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

Today is Ye Qiao's third day as sect leader.

Yes, three days.

In just three days, Ye Qiao realized that being a sect leader was no easy task. At this moment, she was lying on the desk in the main hall, the cold white jade slab pressed against her face, but it was nothing compared to the chill in her heart.

Countless messages on jade slips bombarded her, from the other four sects to all the major and minor sects, all asking her for instructions on who had a second child, whose spirit beast had given birth, and various banquet invitations from aristocratic families, all of which required the sect leader's attention.

In addition, she also needed to deal with the questions of the disciples. Fortunately, all the elders who had taken refuge had finally arrived, allowing Ye Qiao to catch her breath and delegate some tasks to them for help.

People's joys and sorrows are not shared. Because Qin Fanfan didn't come back, she couldn't even leave the main hall, while her other senior brothers had already made a hasty escape.

Ye Qiao subtly inquired about what her martial uncle and the others had gone to do. Xie Chuxue looked at her with affection and replied, "They went to the human world to seek refuge."

Everyone knows that after every major battle, there's always a mess to clean up. In the past, it was enough to leave it to Qin Fanfan, but now that Qin Fanfan is gone, the mess naturally falls to Ye Qiao.

Why did she pull out the token so readily?

Those in positions of authority should fulfill their responsibilities.

However, everyone else knew that Ye Qiao was not the kind of person who would quietly handle trouble alone. As the sect leader, she wanted to recruit everyone she could use as laborers.

The quick-witted Mingxuan grabbed a few of his junior brothers and fled.

The key point is the junior apprentice.

In other words, the eldest brother didn't go.

Ye Qiao's eyes lit up, but before she could ask for help, Xie Chuxue slowly told her, "Your senior brother has gone out to undergo tribulation, seeking an opportunity for breakthrough. The location of this trip is probably also in the mortal realm."

Only after experiencing the vicissitudes of life can one truly see oneself.

The human world is such a wonderful place.

Ye Qiao was completely disheartened. Her sword spirits were all illiterate, and she didn't expect them to be able to do anything.

Seeing her dejected look, Xie Chuxue casually made a hand seal and sent a message to Qin Fanfan, who was far away in the Demon Realm and had not yet returned.

He could inform the other party with just one sentence.

—By the time you read this letter, Xiao Qiao will already be the sect leader.

After sending the message, he didn't care what the other party thought. With his hands behind his back, he quickly distanced himself from Ye Qiao, who was radiating resentment.

Ye Qiao was feeling dark and twisted when Xie Chuxue suddenly left, interrupting her spellcasting. She grabbed her aunt's sleeve tightly, her voice relatively calm, but her actions betrayed her true feelings. She refused to let go, pleading, "Please, aunt, help me deal with these matters."

Ye Qiao hadn't slept for three days and three nights, spinning like a top, and still had to pick fights with the participating aristocratic families. She had to divide her attention into several parts, handling affairs in various places, and then...

After all thoughts converged, Ye Qiao received all kinds of information from all directions in her mind. Her expression went blank, and she was almost overwhelmed by the information and her soul almost left her body.

You should know that even when she refined pills with hundreds of separate spirits, this situation was still terrifying.

There are only a dozen or so pill formulas for alchemy, and that's only when her main body is aware of the contents. After unifying all thoughts, there isn't much of an impact. But now, her divided mind is dealing with all sorts of affairs all day long, and all sorts of messy messages are transmitted to her mind and fed back to her main body.

Ye Qiao was almost defeated.

She couldn't even imagine how her master, who had been the sect leader for hundreds of years, hadn't run away.

The elders were powerless to help; they could only do their best to manage her disciples. As for the important matters, Ye Qiao still had to handle them on her own.

but!

Unlike his junior uncle, who is from the same school as his master, it's fine to temporarily delegate tasks to him.

Xie Chuxue: "..."

He tugged at his sleeve, but couldn't open it.

Xie Chuxue's eyes widened slightly: "Relax."

He pulled frantically, and Ye Qiao almost clung to his sleeve. Ye Qiao remained motionless and shamelessly pleaded, "Please help me, Uncle-Master, I'm really going to be drained dry."

"If you don't help, you'll lose your junior apprentice in this world."

Xie Chuxue: "..."

He sighed. She was still young and indecisive. Although he didn't like these matters either, he could handle them for decades. Considering she hadn't yet undergone her tribulation, he asked softly, "How long will it take me to help you?"

"One month is enough," Ye Qiao said solemnly. "I'll go and bring your master back for you."

She went to the Demon Realm.

Xie Chuxue glanced at Ye Qiao indifferently. This time, Ye Qiao wasn't pretending. She was really exhausted and looked completely drained.

He did soften his heart and didn't want to see his junior apprentice go bald at such a young age. "Go."

