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

……

After the group returned to their courtyard with the alchemy furnace they had purchased, Xie Chuxue was already waiting for them. "Hi, hi, hi, long time no see."

"A genius who cultivates three things." He reached out and ruffled Ye Qiao's hair with a smile, finding it extremely amusing to see her speechless, dead-fish-like expression.

"Junior Uncle, what brings you here?" Xue Yu felt a toothache just seeing this person. He quickly rescued his junior sister from Xie Chuxue's grasp, forcing a smile onto his face. He couldn't understand why Xie Chuxue would come to Fusheng City.

This is the courtyard where the disciples compete. What is Xie Chuxue doing here for no reason?

Xie Chuxue: "I brought you some nice things."

After he finished speaking, he patted the mountain of books beside him, revealed a bright smile, and blinked his light brown eyes: "These talisman books record the long history of talisman cultivation from its beginning to the present, and Ye Qiao and Ming Xuan, you two need to memorize them all."

"The exam will be in a month."

"And Xue Yu and Ye Qiao, they are also developing alchemy over there."

"Zhou Xingyun, Mu Chongxi, Ye Qiao. See that other stack of books? Your entire glorious history of swordsmanship is recorded in there."

Ye Qiao, whose name was called three times in a row: "..."

Mu Chongxi nudged Ye Qiao with his elbow: "Reflect on this. Why were you called out three times?"

"An assessment?" Mingxuan looked at the books and felt a bit overwhelmed. "Wait a minute."

"Junior Uncle, don't tell me that so many of us disciples are going to have to retire on the spot because we fail the exam."

There had never been any mention of academic assessments in previous competitions. Given Xie Chuxue's unreliability, the five's first reaction was that he was lying.

Xie Chuxue smiled slightly: "It's not just you few who need to carry it. Aren't the other clan members still with you?"

"We'd rather be beaten than memorize texts." Ye Qiao and Mu Chongxi formed a united front.

"Why?" Zhou Xingyun was also quite surprised: "Sword cultivators also need to take an exam?"

Ye Qiao randomly flipped to a page, and the title on it was: Who is the founder of the sword path?

—How could they know that?

For example, the four major mental cultivation methods are divided into several categories.

Mu Chongxi raised his hand to answer, "I know this one, speed is one of them, what are the other three?" Qingfeng Jue is a mental cultivation method that focuses on speed.

Xie Chuxue sighed.

Oh dear.

A group of uneducated relatives.

Ye Qiao waved her hand, "Then this kind of exam has nothing to do with me, right? Why do I need to be assessed?" She even led the Biyue Sect to a comeback victory, and instead of praising her, why make her take three exams?

Xie Chuxue gave a helpless look: "It was decided by the elders in a meeting, and all the disciples must attend."

"Prepare well." The young man clapped his hands, his tone light. "There will be a general assessment next month. I hope you will all take it seriously and reflect on your actions."

In fact, Xie Chuxue was more looking forward to seeing the expressions on the faces of these mentors as they burned the midnight oil and collapsed when they realized they really had to take a cultural exam.

It looks very interesting.

The group exchanged glances, but didn't take it seriously.

The cultivation world hasn't had a cultural examination for so many years, how could they suddenly start testing these things?

You must be joking.

At this moment, the five-person group, who were just giving up, had no idea that their indifference was setting the stage for their tragic fate of studying hard all night in the future.

*

The holiday was long, and apart from Xue Yu who was able to calm down and study alchemy, the others couldn't stay idle at all. After half a month, Mu Chongxi enthusiastically took a mission and rushed in.

"Anyone want to go down the mountain together for a quest?"

"No," the four answered in unison.

"Don't be so heartless." Mu Chongxi waved the paper. "We can choose something interesting to play."

The great path is clear; one can't cultivate every day.

Ye Qiao was currently studying the high-grade pills that she and Xue Yu had refined together.

The alchemy furnace has a much higher success rate than a pot. She didn't know how to use it at first, especially since it was a high-grade alchemy furnace, which was quite difficult to tame.

Xue Yu then spent a full half-month with her in the alchemy room, experimenting with the effects of various elixirs.

When using the pot, Ye Qiao could create ten pill imprints. She tried using the pill furnace, and being naive, she created fifteen at once.

Then she successfully knocked herself unconscious.

Xue Yu rubbed his forehead.

"How many can you hit?" he asked.

"Start with the one you can produce, and gradually build up the numbers, instead of producing fifteen at once, or your mind will collapse from the strain."

Ye Qiao: "...But I got nine on my first try."

She had no experience at the time and thought that the more Dan Seals, the better.

Xue Yu: "..."

Fine.

He said, "I underestimated how perverted you are."

Xue Yu assumed her limit was five, since Ye Qiao had indeed displayed five pill imprints in the secret realm. After a moment's thought, he quickly became enthusiastic: "In that case, why don't we try some high-grade pills together?"

He was just worried that no alchemist would come with him.

Ye Qiao's arrival was very appropriate.

High-grade pills can generally only be refined in the late Golden Core stage, because as one's cultivation level increases, their sea of ​​consciousness also expands. However, Ye Qiao's sea of ​​consciousness is clearly different from that of a normal person.

