The Entire Sect is Full of Villains, Yet the Junior Sister Conquers All

Chapter 151 : There's a Traitor!

Junior Sister's idea was very bold.

Tantai Ming weakly raised his hand. "If Master Chunhua finds out, will she kill us?"

"Don't worry, as long as we don't say anything, she won't know," Chu Sang said, mainly joking about deceiving their master. She had roughly figured out what the situation was most likely to be.

To avoid drawing too much attention, they all suppressed their strength to the Foundation Establishment stage, the kind of strength that wasn't particularly strong, blending into the crowd, but slightly stronger than ordinary cultivators who took decades to reach Foundation Establishment.

They participated in the simplest outer disciple assessment of the Myriad Stars Sect.

Their Lingqing Sect had only about a dozen people in total, but in fact, in the major sects, especially in super large sects with tens of thousands of disciples, sect disciples were also divided into ranks.

From low to high, they were: menial disciples, outer disciples, inner disciples, and personal disciples.

The sect elders would choose one disciple from among their personal disciples as the true disciple to inherit their legacy.

Menial disciples were too marginal, only half-considered members of the sect. They basically couldn't access the sect's core matters and were at risk of being expelled from the sect at any time.

Outer disciples were somewhat better.

Unfortunately, they were too capable. Although they suppressed their cultivation, they still accidentally dominated the top few places in the outer disciple assessment and were exceptionally admitted to the inner disciples.

For the inner disciples, the Sect Leader personally came to hold the induction ceremony, explaining sect matters to these new disciples entering the sect, and issuing tokens and soul lamps and such.

The Sect Leader wore a white crane immortal dress, a beautiful woman with a gentle temperament, but unable to hide the heroic spirit and calm pride of someone long in a high position. The Vice Sect Leader accompanied her, a dignified young man with his hair bound by a golden crown, appearing older than the Sect Leader, about thirty years old.

However, external age was never reliable in the cultivation world. The two might be the same age, but the Sect Leader's cultivation was higher, so her lifespan was longer, and her appearance would be more youthful and beautiful.

The relationship between the two seemed to be that of Dao companions, appearing very loving. Anyone who saw them would say they were a match made in heaven.

As the saying goes, bad students are the ones who secretly gossip below while the two Sect Leaders are giving speeches.

Tantai Ming was the one leading this.

He cupped his chin and said softly, "It seems the Sect Leader is pregnant."

"The Sect Leader is pregnant, what are you so excited about?" Mu Chihuai said, speechless.

Tantai Ming glared at him, pouting, his face a bit red. "I've heard that cultivators rarely get pregnant. This is the first time I've seen it, so it's a bit novel."

"...Well, that's true. My mother was already a hundred years old when she was pregnant with me," Mu Chihuai said. He came from a proper cultivator family, with both parents being top-tier powerful cultivators.

Unlike ordinary people, it was very difficult for cultivators to become pregnant, especially for cultivators who had practiced longer, had higher cultivation, and longer lifespans. The probability of pregnancy became lower. Perhaps this was the constraint of the laws of the cultivation world, avoiding the abnormal phenomenon of cultivators having too long lifespans and too many descendants, causing imbalances in resources and leading to more conflicts.

"I hope the Sect Leader's child can be born safely. Looking at the cultivation talents of the two Sect Leaders, when their child grows up, they will surely be an extraordinary figure in the cultivation world," Tang Yanling said with sincere blessings.

"Guess, will the Sect Leader's child be a boy or a girl?"

"I think it should be a boy."

"I think it's a girl, a future excellent and powerful female cultivator like the Sect Leader..."

The group of single dogs gossiped with great interest. Seeing the topic getting more and more off-track, Chu Sang couldn't help but interrupt, "Come on, as long as it's not serious business, you can discuss anything, can't you?"

"Right, right, right, don't forget our real task. We came here to search for the Immortal Sect ruins, but why hasn't this Myriad Stars Sect been annihilated, and is still recruiting disciples?" Tantai Ming scratched his head.

"If I'm not mistaken, we should have entered an illusion, a memory illusion left by the Myriad Stars Sect ruins," Chu Sang said, tapping her finger in the air solemnly. "The destruction of the Myriad Stars Sect is an unchangeable fact. The city under the sect's control would also be destroyed at the time of its demise, becoming ruins buried under the yellow sand, which is the Wasteland Relic City we're looking for."

