"From now on, I appoint you as the chief strategist of the Demon Sect. Your rank is second only to mine, but for your true status, you need to reach the Baihui realm for those people to give you the respect you deserve," Zhang Youji said.

"What's going on? I've just become the leader of the Demon Sect? I don't want it; I want to leave here!" Ye Tianfan looked bewildered at this moment!

It's like being part of a subsidiary of a world-class company that got defeated and bankrupt, and then you went to the head office, only for the head office's boss to appoint you as the manager.

"No, I..." Ye Tianfan wanted to refuse, after all, if his sect Taichu Sect found out about this, wouldn't it mean he had betrayed them? Then he'd be denounced, and if the Demon Sect knew he was not a loose cultivator from Polo Cave but a disciple of the Taichu Sect, he wouldn't be able to survive on either side.

"You think you are the chief strategist now? It's not that simple. Only after you increase your strength will you truly be the chief strategist. Right now, you're too weak. Strive to become stronger, I have faith in you!" After Zhang Youji finished speaking, he introduced Ye Tianfan to this little shield.

"This Infinite Shield, although not a supreme magical treasure, is still a rare magical treasure, a defensive magical treasure, and it also has the ability to directly use Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission to communicate with me. So if there's a big issue, just call me using this little shield." Zhang Youji said, patting Ye Tianfan on the shoulder before leaving without waiting for Ye Tianfan to speak.

As Zhang Youji walked out of Ye Tianfan's room, he paused and muttered to himself strangely, "Strange, why do I have so much faith in him? But why does the name Zhao Min make me trust him?"

Zhang Youji shook his head, a little puzzled, never expecting that one day he would trust someone just because of a name.

Ye Tianfan was even more puzzled, but since Zhang Youji started trusting him, it was just the right opportunity for him to implement his plan to investigate the secrets of the Demon Sect Headquarters.

But before that, it's best to cultivate this "Heaven and Earth Technique" first!

Immediately, Ye Tianfan sat cross-legged and, according to the "Heaven and Earth Technique," began absorbing the spiritual qi from the air.

The "Heaven and Earth Technique" has no specific attributes. If it must be attributed, it's all attributes, as the real core of the "Heaven and Earth Technique" is to reflect the opponent's moves, similar to using force against force.

And the opponent's moves are countless, with different attributes. If it's not all attributes, how can you control the opponent's moves?

As expected, due to Ye Tianfan's exceptionally high talent, he quickly mastered the first level, even faster than when he was cultivating the Taichu Sect technique, and it didn't conflict with Ye Tianfan's internal techniques, even becoming somewhat assimilated with them.

The "Heaven and Earth Technique" itself can assimilate any moves and attribute spiritual qi. If Ye Tianfan continues to practice it, the "Heaven and Earth Technique" will assimilate Ye Tianfan's Taichu Sect technique, but it won't be detected because the "Heaven and Earth Technique" itself doesn't contain any demonic qi. It can mimic demonic qi as well as righteous qi.

Another surprising thing for Ye Tianfan is that he feels the quality of the "Heaven and Earth Technique" is higher than the Taichu Sect's, and significantly so, almost like the level of a supreme magical treasure. Despite both being supreme magical treasures, the "Heaven and Earth Technique" ranks among the supreme levels of supreme magical treasures, whereas the Taichu Sect technique ranks merely at the high-grade level among supreme magical treasures.

With Ye Tianfan's current strength at the eighth layer of Myriad Profound, if all his spiritual power is converted to the "Heaven and Earth Technique," he could easily defeat his former self.

This is the issue of cultivation technique quality.

Ye Tianfan is now cultivating the third level. If he completes the full conversion, it may take roughly a week, not merely because it's a simple conversion of spiritual power, but it also requires the retraining of the meridians' spiritual power endurance.

Not to mention Ye Tianfan's transformation here, let's talk about Senior Brother Yun Tian over there.

After they escaped, they found that Ye Tianfan and Bang Dali from the Dali Sect didn't make it out, and their faces turned grim, suggesting unlikely survival. However, Ye Tianfan's odds of survival were higher than Bang Dali's because Ye Tianfan had the supreme magical treasure, the Xuanhuang Pagoda, while Bang Dali only had a high-grade magical treasure, it was that simple.

Senior Brother Yun Tian and the others had to use magical treasures to break through and clear the passage that had collapsed and been buried.

Who would have thought, after digging only ten meters, a group of demon cultivators appeared, and Senior Brother Yun Tian engaged them in an intense battle. The leader of the Demon Sect was a Hall Master, roughly equivalent to a chief of the Taichu Sect, causing Senior Brother Yun Tian and his companions to get injured, forcing them to retreat temporarily. Otherwise, not only would Ye Tianfan and others be unsaved, but they themselves might also end up lost.

However, Senior Brother Yun Tian and his party didn't go far but stayed nearby to observe secretly, keeping an eye on what exactly the demon cultivators intended while they healed their injuries.

A day later, they saw Bang Dali's corpse being pulled out from the rubble and casually thrown aside.

Senior Brother Yun Tian and his team clashed with the demon cultivators again, aiming to retrieve Bang Dali's corpse, which they managed, but ended up injured again, with Yu Ping severely wounded. Bang Dali wasn't dead as they thought, but in a state of feigned death, a technique of the Dali Sect.

Now, Senior Brother Yun Tian's team continues to wait nearby, hoping for news about Ye Tianfan, whether dead or alive. They want to see either his person or his corpse; they can't just leave outright.

But they're destined to wait in vain because Ye Tianfan is currently luxuriating at the Demon Sect Headquarters, eating, drinking, and sleeping well.

After several days without any news of Ye Tianfan, and with Yu Ping's injuries becoming severe enough that any further delay would cause permanent damage, and needing to return Bang Dali to the Dali Sect for elders to awaken him from the faux death, they had no choice but to split. Senior Brother Yun Tian could only report back to the sect to see if they could send people again to rescue Junior Brother Tianfan.

Furthermore, Senior Brother Yun Tian had a premonition that Ye Tianfan wasn't dead, that he had likely escaped but hadn't appeared for some reason.

Of course, this was just a premonition, which Senior Brother Yun Tian did not report to the sect.

Thus, the few from the Taichu Sect left in disarray, essentially abandoning Ye Tianfan.

During the time they waited near the entrance of Polo Cave, Ye Tianfan completed the conversion from the Taichu Sect technique to the "Heaven and Earth Technique." Now, he could defeat one and a half of his former selves.