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

"???"

This news was so explosive that everyone who was on a mission or cultivating was caught off guard.

They carefully considered whether Zhou Xingyun's jade slip had been stolen.

However, that was Zhou Xingyun, the most outstanding disciple of the younger generation of Changming Sect. It was unlikely that his jade slip could be easily taken away by someone.

They hadn't considered one possibility: the chances of Zhou Xingyun's jade slip being stolen were indeed slim, but things changed once he had a new junior sister.

Zhu You frowned slightly and asked calmly, "Does he need paper?"

Xia Qing covered her mouth, pondering, "Has he gone mad?"

"...Perhaps it's some kind of code we don't know?"

After all, they are cultivators. This statement is very unreasonable.

They dared not act rashly, so they went to the hall to ask the elders if the other party could come down the mountain. The second elder of the Sword Inquiry Sect flicked his whisk and his eyes darkened. "Zhou Xingyun is usually very steady and would never send you such a message."

Since the address clearly states Changming Sect, there must be something important to inform them of.

And it's quite serious, otherwise there would be no way they would send such... explosive information to these close associates.

"There must be something important going on. Whoever has time should go to Changming Sect to investigate."

If you post something completely normal, nobody will pay attention.

For someone like Zhou Xingyun, whose cultivation is so profound that he is detached from emotions and whose personality is even more indifferent than Ye Qinghan's, to send out this jade slip, there must be something important.

Those disciples who had no urgent missions immediately abandoned their cultivation and, completely bewildered, rode cranes to Changming Sect.

Before they arrived, everyone had imagined many scenarios.

I never expected the scene to be so explosive.

Yun Que's hair was disheveled, and at her feet was a wounded and wailing Qing Luan bird that had been knocked down. The girl had tears in her eyes and was being held tightly by the neck by someone.

The young man looked extremely pained, his eyes bloodshot with hatred, as if he wanted to kill her. He repeatedly questioned her: "Why don't you love me? Why are you involved with other people? Haven't I treated you well? What more do you want from me?"

His expression was ferocious, and he was extremely crazed.

Yun Que couldn't utter a single word; the feeling of suffocation made her faint several times.

"..." The group delivering the paper exchanged a silent glance, then all lowered their heads, revealing the same expression.

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A group of people stood with their hands clasped in front of them, a faint awkwardness filling the air. Silence almost permeated the entire scene, with only Yun Que's pitiful sobs and the young man's hysterical questioning.

Standing there awkwardly didn't seem appropriate, so Duan Hengdao had no choice but to bite the bullet and greet the disciples from the other sects with a forced smile: "Ahem, what a coincidence, you're here to deliver paper too."

"Yes, what a coincidence, hehehe..."

The group chuckled for a few seconds, then their expressions all changed, their uniformly indifferent expressions making them seem unapproachable.

What a coincidence.

Who the hell did this? And they even sent it to more than one sect!

They had realized that this could not possibly be Zhou Xingyun's doing; the other party's character was definitely not that bad.

"Who is that person? Yun Que's suitor?" Zhu You broke the silence, her voice cold and slightly puzzled.

Just as Zhu You was confused, Ye Qinghan, who had arrived at Changming Sect, coldly shouted, "Let her go!"

With a single, swift strike, Duan Shui unleashed a sword aura that resembled an unyielding glacier, its chilling blue light sending shivers down the spines of everyone present.

Qin Huai followed behind him, casually twirling the sword in his hand, his steps leisurely and a slight smile on his face. "It's so lively here." Almost half of the disciples of the five sects were present.

Mu Chongxi arrived at the scene at the same time as them.

When Zhou Xingyun went to find Ye Qinghan and the others, he went along with them. Upon receiving news that everyone in the sect was trapped, he hurriedly grabbed his senior brother and took Ye Qinghan with him, intending to bring him into the sect to rescue them.

His junior sister is still in the sect.

"We have to go save our junior sister!" he muttered to himself, his expression tense. "She'll be scared if she's alone."

"So..." Ye Qinghan asked, puzzled, "Is Xue Yu dead?"

He heard Mu Chongxi mention Ye Qiao's existence repeatedly on the way, but he didn't hear him mention Xue Yu, hence his question.

Mu Chongxi's voice abruptly stopped.

"Oh, I forgot." He looked innocent, almost forgetting that he had a third senior brother.

Zhou Xingyun followed up calmly, "It's alright, he's not important."

