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

The journey of Ye Qiao and his entourage within the Changming Sect was extremely arduous.

Those outside the Changming Sect were also trying to break the formation. Mu Chongxi's sword shadow fell, and judging from the current pace, it would take a full day. He felt an indescribable fear, afraid that if he arrived even a moment later, he would be faced with the entire sect lying in disarray on the ground with corpses.

He gripped the spirit sword, looking at the formation that remained unmoved despite his efforts to break it, and for the first time, he experienced a feeling of helplessness.

Suddenly, the boy seemed to remember something, turned around abruptly, reached out and grabbed Yun Que beside him, "Junior Sister Yun Que."

Yun Que was startled. She was already annoyed that the two of them wouldn't help her, and Mu Chongxi's sudden intimate behavior made her pout in dissatisfaction. "What's wrong?"

Mu Chongxi kept it brief: "The Moon Arrow is in your hands, isn't it?"

"Can I borrow it?"

Yun Que's expression was subtle. "You mean this?"

She reached out her hand, and an arrow as radiant as moonlight fell into her palm, shimmering with light and exuding an ethereal beauty.

Mu Chongxi rushed forward and reached out to snatch it, but Yun Que, unusually, did not resist. She remained calm, slowly loosened her grip, and then looked at him with a half-smile.

really,

He couldn't pull it open.

Mu Chongxi looked up in confusion, then suddenly met Yun Que's smiling eyes. He murmured, "Why?"

He realized that Yun Que didn't seem to have any intention of helping them.

Yun Que felt a bit resentful. She had never experienced any setbacks since she was a child, and this was the first time she had been rejected so thoroughly. Her voice was light and clear as she said, word by word, "Senior Brother Mu, the Bright Moon Arrow consumes a lot of spiritual energy."

"That's a legendary ancient formation; a single arrow can't break through it."

Which ancient formation wasn't earth-shattering? Although the Moon Arrow was powerful, it wasn't enough to break the formation in one shot. Yun Que didn't want to do something so thankless, lest he be blamed by the Seventh Elder.

Mu Chongxi's face was very pale. "Please, Junior Sister Yun Que."

"Pull it open."

The Moon Arrow was much faster than him repeatedly using his sword to break the formation. But apart from Yun Que, such a magical artifact could not be pulled by ordinary people.

Yun Que pursed her lips and said sweetly, "I can't do it, Senior Brother Mu."

"I can't do it."

"You wouldn't force me, would you?" She looked at him with a hint of helplessness in her eyes, her clear, watery eyes meeting his.

In fact, no matter how badly Yun Que messed up, everyone still had a very strong bias towards her. Mu Chongxi thought that at most she was a little competitive, but not that she was a bad person.

Until today.

Mu Chongxi had never seen her like this before...

So hypocritical it's nauseating.

Mingxuan hadn't expected Yun Que to actually abandon him to his fate. He looked at her for a few seconds, then looked away and suddenly asked a startling question: "You know the Seventh Elder?"

Yun Que's heart skipped a beat. "What?"

"You know him." Mingxuan finally confirmed.

"He asked you to stop Mu Chongxi? He was afraid he'd ruin his plans?"

Mingxuan's sea of ​​consciousness is extremely high. It is well known that the divine sense of the three paths of talisman cultivator, alchemy cultivator, and artifact cultivator is powerful. His late-stage Void Refinement realm allows him to easily cover the entire Changming Sect with his divine sense, thus seeing the situation inside clearly.

Seventh Elder...

To be honest, even though he had been in the Changming Sect for more than ten years, he didn't have much of an impression of that elder.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that the Changming Sect actually had a Nascent Soul stage cultivator hidden away.

Mu Chongxi's gaze turned even colder.

Yun Que never expected that Ming Xuan would expose her. You see, Ming Xuan was the most obedient of her admirers. She could just beckon him and he would come.

It's true... a dog that bites doesn't bark.

Yun Que's voice was soft, yet tinged with coldness: "I knew I had misjudged you, Ming Xuan."

She was no longer the naive and kind-hearted person she was when she first came to the cultivation world. She knew that the cultivation world was all about strength, so what was wrong with using these men to climb the ranks?

Mingxuan laughed, "Perhaps you've never really looked at me properly?"

After all, in her eyes, everyone was just a sycophant, and perhaps only Ye Qinghan had a special status.

Ye Qiao in the Changming Sect was too agile. The Seventh Elder was already fed up with her. He stretched out his hand and waved it lightly, and four palm winds blocked all her escape routes.

Surrounded by attacks from all sides, Ye Qiao took a deep breath and unleashed a Nascent Soul stage incantation seal, but the palm wind remained completely still.

It was clear that she was having a hard time hiding and was almost cornered.

The Seventh Elder raised the corners of his lips. "Just wait to die."

He thought she had reached her wit's end.

