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

Faced with Cheng Fengzong's relentless pursuit, Ye Qiao fired a burst of bullets at him while turning back. Qin Huai not only had to keep up with her speed but also dodge the endless stream of talismans. He was going crazy.

How many talismans does this Ye Qiao have?

Is Mingxuan a liver god? He stays up all day drawing this kind of crooked and unorthodox stuff.

The talisman Ye Qiao possessed was not uncommon in the market, but in the eyes of other talisman cultivators, such talismans were considered second-rate, a waste of time and spiritual energy, and had little destructive power.

Who would have thought that one day someone would bring such a talisman to the Grand Competition?

The key effect is quite good.

At least it gave Ye Qiao a good amount of time to escape.

"Hahahaha." Qin Huai's face twisted, and he gritted his teeth: "Stop her."

He absolutely could not stand by and watch Ye Qiao go and meet up with the people from Changming Sect.

As soon as Qin Huai finished speaking, he noticed that neither of his two junior disciples who were skilled in weapon crafting were making any move. He turned his head and saw Shen Ziwei tightly gripping her belt, defending her dignity.

"Senior Brother, he's gone mad." Shen Ziwei tried to shake her legs, but Duan Hengdao held her tightly.

After laughing wildly for a while, Qin Huai finally returned to normal and reached out to tear off the talisman behind Duan Hengdao.

Seeing that the two had finally returned to normal, Shen Ziwei breathed a sigh of relief. Trembling, she pulled up her pants and got down to business, "What should we do next?"

The current rankings are: Yueqing Sect first, Changming Sect second, Chengfeng Sect third, and Wenjian Sect probably still trapped in some formation.

"This trip wasn't entirely fruitless; at least Mingxuan was eliminated."

"That Ye Qiao..." He paused, "If we can't catch her, let's leave her for now."

The people of Changming Sect are like slippery eels; there's no need to waste time with them.

Anyway, with Mingxuan gone, the Changming Sect is no longer a threat.

"Our focus this time is the Moon Purification Sect."

……

With Mingxuan eliminated, Ye Qiao was finally free of suitors, and she could finally let loose and have fun.

Ye Qiao completely disregarded the ancient battlefield, his nonchalant attitude leaving the elders outside the arena stunned.

"This girl is so lucky! She avoided so many formations."

Qin Fanfan immediately explained, "Luck is also a part of ability."

"That's true, but why is the Sword Inquiry Sect so unlucky?"

Both were sword cultivators, yet they were trapped for two whole days, almost driving Ye Qinghan to the brink of running off to the Yueqing Sect to kidnap a talisman cultivator and bring him back to guide them.

Qin Fanfan also fell silent for a moment.

Yes.

This luck is off the charts!

Ye Qiao's familiarity with the ancient battlefield was thanks to Steward Yu's whipping. Every time she came back from the mountain, she would copy down either the alchemical book or the talisman book, and there were countless books about the formations derived from the ancient times.

If you can recite it by heart, how could you possibly step on it again?

The second day in the secret realm.

Ye Qiao finally found her other senior brothers and met up with them. When she found the three of them, she discovered that they were all lying around inside the formation.

One was lying down sleeping, while the other was crawling on its stomach counting ants.

Seeing this, Ye Qiao strode inside and kicked Mu Chongxi twice: "Wake up."

The formation allowed people to pass through, but getting out was difficult. Mu Chongxi, who had been kicked awake, rubbed his eyes and asked in surprise, "Hey, you came back alive?"

In this secret realm, whoever is with a talisman cultivator is doomed. After Ming Xuan was eliminated, Mu Chongxi was prepared for both of them to perish together.

"By the way, what happened to Mingxuan?"

"We ran into Qin Huai and his group," Ye Qiao answered honestly. "In the end, he traded places with Zhai Chenyi."

Mu Chongxi sighed, "Oh. I didn't expect him to be of some use; he took a talisman cultivator with him."

An elder outside the arena analyzed, "Mingxuan's strength is quite formidable, being able to perish together with Zhai Chen, who is at the Golden Core stage. If both of Changming Sect's members are at the Golden Core stage this year, they can truly compete with the other two sects for first place."

Pity.

Seeing her three senior brothers looking out of sorts, Ye Qiao took out a suona from her storage pouch and asked in a friendly manner, "Do you need me to wake you up?"

As she spoke, she blew a sound.

Zhou Xingyun was so frightened that his ahoge (cowlick) almost stood on end.

Xue Yu, who was digging in the soil, suddenly jolted awake and weakly looked up, "We're all on the same side, don't, don't brag."

Mu Chongxi jumped up immediately: "Damn it!!"

"OK!"

"So, it was you and Mingxuan who were banging drums and gongs and playing suonas in the secret realm!"

He was wondering who was so crazy; it turned out to be Ye Qiao and Ming Xuan.

That makes sense.