"The reason we arrived at this place should be that we've entered the trial."

"The Immortal Sect trial mentioned by the elders should be closely related to the destruction of the Myriad Stars Sect."

"To pass the trial and obtain the inheritance, we need to investigate how such a great sect that protected an area was destroyed..."

With these words, the others fell silent for a moment. No wonder Junior Sister had been silent earlier.

No matter how lively and warm this scene looked now, it would eventually face destruction in the near future.

Even the Sect Leader and her unborn child would perish along with the sect's demise. This was a dream that had already foretold its ending, and the outcome could never be changed.

Everyone was determined to find clues. They had just entered the sect for not even two days when they woke up and inexplicably returned to their starting point.

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When they once again returned to that starting point street and saw the disciple recruitment notice board—

Everyone was dumbfounded.

"What... what's going on? How did we end up back on this street after sleeping?"

Everyone was in a state of confusion, only Big Senior Sister composed herself and said, "We were all killed, that's why we returned to the starting point."

"Huh?"

This information felt too explosive, and everyone took a long time to come to their senses.

Big Senior Sister looked at her confused junior brothers and sisters and explained slowly, "Last night, someone killed me. It should be the same for you all."

She had the highest cultivation among them, already at the late Nascent Soul stage. While the others could be finished with one strike, it would take at least three strikes for the attacker to deal with her.

Big Senior Sister was the most vigilant. When that person tried to enter the room to assassinate her, she immediately woke up and confronted them. But unfortunately, the difference in strength between her and the attacker was too great, and in the end, she couldn't escape the fate of being run through by their sword.

"Someone dared to kill in the Myriad Stars Sect??"

This matter was too strange. It seemed that this person was very likely to be a clue to the destruction of the Myriad Stars Sect, and might even be the direct mastermind behind its downfall.

Chu Sang looked at Wu Wo with expectation in her voice, "Since you confronted that person, Big Senior Sister, did you see their face?"

"...I did see it," Big Senior Sister said slowly.

That person apparently never thought these young disciples could escape from their hands, so they didn't even bother with any disguise when they came to silence them.

Everyone immediately became excited. They didn't expect to know the face of the culprit so quickly. It seemed their mission was going quite smoothly.

Chu Sang asked, "Big Senior Sister, who was that person?"

Meeting the expectant gazes of her junior brothers and sisters, Big Senior Sister spoke with difficulty, "I... can't remember clearly."

Damn.

Face blindness shouldn't act up at a time like this!!!

Everyone was dizzy.

What else could they do after returning to the starting point?

They couldn't even load a save file, they could only start over.

So they skillfully went through the Myriad Stars Sect's assessment again, successfully securing inner disciple positions, and listened to the Sect Leader's passionate speech once more, for the second time.

This time they were much more cautious, not waiting passively to die like the first time, but actively going out to search for clues.

The place with the most abundant sect information was naturally the Mission Hall.

Every sect disciple needed to accept missions from the Mission Hall to gain points, which could be exchanged for weapons, pills, and so on. Each disciple had to accept at least two missions per year.

Chu Sang scanned the Mission Hall and chose a Class A mission that no one dared to accept.

—Investigate the disappearance of disciples.

It seemed their previous attack wasn't a coincidence.

Besides them, other disciples in the sect had also been attacked.

The attacked disciples were all ordinary disciples with low aptitude, average strength, and no family background, who didn't draw attention.

Even if a few ordinary disciples died occasionally, it wouldn't attract too much attention from the sect. After all, large sects had at least tens of thousands of disciples, and almost every day there were disciples who left due to various accidents, such as encountering spirit beasts while training outside the mountain.

But recently, several sect disciples had suddenly disappeared within the sect, not while training outside.

One or two might be accidents.

But so far, more than a dozen disciples had vanished without a trace, which finally barely caught the sect's attention, leading to an investigation.

However, the danger level of the mission was too high, and few disciples dared to accept it.

Seeing these few newly admitted inner disciples dare to accept a Class A mission, the surrounding disciples all discussed among themselves.

"A few mere Foundation Establishment cultivators actually dare to accept a Class A mission?"

A disciple wearing the robe of a personal disciple came over, his gaze sweeping over them disdainfully. He shook his chin and sneered, "You really don't know what's good for you. I'm afraid you won't even know how you died."

Previously, two disciples had accepted this mission, and without exception, they both disappeared without a trace, presumably meeting with a tragic fate.

