abdicate and hand over power to a more capable person

A powerful force spread throughout Mo Zuili's body from his lungs and internal organs. The Mo family members sitting around Mo Zuili began to exert their strength, and after the magic array was activated, it helped Mo Zuili share most of the pain.

With Mo Yuan personally overseeing the process, Mo Zuili absorbed most of the power of the Quenching Yuan Pill, raising her unstable mid-Foundation Establishment cultivation to the peak of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and even showing signs of a breakthrough.

Fortunately, Mo Yuan intervened in time to help Mo Zuili suppress the spiritual power within her body.

Although the effects of pill poisoning, which is the biggest factor in breakthroughs, do not exist for Mo Zuili, if the breakthrough is too rapid in a short period of time, her foundation may already be obviously unstable when she breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage.

If the breakthrough speed is controlled, and with the addition of Chu Qing's other pills and conditioning methods, the foundation will not become unstable in the late Nascent Soul stage.

Mo Zuili opened her eyes. The abundant spiritual energy within her body made her once frail body look much healthier.

Refusing Elder Tan's help, Mo Zuili stood up on her own, gathered her spiritual power in her palm, and felt the power that could kill a peak Qi Refining cultivator with a single slap. A smile couldn't help but appear on her face.

After receiving Mo Yuan's concerned inquiry, Mo Zuili comforted him, but before she could put it into practice, she felt a loud noise coming from the south.

Mo Yuan's expression changed, and Mo Zuili followed suit, looking in the south...

Direction to the Mo Family Dungeon!

Mo Zuili's eyelids suddenly started twitching. Seeing that Mo Yuan was about to leave, she quickly grabbed him: "Father! Take me with you! If it's other members of the Phoenix Clan who come to rescue Huang Geng, they might also come to capture me! If these madmen are determined to capture me, I might be ambushed again if I stay here instead of going with you now."

Given the urgency of the situation, Mo Yuan didn't hesitate much before taking Mo Zuili along, and together with the other elders of the Mo family, headed straight for the dungeon.

Mo Zuili's premonition was correct; it was indeed the Phoenix Clan, and they had indeed come to rescue Huang Geng. But only two people came.

A man with a full head of silver hair tightly wrapped under a plain-colored headscarf, a wrinkled face, and bright, piercing eyes, stood on his sword, exuding the aura of a peak Nascent Soul cultivator despite his slightly hunched posture.

The other person followed half a step behind the old man; she was a woman with her hair tied up high. Her skin was fair, her face resolute, and her expression calm, with a hint of mockery at the corner of her mouth. Dressed in black, she didn't deliberately exude any pressure, and Mo Zuili couldn't sense her cultivation level.

Huang Geng, who was imprisoned yesterday, has somehow escaped. He is holding a deep red sword, and several members of the Mo family are lying dead beside him.

Before even getting close, Mo Zuili saw that Mo Yuan was preparing to join the battle, so she quickly retreated behind Elder Tan, not wanting to be targeted.

But things didn't go as planned. As soon as Mo Zuili retreated behind Elder Tan, she felt a sharp gaze lock onto her.

A bunch of lunatics!

Mo Zuili almost instinctively stepped back, and Elder Tan in front of her immediately released his spiritual power to block the attack that came from a distance.

While quickly hiding behind them, Mo Zuili pondered the other motives of the two men.

In the novel, the Mo family is one of the four great immortal cultivation families of the human race. Although several powerful ancestors are currently engaged in a life-or-death seclusion, they will not emerge from seclusion unless it concerns the life and death of the Mo family.

However, even if Mo Yuan and the current elders of the Mo family were to come alone to provoke the Mo family, let alone a peak Nascent Soul cultivator, even a peak Deity Transformation cultivator would have to think twice.

"Junior sister! Watch out!"

The moment Chen Ling's voice came, Mo Zuili was entangled by the Spirit Binding Rope.

Here we go again! Is this never going to end?!

The Spirit-Binding Rope is an extremely rare, one-time-use magical artifact in the novel. I had only been back at the Mo family for three days when I was fortunate enough to be bound twice.

A woman in white appeared out of nowhere and grabbed Mo Zuili by the back of the neck the moment Mo Zuili was bound.

