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

Although it was only a tiny, negligible amount of time, Ye Qiao couldn't possibly be unaware of the changes in his spiritual root.

Xie Chuxue thought about it for a long time before realizing where things started to change. It seemed to have started when she raised her middle finger into the air and then felt a thunderbolt strike her ear.

"Lightning Spirit Root," he murmured, repeating the phrase over and over.

If I remember correctly, Ye Qiao's spiritual root attribute was tested when she entered the sect, and it was a lightning spiritual root, right?

Is this kind of use for the Thunder Spirit Root?

In the cultivation world, lightning spiritual roots are very rare, almost unheard of. No one has ever explored the uses of such spiritual roots. Generally speaking, low spiritual root talent has already determined their future path, and no one would be willing to take in a disciple with mediocre spiritual roots, which leads to all lightning spiritual roots being neglected.

Ye Qiao is probably the only one who, despite not having exceptional talent, was still able to enter one of the Five Sects.

"Can a lightning spirit root absorb heavenly lightning?" Xie Chuxue pondered for a moment, then suddenly clapped her hands: "Then why don't you just stand next to whoever is undergoing tribulation in the future and get struck by some lightning yourself?"

He's heartless and doesn't care whether other people undergoing tribulation will be affected. All he thinks about is his junior nephew's spiritual root, which has grown up.

I've grown up...

That's so strange!

"Zhou Xingyun!" Xie Chuxue shouted, thinking to herself, "Why don't you try undergoing a lightning tribulation yourself and let your junior sister get struck by lightning?"

Xue Yu couldn't suppress his urge to complain: "Junior Uncle, is that tribulation of lightning something you can just pass by whenever you want?"

"Hey, feed me." Mingxuan: "Does nobody care if I live or die?"

He was struck by lightning and was belching out black smoke, but the worst part was that nobody cared about him at that moment.

I can't live like this anymore.

However, Ming Xuanlei had already completed his breakthrough, so naturally there wouldn't be another Golden Core breakthrough for Ye Qiao to try at this time. Xie Chuxue went to the library to look through the books, preparing to find out if there were any Thunder Spirit Roots in previous generations, and took the initiative to help Ye Qiao look up information.

……

Taking advantage of the absence from classes, Ye Qiao went to resell the pills she had refined. She had been missing for over a month, and the pharmacy had been waiting impatiently. Every master alchemist has a specific name, but Ye Qiao had always been too lazy to give herself one.

So the pharmacy she worked with kindly gave her a name.

She was respectfully called "Ugly Thing".

Although the pills she concocted were ugly, they were very effective!

Ye Qiao: "..." Thank you all.

Meanwhile, at the Sword Inquiry Sect...

The junior sister delivered a powerful punch, slamming it hard onto Chu Xingzhi's head. Speechless, she said, "Don't buy these weird things to take back to the sect, Second Senior Brother. They smell awful."

The pills he bought these past few days have caused quite a commotion throughout the entire Wenjian Sect.

Chu Xingzhi: "But the effect is really good. And it's cheap."

He emphasized the last two words: "The pills used by alchemists are very expensive, and even their First Sect is currently short of money."

Who wouldn't want to take advantage of a bargain?

Upon hearing that pills were cheap in Yunzhong City, Chu Xingzhi immediately grabbed Ye Qinghan and rushed there without stopping.

They were both at the Golden Core stage, sword cultivators, and they went to snatch pills with the same carefree attitude as the aunties grabbing vegetables at the market.

Because of their lack of manners and their swiftness in grabbing the items, this behavior drew angry glares from a group of independent cultivators.

"Your religious robes, are they rented?"

"From the Sword Inquiry Sect? Bah! When did the Sword Inquiry Sect produce scum like you?"

"Whose family has such rudeness?"

"Ye Qiao," he said matter-of-factly, "she has even less manners than me."

In Chu Xingzhi's eyes, if the word "uncivilized" had a shape, it would definitely be Ye Qiao's appearance.

Ye Qinghan hid behind the crowd with a cold face. He couldn't bear the embarrassment himself, so he let Chu Xingzhi be the one to lose face.

On their way back to their clan, the two were ambushed by several girls.