Not taking the initiative would definitely lead to death.

But taking the initiative might find a glimmer of hope for survival.

Dying early or late was still dying, but they could distinguish between the two.

"Thank you for the reminder, but we're definitely taking this mission," Chu Sang tore off the mission slip and smiled at him.

The disciple's expression became somewhat strange. He looked at them for a moment, didn't say anything more, and left with the other disciples accompanying him.

"These dozen or so missing disciples all disappeared suddenly. It took several days for other sect members to realize, and when they went to look, all traces were long gone," Su Chen'an laid out the intelligence he had collected, itemizing it on the table, clear and organized. "Among them, one inner disciple was attacked but escaped, fortunately discovered by someone. The culprit apparently didn't want to expose their identity and fled when someone approached."

"Why don't we go to the forest where that disciple was attacked and take a look?"

"Alright."

They immediately set off for this forest on the back mountain.

Generally, large sects all had a back mountain for younger disciples with lower cultivation to train.

The back mountain would have spirit herbs and spirit beasts.

"Do you think it might be spirit beasts attacking the disciples?" Tantai Ming reasoned.

Si Kou Qiu said, "It's possible, but not likely."

Chu Sang also nodded. "The spirit beasts on the back mountain are specially placed there for young disciples to train. Their levels aren't high, mostly first and second-grade spirit beasts. Even third-grade Golden Core spirit beasts are rare, generally only in the inner areas of the back mountain where ordinary disciples don't go. Moreover, if Golden Core spirit beasts attacked cultivators, they would leave many traces, such as blood and clothing."

But those dozen or so disciples had completely vanished without a trace, so the possibility of spirit beast attacks wasn't high.

The night was deep and dark. As they slowly advanced, black shadows stretched out from the dense forest behind them, silently attacking...

Chu Sang was the first to notice and immediately took out a spirit tool to block the attack. Countless strands of black energy lines surged towards them at the same time. She turned her head to see that all the others had died. She was stunned for a moment, let go of her defense, and simply returned to the starting point with her incompetent Senior Brothers and Sisters.

"Damn, not again? We died again???"

Si Kou Qiu scratched his head. "How are we supposed to play this? The opponent kills me as soon as they attack. I didn't even see the moment they struck... We can't fight like this at all!"

If this continued, no matter how many times they cycled, they would still be unable to escape death.

"No, we didn't die in vain this time. At least we got a clue," Chu Sang said, meeting the gazes of the others with a smile. "That person is a ghost cultivator."

The difference in strength between the two sides was too great. It was obviously unrealistic to uncover the other party's identity in one go. Dying a few more times to grab clues was worth it. Unfortunately, they didn't know if there was a limit to the number of cycles at the moment, but it seemed there was no problem for now.

In the moment before her death, Chu Sang had grasped that trace of aura. It was unmistakably ghost energy.

They never expected that a ghost cultivator had secretly infiltrated the Myriad Stars Sect.

In a great sect like the Myriad Stars Sect, which rivaled the Eight Great Immortal Sects a hundred years ago, there would be a giant formation called the Heaven Array. Once the sect's protective array detected any other external force entering the sect, it would immediately destroy it.

Strangely, even though ghost energy had appeared in the sect several times, the protective array showed no reaction. They later specifically went back to the sect to check and confirmed that the protective array was intact and had not been damaged.

So it wasn't a problem with the protective array. The problem lay with the mastermind behind the scenes.

To openly use ghost energy without being eliminated by the protective array, the only possibility was that this ghost cultivator was not an outsider. On the contrary, this ghost cultivator was actually someone from within the Myriad Stars Sect, possessing a sect identity token, so the protective array would not attack them.

There was a traitor within the Myriad Stars Sect.

"Is it possible that it's that personal disciple we met earlier? He didn't seem like a good person. When we went to accept the mission at the Mission Hall, he maliciously mocked us. Could it be that he was afraid we would find out?" Tantai Ming couldn't help but suspect others with malice.

Chu Sang shook her head. She wasn't judging by appearances, but that person's strength was about the same as theirs, clearly not the one who had attacked them the previous two times.

Although that disciple seemed to have a poor character, there was no ghost energy on him. Chu Sang, with her Hundred Ghosts Banner, knew this better than anyone.

They speculated back and forth until evening.

Outside the door, a disciple conveyed a message,

"Junior Sister Chu, the Sect Leader has a matter and requests your presence at the main hall!"