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

Both teams headed towards the marked locations on the map, all rushing to kill the monsters there before Yueqing Sect could. Thanks to Ye Qiao, the Wenjian Sect group managed to avoid stepping on any formations.

This made Ye Qinghan even more convinced of Mingxuan's strength.

As they got closer to their destination, a light drizzle began to fall. The slightly corrosive rainwater felt hot on her hands. Ye Qiao touched it; she had seen this kind of rain before.

I never expected to run into him again today.

Ye Qinghan frowned. "Does anyone have a defensive magical artifact?"

"No," the junior sister of the Sword Inquiry Sect answered crisply, "I'm poor."

The prices offered by those unscrupulous artifact cultivators from Chengfeng Sect are too high. It's impossible for me to buy these artifacts; I'll never buy them in this lifetime.

Upon hearing this, Ye Qiao offered a sincere suggestion, "Why don't you try balancing a basin and a pot on your heads?"

She can set up formations, but this method is not only tiring, but it also exposes her.

"Where did you get this from?" Xue Yu weighed the pot in her hand; it was quite light.

"Borrowed from the cafeteria." She had originally intended to use it for alchemy, but those pills were unsightly, and besides, her third senior brother was an alchemist who didn't need her, so the pot had been sitting idle.

I'll practice when I have time.

"I have three more basins, do you want them?"

The three senior brothers immediately replied without hesitation: "Yes."

Ye Qiao carried the pot on his head by himself, while his three senior brothers each had a basin on their foreheads, leaving the cultivators outside the arena stunned.

"Ye Qiao brought everything into the secret realm this time except for the essential items."

"The members of the Wenjian Sect nearby were stunned."

Ye Qinghan blinked hard to make sure this wasn't his imagination. Then, he looked hesitantly at the large pot in her hand, feeling a little embarrassed.

This is too ugly.

But I have to say, it seems to work quite well.

Ye Qinghan hesitated for a long time, then finally looked at her expressionlessly and asked, "...Do you still have a pot?"

Ye Qiao didn't turn her head: "That's all."

She doesn't do wholesale.

Seeing this, Ye Qinghan could only shut up and relied on his physical skills to move forward in the rain. Compared to the bitter wind and rain of the Wenjian Sect, the Changming Sect was much more relaxed.

The three of them chatted casually, without any sense of tension.

"The Yueqing Sect is also maintaining the formation and rushing towards the Wind Beast's Nest."

Several inner sect elders outside the arena began to murmur amongst themselves upon seeing this.

...To be honest, this journey has been very taxing on my spiritual energy.

You might as well learn from Ye Qiao and put a pot on your head.

Ordinary oil-paper umbrellas couldn't stop the corrosive rain, but the pot could. The rain pattered down on the four people's heads in a strange rhythm.

The closer they got to the wind beast, the stronger the wind and sand they could feel. After the rain gradually stopped, Ye Qiao put the pot away and the two teams stood in a row.

"The people from the Moon Purity Sect are almost here." Ye Qinghan narrowed his eyes.

"I'll go and deal with their sect's sword cultivators."

He looked at Zhou Xingyun, "If you come with me, we'll be faster."

The Moon Clean Sect has four talisman cultivators and one Golden Core stage sword cultivator. Although Ye Qinghan can handle them all by himself, he wants to finish the battle quickly.

Zhou Xingyun and Ye Qinghan both became famous at a young age, and the speculation about their strength is just a general estimate given by the outside world. In fact, he has never fought against Zhou Xingyun.

To date, no one has ever seen Zhou Xingyun draw his sword.

Zhou Xingyun feigned ignorance, looking completely bewildered: "What are you talking about? I don't understand."

Ye Qinghan took a deep breath and said in a cold voice, "If we're going to cooperate, your Changming Sect should at least show some sincerity."

With so many sword cultivators, wouldn't it be easy for them to join forces and defeat the four talisman cultivators of the Moon Clean Sect?

Looking at the male lead's expression, which seemed solely focused on winning, Ye Qiao stroked her chin and realized that the plot seemed to... have fallen apart.

Ye Qinghan is currently focused solely on destroying the Yueqing Sect and hasn't even considered whether Yun Que is among the four talisman cultivators.

In the novel, the Sword Inquiry Sect had a smooth journey, and in the second battle, Yun Que also worked hard alongside the male protagonist.

Perhaps because she disrupted the first round of the Moon Purification Sect's competition, Song Hansheng was so angry that he cursed Yun Que and gave her a lecture, which resulted in Yun Que not staying with Ye Qinghan as in the original story.

Upon hearing that he wanted to show sincerity, Zhou Xingyun immediately pushed Ye Qiao forward, saying, "Our Changming Sect's sincerity is all here."

The dual cultivation of sword and talisman is the greatest sincerity that the Changming Sect can offer right now, especially since it's Junior Sister.

Ye Qinghan's forehead twitched, feeling that Zhou Xingyun was humiliating her.

Seeing that the male lead was about to explode with anger, Ye Qiao quickly stepped forward to calm him down: "Don't be angry, we'll help, okay? Don't you trust our Changming Sect? We're all honest people."

Ye Qinghan's expression softened a little.