Xue Yu felt that the two of them could definitely try their luck with the superior-grade Rejuvenation Pill.

The two alchemists stayed together for a full half month before finally showing themselves. When they did, blood was streaming from their noses and ears, and their miserable appearance was so pitiful that they could have played the roles in The Ring.

Mu Chongxi paused for a moment: "Xue Yu, you got beaten up after you went down the mountain?"

Xue Yu: "Can't you come up with a different excuse?"

Mu Chongxi: "Oh, you and Ye Qiao got beaten up as a group after going down the mountain?"

Ye Qiao reached out and snatched the task sheet from him. She yawned lazily and asked, "What kind of tasks are there?"

"Should we accept these?" Mu Chongxi pointed to the tasks above. "There are tasks commissioned by the Eight Great Families, as well as some secret realms rumored to be yielding treasures, and tasks for the mortal realm."

"A mission for humanity?"

Ye Qiao didn't understand.

Mingxuan explained, "Besides the cultivation world, there's only the human world, where everyone is just an ordinary person. If a cultivator wants to go to the human world, they need the approval of those elders. There will be people guarding the intersection of the two worlds."

Mu Chongxi came from the human world and knows this place very well. "If you want to take on this mission, we can go to the palace together."

Wow.

Several people cried out.

"Your Highness is mighty!" Ye Qiao immediately fawned over him.

"Stop joking around, everyone." Xue Yu gestured for them to look over and said softly, "What do you all think of this mission involving the Eight Great Families?"

"The Eight Great Families..." Mingxuan drawled, "The problem is, what could those brain-dead idiots possibly do?"

Yes, brain-dead.

If Mingxuan were to give a single assessment, it would be that there wasn't a single normal person among them.

Back then, as soon as his spiritual root was discovered, he couldn't wait to run away.

Despite his disdain, in Mingxuan's impression, the cultivation world was basically dominated by the Eight Great Families and the Five Great Sects, so it was quite rare for them to need someone's help.

"There's a bounty of 100,000 high-grade spirit stones. And it was posted by the Song family. I heard that the Song family..." Mu Chongxi paused, then uttered two words to Ming Xuan with ill intent: "Haunted."

then.

Mingxuan's face turned pale instantly.

"This bounty mission seems to have been posted since last year." Xue Yu calmly wiped the blood from his ear, which was damaged by overexertion of his spiritual power, and recalled, "But at that time, everyone was busy preparing for the Grand Competition and didn't have time to take on these, so it was put on hold."

Upon hearing the mention of ghosts, Mingxuan immediately broke down in tears: "I'm not going!! You guys go."

Xue Yu grabbed him: "There are no ghosts in the world, wake up!"

Zhou Xingyun added: "But there are ghost cultivators."

Mingxuan's face turned pale, and he shouted at the top of his lungs, "I...I...am...not...going!"

Xue Yu immediately covered his senior brother's mouth, trying to comfort Ming Xuan: "Don't be afraid, the Song family is Song Hansheng's main family, nothing will happen to them."

Mingxuan is the type who's all talk and no action, but when he wants to go, he's reluctant. Don't be fooled by how he enviously said he wanted to go out and play when Ye Qiao and the others encountered a demon in the secret realm.

But in reality, once inside that dimly lit environment, Mingxuan was the first to lose his temper.

He is most afraid of ghosts.

Upon hearing that it was the Song family, Ye Qiao was slightly lost in thought for a moment, and she roughly knew how far the plot had developed.

In this storyline, the female protagonist will receive the inheritance of a senior sword cultivator.

Although it's unclear why Heaven would force Yun Que, a mere talisman cultivator, to have a chance to become a sword cultivator, in the novel, after this plot point, Yun Que became a genius in both cultivation in the individual competition, enjoying unparalleled fame for a time.

Finally, after much pleading and cajoling, Mingxuan, who was terrified of ghosts, reluctantly agreed, but only if he hugged a KFC chicken and declared, "Chicken can ward off evil spirits!"

Ye Qiao: "Okay." If you think this will comfort you, then so be it.

Hearing that these disciples were going to take on a multi-person mission, the elder of the Mission Hall glanced at the disciples and, unusually, added, "Be careful and protect Ye Qiao."

"Let her run first if necessary."

This is a third repair; if something goes wrong, no one can afford to take responsibility.

"..."

Mingxuan leaned over and whispered to Ye Qiao, "The three cultivations are really different, look how the elders' attitudes have changed."

Mu Chongxi also seemed to be deep in thought: "Is this the privilege of geniuses?"

I've never seen any elders from the Mission Hall say anything when I accepted missions before.

Seeing the three of them chatting together again, Xue Yu couldn't help but remind them, "In short, everyone should keep a low profile on this trip, especially Junior Sister, you're attracting a lot of attention right now."

Outside cultivators were all curious about who this three cultivators were and where they had been picked up from. Naturally, the old folks from the Eight Great Families also wanted to see for themselves.

"I know, I know," Mu Chongxi said. "Don't worry."

Ye Qiao assured him, "Understood. From today onwards, I will be the most low-key person in the team."