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

"Okay." He didn't even lift his eyelids. "Go ahead. While you're at it, make sure that brat eats less and spares those poor spiritual plants."

Since she came from another place, she must be quite familiar with Xue Yu.

Xie Chuxue wasn't worried about the two of them not getting along, especially since that kid was energetic and sometimes quite interesting to talk about.

……

Ye Qiao lived in a relatively remote place. Since she had only been in the sect for a short time, no mountain peak was available for her. Following the principle that whoever picked her up should be responsible for her, Xie Chuxue arranged for her to stay in a courtyard near the senior brother's mountain peak.

The courtyard isn't large, but it's quiet.

There was a gentle knock on the door. Ye Qiao was chewing on a pill when she looked at the person who came in.

She was somewhat delirious from refining pills, and after staring at the other person for a long time, she slowly greeted him, "Hi, Third Senior Brother?"

As soon as she finished speaking, her ears became wet, and when she wiped them with her hand, her hand was covered in blood.

Symptoms of mental exhaustion.

She hadn't overdrawn her account in ages.

Unfortunately, compared to Yun Que's good fortune and countless resources, Ye Qiao currently has very few resources at her disposal. Yun Que in this world has five more years of growth time than in her world.

For five whole years, she dared not even imagine how many treasures the other party possessed.

The Changming Sect was in complete disarray. Several of the senior brothers had either left or become sycophants, and since there was no one else to rely on, Ye Qiao had no choice but to take matters into her own hands.

Mingxuan casually donated a bag of top-grade talismans, so it's easy to imagine that Yun Que, as a woman of destiny, has even more to her name.

Xue Yu, dressed in a dark blue robe that accentuated his refined and noble air, sized her up for a moment, then greeted her softly, "Hello, Junior Sister?"

"I heard from my junior uncle that he had recently taken on a new junior sister." He paused, his words unusually gentle, "Nice to meet you..."

Before Xue Yu could finish his polite words, Ye Qiao stretched out her hand, a speck of blood on her palm. She smiled shyly, "Do you have any pills to help me out, Third Senior Brother? I'm a direct disciple, could you give them to me first?"

Xue Yu: "...?"

Are we that close?

He had never seen someone so brazenly demand things, and his smile faded slightly. "I need to refine it on the spot. There are no pills available right now." Logically speaking, since he had entered the sect more than ten years earlier than her, as her senior brother, he should naturally offer her some gifts.

But Xue Yu is now penniless, and Ye Qiao knows that she won't get anything even if she asks.

She looked Xue Yu up and down for a moment, then smiled slightly, as if she had realized something: "Oh, so you gave all the pills you had to your goddess Yun Que?"

"..."

Xue Yu hadn't expected her to be so sharp and to the point. His smile froze slightly, then he said with a half-smile, "Junior Sister, is that how you think of me?"

"Otherwise what?" she said, her nose bleeding again. The sight of her covered in blood would make her a perfect fit for the role of The Ring. Ye Qiao blinked, covered her nose, and quickly wiped the blood away. "Does a goddess need a simp? Simps, simps, in the end they get nothing."

"So, what exactly are you trying to say?" Xue Yu glanced at her and found that she was quite good at being sarcastic despite her young age.

Ye Qiao asked earnestly, "So, could you lick me?"

Xue Yu: "..."

"You'll find everything you need by licking it all up to the end."

"No." He said coldly.

"Having everything?" Although he couldn't discern Ye Qiao's cultivation level, he knew from the repeated depletion of her consciousness that her cultivation was definitely not high. Her words were indeed incoherent.

"Oh." Ye Qiao drawled out her words. If she had said no earlier, why was she wasting her time with Xue Yu? To her now, wasting time was equivalent to wasting her life.

She lowered her eyes, ignoring the other person, and threw out several spiritual plants to refine them. She followed the steps to temper them, and her movements were swift as she cast out pill imprints that bounced around her one after another.

Xue Yu is the kind of person who is warm on the outside but cold on the inside. He seems to treat everyone well, but this is only on the surface.

Those who come from traditional alchemy families are somewhat disdainful of those cultivators who come from unorthodox backgrounds.

Xue Yu assumed that she had been taken in as a pill refiner. The young man stared at her for a moment without moving, feeling that her technique was very familiar.