Ye Qiao immediately stood up from the ground, grabbed Bujianjun, and ran aggressively towards the Demon Clan.

Xie Chuxue couldn't help but chuckle at her junior disciple's aggressive demeanor. Her quick-witted mind even automatically added a voiceover for Ye Qiao: "A tribulation descends from the heavens, where can the domineering master run!"

Ye Qiao's usually smiling face was now somewhat distorted. Ever since she became the sect leader, she had been constantly bombarded with trivial and idiotic questions such as "Who hit me? Please help me, sect leader!" and "Whose dog had a second pup? I want to have one too!"

With a light leap, her speed was more than thirty thousand miles.

The demons were really bored during the battle. The little prince was protected by Qin Fanfan and lazily yawned.

The Dragon Clan controls water, but the Demon Lord is impervious to water and fire. They can only borrow strength to fight back and help as much as possible. The little prince is a cub, and being thrown into the Demon Clan, a godforsaken place where there is no light of day, he is naturally a little restless. Qin Fanfan protects him, holding a spirit sword in her hand, standing tall against the wind, her aura overwhelming.

A group of people joined forces to force the other party to break through the realm, and the Demon Lord immediately fled to avoid battle, and then declared that he would develop further before speaking.

Although the demons talk big all day about how the Heavenly Dao is worthless, when the heavenly lightning strikes, they realize that the deep-seated fear they feel may not be cured even after thousands of years.

At this moment, he didn't even have the courage to face the lightning of Heaven.

Ye Qiao looked down and saw that everyone was there.

With the creditor right in front of her, all the gloom on her previously bitter and resentful face vanished. Ye Qiao slightly bent her knees, her voice becoming much lighter: "Xiao Ai, do you see the Demon Lord inside?"

"I saw it."

Mu Li glanced at him and lost interest. The other party was hiding in the Demon Abyss like a turtle, while the righteous experts outside were all blocking him out. The sect leader of Chengfeng Sect had already taken out something that looked like a ribbon, preparing to stir it up and force him out.

It seems they're determined not to let the demons have an easy time.

If you ask Mu Li what he thinks? He can look at it from any angle, lying down or anywhere else. What the demons are like now has nothing to do with him. He couldn't help but sneer, thinking, "What do I care about the demons' chaos after I die?"

"Then I'll take you to find a bargain later."

Mu Li: "Oh?"

He thought Ye Qiao had forgotten about him. These past few days, she's been acting like a madwoman, constantly flipping through jade slips and handling all sorts of matters, big and small, within the sect. She's practically gone mad. Mu Li doesn't dare to urge her to help him find a body.

After all, she looked like she was about to break.

Broken in every sense of the word.

Mu Li was terrified, fearing that if he opened his mouth, she would go crazy on the spot and blow up the main hall of Changming Sect.

"How are you going to pick it up?"

Ye Qiao said calmly, "Once my master and the others make their move, and his soul is scattered by the Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder, how about you infiltrate his body and seize his body?"

The Way of Heaven emphasizes the principle of balance, with the righteous and the evil paths restraining each other. The demon race cannot exist without a Demon Lord, otherwise a group of demons would only become more unruly. Even if one Demon Lord is gone, another will emerge.

Finding bargains is great, finding bargains is wonderful. She loved finding bargains when she was struggling, and she hasn't changed that now.

Since a second Demon Lord will appear sooner or later, Xiao Ai is a good candidate. At least he doesn't do stupid things and think about provoking a war between the righteous and the evil.

Ye Qiao had considered letting the other party fend for themselves, but in terms of cause and effect, she truly did owe the other party something.

"Then the Demon Lord will probably be obliterated by the Heavenly Dao as well, right?" Ye Qiao said.

Mu Li saw it clearly and said calmly, "If he doesn't disperse his cultivation, the Heavenly Dao will surely not forgive him under the heavenly lightning."

If he were to relinquish his cultivation, he might still have a chance to survive. But the Demon Lord's refusal to relinquish his cultivation, even at the cost of his life, seemed somewhat laughable to him. Indeed, reaching the Tribulation Transcending realm typically takes thousands of years. How could the Demon Lord possibly accept the loss of a thousand years of cultivation?

Everyone has a bit of wishful thinking.

If I can withstand the heavenly lightning, then the next step is ascension.

But under the calamity of heaven, how can one escape by mere luck?

Mu Li understood the Demon Lord's thoughts perfectly.

At that moment, the Demon Lord's eyes darkened. If he succeeded in ascending, he would be free from all karmic troubles; if he failed...

He would never let those people get away with it!

These righteous people are going too far in bullying us!

The sect leader of Chengfeng Sect held a red ribbon in his hand, which exuded a faint Daoist charm. Its effect was quite remarkable. As it was stirred, the raging waves in the Demon Abyss surged endlessly.

