Fantasy: I'm in a discarded alchemy room, but I can turn trash into treasure!

The Palace Gate Competition had just ended when the Azure Dragon Sect appeared.

"From today onwards, your Cloud Rain Palace will be renamed the Cloud Rain Branch of the Azure Dragon Sect, and will be under the jurisdiction of my sect."

An elderly man wearing a dark green cloak stood in mid-air, looking down at the white frost on the square.

The thousands of disciples in the audience fell silent instantly.

"Who told you that the ancestor of my Cloud Rain Palace is no longer here?"

Bai Chenshuang stood upright, her gaze coldly meeting that of the old man.

"Sect Leader Bai, how long are you going to keep this a secret?"

Tang Mei suddenly stepped out from the elders' seat, a faint smile on her lips. "Our ancestor passed away half a month ago. The entire Yunyu Palace is merely clinging to life."

More than a thousand disciples in the square all looked at Tang Mei, their faces filled with disbelief.

The Nascent Soul Ancestor...has passed away?

"Tang Mei! You've joined the Azure Dragon Sect?"

Bai Chenshuang's pupils suddenly contracted.

These are her right and left arms.

A master of alchemy, an elder of Yunyu Palace, and Fang Yue's master.

She never imagined that Tang Mei would betray her.

"Elder Tang, have you gone mad?"

Gu Yingxue stood up abruptly, staring intently at Tang Mei, her voice trembling.

"Senior sister, how could you do this!"

Shen Ruoyan trembled all over and questioned him sharply.

The audience erupted in chaos, with cries and curses mingling together.

"How did you find out about the passing of our ancestor?"

Bai Chenshuang gritted her teeth and squeezed out each word from between them.

"Ha... Sect Leader Bai, you think you've covered it up very well?"

"Such a big matter, yet only you and Elder Gu knew about it. What do you take me for, Tang Mei? A watchdog?"

Tang Mei raised her voice a few decibels.

"So you betrayed your sect? You revealed all your secrets to the Azure Dragon Sect?"

Bai Chenshuang's hands were trembling, and her knuckles were turning blue.

"Sect Master, a wise person knows how to assess the situation. With our Ancestor gone, what will we use to contend with the Azure Dragon Sect?"

"Let's surrender. Everyone's lives will be safe, and our lineage will continue. Isn't that better than resisting to the death?"

Tang Mei spread her hands, her tone nonchalant.

"Bullshit..."

Bai Chenshuang's chest heaved violently.

Only today did she realize that this elder, with whom she had worked for more than twenty years, was actually so spineless.

"Sect Leader Bai, I advise you to be sensible."

The pine tree stood with its hands behind its back, looking down at the white frost.

His gaze shifted to Su Qingyi behind Bai Chenshuang, scanning her up and down before nodding.

"This must be Su Qingyi, the Holy Maiden of Yunyu Palace. Top-grade Heavenly Spiritual Root, mid-stage Golden Core, tsk, she's more than qualified to warm the bed for my Canglong Sect's Holy Son."

Su Qingyi's face was ashen, and her fists were clenched so tightly that her knuckles turned white.

Warming the bed?

What kind of trash is the Holy Son of the Azure Dragon Sect? Does he even deserve to be called a disciple?

The inner disciples around them all had tears in their eyes, filled with both hatred and anger.

They are treating them like livestock, picking and choosing.

"Do you think my Cloud Rain Palace is just something you can manipulate at will just because our ancestor is gone?"

Bai Chenshuang suddenly let out a cold laugh.

"Sect Master, stop bluffing. I've already had the core of the Great Zhou Heavenly Cloud and Rain Bewitching Immortal Array destroyed."

Tang Mei added casually, "My disciples can't coordinate the formation either. Without them, you simply can't gather your 365 people."

"you……"

Bai Chenshuang felt as if she had been doused with a bucket of ice water.

"Tang Mei, you viper..."

Gu Yingxue cursed furiously, her voice hoarse.

"Uncle-Master, I'm saving over two thousand lives in the sect. Do you intend to drag everyone down with me?"

Tang Mei coldly retorted.

"The core of the formation is still intact; we still have a fighting chance!"

A Golden Core elder slammed his fist on the table and stood up.

Upon hearing this, Cangsong laughed three times and pointed around.

"Everyone should open their eyes wide and take a look."

Bai Chenshuang looked in the direction of the sound and her face turned deathly pale.

On the peaks of Yunyu Mountain, a dark-colored banner, each over ten feet tall, had been erected at some unknown time.