Ye Qiao snapped her fingers, and a dozen or so top-grade talismans spun in the air, forming transparent shields that tightly enveloped her. Under the intense pressure, everyone felt their breathing become thinner, but she remained completely unharmed.

Depend on.

How many Heavenly Grade Talismans does she actually have?

The Seventh Elder said in a deep voice, "Just how many talismans did Xie Chuxue give you?!"

Is this never going to end?!

In fact, Xie Chuxue was very stingy. He was wary of himself, and Ye Qiao didn't trust him either, only taking a dozen or so talismans from him.

The vast majority of the remaining works were drawn by herself. Ye Qiao's current level of skill was not yet sufficient to create works of the highest quality, but she tried to continuously refine her sea of ​​consciousness to the level of integration, repeatedly stabilizing her divine sense.

During the month that Changming Sect went into seclusion, she lost count of how much blood she had shed.

Each time, it was as if all the blood was drained away, repeatedly bringing it to the brink of death until they finally merged.

Xue Yu once calmly pointed out that her method of tempering was too extreme and could easily lead to the collapse of her consciousness.

Ye Qiao just smiled.

The problem is, this is her tribulation trial, and she can't possibly survive the trial.

Since we're not going to die, we should try our best to save everyone as much as possible.

The worst consequence would be failure in the trial.

But Ye Qiao guessed that Heaven wouldn't just stand by and watch her go astray. It was counting on her, this wage slave, to save humanity, so how could it let her go astray? With this layer of protection, her tempering would naturally be extremely extreme.

Ye Qiao's defensive talisman wouldn't hold for long. In the original story, this formation held firm for a full five days before Yun Hen and Xie Chuxue finally broke it by joining forces. The problem is, everyone died within those five days!

Xie Chuxue is busy right now, Yunhen...

She couldn't persuade her to come.

Currently, the only talisman cultivators who can use them are her and Mingxuan.

Using her agile footwork, Ye Qiao headed straight for the formation. Her sudden change of direction and rush towards the formation really startled the Seventh Elder.

"Mingxuan!"

Ye Qiao shouted loudly.

Mingxuan, who was well-prepared, had already prepared the formation-breaking talisman. With the tacit understanding built up over the past four years, Ye Qiao knew what his next move would be as soon as his second senior brother raised his hand.

Two identical array-breaking talismans struck the barrier simultaneously from both inside and outside. The curse seals of the late-stage Void Refinement Realm and the peak-stage Divine Transformation Realm were unleashed, and the entire barrier was shaken to the point of collapse in an instant.

...That's not enough.

Both she and Mingxuan were too weak in their cultivation levels.

A single strike with clasped hands was far from enough to shatter the barrier.

Just as Ye Qiao was about to make another move, the Seventh Elder was so frightened that his face changed drastically, and he struck her hard in the back!

He absolutely would not allow the formation to be broken!

If any cultivators from outside were to enter, the situation would not be so one-sided in their favor.

Ye Qiao felt a chill behind her. She tried her best to avoid his palm strike, but her shoulder was still hit, and she was sent flying to the ground.

After so many moves, he only managed to land one hit. The Seventh Elder felt no joy; instead, his expression grew increasingly twisted and ferocious. He roared, "I never expected that the biggest trouble would be you!"

Ye Qiao felt as if her internal organs had been shattered by a single blow, and she threw out more than a dozen defensive magical artifacts from her storage bag.

Its only effect was to stop him from moving.

After the Seventh Elder struck, he coldly waved his hand, accompanied by a crisp cracking sound, breaking the magical artifact in her hand.

With another flick of her finger, the countless talismans on her body exploded and vanished into thin air.

"You brat who ruined my plans." He said with a dark face, grabbing Ye Qiao's collar and lifting her up in his hand. With just a slight movement, he could crush her skull.

The difference between the Nascent Soul stage and the Body Integration stage is too great.

That demon emperor was utterly stupid, and was forcibly dragged to his death while he was injured and unable to break through the domain.

But this Seventh Elder is no good.

As a cultivator who had ascended to immortality, he was knowledgeable and experienced, and was clearly very familiar with the domain.

The Seventh Elder looked gloomy, but he didn't kill her immediately. He had a premonition that even though he had pushed her to this point, this disciple still had many trump cards up her sleeve.

So far, apart from a wolf-hair brush and a red lotus cauldron, she has no other moves.

Seeing her being lifted into the air, swaying unsteadily without any attempt to fight back, Mu Li became anxious: "Are you sure you can do it? If not, I'll do it."

He was so anxious he wanted to shout: "If you can't hit them, then hurry up and sit at the children's table!"

Let him fight this old man! What is Ye Qiao doing? Is he just waiting to die?

"You don't know anything." Even at this moment, Ye Qiao still had the mind to banter with him. For her, the troublesome one was not the Seventh Elder, but Yun Que.

She won't die; she still has her domain.

The ability to extend one's life in certain situations is a powerful technique. It survived falling from the Ghost King Tower to the eighteenth floor and the Demon Abyss by relying on its domain. Now that the ability to extend one's life has been upgraded, its protective capabilities are even stronger than before.

