the characters who appeared later were either at the Refinement of Void or Integration of Body realms. Talismans below the Heavenly grade would be completely ineffective against them. Ye Qiao thought that if she borrowed some from Ming Xuan and some from Xie Chuxue, that should be enough.

Mingxuan couldn't help but find it quite amusing. He looked at her, a slight smile playing on his lips, and asked, "Are we that close?"

Can I borrow some talismans too?

Will she be able to pay it back?

"It's alright." They're the kind of people who can take advantage of each other.

Of course, generally no one would want to take her mustard seed bag, as the contents of Ye Qiao's mustard seed bag are generally incomprehensible to the average person.

Mingxuan didn't speak. He was actually very good at reading people's expressions. Before he became a demon, many different kinds of people had given him strange looks, as if they were surprised that a direct disciple's cultivation level was so low. This made him very sensitive to other people's gazes.

Ye Qiao's expression said it all. They were more than just acquaintances; they seemed to be so close that they could rummage through each other's pockets.

He tossed the bag of mustard seeds to her, saying, "Take whatever you can."

Ye Qiao immediately took it. Inside were not only top-grade talismans, but also many top-grade magic artifacts. Ming Xuan had tossed the mustard seed bag to her and didn't intend to take it back. But Ye Qiao didn't know that her eyes lit up slightly when she saw so many top-grade magic artifacts.

Then Mingxuan looked at her and hung all the magical artifacts on his body.

That was bad enough, until Mingxuan saw her trying to put those two incredibly ugly red flowers on her head.

Mingxuan: "..."

What kind of taste do you have?

Ye Qiao retorted confidently, "Didn't you tell me to take as much as I could?"

She couldn't just smuggle the mustard seed bag, that would be too unethical, and the two weren't that close. Ye Qiao, with the mindset of taking as many as she could, brought all the magical artifacts and robes she could hang on her body.

It's so offensive!

Mingxuan looked at her for a moment, his expression slightly fluctuating, and asked her what she wanted so many top-grade talismans for.

Ye Qiao was immediately stumped by the question.

What for? Of course, it's to see if I can kill your goddess.

Yun Que's current realm is a whole realm higher than hers, but... Ye Qiao's realm is not, strictly speaking, an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator either.

She subconsciously touched her spiritual root and dantian.

After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, the inner elixir within the body disappears. In its place lies a vast, inexhaustible ocean.

"Let's not talk about this now." Ye Qiao took off the big red flower from her hair and threw it back into her storage bag. "When did you leave this pyramid scheme of the Demon Clan? It's not a good place. Are you really not planning to go back to Changming Sect? Junior Uncle and the others miss you a lot."

"Really?" Mingxuan blinked slightly, unsure whether he believed it or not.

Of course it's fake. That scheming Xie Chuxue even stuck a communication talisman on her so she could eavesdrop on her.

But Ye Qiao definitely couldn't say these things to anyone. Ming Xuan lowered his eyes, "But I..."

His lips were pursed, his eyes were dark, and he said softly, "I can't go back."

Once the arrow is released, there's no turning back; he won't look back either.

From the day he became possessed by evil, he knew there was no turning back.

"If you're here to persuade me, you'd better leave now."

Mingxuan couldn't even imagine how she had gotten to the Demon Clan's side. He closed his folding fan, his expression unusually gentle: "I won't expose you. I'll send you away from here."

Ye Qiao paused for a moment, then tried to persuade him, "Even if the fish is on land, it still smells fishy. Why can't you go back? You ran away from home, you're not dead. Do you think your senior brother would kill you?"

"No," he answered crisply this time. "In his eyes, I'm no different from air."

Zhou Xingyun wouldn't care whether he stayed or left.

Ye Qiao thought about it and realized that his mother was indeed like that.

Zhou Xingyun was the kind of person who didn't care about things that didn't concern him; even if the sky fell, he wouldn't be bothered. She suddenly realized that this was the highest state of being detached from worldly affairs.

Their sect is now completely fragmented.

Sure enough, she said that this family would fall apart without her!

"I'm not leaving yet." Ye Qiao never expected that among these senior brothers, only Ming Xuan believed her identity. She whispered, "I want to ask you something. Where are Master and the others?"

What is the current situation in the cultivation world?

Ye Qiao felt that the second senior brother was indeed better in this world. Ming Xuan was obviously much more emotionally stable than the other two.

Mingxuan asked in surprise, "Don't you know the current situation of the Changming Sect?"

