Hua Sen started to think through Bai Luochu's question and instantly understood the meaning behind whatever she did. Hua Sen was considered a senior among the disciples and people would definitely turn to him for information. Tomorrow, when this matter was exposed and if someone went to look for him at the Reflection Cliff and realized he wasn't around, everyone would pin the blame on him. Bai Luochu's current decision was to make sure that Hua Sen wasn’t the prime suspect.

After thinking through it, he followed Bai Luochu back to the Reflection Cliff and allowed Bai Luochu to replace the restriction on him.

Pei Qingfeng saw that the matter was done, and he wanted to leave. He never expected for her to refuse to leave.

"What is wrong? Do you have something else you want to do?" Pei Qingfeng thought that Bai Luochu wanted to make a move on Hua Sen. Although he felt that it wasn't proper, if it was Bai Luochu's decision, no matter how improper it was, Pei Qingfeng wouldn't stop her.

"What are you thinking?" Bai Luochu noticed Pei Qingfeng's gaze 

flittering

 between her and Hua Sen. She instantly understood what Pei Qingfeng was thinking.

Without a choice, she explained herself, "I do have something to do but it is definitely not what you are thinking."

Her plan was actually to meddle in someone else's business. In order to prevent Pei Qingfeng from stopping her, Bai Luochu could only reply vaguely.

Hua Sen saw how the two of them were talking in riddles and he failed to catch anything. But seeing the atmosphere between them, he felt that he wouldn't interfere as an outsider. He was able to talk in front of Lu Wenshu, but when in the presence of others, he would love to be a mute.

Bai Luochu had indeed planned something. Hua Sen's moral conduct and upright behavior was rather pure among the immortal sects' disciples. As such, Bai Luochu wanted to personally push Hua Sen to sit 

on the

 position of the patriarch of the sect. If her plan were to succeed, she would sign an alliance contract with him to purge the entire cultivation world. After all, the Phoenix King Valley and the other immortal sect had been pressuring the other factions for too long. Instead of hoping for the problem to solve itself, Bai Luochu felt that taking the initiative to suppress them was the way to go.

If someone else was to hear of this idea, they would definitely think it was a fantasy story. This era where the strong ruled over the weak had gone on for a long time. The only way for Bai Luochu to achieve her goals would be for her to eliminate both the other immortal sects. Only then would she be able to return peace and tranquility into the cultivation world.

The next morning, the disciple who discovered the deaths of the elders screamed their lungs out and alerted everyone. No one knew what to do, and everyone turned to the next highest ranked disciple in the sect, Lu Wenshu. It was 

too

 bad for them that they failed to locate him. After leaving a letter in his room, they left.

In order to prevent Lu Wenshu’s reputation, Hua Sen made it look as though Lu Wenshu had already left the sect on his own accord.

Without a choice, they could only go to the Reflection Cliff to look for Hua Sen.

"Senior Hua Sen, not good. The Patriarch and the elders... something happened to them!"

Hua Sen revealed a frightened expression on his face as he struggled to remove the restriction placed on his body. When Bai Luochu saw Hua Sen's performance, she felt it was rather funny as she never imagined that Hua Sen would possess such great acting skills. Bai Luochu actually felt that she was withholding his talent by pushing him to be the patriarch of his sect.

Just as Bai Luochu predicted, after the incident, a huge gap in power filled the sect. Hua Sen had no choice but to step up as he didn’t want to waste Lu Wenshu’s hard work.

Initially, there was some resistance by many of the disciples. However, they finally changed their mind and agreed for Hua Sen to succeed the position of the patriarch. Before Hua Sen could react, he had already ascended to become the highest position of power in the sect. He had no idea what they were thinking as he never really interacted with the rest of the disciples before.

After the matter, many people felt that something strange was going on. They didn’t understand the reason behind changing their decision at the last moment, but it was too late. None of those nitty gritty details mattered anymore. Hua Sen was the patriarch of the sect and they couldn’t do anything about it.

Even though everyone felt that something strange was going on, Hua Sen already found the answer to most of their questions.

"It seems like Divine Physician Bai made a move..."

When Bai Luochu walked over with the silver needles in her hand, all the doubts in Hua Sen’s mind disappeared. However, he wasn’t too shocked as he knew that she was the only person around who could control so many people at the same time.

"I am here to discuss a collaboration with you." Bai Luochu didn’t beat about the bush and she quickly stated the reason behind her appearance.

Hua Sen had no idea what was going on. No matter what, they were enemies. 

Why is she trying to work with us?

"The cultivation world's unhealthy trend has been going on for far too long. If this carries on, something bad is bound to happen. Instead of waiting for things to go out of control, why don't we eliminate the problem?"

"What are you talking about?" Hua Sen knew that the Three Great Immortal Sects had been bullying the smaller factions, but there was no way they could change the behaviors of the biggest superpowers in the world with just words alone.

"We will form an alliance. When I reassemble all my fellow disciples, we will exterminate the Phoenix King Valley and the Battle Devil Sect.”

Hua Sen’s mind cleared up all of a sudden and he realized the meaning behind her actions. She would be able to take revenge for herself, and she would be able to purge the malignant tumor of the cultivation world in one fell swoop. He couldn’t help but admit that Bai Luochu was far more terrifying than he had thought.

Of course, as the patriarch of his sect, Hua Sen had to think for the sect. He turned around and asked, "How can this even benefit me?"

In fact, Hua Sen understood that Bai Luochu wouldn’t ask him to be a free laborer. However, he knew that he had to probe at Bai Luochu’s bottom line before agreeing to anything.

Bai Luochu raised her brows in response and ignored Hua Sen’s question completely. Instead, she started to explain the effects of the poison coating the silver needle in her hand. 

"The poison on the needle is called the Puppet Powder. It can be used to control someone’s action and speech. Otherwise, does Patriarch Hua think that it will be so easy to ascend to the patriarch position?"