Watching Ning Wangshu vanish into the horizon as a streak of golden light, Yun Qingwu drew a deep breath. It was quite some time before she finally looked away. Then she turned to Gong Shiyu and the others beside her. "Shiyu, Elder Yan, let's go inside and put the sect back in order."
"Yes, Sect Master!"
"All right, Master!"
Yan Rushuang, Gong Shiyu, and the others answered, then went inside together.
In truth, Yunqing Sect didn't need much tidying up.
After the Heavenly Demon Sect had occupied the place, they had already cleaned up everything that needed it. And when Ning Wangshu had killed the Heavenly Demon Sect members who had been entrenched here, he hadn't damaged the surrounding buildings or anything else.
So Yun Qingwu and the others only had to restore a few arrangements inside Yunqing Sect to how they had been before. It didn't take long.
Once they were done, Yun Qingwu and the others gathered in the Main Hall again.
But seeing the sect so deserted, no longer bustling with the liveliness of days gone by, Yun Qingwu and the others couldn't help feeling heavyhearted and low.
"Sigh. I wonder whether any of our fellow disciples escaped the pursuit of the Heavenly Demon Sect and Xuan Yin Sect. After this disaster, our Yunqing Sect... will have to start almost entirely from scratch!"
Yan Rushuang sighed.
"Indeed. It'll probably take hundreds, if not thousands, of years for Yunqing Sect to regain its former prosperity," Gong Shiyu said with another sigh.
Then she added, "Still, we were able to reclaim the sect and have a chance to rebuild it this time, all thanks to Senior Ning."
"Otherwise... even if we few had managed to escape the pursuit of the Heavenly Demon Sect and Xuan Yin Sect, we could