Ye Qiao waited, waiting for him to think he had her crushed and to lower his guard, before casually tossing her away and attacking.

If he doesn't shake him off, given his current level of vigilance, Ye Qiao won't be able to touch the formation at all, let alone use the Han Guang Shovel to smash it.

Ye Qiao had observed all his attack and killing movements. As long as he thought he had crushed her to death and then casually tossed her aside, she would suddenly resurrect and rush towards the formation, leaving him no time to react.

But clearly, the Seventh Elder also had some reservations and did not think that she really had no trump cards. He picked her up and gathered spiritual energy in his palm, pouring it into her meridians.

Suddenly, it felt as if all the meridians in her body had snapped. The sharp pain made Ye Qiao's eyes bloodshot, and her breathing became rapid. She struggled and tried to curl up because of the pain. Under such torment, she didn't utter a sound. Instead, she was thinking bitterly.

Old Biden.

Once I kill Yun Que and undergo my tribulation, you're finished.

Mu Lizhen admired her mentality. Even when she was almost crushed to death, she could still imagine what would happen after she survived the tribulation.

Ye Qiao was treated like a toy by the Seventh Elder, who wanted to see her trump card, but Ye Qiao was extremely patient and didn't utter a sound, refusing to show it to him.

His expression darkened, and as he gripped her neck, seeing that Ye Qiao didn't even struggle, the Seventh Elder suddenly increased the pressure.

……

Ming Xuan, who was outside Changming Sect, only waved a formation-breaking talisman and then remained still. He was stunned for a moment and subconsciously wanted to run into the formation, but was pulled back by Mu Chongxi next to him.

"Are you crazy? Going into that formation will kill you."

Mingxuan snapped out of his daze. "Ye Qiao has been captured."

"I can't break this formation." He repeated this sentence over and over as if he were possessed, never before so clearly aware of his weakness.

His level of understanding is too low.

It's simply impossible to break the ancient formation set up by a peak-level cultivator.

but……

But if his realm is also in the fusion stage.

Mingxuan seemed to have thought of something, and reached out to cover his dantian. His eyes suddenly lit up: "If I break through to the Fusion stage... then I can break through in a short time."

"You'll die under the heavenly lightning!" Mu Chongxi hadn't expected him to be so crazy. Seeing that Ming Xuan really didn't seem to have any intention of suppressing his cultivation level, he immediately grabbed him tightly and roared at the top of his lungs, "Calm down, you bastard!"

Although he had always disliked Mingxuan and thought the other party was too cowardly, there was still some camaraderie between them as fellow disciples.

Mingxuan absolutely cannot withstand the lightning tribulation!

Once he reaches the Integration Realm, the Heavenly Tribulation will descend, and he will surely die!

"Given your current situation, once you're struck by the Heavenly Lightning of Breakthrough, even the Emperor himself wouldn't be able to turn things around. There must be another way."

Duan Hengdao, who had arrived nearby, also composed himself and said in a deep voice, "I've already sent a signal for help. Let's wait a little longer! We'll definitely find a way!" In fact, they hadn't expected the situation at Changming Sect to be so serious. They thought it was at most an internal conflict, but they didn't expect that the Seventh Elder would dare to kill someone!

"I'm very calm. Your cultivation level is also at the late stage of the Void Refinement realm, right?" Mingxuan could easily see through the people in the Changming Sect who were forced into a desperate situation in his sea of ​​consciousness. He said in a lazy voice, "You obviously cannot reach the Integration realm in a short time."

It is common knowledge that the demon race has the easiest way to break through realms; it's just a matter of whether they want to, not whether they can.

Mingxuan was undoubtedly afraid of heavenly lightning. He knew he couldn't withstand the heavenly lightning of the Nascent Soul stage, so he kept his cultivation level low.

If I can help now.

So dying under heavenly lightning seems to be what he wanted.

In a daze, Mingxuan recalled the time when he failed his first breakthrough. At that time, he was hanging his head, staring blankly at the ground.

Xie Chuxue bent down and asked him in a rare, gentle voice:

"Mingxuan, you need to figure out what you're working so hard for."

"Simply practicing over and over again without finding your own path will not lead to any progress."

What motivates him to work so hard?

Mingxuan was only seventeen years old at the time. He pursed his lips and spoke aloud, word by word, to his junior uncle.

In order not to disappoint the sect's expectations.

To prove that he is no worse than others.

Mingxuan recalled the events and couldn't help but chuckle softly. He released all the shackles in his dantian and stopped suppressing his original realm.

The peaceful aura rose from the late stage of the Void Refinement Realm to its peak, then surged all the way to the Integration Realm. In an instant, the situation changed drastically.

He was actually very stubborn. He used to cultivate desperately for the honor of his sect and to prove himself to others.

And now...

He would rather die than not save his junior sister.