They're lucky they have some sense.

Upon hearing this, Xue Yu, taking advantage of his height, pressed her head down, and the two turned around simultaneously, secretly whispering to each other: "Really help the Sword Inquiry Sect? Do you believe that after dealing with the Moon Purity Sect, Ye Qinghan's next target will be our Changming Sect?"

The people in the Sword Inquiry Sect aren't exactly known for their character.

Ye Qiao: "It's okay, we're not exactly good people anyway."

Xue Yu: "..."

Ye Qiao wondered where Song Hansheng had hidden his identity token. She figured it was probably on the only swordsman in the Yueqing Sect.

Therefore, she had no objection to attacking the Yueqing Sect sword cultivators first.

Two groups of people, one dressed in red and the other in white, stood in separate rows.

Seeing this, Song Hansheng frowned, realizing something was amiss: "These two sects can actually join forces?"

Doesn't the Sword Inquiry Sect always disdain joining forces with weak sects?

The collaborations in the secret realms all follow a one-on-one model, with Chengfeng Sect fighting alone, while Yueqing Sect and Bishui Sect reached a deal.

They protect the Biyue Sect, and the Biyue Sect is responsible for providing them with pills. Setting up an array consumes a lot of spiritual energy, and without pills to replenish their supplies, they cannot last long.

"Is Ye Qinghan trying to make things easier in the secret realm by relying on the talismans left behind by Ming Xuan? A bunch of brainless sword cultivators, I don't know what they're so arrogant about all day long." Su Zhuo snorted, extremely disdainful.

"What Su Zhuo said is so idiotic. He just hung you all up not long ago."

Ye Qiao: Who are you calling brainless?

"No, no, Ye Qiao cultivates both paths simultaneously, which is indeed different from a brainless sword cultivator in the strict sense."

Ultimately, the audience concluded that Su Zhuo had probably never been beaten by Ye Qiao before.

"Actually, if Ye Qiao had stayed in the Yueqing Sect back then, the Yueqing Sect would have had two sword cultivators and five talisman cultivators. After all, Ye Qiao is worth two people."

Yes.

Who wouldn't want a disciple who cultivates both paths? Anyone with even a little talent could be worth two disciples.

Under the watchful, albeit subtle, gloating gazes of those around him, Yunhen also regretted his actions. After all, it was just a spiritual herb, and letting a disciple go for such a trivial matter was indeed a loss that outweighed the gains.

But he was concerned about his image, so he only forced a calm tone and said:

"Just a mid-grade spiritual root."

Even if one cultivates both paths simultaneously, in the end, one is only a half-baked practitioner.

Elder Zhao smiled slightly: "Those of you who all have top-grade spiritual roots, didn't you still come in last place when you went on stage? No matter how high your spiritual roots are, it won't affect your last place."

The elders made sarcastic remarks, and the disciples in the room were also very lively.

……

The moment Song Hansheng met Ye Qinghan, he sensed something was amiss, but he remained calm. In the ancient battlefield, their talisman cultivators had a field advantage, and after Mingxuan was eliminated, the secret realm was now the domain of their Yueqing Sect.

Ye Qinghan didn't waste any words with him, picked up her sword and started fighting. Cold light flashed everywhere, and the formation followed one after another.

The powerful spiritual energy fluctuations and the oppressive aura of the two Golden Core cultivators caused Ye Qiao to momentarily freeze in her movements. Upon seeing this, Zhou Xingyun released his own oppressive aura to cover her.

Suddenly feeling lighter, Ye Qiao looked up and smiled at Zhou Xingyun, then quietly took a step back, using the height of her senior brothers to conceal herself.

Almost the instant the two groups started fighting, she made a hand seal, and the Yueqing Sect's formation began to rotate.

The imprisonment array silently spread out from beneath their feet, trapping the Changming Sect members inside.

"???"

"ha?"

"If I'm not mistaken, Ye Qiao set up this formation herself, right?"

"You read that right, she started secretly setting up her formation the moment she arrived."

What's this called? Am I trapping myself?

Song Hansheng was also taken aback when he saw the four members of the Changming Sect trapped; "Wait..."

He didn't trap Ye Qiao and the others inside, did he?

He glanced at his junior brother suspiciously. Could it be a confinement array that Su Zhuo had dropped?

Because the array pattern was indeed from their Yueqing Sect, Song Hansheng and his fellow disciples never doubted anything.

They assumed that the other side had set up the formation in advance.

Ye Qiao, the culprit, stood inside the formation, watching the two groups fighting, and suddenly raised her voice: "We can't get out. What do we do? Someone save us!"

Xue Yu: "..."

Seeing that the group was so engrossed in the fight that no one was paying attention to her, Ye Qiao's expression changed. She quickly observed the battle outside, then sat down cross-legged with a flourish: "Alright, let's let them fight for a while."

No one knew that Ye Qiao would break the formation. They all thought that Changming Sect would not be able to get out for the time being, so they had no scruples when the two groups fought.

Amidst flying sand and stones, and the Five Elements Formation, Ye Qiao waited until they were nearly exhausted before breaking through the formation to collect their heads.

Watching this scene, Zhai Chen muttered, whether with fear or awe, "How slutty..."