Ye Anping watched as Lei Wanjun and Wang Shouren departed, and finally, he let go of the suspended heart.

At this point, his plan to lend a knife and kill someone, annihilating the Seven Killers Sect, had come to an end.

He and Pei Lengxue had also essentially severed all ties with “Wu You,” and all attention had been directed at the Profound Star Sect.

The next step was to wait for Feng Yudie to infiltrate and bring back the spirit stones from the Heavenly Machine Fortress, and they would share the spoils.

As for what would happen in a few days…

He briefly calculated in his mind.

…

“Seven Killers Sect’s Sect Master” Ku Jiuchong, holding a glass of glass wine, embraced his two concubines and sat in the great hall of the Heavenly Machine Fortress, enjoying the dance of the dancing girls.

Suddenly, with a loud bang.

Ku Jiuchong thought it was raining outside and didn’t pay much attention.

But soon, the banquet hall’s door was pushed open.

A guard from the Heavenly Machine Fortress rushed into the hall and shouted, “Sect Master, something’s not right!”

“What’s the rush? Can’t you see that I’m watching the beauties dance?”

“That girl named Feng Yudie is missing!”

“What?! What are you standing around for? Go find her! Can a Qi Refining stage girl like her escape from my Heavenly Machine Fortress?!”

Then, another guard rushed into the hall and shouted, “Sect Master, something’s not right again!”

“What’s wrong?!”

“Above the Heavenly Machine Fortress, many white-robed cultivators suddenly appeared, and there seems to be a powerful Nascent Soul stage cultivator among them!”

“Ah?!” Ku Jiuchong looked terrified for a moment, but quickly calmed down. “What are you panicking for?! The Heavenly Machine Fortress was constructed by ancient cultivators and can block all divine sense probing. Even if an old monster in the Nascent Soul stage comes, as long as we don’t open the door, they absolutely can’t get in.”

As he spoke, a third guard rushed into the hall, exchanged glances with the previous two guards, and then continued to shout, “Sect Master, something’s bad happened!”

“What’s going on?!” Ku Jiuchong stomped his foot in frustration. “What’s happening now?!”

“The outer hall gate of the Heavenly Machine Fortress suddenly opened for some reason.”

At this point, Ku Jiuchong’s mind would generate a thought: Could it be that girl named Feng Yudie did it?

But then he would doubt this thought immediately: Impossible! How would that girl know where the central mechanism of the Heavenly Machine Fortress is? Even if she knew, she wouldn’t know how to operate it!

…

Maybe some details are a bit different, but it should be close enough.

With this mental calculation, Ye Anping relaxed and stopped thinking about the Seven Killers Sect’s matters. He planned to rest for a few days and then take his junior sister shopping. Afterward, he would also start preparing for his junior sister’s foundation building.

At this moment, the door was pushed open again, and Bai Yuelin, who had been driven out earlier, walked in.

She sat down by the bed and comforted him, “Anping, don’t worry about the medical expenses. I just saw Elder Wang pay for them for you. You can rest assured and recover, and I’ll come to take care of you whenever I’m not in class.”

“…”

Ye Anping was slightly impressed by her determination.

However, after thinking about it, he realized that staying in Physician Zhou’s medical clinic had its advantages. It was located on one of the peaks within the Profound Star Sect, and only inner disciples could enter on a regular basis. During his days of hospitalization, he could sneak out and see if his junior sister was slacking off in her cultivation after leaving him.

But he didn’t know which peak his junior sister was currently staying on.

Ah, if only he had asked earlier.

He sighed and waved his hand, saying, “Senior Bai, I want to rest for a while. I’m tired.”

“Wait! First, take your medicine! Elder Wang just came by, and you haven’t finished your medicine yet!”

“…”

“Come on! Ah~~~”

Ye Anping reluctantly opened his mouth and said, “…Ah…”

…

The sun set in the western mountains.

Autumn winds swept through the fallen leaves, causing apricot leaves on the ground to flutter gracefully.

On a high platform, Xiao Yunluo was alone, wielding her long sword. The collar of her white robe had been soaked with sweat.