Above their heads, a massive bronze seal, the size of a mountain, slowly emerged, with a dragon-shaped phantom moving and churning across its surface.

The oppressive force emanating from that giant seal made the legs of the disciples with lower cultivation levels on the plaza weak, unable to even stand steadily.

The entire Cloud Rain Mountain was completely covered by the Azure Dragon Sect's formation.

……

In Candan Valley.

Qin Mo stood at the entrance of the small building, looking up at the Azure Dragon Seal in the sky, his brows furrowed.

"They've even brought out their most treasured artifacts; the Azure Dragon Sect has really gone all out."

His heart tightened.

He sensed something was wrong when the bell rang. Now that the entire mountain is locked down, Yunyu Palace is likely in grave danger.

The outer disciples around were in a panic; some were crying and others were running away.

Qin Mo didn't panic.

He turned around and strode into the No. 18 Residual Pill Pavilion, stuffing all the high-level waste pills in the cabinet into his storage space.

Useless Nascent Soul Pills, Useless Foundation-Opening Pills, Useless Realm-Breaking Pills—fill as many as you can.

The teleportation array is inside the building. If it really comes down to running away, he can disappear in an instant by throwing six high-grade spirit stones into it.

But he wasn't in a hurry to leave.

People from the Azure Dragon Sect are unlikely to come to a place like the Remnant Pill Valley, a place rife with poisonous pills, to cause trouble.

"Let's see how things go."

……

At the summit of Yunyu Mountain.

Bai Chenshuang looked up at the sky-covering Azure Dragon Seal and took a half step back.

"The Azure Dragon Seal combined with the Mountain-Sealing Formation, this is..."

"That's right, its power is comparable to a full-force attack from a peak Nascent Soul cultivator."

Cangsong looked at Bai Chenshuang's changed face and smiled even more, "Your so-called Cloud and Rain Bewitching Immortal Array is nothing compared to this thing."

"you……"

Bai Chenshuang felt a lump in her throat, unable to breathe.

It turns out that the Azure Dragon Sect had made thorough preparations long ago, and it was not a spur-of-the-moment decision at all.

Gu Yingxue and several Golden Core elders also looked ashen-faced.

Su Qingyi clenched her fist, her nails digging into her palm.

She possesses a top-grade Heavenly Spiritual Root; given enough time, she will eventually reach the Nascent Soul Realm.

But the Azure Dragon Sect won't give her that chance.

"Kneel down and submit to my Azure Dragon Sect."

The pine tree held up its fingers and counted them down one by one.

"Hand over all the high-grade spirit stones in your palace, plus all the spots in the Eastern Continent Dao Discussion Conference. From this day forward, Cloud Rain Palace is hereby removed from the list and renamed Cloud Rain Hall of Azure Dragon Sect."

"In addition, the top one hundred inner disciples in the competition will return to the Azure Dragon Sect with me and be given to my sect's disciples as Daoist partners. Your Holy Maiden Su Qingyi has caught the eye of my Holy Son, and will become his bedchamber maid."

"If you do these things, I will make an exception for you."

Su Qingyi bit her lower lip hard, and blood seeped from the corner of her lips.

She is not reconciled.

Why would a top-tier Golden Core cultivator with a Heavenly Spiritual Root be expected to warm someone's bed?

"The spots for the Eastern Continent Dao Discussion Conference originally belonged to my Cloud Rain Palace. Why should your Azure Dragon Sect grant us this favor?"

Bai Chenshuang's voice was hoarse.

"From this day forward, there will be no more Cloud Rain Palace in this world, only the Cloud Rain Hall of the Azure Dragon Sect."

"Those spots will naturally belong to the Azure Dragon Sect."

The pine tree swayed gently in the breeze.

"Sect Master, it's up to you to decide whether we live or die."

Tang Mei curled her lips into a smirk, "Being a hall master in the Azure Dragon Sect is better than taking two thousand lives with you."

Everyone was looking at Bai Chenshuang.

Bai Chenshuang clenched her fists so tightly that her knuckles cracked and her teeth were practically shattering.

"Sect Leader, we can't swallow this! Let's fight them!"

A Golden Core elder spoke first.

"Sect Master, let's fight..."

A group of disciples followed suit, their eyes red-rimmed.

At worst, we'll all perish together.

But some people remained silent and lowered their heads.

The Nascent Soul Ancestor is gone, the sect's protective formation is ruined, and the Azure Dragon Seal hangs above their heads.

What will we use to fight?

"war?"

Cangsong scoffed, "Just a few of you Golden Core cultivators?"