He didn't make a sound to disturb the other party. After the pill imprints all took shape and solidified into round and smooth pills, Ye Qiao took out a jade bottle and steadily caught each pill as it fell into it.

The success rate of pill formation is extremely high, almost reaching 100%.

But that wasn't what intrigued him the most.

Xue Yu crouched down, subtly probing, "Junior Sister, the pill in your hand... its effects and aura seem very familiar. Junior Sister, who is your master?"

"You mean this?" Ye Qiao raised her hand to show him the small pills inside the bottle, without any intention of hiding anything. "Half of it was self-taught..." The other half was learned from Xue Yu himself.

After all, there are very few alchemists in the Changming Sect, and in terms of professionalism, Xue Yu, who comes from a family of alchemists, is more professional. The two often study together, and her techniques are actually very similar to Xue Yu's.

During the time Xue Yu served as Yun Que's devoted lover, his alchemy skills improved by leaps and bounds. Ye Qiao couldn't help but have some thoughts. With five years of experience, Xue Yu's alchemy skills were definitely extremely proficient.

I could hurry up and have him come over and teach me.

Regardless, it's a good learning opportunity.

Ye Qiao had just finished refining the first batch when Xue Yu glanced at it and tossed it into a mustard seed bag before starting the second batch.

"Do you have an alchemy furnace, Third Senior Brother?"

"Yes." Xue Yu stared at her hand gestures as she made the pill seal and answered slowly. Pill cultivators all like to collect pill furnaces. He could tell that the pill furnace in Ye Qiao's hand was a spiritual artifact, the legendary Red Lotus Cauldron. Pills made from it had a high success rate, and the pure flames made the pills more effective than ordinary ones.

"Since you don't have a gift to give as a token of our meeting, how about lending me twenty alchemy furnaces?"

Twenty...

Xue Yu: "Do you think I'm a professional weapon refiner?"

"How many do you have?" Ye Qiao readily agreed, "I'm not picky. If you don't like it, you can find me a pot from the doorway."

She had no requirements regarding the quality of the alchemy furnace.

Xue Yu: "..."

"So you're a pill cultivator." He seemed to understand why Xie Chuxue insisted on taking her in. Xue Yu wasn't stingy either; he tossed out six palm-sized pill furnaces and gave them to Ye Qiao one by one.

All the items were magical artifacts, even the lowest quality ones were of superior grade. Ye Qiao looked up at him and smiled, deeply moved: "Thank you. You're a good person."

For some reason, Xue Yu suddenly felt a heart attack.

Yun Que had said this to him before. He was a very good person, but she only considered him a friend. Whenever Yun Que said this to him, Xue Yu's heart would melt, and he would express his understanding.

Seeing that he was choked up, Ye Qiao took the opportunity to promote herself to him: "To be honest, you'd be better off licking my boots than your goddess. Seriously, licking my boots has a future. I'm very good at it."

Xue Yu: "Ha."

The boy chuckled softly, "Thank you, but it's really unnecessary."

She arrogantly pointed outside and said, "It's okay, you might want to later. You know, the people who want to fawn over me could line up from one end of the cultivation world to the other."

Xue Yu returned her a tactical smile.

They've blown the cow out of proportion; this junior sister really doesn't know the meaning of humility.

Ye Qiao focused her attention on the seven alchemy furnaces in front of her. She had tried to divide them into fifty people, but that was too many, and she didn't have enough furnaces. Xue Yu's timely help was just what she needed.

The girl lowered her eyes, and with a thought, she split herself into seven.

Several identical people each took a pill furnace and placed it in front of them.

Xue Yu stared at this scene, not understanding her intentions at first, until those few distracted spirits ignited the fire control talisman and then started a fire to refine pills. He couldn't help but slightly raise his lips, the curve of which was somewhat thoughtful.

She actually prepared a group of Ye Qiaos to help with alchemy?!

This idea is far too far-fetched. Even a single person might fail at alchemy, let alone having a bunch of separate spirits and then having those spirits perform alchemy. The demands on the sea of ​​consciousness would be far too high.

Even among those powerful beings who ascend to immortality and come to the cultivation world, none of them would choose to refine pills.

