Only after fully branding Yu Lin as a villain did she finally appear in public.

Acting on behalf of the Heavenly Void Sect to clean house, Jian Li also contributed greatly in this matter, blocking those who were loyal to Yu Lin.

This allowed Xiao Ran to finally personally kill Yu Lin.

After killing Yu Lin with her own hands, Xiao Ran’s innner demon was resolved, and the opportunity to break through to the late Deity Transformation stage appeared.

After returning to the Heavenly Void Sect, she supported one of her lover within the sect, a handsome and sharp-witted man named Xiang Yu to become the new Sect Master.

She then immediately went into seclusion.

Twenty years later, she advanced to late Deity Transformation.

However, upon coming out of seclusion, she learned that Jian Li’s Dao companion Ying Ying had failed in her attempt to break through to Deity Transformation and had perished.

In grief, Jian Li passed the Sect Master position to his eldest disciple and retired to become Grand Elder.

Feeling the impermanence of life, Jian Li soon heard that Xiao Ran had come out of seclusion and went to visit her.

In her dreamlike state of detachment, she and the Water Qilin eventually lived in seclusion on Illusion Mist Dragon Island together.

The three of them ascended to the Spirit Realm when Xiao Ran reached her full five hundred years of age.

Unknowingly, Xiao Shou had finished recording the key events of the entire Heavenly Orb novel.

After a brief review, he realized that from age 21 to 41, Xiao Ran had always been traveling with the male leads.

The only clearly defined period was when she stayed in Five Poison Mountain Secret Relam for seven or eight months at age 22 with the three male leads.

After that, most of the plot consisted of intimate scenes, which he had skimmed over without reading carefully.

During that period, at age 24, he could not even remember the exact locations or people Xiao Ran had encountered.

He comforted himself with the thought that he probably would not be so unlucky as to run into them.

With that hopeful mindset, Xiao Shou put away the important jade slip and began writing a plan to rescue Ye Ying and the other children.

It was a habit formed in his modern life.

For major tasks, he always wrote a detailed plan first.

That way everything would be much more efficient.

At this moment, Xiao Shou did not know that the plot records he had compiled regarding Xiao Ran would later become something he had to consult like an almanac every time he left the house. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Each time, he would carefully check whether he would encounter the female lead before making any move.

Only after the storyline eventually fragmented like a storm and became completely unreliable did he finally abandon this habit.

Of course, Fu Young played a significant role in that change.

Right now, Xiao Shou who knew nothing of the future was re-reading his notes and carefully checking for any missing details.

When his divine sense swept over the section about the Great Forest of Ancient Demon plot, he suddenly recalled something.

Back then, he had once glanced at a non-romance and no-harem cultivation novel.

Because the entire book had a very dark tone, he only skimmed part of the plot and did not read it carefully.

By the time he read "Longevity Love," he had already forgotten most of it.

It was only now, seeing the Gret Forest of Ancient Demon plot again, that his improved memory after cultivation allowed him to recall it.

That book was called Against the World and it also contained a race called the Demon Abyss, with very similar attributes.

However, unlike "Longevity Love," Against the World used a non-linear narrative with frequent flashbacks.

When the protagonist appeared in that book, it was already at the moment he was destroying his original world and creating a new one.

Before the destruction, he looked at the only companion by his side, the transmigrated male character Shen Guangming, and recalled the past.

His childhood memories were vague yet strangely bright.

The opening Chapters were written in a very abstract, stream-of-consciousness style that Xiao Shou could not understand, so he simply skipped those pages.

In summary, the protagonist had been harmed in childhood by another transmigrator, but was later saved by Shen Guangming.

In order to help him escape that transmigrator’s persecution, Shen Guangming left their homeland with him.

However, along the way, they encountered a geomagnetic storm and were separated.

The protagonist fell into a spacetime rift alone.

Inside the rift, time was frozen at the moment he fell.

He neither ate nor drank, neither aged nor died.

In that timeless state, he gained vast knowledge and inheritances from the flow of time itself.

He studied and absorbed them alone.

When he eventually emerged from the spacetime rift, the entire world had changed beyond recognition.

The world he returned to had already been ruled by the Demon Abyss race that originated from his homeland, and humanity was living under their oppression.

Everywhere was filled with slaughter, disaster, pain, and torment.

There was not a single place where laughter could be heard.

Human factions and families that submitted to the Demon Abyss Clan lived slightly better, but the rest survived in conditions worse than even the mice the protagonist had seen in his childhood.

Those suffering people all longed for the only place in the world said to bring happiness to humanity, the Holy Domain.

The protagonist, however, disdained that so-called Holy Domain.

After emerging, he searched everywhere for traces of events before the Demon Abyss Clan appeared, wanting to know what had happened during the time he was lost in the spacetime rift.

Later, after obtaining clues, he went to the forbidden land of the Demon Abyss Clan, a demonic forest filled with demon trees, to investigate the truth.

There he discovered endless streams of demonic energy, countless Demon Abysss as well as ruins of the Nine Heavens Nine Stellar Array and remnants of cultivator souls who had died fighting the Demon Abyss Clan.