Seeing this, Qin Fanfan also sent her spirit sword into the Demon Abyss, descending from the sky, intending to force the person out to see her alive.

As Qin Fanfan's spiritual sword, Pingbo Sword had been nurtured for hundreds of years, so its power was naturally immeasurable. With the blessing of Qingfeng Technique, the great demons of the Demon Abyss were frantically fleeing and screaming. The red ribbon plunged in and crashed around. Seeing that the Demon Abyss was being turned upside down by a group of people outside, the Demon Lord could no longer hide and showed himself.

At the same time, his cultivation level became increasingly difficult to suppress, and he quickly rose to his peak, almost reaching the level of an ascended cultivator!

"Be careful," Yunhen said cautiously. "He'll definitely turn on us before he dies."

It's a foregone conclusion that the other party will die.

However, even if the other party is incompetent, they are still undergoing a tribulation.

If the other side fails, and they join forces to push them to this point, they'll probably even self-destruct to take them down with them.

However, at this moment, they had no other choice. If the Demon Lord didn't die, and he really came to their doorstep in the future, it would be their disciples who would be in trouble! Every disciple is precious, and Qin Fanfan couldn't let him go back. Ye Qiao had offended the Demon Lord to the core. He was his most prized disciple. What good could come of being targeted by the Demon Lord?

"For the sake of the cultivation world, even if we are doomed to eternal damnation today, he will not escape." Qin Fanfan sneered, her sword still gripping her hand.

Yunhen couldn't help but glare at him.

Why are you waving the banner of the cultivation world? Qin Fanfan is clearly afraid that the Demon Lord will settle scores with Ye Qiao. Relying on the fact that there are more people on her side, she wants to incite everyone to force the Demon Lord to his death in one go to eliminate any future troubles.

Ao Li: "Why don't you both take a step back?"

He counted on his fingers, but couldn't figure out how many days they had been locked in a stalemate. Their dragon clan did have powerful figures who could fight the great demons of the demon clan to a draw, but the protagonist of this contest was not them, but the contest between several sect leaders and the demon lord.

The little prince couldn't defeat the great demon, let alone fight the demon lord. He could only follow Qin Fanfan around like a mascot.

He lowered his head, constantly regretting not going back to Changming Sect with the phoenix; life in the Demon Realm was so boring.

Qin Fanfan couldn't help but touch the little horn on the top of his head, and sighed, "There's no going back now."

They wouldn't feel at ease unless they forced the other side to their death in one fell swoop.

Ye Qiao observed the lightning tribulation up close. This time, the heavenly lightning was unusually fair, not heading straight for her.

That makes sense. The world is vast, and the two who ascended to the highest level were the Sword Inquiry Sect Master, who was the first to break through. Instead, Heaven was eager to target the Demon Lord.

"If you don't manage to snatch the body." The first strike revealed the Heavenly Dao's impatience, its momentum immense. A bright light ignited in the sky. Ye Qiao immediately sealed her five senses, fearing the tribulation's influence. She added, "I'll help you send him to hell to keep you company."

Let Xiao Ai seize the opportunity to fight the Demon Lord. It would be quite interesting to watch the two Demon Lords fight to the death.

Mu Li was immediately delighted.

Fine, if he doesn't win, then let that unfilial descendant come and keep me company.

Demons are vengeful and don't care what happens to their own kind. They have no conscience and are happy to see their descendants die with them.

Forced into this situation, the Demon Lord simply sat down to meditate, distancing himself from the Demon Abyss. Seeing that none of the four old scoundrels dared to approach, he sneered inwardly and summoned several magical treasures to defend against the heavenly lightning.

He did refine many treasures that could resist heavenly lightning.

However, they underestimated the Heavenly Dao's desire to eliminate them. Unimaginable bolts of lightning rolled down, destroying most of the Demon Realm.

Qin Fanfan simultaneously mobilized her spiritual energy to avoid being affected, but the commotion still alarmed them.

"Why don't we leave here?"

"No. If he fails to transcend the tribulation, he will surely go mad and drag others down with him. We must stop him."

Even if one fails and is annihilated, it still takes time. At the Demon Lord level, one can reach their destination with a single thought. The Demon Lord's hatred is too intense; what if, before dying, he takes innocent cultivators with him? That would be a huge problem.

They wouldn't be at ease until they saw the other person die completely and cleanly.

At that moment, Ye Qiao seized the opportunity to curl Mu Li into a ball and hold her in her palm. With her Jinghong Sword in hand, she rushed into the Xuan Lei. Even before she arrived, she could feel the terrifying gale and the raging lightning. She felt pain in her bones and gritted her teeth to enter.