For these past few days, she had constantly been thinking about the incident during the body trial when they were ambushed.

She didn’t want to admit it, but she had to. At that time, if it weren’t for Feng Yudie and Pei Lengxue continuously holding her hand, she felt like she might have been scared to tears.

Xiao Yunluo had always believed that fighting with others was not a difficult task, as long as she could demonstrate the skills she used during sparring with fellow sect members, defeating a Qi Refining stage cultivator like her was not difficult.

However, the reality was that when facing that group of people, her mind had turned into mush. Her body involuntarily froze in place, and even her swordsmanship, which she had practiced to perfection, was completely forgotten.

She hadn’t even held onto her own sword, and that thousand-year Xuan Stone Sword had been taken by that group of people and still hadn’t been recovered.

Thinking about it, if her mother knew how inept she looked at that moment and that she had lost the thousand-year sword, she would probably be thoroughly disappointed.

“Moon Dan Master’s daughter is truly incompetent.”

“I heard she almost wet her pants when facing the Seven Killers Sect’s attackers?!”

…

Of course, no one had actually said these things to her.

But she felt as if she could hear these voices.

Xiao Yunluo gritted her teeth, put all her strength into thrusting her long sword, the blade like a dragon’s head, breaking through the mental fog in her mind and charging toward the silver maple tree trunk beside her.

“Hah!”

Swish!

The sword’s shadow flashed over the trunk, cutting it into two pieces, which crashed to the ground.

Xiao Yunluo sheathed her sword, controlled her breath, and wiped the sweat from her forehead. Then, she raised her hand in a sword gesture, took out a pill bottle from her storage pouch, opened it, and tilted her head to pour it into her mouth.

However, there was no pill falling from the bottle.

She shook the bottle.

“The Concentration Pill is gone…”

She sighed and put the empty bottle back into her storage pouch. She summoned a flying sword and stepped onto it, heading towards the pill room on the central peak.

The Concentration Pill was essentially the second universal currency among cultivators, with the first being spirit stones. Before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, any cultivator could use it to assist in their cultivation and Qi condensation.

Every month, each inner disciple of the Profound Star Sect could go to the pill room and receive a certain amount of Concentration Pills. The higher their cultivation, the more they could receive.

Xiao Yunluo arrived at the counter and looked at the disciple in charge, asking awkwardly, “Um, Senior Shi… Do I still have my allocation of Concentration Pills for this month?”

The disciple, who was taking notes, looked up and, upon seeing Xiao Yunluo, displayed an expression of disbelief.

“…”

“Um? My allocation of Concentration Pills?” Xiao Yunluo repeated, thinking that the disciple might not have heard her clearly. But when she saw the disciple staring at her in a daze, she asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Miss, what’s wrong with you?”

“What’s wrong with me?”

“Why did you suddenly mention your allocation?”

“Because… it’s different now. Before, I was the young miss, but in a few days, I’ll be an inner disciple. If I take too many, people will gossip about me.”

“Everyone knows you’re the young miss of the Profound Star Sect. Who would gossip about you?”

“Anyway, just record it! I remember that Qi Refining stage disciples can receive ten Concentration Pills a month, right?”

The disciple sighed softly and then pretended to jot down a note in front of her book. She even read it out loud, “Hmm… Xiao Yunluo, took ten Concentration Pills this month. Written down.”

“Uh… Thanks.”

Then, the disciple went to the pill storage room to fetch the pills for Xiao Yunluo.

Leaning on the counter, Xiao Yunluo looked around and suddenly overheard a group of disciples not far away discussing something related to Willow Moon Lake. She listened attentively.

“Just this afternoon, it seems that the girl who broke White Senior Sister’s formation during the sword trial was abducted.”

“You mean the silver-haired girl with the Heavenly’s Spiritual Roots?”

“Yes, that’s her. Brother Chen said that Willow Moon Lake was bombarded into a fish soup, and even the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect was there and is now seriously injured- I feel like Elder Lei is going to explode again and get sent to the border by the Sect Master.”

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yunluo was slightly shocked and hurried over, wide-eyed, and asked, “What?! What are you talking about? Who was abducted? Who is seriously injured?”