"Ah? You're a direct disciple of the Sword Inquiry Sect?!" The girl was overjoyed. "Are you from the Sword Inquiry Sect?"

Chu Xingzhi found her question puzzling: "Yes."

"What's wrong?" Were you captivated by his heroic figure in the secret realm?

"Ahhh!" Her eyes lit up, and she asked shyly, "Can you tell Ye Qiao that I've liked her for a long time?"

Chu Xingzhi: "..."

*

"The first match is the Monster Forest, the second is the Ancient Battlefield, so what about the third match?" Ye Qiao counted on her fingers.

"The third match?" Xue Yu thought for a moment, "Flaming Mountain."

"That place is quite dangerous. I'll practice making more Tranquilizing Pills."

Ye Qiao thought to herself, "They're filming Journey to the West here."

"Do you guys have any food on you?" Ye Qiao looked at her senior brothers who were lying around doing nothing, and then lazily sat down on the ground as well.

Zhou Xingyun covered his face with a book and replied lazily, "There's candy."

Ye Qiao's motto is: If the world kisses me with pain, I'll slap it in the face.

And clearly, her eldest brother believed: if the world kisses me with pain, I will die in front of it.

This behavior would be disrespectful to others, but perhaps because they had been beaten so badly recently, Zhou Xingyun had a change of heart and would occasionally bring some sweet food to feed his three junior brothers and sisters.

Ye Qiao rummaged through his sleeves and successfully found some candy, then tossed it to the other three senior brothers before lying down on the ground: "Ugh, why are you torturing us? We finally have a holiday!"

Elder Duan Yu probably realized that she wasn't very good at swordsmanship, so he dragged her to have intensive tutoring over the past few days.

Although the methods are much gentler than before, it's still very tiring.

Mingxuan wasn't having an easy time either. He had finally broken through to the Golden Core stage, and was currently being dragged into training by Xie Chuxue.

As for Xue Yu?

He was the busiest, as he would need quite a few pills for the next battle. He was the only pill cultivator in the sect, and he was extremely busy.

The two most carefree sword cultivators in the sect right now are Mu Chongxi and Zhou Xingyun.

Mingxuan stuffed a candy into his mouth, puffing out his cheeks: "This is too much! How can they treat us like this? We're talisman cultivators and alchemy cultivators!"

Rare talisman cultivators and alchemy cultivators in the cultivation world!

As it turned out, the good treatment didn't come to the three of them; the two sword cultivators were the ones who were the most idle.

Ye Qiao, with a candy in her mouth, took out the Chaos Pearl from her hand. Xie Chuxue had been engrossed in researching why her spiritual root had grown these past few days. Before leaving, she reliably told her to first form a contract with the Chaos Pearl and then try to refine it with spiritual fire so that it could flow into her dantian.

"Third Senior Brother, can I borrow a light?"

Ye Qiao tried burning the talisman, but it wouldn't melt at all.

Upon hearing this, Xue Yu raised an eyebrow and touched the Chaos Pearl with the spiritual fire at his fingertips. However, after a long while, it remained motionless and did not change at all.

"No way." If even a top-grade fire spirit root can't refine it, what kind of fire would it need?

Just as Ye Qiao was at her wit's end, the KFC chicken in her sleeve suddenly jumped out. Its bright golden eyes glanced at the two of them disdainfully and swaggered to the Chaos Pearl.

He spat fire at the fist-sized bead.

"Eh." This was the first time Mu Chongxi had ever heard of this thing breathing fire.

He always thought it was just a piece of junk.

Ye Qiao: "Such a small fire."

The next second, Ye Qiao noticed that the Chaos Pearl was enveloped in flames and melted away for a moment before slowly turning into a faint aura and being absorbed into her dantian. Halfway through, Ye Qiao changed her mind and said, "Although it's small, it's very useful."

"Holy crap." Mingxuan leaned closer. "The Chaos Pearl actually melted a bit from that fire?"

Although it was only the size of a fingernail, it was still quite astonishing. What kind of fire could possibly burn such a bead that existed since the beginning of time? Even the flames of top-grade spiritual roots couldn't do it; it was actually burned by a chicken?