The Demon Lord had been cleaved into a shape resembling human form, his various magical treasures shattered on the ground, and his expression was quite sorrowful and desperate.

If the heavenly lightning hadn't struck yet, there was still a glimmer of hope that he might be able to survive.

But the moment the first bolt of lightning struck, he knew that he was now likely to die under the schemes of Heaven.

Ye Qiao's sudden entrance chilled him to the bone.

"It's you!" His eyes widened in fury.

Ye Qiao wore a simple lotus crown, and her ponytail swayed gracefully, making her look quite spirited. She smiled and greeted him politely, "Your Majesty, it's been a long time?"

Upon seeing her, the Demon Lord was filled with uncontrollable hatred. A terrifying aura swept towards her, and a surge of frenzied demonic energy rushed straight towards her.

—Who the hell hasn't seen you in a long time?

Ye Qiaojian flicked his wrist and parried his attack.

The lightning tribulation struck both of them indiscriminately. The tribulation tribulation of the Transcending Tribulation stage lived up to its name, consuming most of their spiritual energy in a single strike, almost causing them to vomit blood.

No wonder so many cultivators fail to ascend; this tribulation lightning will shatter the spiritual energy within their bodies that they can still withstand.

The question is, can she withstand it, but can the Demon Lord withstand it?

Ye Qiao's tribulation had just ended, and this was the perfect time for them to undergo it together. It's impossible for the tribulation of ascension to be inferior to the tribulation of tribulation, so they could take this opportunity to successfully pass their tribulations.

Purple lightning enveloped both of them. The Demon Lord was struck by the lightning and was almost out of his mind. His face was ferocious, and he let out a series of terrifying roars.

Both were being struck, but Ye Qiao had the Jinghong Sword in front and the Golden Lotus of Merit behind, which combined offense and defense, making her life much better than his.

The demon was furious; he wasn't good at using magical artifacts to fight back.

The fact that his only sword had betrayed him made him hate these magical artifacts even more.

Seeing that Ye Qiao, though disheveled, was not as miserable as himself, the Demon Lord grew even more resentful. He struggled against the pain of the heavenly lightning, his entire soul feeling as if it were being torn apart. Even in this state, he still did not forget to kill Ye Qiao, showing that he had not forgotten his original intention.

The sudden attack carried the terrifying power of a peak Tribulation Transcending cultivator. Ye Qiao's current realm was three minor realms lower than his, so there was no way to avoid it but to take it head-on. The spiritual energy scattered by the lightning tribulation within her body gathered together, and she threw out various spiritual weapons. She no longer confronted it directly, but instead used spiritual weapons to smash people on the spot.

It's not that much worse than a major realm, just a minor realm. So what if his realm is three minor realms higher? She has more spiritual artifacts.

As the two were locked in combat, their high level of cultivation prevented those below from seeing them clearly.

Qin Fanfan was a little happy to see this: "Guess how long he can survive under the lightning tribulation?" Judging from Tiandao's aggressive aura, he felt that the other party could not last more than three days.

Someone actually managed to fight the Demon Lord to a standstill under the lightning tribulation. Judging from the commotion, if there wasn't nothing within a hundred miles, the mountains would have collapsed and the earth would have split open, and everything that came near would have been destroyed.

Ye Qiao's Dao has the meaning of life, but it is the Dao of Slaughter, which is about killing. Compared to the Dao of Slaughter, which kills anyone who gets in its way, the Dao of Life is much more malleable.

Able to turn the tide and bring the dead back to life at the critical moment, facing his fierce pursuit, seizing the opportunity to unleash a burst of life force, the two clashed during their tribulations, a single blow resounding throughout heaven and earth! All living beings fled in an instant, and the great demon in the Demon Abyss wished he could collapse on the spot.

Everyone was stunned and stood frozen in place.

The sect leader of Chengfeng Sect felt a twitch between his brows, sensing that the aura was very familiar. He summoned the Water Mirror to spy on... no, to observe the battle between those powerful figures.

He doesn't usually need it, since there are almost no battles that can be fought against someone above his level.

But now it has come in handy.

As the water mirror flickered, various spiritual artifacts appeared and shimmered under the lightning tribulation. Everyone twitched their lips as they watched Ye Qiao frantically smash people with these artifacts.

Of course, despite Ye Qiao's smashing, the fact that she could fight the Demon Lord to a standstill speaks volumes about her cultivation level.

Tribulation...

Everyone's feelings were extremely complicated. Before they could figure out what had happened, they heard a burst of wild laughter.

"Hahaha, tell me, why did this kid break through so quickly!" Qin Fanfan covered his mouth, initially managing to restrain himself, but after a few seconds, he completely broke down. He was so happy that he was practically slapping his thigh and showing off without a care for his image.