"The current you need us." Lin Yue's words stopped Cang Yue's laughter, who then, in turn, just raised an eyebrow.

"And why would I need you?" Cang Yue's words got increasingly cold. "I am the saintess of the Duality Sect, and in case you haven't heard... I am also one of the Grand Elders of the Sword Sect."

"With my current position, why do you think I need you or your friendship?"

Hearing her words, Lin Yue was about to speak further when she felt a hand on her shoulder.

Turning around, she saw Xiao Ruolan standing up with a blank expression on her face as she opened her cherry lips to speak in an emotionless voice.

"Are you sure about that?" Her words brought a sense of unease to Cang Yue, who just let out a cold snort.

"You might fool others, but not us."

"We know exactly what happened there."

"Twenty years." Her chilling voice reverberated in the entire house. "Your mother planned for more than twenty years to butcher both the old sect leader of the Duality Sect as well as her own flesh and blood... Her own daughter, whom she abandoned twenty years ago."

"Every step... every calculation... every plan... everything was just so that your sister would be there at the right time and right moment."

"Her kidnapping, our failure to rescue her and being taken as a prisoner, and her dying while trying to escort us safely..."

"Your mother planned it all."

"If she can plan so much for a daughter that she abandoned decades ago, what do you think she is gonna do to you?"

"Or are you as gullible to think that she hadn't planned anything about you, and you being in the Sword Sect is just an act of 'Humiliating' the sword sect?"

With every word she spoke, Cang Yue felt a pang in her heart.

Of course, she knew... Of course, she doubted. But what other option did she have?

Without sufficient strength, what was she supposed to do?

Hell, if not for Yang Ze's presence, she might have already gone crazy and gone on a killing spree in the Sword Sect.

Looking at her pale face, Xiao Ruolan didn't stop but continued further.

"Even as a Grand Elder, how many people do you think want to dig out your bones and drink your blood?"

"Is there anyone whom you can trust?"

Her last sentence hit the nail on the head.

Just as she said, there was not a single soul that Cang Yue trusted. Even the old woman, Jian Yu, and all other people who stood humbly before her... all of them were her enemies.

"Help us." Seeing that the time was right, Xiao Ruolan once again put forward her suggestion, but this time her voice was rather meek and soft.

"Help us in these three missions, and we will forget about everything that you did to us."

"Not only that, but we can swear on our Dao Heart that we will help you and never betray or take any action against you."

"..." Cang Yue thought for a long time before gritting her teeth.

The Dao Heart Oath was something that every cultivator avoided. Even though it might sound like a fairy tale, it was real.

No one knew exactly how it worked, but if one were to break their Dao Heart Oath, they would die in the next four days. There hadn't been a single exception since the dawn of time.

From the ruins, a few people even received the written records about a particular event. It was said that a long time ago, an expert in the realm of Heaven Step didn't believe in the so-called Dao Heart Oath, so to show everyone that it just worked on the lower cultivation realm, she broke a Dao Heart Oath and three days later, she was found dead.

After that, no one dared to take it lightly.

Even now, almost no cultivator was willing to take on a Dao Heart Oath in case some mishap happened and they accidentally broke it.

For Xiao Ruolan and Lin Yue to take it... Cang Yue could feel their resolve.

In the end, she took a deep breath, closed her eyes and spoke in a trembling voice.

"Are you sure about it?"

This time, she was truly tempted. Just as they said, there wasn't a single person she could trust in the entire world. And now with Yang Ze by her side, she had one more reason to be worried.

She could escape and protect herself, but what about him?

If someone were to take action against him in her absence... She didn't dare to think about it. With these two by her side, at least she could rest easy about his safety.

"Absolutely." There was no hesitation in Xiao Ruolan's voice as she uttered those words.

"But before that..." Xiao Ruolan just looked at Cang Yue. "You too have to take one. In the future, unless we act first or have any intentions of harming you, you can not take any action against us or harm us."

Her request was simple. If they were going to work together, they needed her to make an oath, too. Otherwise, it would be akin to being her slave for their entire lives.

"Fine." Cang Yue didn't think about it too much. She would have been more suspicious if they hadn't asked her to make an oath too.

In no time, Lin Yue and Xiao Ruolan made their oath not to plan anything against Cang Yue and to help her out when she needed their help.

Cang Yue, too, didn't hesitate any longer and made an oath to never cause them any harm or restrict their freedom and help them to complete the three missions, which would let them join the Sword Sect.

The moment the three of them finished making their oath, they felt a sense of oppression as if someone had witnessed their oaths, and at the same time, a feeling of dread appeared in their heart. If they went back on their words or tried to find a loophole, their outcome wasn't going to be pretty.

"So, what now?" Now that the three of them were working together, Cang Yue was more than happy to help them out.

"The first mission is to bring back the head of one of the notorious Bandits, the Red Scarf."

Lin Yue spoke while taking out a thick sheet of paper. She then spread it across the room while introducing the bandit.

"She is a bandit in the realm of 4th Vein Expansion and likes to wander alone."

"Before, she was a member of the Sword Sect who, after killing her fellow members and stealing a treasure, ran away from the sect."

"We just need to bring back her head. And bonus rewards if we manage to bring her back alive."