"I think I know what it is." Mingxuan was excited. "Let's go, let's go to the library."

Zhou Xingyun was completely out of it. Mu Chongxi grabbed him and ran towards the library. The five of them were rushing around, not watching where they were going, and almost knocked over several inner disciples.

"...Are they crazy? These are their direct disciples."

"Please understand, the next secret realm is about to open."

"Hey, I think I saw Senior Sister Ye Qiao too."

Ye Qiao is quite popular now. Everyone in the Changming Sect, both inside and outside, knows her. She's a direct disciple who cultivates both sword and talisman skills.

Some even suspected that she was pretending to be weak while actually being strong, and that the reason she was inconspicuous in the outer sect was to make a name for herself in the grand competition.

On her way to the library, Ye Qiao tested the power of the refined Chaos Pearl. As the pearl, now transformed into primordial energy, flowed into her dantian, Xue Yu couldn't help but ask, "How did you feel?"

"It's so hot." Ye Qiao mobilized the primordial energy gathered in her dantian, reached out and placed her hand on the withered tree. Then, the others witnessed firsthand what it meant for a withered tree to come back to life.

The Creation Pearl, created at the dawn of creation, has the power to bring the dead back to life.

Just a little bit is enough to revive withered plants; no wonder the sect leader and the others used it as a reward.

Mingxuan clicked his tongue twice: "The Five Sects are only really generous in this regard."

Despite the open and covert struggles, they treated their direct disciples quite well, which is why the eight great families would send their most talented disciples to major sects.

With good resources, although it's hard to stand out, once you become a disciple, the treatment is incomparable to that within the family.

Ye Qiao: "Except for Yunhen."

"you're right."

When the five arrived at the library, Steward Yu's expression was quite interesting, like a palette of colors, changing from red to green. He hadn't been very fond of these disciples since Mingxuan and Ye Qiao burned down the library while cleaning it.

Good guy.

What day is it today?

All five have arrived.

What if he thinks this is a tourist resort?

"Don't be angry, don't be angry." Mu Chongxi raised his hand. "We're not here to cause trouble today, we're just here to look up some information."

Manager Yu: "..." Hehe.

Not long ago, Xie Chuxue also went to the library like she had a mental illness, muttering something about "a spiritual root that will grow" and turned it upside down.

Now that Ye Qiao and the others have come in as a group, Manager Yu is utterly exhausted.

But the library was originally intended for these close disciples, so he could only wave his hand and say, "Hurry up and flip through it, then get out."

Mingxuan immediately responded.

"I'm wondering if we started from the wrong point?"

"For example?" Ye Qiao raised an eyebrow.

"For example, you shouldn't look for the prototype of KFC in the Book of Strange Beasts."

"It is the Record of Divine Beasts."

"..." And what about the Divine Beast Record?

Ye Qiao, being a half-baked cultivator, had no idea that the cultivation world had so many intricacies. Ming Xuan, standing on the ladder, said, "Of course there are."

"Look."

He pulled out a thick book.

It records many mythical beasts that have disappeared from the cultivation world over the past tens of millions of years.

"Vermilion Bird?" Xue Yu leaned closer, muttering to himself, "But the Vermilion Bird's tail doesn't look like this, does it?"

KFC has a long tail and beautiful red feathers.

"More like a phoenix than a Vermilion Bird..."

The group compared the patterns on the phoenix cub among the mythical beasts in detail, and looked at the KFC nestled on Ye Qiao's head. The more they looked, the more similar it seemed.

Holy crap.

"A phoenix that only perches on the parasol tree and eats only bamboo seeds?" Ye Qiao pulled it off her head. "Then why does it nestle on my head every day?"

Seeing her rude behavior, Xue Yu was so frightened that he quickly picked up the KFC and said in a calm tone, "I've heard that the Azure Phoenix, the Peacock, and the Golden Phoenix are all descendants of the Phoenix. It's very powerful. If it's a Phoenix, then this growth rate is understandable. Maybe it will still be this big when you die."

Ye Qiao: "..."

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Write about everyday life.

It's not exactly everyday life, but I quite like this simple and peaceful feeling, sob sob.