Ye Qinghan: "..." I don't understand your Changming Sect.

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Now, let's get back to the present.

When Ye Qinghan arrived at Changming Sect, he saw Yun Que, dressed in a light blue sect robe, being held tightly in the hand of a young man at the foot of the mountain, almost suffocating. He immediately drew his sword, unable to bear it any longer.

The sword flashed and struck, but missed its target in the next second.

The young man's cultivation was clearly no weaker than Ye Qinghan's. He put his arm around Yun Que and dodged to another spot, giving them a mocking smile.

Miao Miao covered her mouth and chuckled, "Standing so close, Ye Qinghan, you haven't been cheated on, have you?"

Miao Miao came from the Azure Water Sect. The other senior brothers and sisters were all on missions, and she was bored by herself. She never expected to see such an exciting scene.

Who in the cultivation world doesn't know that Ye Qinghan's Daoist partner is Yun Que?

Although the two did not explicitly state their relationship, their intimacy was remarkable. Despite having many women around her, Yun Que had never acted this way towards anyone else.

Ye Qinghan remained silent, stubbornly believing that Yun Que had been kidnapped by that man.

Qin Huai, always eager for drama, asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Didn't Zhou Xingyun send out jade slips?" Zhu You blinked gently. "He wants us to deliver some paper."

"..."

Upon hearing the jade slip containing the phrase "send some paper" and that the message was sent by Zhou Xingyun, Ye Qinghan's expression stiffened slightly.

It was immediately clear who did it.

"It was Ye Qiao who deliberately sent you here." Ye Qinghan frowned, glancing at the crowd who had arrived one after another with different expressions. His tone was not a question, but a certainty.

In fact, he disliked Ye Qiao from the very first meeting. He preferred kind and brave women, like Yun Que. The female cultivator seemed frivolous and unreliable to him.

"Ye Qinghan".

"Regarding your matter," Zhou Xingyun, sword in his arms, stood casually. Hearing this, he slightly turned his head, his voice somewhat cold, "Why bring up my junior sister?"

"yes."

"My junior sister is a very hardworking cultivator..." Mu Chongxi hesitated for a moment, thinking of the question about whether she had brought paper, then said firmly, "She would never let anyone bring her paper!"

Ye Qinghan: "This isn't the first time she's done this. Her personality is both righteous and wicked. Don't you find it suspicious that you've taken on disciples without knowing her at all?"

The whole thing seemed like they were deliberately luring them over.

This is blatant slander! Mu Chongxi immediately became agitated: "Why didn't you mention Yun Que's physical altercations with the others?"

The next instant, Ye Qinghan drew his sword without warning, and the temperature around him dropped so low that everyone subconsciously touched their arms, realizing that Ye Qinghan was angry.

He did not accept Mu Chongxi's baseless slander against Yun Que.

The swords that could cut through water clashed, their cold light flashing everywhere!

Miaomiao sighed and murmured, "...It's so cold."

Not only was she cold, but everyone else was also breathing out cold air. The chill emanating from the Water Spirit Sword, led by Duan Shui, was bone-chilling. Coupled with the unique talent and control over swordsmanship brought by the innate sword bone, the chill emanating from the sword was so intense that they couldn't resist it at all.

Mu Chongxi could also feel the oppressive pressure of the sword.

The sword energy of the innate sword bone forced all the other sword cultivators to draw their spiritual swords.

At the scene, only Mu Chongxi remained calm, his spirit sword at his waist sitting steadily in its sheath, motionless.

"Did I say something wrong?" He pursed his lips, with a hint of youthful stubbornness and defiance. "You protect your Daoist partner, so naturally I must protect my junior sister as well."

Mu Chongxi wasn't stupid; he could see the relationship between Yun Que and Ye Qinghan.

He may not have liked Yun Que. She simply represented a very beautiful memory from his teenage years, which, in the end, was nothing but a mirage.

You can change the object of your affection, but you can only have one junior sister!

While everyone was breathing out warm air from the cold, they still bravely chose to watch the show.

Mu Chongxi also drew his sword.

The Chaoxi Sword was covered in a layer of blazing flames and its entire body was wrapped in red sword energy, instantly raising the surrounding frigid temperature.

When someone has no sword.

Great, the temperature has risen again.

This is a mix of hot and cold.

It felt like experiencing both ice and fire.

The relatives were silent for a few seconds.

"..." No, are you two sick?