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

Song Hansheng: "..."

His eyes widened slightly for a moment, unable to believe what he was seeing.

"Ye Qiao, you can remember everything you see?!" Song Hansheng subconsciously began to question her. He remembered when Ye Qiao asked him to borrow the cultivation technique. If the other party really could remember everything she saw, then in the end, he was the clown himself.

Song Hansheng was in a terrible mood. He had just finished asking the question when he found that Ye Qiao didn't even glance at him, but simply walked past him, opened the door, and went into the treasure vault.

Song Hansheng could only recognize the situation clearly. Now was not the time for him to question Ye Qiao. He barely suppressed his shock and decided to hold another meeting with Ye Qiao after returning to the sect.

In the cultivation world, magical artifacts are graded, but the three of them are only half-baked and don't know much about them, so they just grab whatever they can get their hands on.

It contained pills, cultivation techniques, and even mental cultivation methods. Ye Qiao didn't dare touch the cultivation techniques; she might talk about it casually, but she didn't want to actually become a demon.

Therefore, they could only select ritual implements to put into the mustard seed bag.

"Why doesn't our sect have so many magical artifacts?"

Ye Qiao's only achievements so far, namely the bamboo shoot snatching and the demon-binding rope, have all been obtained through his own efforts.

Oh, the wolf-hair brush was given to her by her two senior brothers, Mingxuan and Mu Chongxi.

In summary, he had nothing and relied entirely on his senior's help.

"We don't have any artifact repair tools." Ye Qinghan could only answer her this way; it was the truth. His tone was indifferent: "You can buy one from Chengfeng Sect, but it's expensive."

Good magical artifacts are expensive, and there's no need to buy bad ones. As a result, magical artifacts cultivated from artifacts become even more expensive. Ye Qiao decided to show more respect to Duan Hengdao in the future.

Major sects have fewer magical artifacts, while the demons are unrestrained. They burn, kill, and plunder, possessing all sorts of stolen magical and demonic artifacts. They don't know how to appreciate them, and they just throw them everywhere after taking them, creating a dazzling array.

Ye Qiao's eyes were dazzled by the sight.

"A compass." Song Hansheng waved the magical artifact he had chosen in his hand. "It's for setting up formations."

The formation needs to be set up in advance. Having a compass would save a lot of time. After taking the compass, he also picked out a defensive magic artifact for his own survival.

Ye Qinghan chose the sword that suited him best. He didn't have a natal sword, so he would choose one after the Sword Cave opened. In a fight, the sword in his hand was easy to break, but the Sword Inquiry Sect was also relatively short of resources. After it broke, it would take many days to get a new sword.

Right now, I'm definitely putting all my effort into grabbing as many swords as possible.

Ye Qiao also discovered several interesting magical artifacts, but due to time constraints, she didn't have time to study them carefully, so she could only stuff all the ones she liked into her mustard seed bag.

Song Hansheng couldn't help but twitch when he saw it.

Are they demons, or are you a demon?

They picked it up without any politeness.

After looting the place, the three of them didn't linger any longer. Ye Qiao used a hand seal to put the restriction back on.

During this time, she was given a lot of pills.

Ye Qinghan remained outwardly unmoved, but inwardly she felt a pang of envy.

...Does the Changming Sect really have so many pills? She actually ate them like candy.

Song Hansheng watched her hand seals with such speed that he became somewhat engrossed. Although his memory wasn't photographic, it wasn't bad either. He silently memorized the incantation Ye Qiao had cast, and then suddenly exclaimed, "Ye Qiao!"

As she turned her head in confusion, Song Hansheng asked, "If Master had kept you on, would you have become my junior sister?"

Ye Qiao paused, looked at him, and answered briefly: "No."

From the day she came down the mountain, she never intended to turn back.

"Besides, that's just your assumption." Ye Qiao interrupted his wild imagination. "Yun Hen wouldn't leave behind a disciple with a mid-grade spiritual root and a Qi Refining cultivation level, and you wouldn't care about an inner sect junior sister with mediocre talent."

Song Hansheng gradually fell silent.

She's right.

Only now did he truly take Ye Qiao seriously.

Isn't that how it is in the cultivation world? Only those who are special enough will be remembered.

"You have a good memory," he said. "If you wanted to prove yourself, you wouldn't have remained unknown in the Moon Purity Sect for so many years, would you? If you had shown your talent earlier..."

Song Hansheng felt that Yueqing Sect was not the kind of sect that would ignore geniuses.

Ye Qiao shrugged: "No, no, no, you're just more unwilling to give up what you can't have."

"What?" she said, adding a smug twist, "Suddenly realized I'm better than your genius junior sister? Regretting it now?"

Song Hansheng's lips curled slightly, his expression remaining completely unchanged: "I'm just curious."

She wondered if things would have been different if her master had kept her.

Ye Qiao: "Don't think about it."

She yawned lazily and raised her chin: "I am a disciple that your Yueqing Sect can never have in this lifetime."

Song Hansheng: "..." Damn it.

*

The three of them returned with almost a full load of goods. Ye Qiao was so exhausted from all the exertion that she simply lay down and fell asleep.

"News has come from Yunshui City that two Golden Core cultivators have been captured, and our remaining men are still outside and dare not go in."

They were all direct disciples of major sects, and although they were all a bit foolish, they still had some skills.

The demons held a brief meeting and decided to speed up the siege. The sudden decision to capture their protégés for entertainment was also an order from their superiors, who were said to be quite interested in this year's protégé competition.

So they released the information and waited for these people to take the bait.

"I didn't expect them to have some intelligence; they saw through the conspiracy." Ah Da chuckled maliciously. "Too bad they didn't expect that our Holy Maiden has already broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, did they?"

Ye Qiao maintained a blank expression, her demeanor exceptionally cold.

"Let's go." Still fearing the saintess might return prematurely, she waved her hand and said in a calm tone, "I will lead you to crush the Five Sects."

The sect leader of the Azure Water Sect: "...Sigh, has this kid gotten over his chuunibyou phase yet?"

Qin Fanfan pondered Ye Qiao's age: "Not yet." She's only fifteen, so it's normal for her to have some chuunibyou (middle school syndrome).

Now, all five sect leaders were crowding around the jade slip, eager to hear what kind of trouble the demons were up to. Ye Qiao had undoubtedly become the focus of everyone's attention.

When Yunhen heard his disciple ask, "If Master had kept you back then, would you have become my junior sister?", his face turned pale and then red.

Even through the jade slip, one could feel the private mockery of the other old scoundrels.

Wasn't Song Hansheng's question a slap in the face to him?

Isn't that basically saying that if Yunhen hadn't been so ruthless back then, would she have stayed in the Yueqing Sect?

What embarrasses him even more is yet to come.

Ye Qiao casually replied, "I don't know."

Qin Fanfan laughed then, and said meaningfully, "Take good care of your precious Yunque. Our Ye Qiao doesn't care about your sect."

Yunhen became withdrawn again.

Of course he knew that what he did back then was immoral, but Ye Qiao was someone he had picked up. She was just a medicinal herb. Was it necessary to go down the mountain?

In his view, if all his disciples were as rebellious as Ye Qiao, wouldn't he have to teach them a lesson?

All five sects punish their disciples in this way, and Yunhen doesn't think he did anything wrong. Not everyone is raised like Qin Fanfan, with a laissez-faire approach!