Meng Yifei quickly said, "Yes, yes, it's time to settle up. The things you obtained from the Langya Secret Realm might not suit your own attributes. If you exchange them for contribution points, you can exchange them for the most suitable treasures in the sect's treasure vault. The sect will absolutely not let you suffer any losses in this regard."
For Li Shuang.
With the Heaven and Earth Smelting Furnace, anything she desired could be refined and obtained through it.
However.
The existence of the Heaven and Earth Smelting Furnace was too extraordinary. She was currently cultivating within the sect, and many things needed a reasonable source.
Exchanging them for sect contribution points, while a bit circuitous, was more reasonable.
"Exchange them for contribution points," Li Shuang nodded and said.
The other disciples also made the same choice.
Deacon Chen immediately led a group of disciples and began busily calculating contribution points for these disciples.
Over at Lingxu Peak, however, it was completely silent.
Their meager belongings were all from the outer regions, half of which had to be given to the sect, and the other half... wouldn't amount to many contribution points anyway.
True Person Lingxu looked at Li Shuang's back, his eyes cold, wondering what he was thinking.
Ye Zhaozhao gritted her teeth, filled with intense hatred!
This time!
Li Shuang had once again stolen the limelight.
Li Shuang looked calm, but in her heart, she was probably incredibly smug.
"Zhaozhao." Sheng Yuan couldn't help but look at Ye Zhaozhao, "These disciples' resources..."
As Sheng Yuan spoke.
Ye Zhaozhao became agitated. She feigned weakness and rubbed her temples, "Senior Brother, I'm a little tired."
In the past.
Sheng Yuan would surely have doted on her and taken on everything himself. If he couldn't handle it, wasn't Li Shuang still above him?
But now!
He was the Senior Brother.
There was no one to back him up anymore.
Sheng Yuan gritted his teeth, "Junior Sister, things always need to be resolved. If you have any more resources, please take them out first."
In the secret realm, Ye Zhaozhao had used her Tier 5 talismans one after another. Did she really have nothing left?
Sheng Yuan didn't believe it!
Ye Zhaozhao genuinely felt wronged, but she couldn't reveal the truth! She let out a cry and simply pretended to be too weak to stand and about to faint.
However.
Just as she was about to act.
In her mind.
The system's cold voice rang out.
"Mission failed. Host prematurely withdrew system rewards. Now, return three times the amount to the system."
Ye Zhaozhao's face truly turned pale this time.
Three times the amount?
What did "three times the amount" mean?!
How was she supposed to return it?
Before she could react, a sharp pain suddenly surged from the depths of her soul.
Large beads of sweat rolled down, and Ye Zhaozhao directly fainted.
"Junior Sister?!" Sheng Yuan was stunned as he watched Ye Zhaozhao fall straight to the ground.
He hadn't said anything, had he?
How did Ye Zhaozhao end up like this?
"Senior Brother, that's enough. Look what you've done to Zhaozhao?" Chang Le'an looked at Ye Zhaozhao's state and subconsciously felt a pang of heartache again.
After all, that was the person he had admired for many years.
"We'll figure something out later," Shen Yue sighed.
Ye Zhaozhao had just passed out.
The intense pain continued, and she was instantly jolted awake by it, her body convulsing uncontrollably.
"Senior Brother! You've really gone too far!" Chang Le'an couldn't help but accuse him.
Sheng Yuan: "..."
Did he... do anything?
At this moment.
For some reason, he suddenly understood Li Shuang's feelings back then.
True Person Lingxu glanced over and said coldly, "Alright, take Zhaozhao back to Lingxu Peak first. Sheng Yuan, you too. You are the Senior Brother, you should take responsibility. Is it a good reputation to force your Junior Sister into such a state in front of everyone?"
Sheng Yuan lowered his head, "It is this disciple's fault."
He said nothing more, picked up Ye Zhaozhao in his arms, and turned to return to Lingxu Peak.
The others also followed suit.
Meng Yifei said calmly, "Lingxu, regarding the matter of Lingxu Peak this time, I will have the Enforcement Hall intervene. No matter what, you must give an explanation to the other disciples."
True Person Lingxu's face was slightly displeased, but he still agreed, "I understand."
True Person Lingxu glanced at Li Shuang, who was surrounded by everyone in the center, feeling annoyed for a moment. After standing for a short while, he found an excuse to leave.
Lingxu Peak.
The intense pain slowly receded at last.
Ye Zhaozhao regained consciousness.
Her first reaction was.
Her cultivation!
Her cultivation had regressed!
Her Nascent Soul, which she had painstakingly formed over ten years, had actually dissipated.
Now.
Her cultivation was only at the late Golden Core stage!
Ye Zhaozhao's lips trembled.
Ten years!
She had worked hard for ten whole years!
Now that her cultivation had regressed, Li Shuang must have gained something again!
Why should her hard-earned cultivation benefit Li Shuang?!
A bone-chilling hatred flashed in Ye Zhaozhao's eyes.
She suppressed the overwhelming hatred and continued to examine her internal condition.
What the system took away must not be as simple as just cultivation!
After finding nothing, Ye Zhaozhao couldn't help but ask, "System! What did you take from me?"
It was still that mechanical voice.
But listening to it, Ye Zhaozhao inexplicably felt a chilling coldness.
"Host, what do you think you have? Your only advantage is being born with two souls. The system has taken a portion of your soul as compensation. By the way, the host was born with two souls, so you possess an affinity beyond ordinary people. After your soul power is weakened, this affinity will also slowly disappear," the system said calmly.
Ye Zhaozhao couldn't help but shiver!
She was a transmigrator, which should be the source of what the system called "born with two souls." So, being born with two souls granted an affinity beyond ordinary people. Was this why the people of Lingxu Peak favored her?
Now.
A part of her soul had been taken away?
Ye Zhaozhao herself hadn't noticed too much of a difference yet.
But.
The system had made it very clear that her affinity would slowly decline! In the future, would these people from Lingxu Peak still stand by her side?
Moreover.
That was her soul!
If a person lost their soul, could they still be considered a person?
If one day.
Her soul was completely devoured by this system...
Ye Zhaozhao couldn't help but shiver.
As she moved, the people around her immediately reacted.
"Zhaozhao, Zhaozhao, you're awake?" Chang Le'an's voice was the first to ring out.
Ye Zhaozhao opened her eyes, her lips trembling slightly, "Third Senior Brother."
She then looked eagerly at Sheng Yuan and Shen Yue.
"Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother."
As she spoke, tears streamed down her face.
"My cultivation... my cultivation..." Ye Zhaozhao whispered painfully.
Sheng Yuan and the others had witnessed Ye Zhaozhao's Nascent Soul dissipating, and even True Person Lingxu had tried to stop it, but it was useless.
Something unknown had happened to her; the spiritual energy seemed not to have been condensed by her at all, completely out of control, and it dissipated entirely within a few breaths.
Looking at Ye Zhaozhao's painful expression at this moment, Sheng Yuan sighed, "Junior Sister... you, don't think too much for now, just rest and recover."
As he said this.
Sheng Yuan found that, besides the heartache, a trace of resentment involuntarily arose in his heart.
Something had suddenly changed with Ye Zhaozhao.
No one could bear to pressure her anymore.
But what about the mess she left behind?
Wouldn't it all fall on him?