After all, it's practically impossible to be distracted while refining pills.

This requires an extremely precise level of control over one's spiritual sense to have a small chance of success.

Xue Yu looked around and saw that there were seven Ye Qiaos in the room. She had been distracted by so many things, which caused the Ye Qiaos to start chattering. Each of them was holding a pill furnace and they were very excited about it. They immediately turned to Xue Yu and said, "You are such a good person."

"..."

"Third Senior Brother, you are such a good person."

"You are a good person."

"What a kind person."

Xue Yu: "..."

The repeated calls of "good person" echoed in his ears, making him feel dizzy and disoriented.

He hadn't recovered yet; the group of Ye Qiaos were still thanking him, their emotions overflowing. One "good guy" card after another was playing on a loop in his mind, causing the boy's gentle features to become somewhat distorted.

Finally, he looked up at Ye Qiao with a slightly devastated expression and glared at her gloating expression. Then, as if he had heard something terrifying, he fled out the door in a disheveled state.

Ye Qiao rested her chin on her hand, watching his retreating figure as he stormed out the door. She couldn't help but chuckle, and waved her hand lightly with a cheerful smile, "No need to thank Third Senior Brother, you deserve it all."

She didn't actually mind harassing him like this in the future, so that he wouldn't go to Yun Que's place all day to offer comfort and become that resentful, good-natured person.

*

Xie Chuxue was calculating the sect's daily expenses since Ye Qiao arrived, when she saw Xue Yu running out in a panic. She casually asked, "What's wrong?"

Running like this.

Xue Yu covered his face, perhaps feeling a little embarrassed that he had been scared away by several clones. His face flushed slightly, and he said softly, "When I arrived, she was refining pills, and her technique felt a lot like mine...?"

So I couldn't resist staying and observing for a long time.

"She can refine pills?" Xie Chuxue hesitated for a moment, her breathing becoming slow and deep. "Are you sure?"

Ye Qiao is a talisman cultivator, there is no doubt about that. Just the fact that she was able to pass through the Heavenly Net she set up without getting hurt shows that she is extremely familiar with herself and has broken her own formation.

Without a doubt, she was quite proficient in the art of talismans.

"I'm sure." Xue Yu nodded firmly.

Xie Chuxue took a small breath, feeling the air fill his lungs, which calmed his complicated emotions somewhat.

This is incredible! It seems Zhou Xingyun has stumbled upon a genius.

He's also a genius who cultivates all three paths simultaneously.

Damn it! Just thinking about Ye Qiao being from another world made him bite his handkerchief in resentment. What did he, from another world, have to deserve such a genius who could cultivate three things? He wouldn't even dare to dream of such a thing.

In fact, the others in their Changming Sect were also geniuses, but not all geniuses are the same. Compared to those geniuses who were prone to extremism and self-destruction, Xie Chuxue immediately felt that there was nothing wrong with her liking to eat.

It's good that she likes to eat. As long as she doesn't become like those brainless people who fight over Yun Que, Xie Chuxue will still support her.

Geniuses have always been known for their unconventional ways, and he immediately understood Ye Qiao's previous antics. A smile, barely concealing his joy, spread across his lips as he murmured, "I never expected our little Qiao to be so diligent, getting up early to steal the Peak Master's medicinal fields for alchemy. Good for her!"

"Only diligent disciples would try to exploit the medicinal herb fields, unlike some disciples." Xie Chuxue's initial gentle tone turned gloomy in an instant. She raised her eyelids and coldly glared at Xue Yu, "All you do all day is deliver things to female cultivators."

Xue Yu: "..."

Does that mean no one is allowed to touch that medicinal field without the peak master's order?

He would send things as gifts, but he would never overstep the boundaries and touch anything belonging to the sect.

Xue Yu wanted to argue, but knowing he was in the wrong, he could only swallow his words and continue, "Then I saw that she used her distraction to create seven versions of herself."

Seven?

At this point, Xue Yu's voice trembled slightly, "...and she plans to have her clone refine the pills."

The method was too shocking. Xue Yu couldn't even imagine how she could have come up with it.

His words immediately roused Xie Chuxue, who casually tossed the abacus aside and said, "Let's go take a look."