Mu Chongxi pointed a finger at Ye Qiao, who immediately slapped his hand away: "What do you mean by perverted? I'm just making good use of available resources."

"That Si Miaoyan can play a musical instrument," Ye Qiao said. "Be careful of her."

However, I believe Si Miaoyan won't want to get close to me anytime soon.

"So you're going to use a suona to deal with a sonic attack?" Mu Chongxi could almost picture Si Miaoyan's devastated expression. He stroked his chin. "I also have gongs and drums in my storage bag, and I have the amplification talismans Mingxuan gave me. What do you think about the five of us banging them on her?"

Xue Yu rummaged through his storage pouch. "What do you guys put in your storage pouches?"

There are suonas and gongs and drums; if you didn't know better, you'd think you were getting married in a secret realm.

Mu Chongxi sat cross-legged on the ground: "I brought some flatbread in my storage bag, do you want some?"

"I won't eat," Xue Yu said. "I brought steamed buns."

"..."

"It's heartbreaking. Does the head of the Xue family even know that their esteemed young master has become like this?"

"They probably don't know, just look at Mingxuan in the elimination round."

While the two unreliable senior brothers were talking, Ye Qiao took out a formation-breaking talisman from her storage bag, stuck it on the formation, and the already weak formation shattered completely.

Currently, their Changming Sect is ranked second. With some effort, winning first place is not out of the question.

She directed all the hatred she had generated in the first half of the game onto Mingxuan.

After Mingxuan's elimination, virtually no sect will take Changming Sect seriously. They are all extremely confident that eliminating Mingxuan will ensure their success.

Now, taking advantage of the fact that the other sects' disciples haven't reacted yet, Ye Qiao decided to strike first and kill more demonic beasts so that she could get one step closer to first place.

"Have you used up all the formation-breaking talismans that Mingxuan gave you before entering the secret realm?" Ye Qiao asked.

Mu Chongxi pointed at Zhou Xingyun and said quietly, "Ask our senior brother! He's had terrible luck, he keeps leading us into formations. This is the thirtieth formation we've stepped into. We've run out of formation-breaking talismans too." Seeing that they couldn't get out, the three of them simply gave up.

Let's just count down then.

They've lost everything, Changming Sect.

Ye Qiao's lips twitched as she listened.

In the game, Zhou Xingyun would definitely be an incredibly unlucky person.

After rescuing the three resentful senior brothers, the four of them studied the map together for a long time. Finally, Ye Qiao made the final decision: she would lead the way.

Any troublesome monsters they encountered along the way were also killed by Ye Qiao and Mu Chongxi together.

She had never had a suitable sword, and the Xuan Sword she used before had broken, so she could only use the bamboo shoot as a sword.

Ye Qiao felt a chill run down her spine as she looked at the densely packed snakes. A sharp sword aura flashed and cut the green snake in two. The severed vine snake then jumped around even more excitedly, flicking its tongue and approaching her.

Without hesitation, she lit a fire-controlling talisman and threw it down, hoping to burn them all to death.

The snake became even more ferocious, leaping up to try and bite her, but Ye Qiao mercilessly slapped it away with her sword.

"It's no use, Ye Qiao." Mu Chongxi stepped on the sword, touched his arm and felt a strange chill: "I heard that this kind of snake needs to be cut into small pieces so it won't keep jumping around."

Upon hearing this, Ye Qiao frowned, put away the bamboo shoot, and took out a monster corpse from her mustard seed bag.

She killed it on the way, because she could take it out to exchange for spirit stones with weapon cultivators, so she put it inside. Ye Qiao hung a rope on the bamboo shoot to tie up the monster's corpse.

Then, they found a higher spot and threw the monster's corpse into the snake swarm.

In an instant, the entire swarm of snakes gathered in one place, vying to devour the monster.

The moment they gathered together, Ye Qiao used a binding talisman to trap them all together, and decisively ordered, "Make your move."

Mu Chongxi unleashed two sword strikes, which snapped the vine snakes upon contact with their bodies. Just as the snakes were about to split further, Ye Qiao followed closely behind, leaping into the horde of monsters. "Chop them up a bit, or we won't kill them all."

This kind of monster is easy to kill, but a bit troublesome. However, it's quite suitable for practicing sword techniques.

Ye Qiao has been trying out the second form of the Qingfeng Technique recently.

Therefore, whenever they encountered monsters, they didn't kill them all at once, but instead kept them to practice on first.

Xue Yu distributed the refined pills to his junior brothers and sisters so they could replenish their spiritual energy, then looked at the only idle person present: "Senior Brother, could you lend a hand?"

Ye Qiao and Mu Chongxi were the youngest in the sect, one was fifteen and the other was sixteen. As a result, the two of them worked like hardworking little bees every day.

Xue Yu practically said: "How can you live off your parents like this?!"

