They spent more than 60 years and finally obtained the Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus as well as a strand of Solar True Flame.

Both of them achieved their goals.

Xiao Ran used the Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus to purify her body and spiritual energy, removing the obstructive bottlenecks.

However, her inner demons still awaited her.

Because of this, even after reaching over one hundred and twenty years of age, she still could not form her Nascent Soul.

It had already been a full hundred years since she reached the late Golden Core stage.

It was only when she passed through Azure Origin City and experienced various events that her state of mind finally grew and her Nascent Soul opportunity appeared.

At last, she broke through and became a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Xiao Ran began her Nascent Soul formation at the age of one hundred and twenty-three, and succeeded at one hundred and twenty-nine.

After spending another ten years stabilizing her cultivation, she came out of seclusion at one hundred and thirty-nine.

After her emergence, the Heavenly Void Sect held a Nascent Soul ceremony for her.

After the ceremony, amidst the congratulations of many, Xiao Ran was disappointed to learn that Yu Lin had already reached the peak of Nascent Soul and left the sect in search of an opportunity to break through to Deity Transformation.

During this period, Jian Li, Zhong Kui who had disguised himself as a wandering cultivator, and her master Xia Qingsheng all discovered her intimate relations with various men, including Xia Qingsheng himself.

This caused intense jealousy and led to various conflicts of affection among them, resulting in multiple combinations of chaotic relationships and cultivation scenes.

After everything calmed down, Xiao Ran suddenly sensed that her contract with the Water Qilin had become intermittent.

Only then did she realize she had not seen the Water Qilin for a very long time.

She remembered that the Water Qilin had gone to The Great Forest of Ancient Demon for about a hundred years and never returned.

Accustomed to his gentle care and support, she had actually forgotten about him for a century. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Feeling guilty, she decided to go to The Great Forest of Ancient Demon to investigate what had happened to him.

However, she was stopped by Jian Li, Zhong Kui, Xia Qingsheng, and others who were overwhelmed with jealousy.

After a period of emotional conflict over who she loved, a few months later, when Xiao Ran was one hundred and forty years old, Xiao Ran, Jian Li, Zhong Kui, and Xia Qingsheng all decided to go to The Great Forest of Ancient Demon together.

There, the four of them experienced various demon race events in the forest. Through her interactions with them, Xiao Ran also gained a large group of demon clan admirers who had all shared intimate relations with her.

Escorted by the three most powerful great demons of the demon race, the Crimson Sea Serpent King Chi Yuan of the water tribe, the Golden Winged Skyhawk King Jin Yao of the bird tribe, and the Shadowclaw White Wolf King Mo Lang of the beast tribe, the group headed toward the forbidden core of The Great Forest of Ancient Demon.

Finally, when Xiao Ran was one hundred and forty-eight years old, they reached the center of the forbidden zone.

After some investigation, they encountered the administrators of the League of Independent Cultivators there, and only then did they learn the truth.

It turned out that this place was the cave dwelling where the Water Qilin had hatched and lived after returning to The Great Forest of Ancient Demon.

While they were preparing to collect important items and go find Xiao Ran, they sensed abnormal changes within the forbidden zone.

Upon investigating, they discovered that the seal inside the area was collapsing.

If it continued, once the seal was broken, the passage connected to the Demon Abyss Realm would open.

At that time, this world would inevitably face devastation.

Although this realm had the Infernal Sky Continent where demonic cultivators could survive, demonic cultivators and demon abyss were completely different existences.

Demon abyss were beings entirely different from humans.

They fed on resentment and gained power from hatred.

Wherever they passed, endless slaughter and disaster would follow.

They created resentment and hatred to use as nourishment.

They were the true embodiment of evil.

In order to prevent the invasion of demon abyss from the Heaven Origin Realm and the resulting destruction of all living beings, the Water Qilin had released his divine beast true form and taken the body of the Water Virtue Divine Being to suppress the seal for a hundred years.

During these hundred years, he continuously stabilized the collapsing seal and gradually merged with it, completely reinforcing the barrier and sealing the passage.

However, this also meant that the Water Qilin would eventually perish.

This was why Xiao Ran had felt the contract becoming intermittent nine years earlier.

This was the most shocking moment since Xiao Ran’s rebirth.

The companionship of Jian Li in the Treasure Crane Realm had moved her, but at this moment, the Water Qilin’s selfless sacrifice made her truly fall in love with him.

For the future of the world and the will of the Water Qilin, the group decided to respect his choice and help him fully merge with the seal.

However, they overlooked something unusual about Zhong Kui.

Both of Zhong Kui’s personalities sensed a call from within the seal.

Deep within them, a fragment of the Demon Abyss Emperor’s soul had awakened for the first time.

Instinctively, it took control of them, broke the Water Qilin’s seal, and opened the passage from both inside and outside.

After absorbing a massive amount of true demonic energy from the passage, Zhong Kui’s body was tempered by demonic energy.

After awakening his demon abyss body, he was immediately drawn by the soul fragment of the emperor within the Demon Abyss Realm and charged into the passage.

However, he left a huge disaster behind.