The protagonist chased the villain, and Tiandao screamed in anger

The Taihua Sect's main hall gathers the chief elders from all the major sects.

At this moment, the spacious hall was full of people.

"What should we do now? We, Xianle Pavilion, have always kept a low profile and stayed out of the world, but we participated in the secret training of your five major sects this time and were abducted by the abominable demons! All the sect leaders must give an explanation!"

The person who spoke was the Pavilion Master of Xianle Pavilion, a female cultivator dressed in light purple gauze, who was obviously older and had her hair tied up in a bun. At the moment, she was frowning, and her words were filled with endless anxiety.

"Don't worry, Pavilion Master. This matter involves too many sects and requires long-term consideration." Sect Master Qi sighed and comforted.

"No hurry, how can I not be anxious? The secret realm within your Xianmen domain was so easily breached by the demons. You might as well just hand over all the sects of the Xianmen to the demons!" The Xianle Pavilion Master sneered in retort.

"What's the use of being anxious? Now our disciples are in the hands of the Northern Territory Demon Clan. How can we act rashly? Xianhe sent a letter to negotiate peace, but there is no reply yet."

Xuanxu Sect Master said this with a gloomy face. Apart from negotiating peace, he had no other good solution.

Although the immortal sect and the demon clan are in opposition, the monks are unyielding and will never yield or compromise. But the arrested are all their top disciples, each of whom is their dearest flesh and blood. How can they give them up! How can they just give up on a group of disciples with a promising future like this without any reaction!

"Negotiation?! Is the Xuanxu sect crazy, wanting us, the righteous sect, to negotiate peace with those evil leaders?!" An old man in a gray Taoist robe widened his eyes as big as copper bells when he heard this, as if he was shocked by the words of the Xuanxu sect leader.

Sect Master Qi looked at the man and asked in a low voice: "Does Elder Song have any good ideas? Or, is there any capable person who can go deep into the devil's cave and rescue my disciples safely?"

Right now his junior fellow apprentice Hongyun is still in seclusion, in order to prevent the demons from luring the tiger away from the mountain and taking advantage of the opportunity, the immortal gate cannot be without someone to take charge.

However, in this case, there are only a few people who are strong enough to go to the Northern Territory for rescue.

Not to mention whether they can be rescued, the fact that the demons were able to capture so many of his disciples without anyone noticing is enough to prove that there must be a powerful person among them.

If he rushed forward recklessly again, his chances of winning would be slim.

Furthermore, since the demons had made careful arrangements in advance and captured many upright disciples but did not kill them, they must have some agenda.

What they need to do now is to figure out what the demons are planning.

"...Well, you all know that we, from a small sect, are nothing in front of you big sects." When it comes to charging into battle, the old man who was originally glaring and shouting fell silent.

"Okay! Didn't that guy from your Taihua Sect come back safe and sound? Bring him here to ask!" Elder Yang slammed the table and changed the topic.

It is strange to say, except for those who died in the secret realm, among all the disciples, only Yu Zhao returned safely.

Elder Yang didn't believe that there were no twists and turns. He had long felt that Yu Zhao's behavior was strange and must be hiding some secrets.

As soon as these words were spoken, the rest of the people's thoughts were drawn to Yu Zhao, and their expressions varied.

The demons captured the righteous disciples, but missed Yu Zhao, a famous disciple of Taihua Sect. If Yu Zhao colluded with the demons and secretly helped them to act, then it would also make sense that the demons knew about the movements of the immortal sect.

But releasing Yu Zhao so blatantly, isn't it a case of trying to cover up one's own faults? The demon clan's plots have always been meticulous, so how could they reveal such a big flaw?

But if they said that Yu Zhao was innocent and had no idea about this, the sect leaders present would not believe it.

"Yu Zhao wouldn't be colluding with the demons, right?" someone asked after a long silence.

Everyone looked at the leader, Sect Master Qi, but got no response, so he continued, "If it is true, he should have followed the captured disciples back to the Demon Realm."

"What if it's a trick? The demons are masters at playing tricks on others."

"But what exactly are the demons planning?"

There was another silence, and everyone talked about their own things but no conclusion was reached.

Finally, after a few waves of emotion, Sect Master Qi calmed down and called the disciples waiting outside the hall.

"Go and call Yu Zhao over."

When Yu Zhao was summoned by the cleaning disciples, he just learned that all the disciples who went to the secret realm were captured by the demons.

He lamented that he had not lost his aura as the protagonist and was able to escape from such a dangerous situation without knowing it.

As he flew to the main hall on his sword, Yu Zhao was still secretly delighted.

He had asked the outer disciples and learned that Mo Qing had been captured, and most of the inner disciples that were valued by other elders had also been captured and taken to Wangliang City. So now he was the only one in charge of Taihua Sect.

Although Yu Huai is gone, in order to suppress the sword spirit, Yu Zhao rarely uses the sword spirit's magic power in recent years, and his progress in cultivation is not as good as before.

While he was working hard to find opportunities and trying to take shortcuts to improve his cultivation, several senior disciples of Taihua Sect, led by Mo Qing, had quietly surpassed him.

Yu Zhao only found out about this after he entered the secret realm.

He hated these disciples of Taihua Sect and those who always wanted to steal his limelight!

It would be best to let that group of demon cultivators from the Northern Territory kill them all, so that they don’t get in his way!

Yu Zhao thought this and walked into the hall in the blink of an eye.

However, the atmosphere in the hall was unusually stagnant, with familiar faces and unfamiliar faces filling the chairs on both sides.

Before Yu Zhao saluted, he stole a glance at the expressions of the people in front of him, and his originally cheerful mood suddenly paused.

"Disciple Yu Zhao greets all the uncles and uncles."

He lowered his head, his pupils turned around twice quickly, and finally realized the seriousness of the problem.

All the disciples who participated in the secret realm were arrested, but he was left behind. Wouldn't this just cause misunderstanding...

"Get up, is your trip to the secret realm going smoothly?"

In the Taihua Sect, the first person to speak was naturally Sect Master Qi, and the rest of the sect elders all turned their eyes to Yu Zhao.

He became the focus of everyone's attention, but Yu Zhao couldn't be happy at this time.

He swallowed his saliva, thought quickly about how to answer, and finally told the truth: "My luck is not very good. Although I accidentally entered the underground palace left by the great man, I was unable to find the appropriate secret method."

"However, when I, Junior Sister Fang and others were exploring the underground palace, we met Yin Mansha, the witch from the Northern Territory..."

Yu Zhao paused, looked up and observed the expressions of the people around him, hesitating whether to continue.

He wanted to clear himself of suspicion. It would seem too fake if he said nothing, but if he said too much, he was worried that the elders would think too much.

But this time, he was truly wronged.

This incident did not exist at all in the original plot, and no one knows what conspiracy the demons are planning.

Sect Leader Qi looked calm, glanced at Yu Zhao below, and told him to continue.

"Yes, this disciple and other junior sisters were separated by the demons in the underground palace..."