Ye Qiao: "As far as I know, I know nothing."

Mingxuan: "..."

He tilted his head and glanced at her. "I can't really explain it either. Do you know about the South China Sea? The Dragon Pearl was stolen, and the South China Sea is in chaos. Without the Soul-Stabilizing Pearl, the waves have almost submerged all the nearby cities, turning them into water cities. It seems like a complete mess. My master went to quell the chaos in the South China Sea."

"Actually, it's not just the South China Sea; problems have arisen in other places as well. All the powerful figures who can take action have to do so because the situation is chaotic. Those sect leaders who are good at fighting have been sent to quell the unrest in various places. Without those who are good at fighting, the demons and monsters are rampant, and everyone on the righteous path is in danger."

"Changming Sect is alright, with Junior Uncle holding the fort. He's at least at the Integration Realm, so even without a master, he still has him."

"The other sects are doing alright too."

"The Sword Inquiry Sect is strong enough that external disturbances cannot shake them at all."

"Moon Purity Sect..." Ming Xuan paused for a moment, then whispered, "Yun Que is in the Moon Purity Sect. With her there, other forces won't dare to touch the Moon Purity Sect."

Ye Qiao interrupted him, finding something increasingly off. She smiled and asked, "Are you and Yun Que very close?"

Mingxuan changed the subject, saying, "She's a very good friend."

"Oh," Ye Qiao drawled, "Just friends?"

Mingxuan nodded: "I actually hinted at it to her. But she didn't understand." He was very friendly to this unfamiliar junior sister, so the boy's voice became a little lighter as he shared his experiences with Yun Que.

"Are you sure she didn't understand?" Ye Qiao remembered Yun Que's personality; she was a bit naive, but she was definitely not so oblivious as to not understand hints, especially since her second senior brother in the novel openly liked Yun Que.

Mingxuan was immediately exposed, lowered his eyes, and his gaze darkened slightly: "Perhaps she's pretending not to understand. Actually, many people like her. A righteous disciple like her wouldn't easily associate with evil spirits, would she?"

After saying this, he turned to look at Ye Qiao, "What's wrong with you?"

Ye Qiao: "Don't make a sound, I'm thinking."

She was seriously considering whether the world should just be destroyed.

Ye Qiao remained silent for too long. Seeing this, Ming Xuan raised his eyes slightly, feeling a little uneasy. He liked this junior sister very much. Perhaps it was her skillful attitude, or perhaps it was the inevitable transference he had developed to the situation in another world, which made him feel infinitely fond of Ye Qiao at this moment.

Ye Qiao ignored him, and Ming Xuan couldn't help but reflect on his own words. "She said she liked me. But I actually saw that she wasn't just with Ye Qinghan, she was with other people too."

Ye Qiao: "..."

"Does it mean that the magpie has turned the leaves green and the chill has faded?"

Mingxuan: "..."

"It seems so?" Mingxuan couldn't help but laugh at her straightforward statement, and all his sentimental mood vanished.

Yun Que often told him that it was because he was not strong or outstanding enough that she chose someone else. If he were strong enough, she would naturally come to him.

Yes, it's all because he's not good enough.

Ye Qiao thought for a moment. She had originally wanted to criticize Ming Xuan, but this senior brother was prone to withdrawing and falling into self-loathing, so it was better to encourage him. She racked her brains to comfort him: "You're not bad. Think about it from another angle, you're pretty awesome too. She was able to come to the Demon Clan to find you without Ye Qinghan's knowledge. What does that prove?"

Mingxuan: "What?"

She patiently tried to persuade him from a different perspective: "Think about it, Yun Que is everyone's wife."

"Yun Que is everyone's wife, and you can flirt with everyone's wives. Isn't that amazing enough?"

"If I'm not mistaken, the men who are flirting with Yun Que are all at the level of Demon Emperors or Immortal Venerables, right?"

Mingxuan's mouth gaped open slightly, his expression momentarily stunned by her earth-shattering statement.

Is that sophistry?

That's absolutely sophistry.

But for some reason, he felt there was some truth to it.

He's actually pretty awesome, isn't he?

Frankly, Ye Qiao didn't really want to act as a spiritual mentor. If she did, it would only turn into "helping over a thousand students escape from normal families."

Therefore, seeing Mingxuan lower his head and remain silent, she wisely stopped the conversation.

Just as Mingxuan was immersed in the feeling that he was actually quite awesome, his consciousness suddenly caught sight of something on her body. He was slightly taken aback, reached out, and abruptly tore off the talisman from her back. "Xie Chuxue did this?"

