We know that the ice princess is coluding with the blissful temple from the fact that the mc camt get a single point from her not anger oe apriciation or anything she is cultivating the blissful temple art she is the traitor
Something smells fishy someone is sowing discord in the sect and I don't think it's the great older nor enforcer ye, If anything it's the 4th elder and her attack was a scam from the beginning she was going to survive even without Xie Yan.