Zhou Xingyun asked in confusion, "Weren't they doing a good job of killing?"

The junior brothers and sisters cooperated very well, clearly not for the first time. He pointed to the demonic beasts below: "And there's no danger, it's perfect for them to practice on."

The two idiots still haven't learned the second move of the Qingfeng Technique, which makes Zhou Xingyun shake his head.

He could tell that his junior sister wanted to learn the second move, and he would occasionally offer some pointers. Unfortunately, there were too few of them. Just as Ye Qiao was about to capture something, all the vine snakes over there had been wiped out.

Ye Qiao's spiritual energy vanished, and she moved her aching wrists before sitting down on the ground with Mu Chongxi.

Looking at the two junior brothers and sisters who were working themselves to the bone, leaning back to each other.

Zhou Xingyun, unusually, had a change of heart and dragged the monster corpses off the ground to them.

Arrange them one by one from tallest to shortest to form a Wi-Fi network.

Zhou Xingyun nodded in satisfaction.

A line of demonic beasts came down; those who knew the situation would think they were hunting demonic beasts, while those who didn't would think they were holding an auction.

Upon seeing this, Ye Qiao's lips twitched.

This is probably one of the few times that the eldest brother showed him care?

She popped a few spirit-replenishing pills into her mouth, wiped the sweat from her palms, and said, "Let's go."

"Let's go to the next place."

Xue Yu hummed in agreement, staring at the rankings on the jade slip. If things continued like this, it would be only a matter of time before they clashed with the Yueqing Sect, as the rankings of the two sects were quite close.

Perhaps it was because Mingxuan and Ye Qiao worked together so well that everyone thought that the reason why Changming Sect ranked so high was entirely due to Mingxuan's efforts.

Now that Mingxuan is gone, the other disciples don't plan to take care of them anymore.

If all goes well, their Changming Sect might actually manage to win first place in this secret realm by developing their strength in a stealthy manner.

The four of them walked together, but as they walked, Ye Qiao gradually realized that something was wrong.

Mu Chongxi was trapped in an unknown formation, and he was dragged and swallowed up inside. He instinctively grabbed Xue Yu.

Xue Yu was already annoyed by these endless array formations. He said, "You stepped on it yourself, don't pull me out. Rest in peace."

After saying that, Xue Yu eagerly took out a pill from his storage bag, intending to knock Mu Chongxi to the ground.

Mu Chongxi immediately tugged at Zhou Xingyun's clothes: "Senior Brother!"

Zhou Xingyun was even more ruthless.

He took a knife and cut his robe open. Looking at the neat, clean cut, Zhou Xingyun was extremely satisfied.

Ye Qiao: "..."

She almost punched those three unreliable protégés.

I misunderstood Mingxuan; my second senior brother is clearly a normal person.

Ye Qiao didn't have many formation-breaking talismans left. She grabbed Mu Chongxi but couldn't pull him out, so she took a step forward and looked around the formation.

Recalling the records in the Yueqing Sect's array book, Ye Qiao decided to break through from the outside one by one. When the sword wind hit the inner wall, something bounced back. She increased the force of her sword swing and basically knew where the array's core was.

"This formation is somewhat similar to that of the Moon Cleansing Sect."

"It must have been left behind by a disciple of the Qing Sect sometime in the past month."

"What is Ye Qiao doing?"

"Break the formation?"

Breaking the formation basically requires breaking it from the inside, but judging from Mu Chongxi's reaction, once inside the formation, he basically doesn't even have a chance to swing his sword. Therefore, Ye Qiao plans to break the formation from the outside.

The difficulty from the outside is more than one level higher than from the inside.

Moreover, that's a formation from the Yueqing Sect.

Zhou Xingyun also said, "Shall I go and tie Song Hansheng up and bring him here?"

Ye Qiao: "No need."

She had studied the formations of the Yueqing Sect, thanks to Song Hansheng's generosity. He showed her the inner sect talisman books of the Yueqing Sect without hesitation.

As soon as she finished speaking, accompanied by the sound of the formation breaking, a circle of golden light repelled her, and Mu Chongxi finally emerged.

broken.

"How dare she!" Upon seeing this, the elder of the Yueqing Sect outside the arena immediately stood up in shock: "She actually dared to steal our Yueqing Sect's formation techniques!!"

She could say she was lucky to break this formation from the inside.

It can be broken from the outside; he wouldn't believe she hadn't learned any formations!

Qin Fanfan's eyes widened: "Huh?!"

His tone was one of utter astonishment, but to the others it sounded like mockery and smugness.

Qin Fanfan looked at the incredulous faces of those old bastards, outwardly calm as an old dog, but inwardly panicking, and shouted back in the same loud voice.

"What do you mean by 'your Moon Cleansing Sect's formation'? Aren't formations meant to be learned?"

"..." No, you two, is that the point? The point is that this guy is actually a talisman cultivator.