Before Ye Qiao could answer, he clicked his tongue, then chuckled, "He's as utterly inhuman as ever."

Mingxuan had been dominated by Xie Chuxue quite a bit in the past, so his feelings towards this martial uncle were complicated. He respected her, but he was mostly afraid of her.

Nonsense, who can stand someone who trains them to death every day?

Ye Qiao chuckled, without saying that she had deliberately left the talisman on her person.

Having heard enough, Xie Chuxue should be able to determine his origins and that he meant no harm, right?

……

On the other side, Xie Chuxue talked to Zhou Xingyun and listened to his complete recounting of the process of their meeting. Xie Chuxue then sensed something was off. After all, even if a normal person really wanted to get close to the chief disciple of Changming Sect, the way he chose to greet him should not be so rash and strange.

Calling Zhou Xingyun "senior brother" out of complete familiarity and spouting nonsense will only lead Zhou Xingyun to treat him as a mentally unstable mole and deal with him.

The sounds from the communication talisman gradually convinced him of his guess.

That kid really has an unusual background.

He stroked his chin, listening intently to Ye Qiao and Ming Xuan's conversation for quite some time, and then couldn't help but chuckle. Just as Xie Chuxue was enjoying eavesdropping, the communication talisman suddenly disconnected, and Xie Chuxue realized that Ming Xuan might have discovered her.

He clicked his tongue softly and uttered two words: "Damn it."

"What's wrong?"

Xie Chuxue turned her head and looked at Mu Chongxi seriously. "She might really be your junior sister." And she's from another world.

Mu Chongxi: "Huh?"

Xie Chuxue paced back and forth for a moment, her tone earnest: "Xiao Xi, do you think it will do any good if we cry and beg her to come back now?"

If she came from another world, Xie Chuxue felt she could be used; perhaps she could find a way to change the Changming Sect's gradual demise.

Mu Chongxi replied honestly, "It might not work."

"But don't you really think what she said is a bit outrageous?" Mu Chongxi also heard the sound of the communication talisman, but she only thought that she and Mingxuan knew each other and that the two of them were just acting crazy on the spot.

"What's so incredible about this vast world?" Xie Chuxue pondered. "Besides, that brat's abilities might not be any worse than yours. Since she most likely knows us, it means she has ulterior motives."

From what I can see, Ye Qiao isn't difficult to get along with, and Xie Chuxue thought that perhaps she could go along with it and let her stay at Changming Sect for the time being.

I only feel at ease when I have such uncertainties under my watchful eye.

Zhou Xingyun opened his mouth slightly, still feeling that the whole thing was somewhat beyond his comprehension. "She's my junior sister?"

"What do you mean 'your'? It's 'yours'," Xie Chuxue corrected the meaningless address, then added, "You can think of it as a junior sister from another world."

"But hasn't our Changming Sect always struggled to gather even five direct disciples?"

"Oh right, weren't you guys always one short? If nothing unexpected happens, she'll be the last of the five direct disciples."

The lineage of the Changming clan is passed down by Ye Qiao.

So...

The fifth disciple must have had exceptional abilities to be accepted as a disciple.

"Is she very capable?" Zhou Xingyun asked.

Xie Chuxue shook her head: "I don't know."

But if he wants to save the sect, he must find a way to salvage the situation.

He was willing to pay any price to save the people of Changming Sect, but he didn't know exactly how capable Ye Qiao was.

So far, his impression of this walking troublemaker is that of a mischievous brat who's always causing trouble.

She brazenly went to the Demon Realm to find Mingxuan. Regardless of whether Mingxuan was in danger or not, a wrong step in the Demon Realm could mean never returning. Where did she get the audacity to go there? She really isn't afraid of death.

……

Since Ye Qiao couldn't call Ming Xuan back for the time being, she exchanged contact information with him. In just one night, the non-existent friendship between the two of them progressed by leaps and bounds. Ming Xuan even patted her head in a cheeky way, telling her to contact him if she needed anything.

Ye Qiao: "Don't touch my head."

They are prone to not growing tall.

Although she felt that she was very likely not going to live much longer.

Ye Qiao turned around, planning to return to Changming Sect first, then sort out the original plot and see if she could find a few more helpers.

To kill Yun Que, we need to start planning from scratch.

Regardless of her actual strength, Yun Que is currently the most pampered disciple of the Yueqing Sect, and the sect leader of the Yueqing Sect, Yun Hen, is currently at the peak of the Refinement Void Realm.