Cang Yue just frowned in response before muttering to herself, "4th Vein Expansion..."

She too was in the 4th Vein Expansion realm... But as a saintess of the Duality Sect, she was sure that she could beat her easily.

Xiao Ruolan and Lin Yue both on the other hand, were at the 2nd Vein Expansion.

No wonder they wanted her help. Without her, these two would be committing suicide by going against a 4th Vein Expansion realm expert.

"What about the next two missions?" Cang Yue couldn't help but ask. The first mission was already this difficult. What about the next two missions?

"The second mission is to find the Ironhead Bull and bring it back to the sect."

"..." Cang Yue just frowned before nodding in response.

The Ironhead Bull was a demonic beast with the strength equal to someone in the Foundation Forging realm. Other than that, it also liked to live in a group.

For the three of them, it wasn't difficult to accomplish.

"And the third mission?"

"It is..." Xiao Ruolan spoke after some hesitation.

"It is the complete destruction of the Blue Faced Tribe."

"Blue Faced tribe... Why does that name sound familiar?" Cang Yue could have sworn that she had heard about it before. She just couldn't remember when and why.

"It's a tribe established on the outskirts of the Heavenly Sword Sect's territory."

"Because it would often ambush the members of the Sword Sect and even steal the resources and tributes, it has been a thorn in the Sword Sect's side."

"They just didn't want to send their Elders or Grand Elders to take action."

"Instead, they wanted to use the tribe to hone their members."

Cang Yue suddenly asked with some confusion.

"How strong are they?"

Xiao Ruolan hesitated for a while before gritting her teeth and speaking in a soft voice.

"Their tribe leader is at the 5th Vein Expansion. They have three Elders at 3rd Vein Expansion and almost thirty members at Foundation forging."

"Other than these, they have almost two hundred cultivators at the Body Forging realm and Pulse Opening realm combined."

"HOW IS IT A TRIBE? IT IS CLEARLY A DAMN MAJOR FAMILY." Cang Yue couldn't help but widen her eyes in disbelief. Have the Sword Sect lost their mind, or did they think that these two weaklings at 2nd Vein Expansion could take on such a large tribe?

Not to mention them, even she wasn't sure she could take on such a large tribe.

"We know." Lin Yue just gritted her teeth in anger. How could she not know that it was just the Sword Sect's way of making things difficult for them? But if they managed to accomplish it... the gains would be unimaginable.

Not to mention the countless resources they will get from the Blue Faced Tribe... even the bounty and the rewards for passing the mission were something that they didn't dare to imagine. It wouldn't be a lie to say that if they completed these missions, then stepping into the 5th Vein Expansion within a few months was certain. And they could even try to hit the Core Condensation realm this year.

For people like them who were kicked out of their families and were now seeking revenge... it was a god-sent opportunity.

"But we don't have any other choice."

Looking at their faces, Cang Yue felt a surge of anger. She felt like she had stepped into a trap.

Had she known about the mission, she would have never made that stupid oath. But now... Now she had to help them out even if she didn't want to.

"Damn it." She felt like her bad luck had started. Not only was the Supreme Dao Body sealed, and she had to heal that little bastard's soul injury, but she also had to help out these two useless fellows.

"Forget it..." She could only bite the bullet and move forward. One way or another, she was going to make sure that the three missions were completed successfully.

"We will head out tomorrow." Lin Yue didn't want to waste any more time. They first need to gather the intelligence and then act accordingly. It was something that was going to take a lot of time, so the sooner they departed, the better it was for them.

"Okay." Cang Yue had no problem with it.

For the next half an hour, the three of them planned where to go first, which mission to complete first and how to take down the Blue Faced Tribe.

It wasn't until all their preparations were complete that Xiao Ruolan suddenly asked in hesitation.

"By the way... What about Yang Ze?"

It was only now that Cang Yue came back to her senses. She had almost forgotten about him.

"What about him?" Lin Yue just snorted in displeasure. "Just leave him here with ten bottles of Fasting pills."

Were it any other time, Cang Yue would have agreed in response, but now...

"That..." She let outa forced smile while shaking her head.

"It can't be done."

"Why not?" Lin Yue asked with some displeasure. Has this woman grown so fond of him that she wasn't willing to leave him? Earlier, it was Lin Wan, and now her sister Cang Yue. Did both sisters have this peculiar hobby of keeping men by their side?

"It's not safe for him here." Cang Yue replied in a stiff tone.

"You are joking, right?" Lin Yue felt like she was hearing things. This was inside Sword Sect... If he wasn't safe here, then where would he be? Inside a volcano?

"It's like this..." Cang Yue didn't hide anything and repeated the events that happened when Yang Ze was trying to leave the sect with the token, and she announced him as her Dao Companion.

"....." Lin Yue had no words to say. She just shook her head in response.

Xiao Ruolan, on the other hand, just gave a shrug before speaking in an emotionless voice.

"Let's just take him with us. It would do him good to see the world and what's actually out there."

No one objected to her suggestion, and in no time, Yang Ze was carried outside with a black stocking stuffed in his mouth while another white stocking was still tying his hands behind his back.

Looking at them, Yang Ze could only let out muffled groans in anger as the three women looked at him with varying degrees of expressions...

Smile, amusement and contempt.

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