The administrators of the League of Myriad Celestia, Xia Qingsheng, and the three great demons defending their clans joined forces to set up a temporary sealing barrier.

They then fought against the demon abyss emerging from the passage.

They ordered Jian Li to escort the gravely injured and near-death Water Qilin and Xiao Ran away from the area of demonic eruption, and return to inform the demon clans and various sects.

They joined forces to resist the Demon Abyss race and tried to reseal the passage.

However, the strength of the Demon Abyss far exceeded their imagination.

Those who remained could not hold out for even seven days and all perished.

Demon Abyss energy then spread outward from the passage, quickly infecting the entire The Great Forest of Ancient Demon.

Demon Abyss also surged out from the passage.

The demon race and demon beasts within The Great Forest of Ancient Demon fled from the disaster zone.

However, the demon beasts that were infected by Demon Abyss energy became highly aggressive and triggering waves of beast tides across various regions.

Among the three who escaped, Jian Li organized manpower to attempt to reseal the passage again.

In order to save the Water Qilin, Xiao Ran decided to travel to the overseas island that Xiao Shou had once described to her. It was an island that was reflected in a mirage projection where immortal grass was said to grow.

She placed the Water Qilin inside the Heavenly Orb and went alone to the Three Immortal Islands.

The continent was in ruins.

Everywhere was plagued by the crisis of the Demon Abyss outbreak and attacks from beast tides.

After a hundred years of effort, the League of Independent Cultivators finally gathered heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and forty nine late Deity Transformation cultivators sacrificed themselves, becoming the formation bases of a great sealing array.

They established the Nine Heavens Nine Stellar Array around the outskirts of The Great Forest of Ancient Demon, sealing the passage and the Demon Abyss inside.

Among the forty nine Deity Transformation cultivators were Ying Yizhi, the father of Ying Ying, the Sect Master of the Holy Sword Sect, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Void Sect, as well as sect leaders, grand elders, peak masters, and others from various major sects.

After the seal was completed, during the catastrophe, Yu Lin who had made great contributions and advanced to the early Deity Transformation stage became the new Sect Master of the Heavenly Void Sect. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Jian Li became the Sect Master of the Holy Sword Sect.

The leaders and elders of other sects were also replaced.

Afterward, all sects and aristocratic families issued a joint mission to eliminate the scattered Demon Abyss and the beings infected by demon abyss energy.

Whether plants, humans, or beasts, anything infected was to be eradicated.

After another eighty five years, the severely weakened cultivation world finally saw the Demon Abyss and infected creatures gradually disappear.

As the world began to recover, Xiao Ran who is now three hundred and thirty three years old returned from overseas together with the Water Qilin who had recovered from severe injuries and become even stronger.

During these one hundred and eighty five years, Xiao Ran had traveled across the overseas immortal islands with the Water Qilin.

She experienced various events, encountered many extraordinary men of the overseas realms, and also went through incidents involving Demon Abyss invasions on the islands.

Her cultivation rose rapidly during this period, from mid Nascent Soul to late Nascent Soul, then to peak Nascent Soul.

Finally, upon reaching Deity Transformation, she found the island within the mirage projection.

It turned out that the island was formed from the fossilized remains of a Illusion Mist Dragon after its death and it’s exist between illusion and reality.

Not only did it contain immortal grass, it also held many treasures collected by the Illusion Mist Dragon.

With this opportunity, she advanced once again to mid Deity Transformation stage, while the Water Qilin also recovered completely and reached the point where he could ascend at any time.

After returning, she was faced with a continent that had completely changed beyond recognition.

She had already missed the opening time of the Moonshadow Labyrinth Secret Realm and it was now past the time of her death in her previous life.

Unaware of what would come next, Xiao Ran learned that Yu Lin had become the new Sect Master of the Heavenly Void Sect.

She also heard that Jian Li, the Sect Master of the Holy Sword Sect, had formed a marriage contract with Ying Ying, the daughter of Ying Yizhi, before Ying Yizhi’s sacrifice.

They were soon to be married.

With the Water Qilin being naturally kind and disliking slaughter, and Xiao Ran herself no longer trusting others due to Zhong Kui’s betrayal, she and the Water Qilin left this painful place.

Not knowing where to go, they traveled far to Verdant Origin City while disguising themselves as independent cultivators and forming connections with the city lord and the leader of the league of independent cultivator.

With her identity as an alchemy grandmaster, she gained great admiration from many people.

Over 62 years, she built her own network of influence and authority within the city of independent cultivators, and stabilized her mid Deity Transformation cultivation.

During this time, she once unexpectedly encountered Jian Li who had also come there in his Deity Transformation stage.

From him, she learned that before Ying Yizhi’s death, Jian Li had accepted his final request and had no choice but to marry Ying Ying.

He wanted to reconcile with Xiao Ran, but she refused, stating that she would not be with a man who already had a wife.

When Xiao Ran was three hundred and ninety years old, she arranged a scheme to expose Yu Lin to true demon energy infection.

At the same time, she secretly spread all the evidence she had collected over the years of Yu Lin’s ruthless methods, crimes committed for cultivation resources and sect leadership, and countless atrocities.