Can't be bothered.

She couldn't afford to offend Song Hansheng, the chief executive.

And Su Zhuo and the others, they might also be around the Nascent Soul stage.

It seems she has no one she can afford to offend. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but break down again. So, in this trial, all the disciples of this world have reached the Nascent Soul stage and the Void Refinement stage?

Ye Qiao wasn't the kind of person who was particularly good at scheming, so how could she break the deadlock in this situation? Naturally, she would break through her cultivation level, which would break everything.

If you can pass this trial and become a newly promoted Tribulation Transcender, then you can handle anything.

Ye Qiao returned to Changming Sect overnight. Relying on her familiarity with the sect, she found Xie Chuxue's mountain peak. His Yuming Mountain Peak was filled with all kinds of strange formations. In order to avoid causing unnecessary disputes and commotion, she walked carefully the whole way. Without triggering a single formation, she walked step by step to her junior uncle and immediately offered herself up.

"Do you need a personal disciple to teach you talisman cultivation?"

That was the first thing she said.

Xie Chuxue wasn't surprised that she came. If she really was from another world, then Changming Sect definitely had something she needed. No matter what her purpose was in coming here, she couldn't avoid Changming Sect. He gently gestured for her to sit.

Ye Qiao sat down opposite him without any hesitation. "Since Mingxuan is gone anyway, how about I fill in?"

Xie Chuxue coldly sized her up, her smile appearing somewhat fake, exuding the demeanor of an elder. "You're a talisman cultivator? But if I remember correctly, you used swords when you fought against two disciples from our sect."

Even if he didn't understand swordsmanship, Ye Qiao's attitude of taking life and death lightly and fighting if she was not convinced made her seem like a sword cultivator no matter how you looked at it.

"Actually," Ye Qiao continued, "sword cultivation is just my cover; I'm also very skilled at drawing talismans."

She promoted herself with a blank expression: "Would you consider me? I'm very cost-effective, and besides, I'm completely different from the talisman cultivators outside."

Xie Chuxue: "What's different?"

"They charge fees, and it takes a lot of resources and time to train them."

"And I'm free."

"..."

He gave her a meaningful look. "Okay."

They actually agreed.

And it was very easy to agree.

Ye Qiao's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down. The communication talisman she had kept for so long had indeed paid off. She had easily won over Xie Chuxue, who was the most suspicious person. Now, the rest would be much easier.

The news that Changming Sect had temporarily accepted a disciple did not cause much of a stir. After all, at this time, no one cared whether a sect had accepted a disciple or not, and the news only spread among the inner and outer disciples.

Mu Chongxi didn't expect Ye Qiao to act so quickly. They had just met a few days ago, and now she had become his new junior sister.

It would be a lie to say he wasn't curious about Ye Qiao's other world, so the young man pretended to be passing by, walked up to Ye Qiao, squatted down, and casually asked, "You come from another world?"

"How did you know?" Ye Qiao asked back.

Mu Chongxi stammered for a long time, "How did he know?" "Of course it's because Xie Chuxue, being so inhumane, stuck a talisman on your back before she left."

But he couldn't bring himself to say it. Fortunately, Ye Qiao didn't ask and naturally gave him a way out: "We know each other."

"We have a very good relationship."

"Really?" Mu Chongxi's nervousness vanished instantly, and her eyes lit up. Ah, she looks just like a friendly golden retriever...

Ye Qiao: "Really? We often tease our other students during class."

Ye Qiao was quite happy to share her daily interactions with him; she and Mu Chongxi were kindred spirits.

In the past, there would be sword sparring training sessions between several sects. Generally, during those times, the two of them were listless. After all, it would be difficult for a normal person to be enthusiastic about training that required getting up earlier than the chickens and going to bed later than the dogs.

While the other direct disciples were sparring, the two of them happily slacked off on the sidelines, and would kick whoever was losing the fight.

This caused the two to frequently offend the disciples of various sects during training, earning them a notorious reputation.

Mu Chongxi: "..."

He couldn't even imagine that scene, and his eyes involuntarily curved into a smile, filled with genuine confusion: "But won't other people... criticize us for this?"

What he really wanted to say was, "Are you sure you won't get beaten up?"

That's such a despicable act of kicking someone for no reason.

"Of course," Ye Qiao told him optimistically. "But you don't need to worry about other people's lives or deaths, it doesn't matter if they curse us. As long as we're the best of friends in the world, that's all that matters."

Mu Chongxi: "..."