At age 21, the Vermilion Bird Secret Realm of the Heaven Origin Realm opened.

Yu Lin registered for the trial in order to seize the opportunity to be intimate with Jian Li.

When Xiao Ran saw her registration, she also signed up, planning to kill Yu Lin inside the secret realm.

Inside the secret realm, Xiao Ran obtained various opportunities and disrupted Yu Lin’s plan to get close to Jian Li, even severely injuring her.

By coincidence, she encountered Jian Li who had suppressed his cultivation to enter the realm in order to collect Vermilion Bird Fire.

Due to the eruption of yang fire that required yin energy to balance it, Jian Li who is in a state of lost rationality violated Xiao Ran.

During the act, Xiao Ran experienced the same extreme pleasure as when she had been under the aphrodisiac poison.

After it ended, she absorbed Jian Li’s pure yang essence and advanced to the mid Golden Core stage.

However, once her breakthrough completed, the poison flared up again.

In turn, she ended up overpowering Jian Li while he had regained consciousness, acting against him instead.

Afterward, Jian Li diagnosed her condition and told her she was afflicted with the incurable aphrodisiac poison.

This left Xiao Ran in despair, but she received encouragement from Jian Li and regained her resolve.

At the same time, after losing the Vermilion Bird Fire, the Vermilion Bird Secret Realm began to collapse on a large scale.

With Jian Li’s help, Xiao Ran saved many elite disciples from various sects and escaped the realm.

Her reputation among the major sects grew slightly.

At the same time, because her ice spiritual root could help suppress Jian Li’s Vermilion Bird Fire, Jian Li made an agreement with her.

He would periodically help her release the effects of the aphrodisiac poison and she would help him suppress the Vermilion Bird Fire until it was fully refined.

In order to assist Jian Li, Xiao Ran returned to the sect and reported that she would travel outside for training.

She then left the sect with Jian Li and traveling the world together.

Jian Li both dual cultivated with her and guided her cultivation along the wa and they encountered various smaller plot events.

At age 22, she once again encountered Zhong Kui who is one of the split-soul male leads in the Five Poison Mountain Secret Realm.

Inside the secret realm, Xiao Ran and Jian Li became separated due to an illusion.

Not long after, Xiao Ran who is unable to resist the aphrodisiac poison was seduced by one of Zhong Kui’s personalities and ended up having relations with him.

After receiving his essence, she advanced to the late Golden Core stage.

Zhong Kui also discovered at that moment that Xiao Ran’s essence could suppress his innate soul-splitting condition and gradually merging his multiple personalities.

This greatly increased his interest in her and he continued to tempt her.

However, his intimate situation with Xiao Ran was coincidentally caught by Jian Li who had come looking for her.

This led to a chaotic jealous confrontation.

The fight only ended when the Water Qilin awakened and used its unique calming energy to stop the conflict.

After that, Xiao Shou did not clearly remember the detailed interactions among the four of them, from chaos to eventual harmony.

He simply continued recording the main plot.

Before that, at age 22, Xiao Ran had reached late Golden Core stage.

Jian Li had partially refined the Vermilion Bird Fire and advanced to the mid Deity Transformation stage.

Zhong Kui’s personality had fused down to one main personality and two secondary ones.

The Water Qilin’s injuries had fully healed.

At age 41, as the Heavenly Void Sect grand tournament approached, Xiao Ran said farewell to Zhong Kui and Jian Li and prepared to return to the sect.

Water Qilin was going to the center of The Great Forest of Ancient Demon to retrieve something that belonged to it.

Zhong Kui was on the verge of a breakthrough in cultivation and needed to absorb a special type of demonic energy to advance, so he returned to the Seven Devil Dao Sects.

Jian Li who have nothing urgent to do insisted on sending Xiao Ran back.

As a result, only the two of them remained on the road returning to the Heavenly Void Sect, and they happened to encounter an ancient cultivator’s cave opening along the way, so they entered together to seek opportunities.

However, over the years Yu Lin and Ying Ying had somehow become friends.

Because Yu Lin was familiar with this cave from another original storyline, she had already gained control over it.

She even pretended to be sincere and shared many benefits with Ying Ying.

In reality, Ying Ying who is guided by Yu Lin used the observation mirror in the main cave to see the scene of Jian Li and Xiao Ran kissing.

Fueled by jealousy, after leaving the ancient cultivator’s cave, Ying Ying sent a message to her father, Ying Yizhi, the Grand Elder of the Holy Sword Sect.

She used sect matters as an excuse to draw Jian Li away, intending to force him into staying and arranging an engagement between him and herself.

At the same time, she placed a bounty through the Nine Abyssal Gate assassin organization to kill Xiao Ran.

Unexpectedly, things did not go as planned.

Jian Li fought the Grand Elder to a draw and the assassin Ye Ying became Xiao Ran’s loyal guardian.

At the same time, Zhong Kui who had returned to the Seven Devil Dao Sects to break through suffered a soul fracture during his advancement.

Xiao Ran became his inner demon and when he saw the memories of his main personality, he developing strong disgust toward Xiao Ran.

At this moment, his secondary personality who was fond of the sect elder Qi Mengyao took control while the main personality was weakened.

This personality left the seclusion chamber and found Qi Mengyao, a Deity Transformation cultivator who was guarding him, and confided his troubles and disgust.