Shen Ling held a gold-white longsword, her right shoulder was cut and bleeding, and she stared at the white-clad woman behind Mo Zuili with hostility.

Mo Zuili, having practiced before, took out a fifth-order magic weapon shaped like an umbrella from his Sumeru Bracelet and detonated it before the woman and Shen Ling could react.

After Huang Geng's close-range artifact self-destruction, which resulted in Mo Zuili being injured as well.

Mo Zuili spent the entire night covering herself with defensive magical artifacts that didn't require spiritual power to activate, and she also carried passive defensive talismans in her bag.

The moment the magical artifact exploded, the woman instinctively released Mo Zuili in order to mobilize her spiritual power for defense.

Mo Zuili used the air current to run towards Shen Ling.

Fearing being caught by the woman, Mo Zuili took out another magical artifact and self-destructed while running.

The Mo family members, who were standing by, ready to save Mo Zuili, didn't see Mo Zuili's actions clearly.

All that could be seen was Mo Zuili, bound by the Spirit-Binding Rope and devoid of any spiritual power, creating an explosion comparable to the power of a fifth-tier fire talisman.

If I were in the place of that woman in white...

After thinking it over, the Mo family members all shook their heads in unison. The result would likely be death on the spot, or at least permanent disability.

Mo Zuili doesn't seem to be a waste after all...

In the end, it was the male protagonist, Shen Ling, who reacted the fastest and removed the spirit-binding rope from Mo Zuili's body before the woman in white recovered.

As expected, the old man and the woman in black who fought with Mo Yuan were captured, and Huang Geng was also captured again.

The woman in white was also captured by the Mo family members who had recovered from their shock.

Even without Shen Ling's explanation, Mo Zuili could guess that these three were still after her, and rescuing Huang Geng was just a pretext.

If I had had a sudden inspiration and followed Mo Yuan here, staying at the southern magic array, I would definitely have been taken advantage of by the woman in white.

Mo Yuan stared at the four people who had become prisoners, his anger undisguised.

Huang Geng, however, seemed to lack a brain, showing no fear whatsoever and even cursing Mo Yuan for being a despicable human race.

Mo Zuili frowned, wanting to step forward, but then saw Shen Ling beside her suddenly bend down, suppress her aura, and whisper, "Junior Sister, I'll return to my guest first..."

After a moment of silence, Shen Ling changed his words and said, "Things here are temporarily over. I'm going to leave the Mo family."

After a moment's thought, Mo Zuili guessed that Shen Ling had rushed south to protect her and encountered the woman in white. During the battle, he was injured, which triggered his potential and caused his ghostly bloodline to become agitated.

Initially, Mo Zuili wasn't interested in the opportunities the male protagonist encountered on his journey to the Demon Realm. If it weren't for the fact that she was forced to undergo a cultivation regression due to the Nirvana Fire at the start, rendering many resources unusable, the resources the Mo family could have provided would have been far better than what the male protagonist had painstakingly obtained along the way.

But now that I've chosen the path of leveling up by taking medicine, I need to find a way to consolidate my cultivation before leaving this world.

As for these kinds of "unorthodox remedies," in Mo Zuili's recollections over the past few days, she remembered that the Demon Realm seemed to have them, so the male protagonist needed to make an appearance.

Turning to the dark side and going to the demon realm are two different things, and Shen Ling, as his senior brother, had also helped him.

Mo Zuili thought for a moment, then pulled Shen Ling aside and said, "Senior brother, remember to come back when you're ready. I'll take you to the Martial Arts Pavilion."

Shen Ling looked surprised, but Mo Zuili didn't explain further because she was in a hurry to stabilize the abnormal bloodline. Shen Ling didn't ask any questions and just nodded in agreement.

Shen Ling didn't return until noon the next day. As soon as she got back, Mo Zuili took her to the Martial Arts Pavilion.

In the novel, the first person to come and take Zi Tui to Medicine King Mountain is Shen Ling. Shen Ling also enters the Mo Family Martial Arts Pavilion for various reasons and selects an upgradeable fourth-tier magic weapon.

This magical artifact played a significant role after Shen Ling went to the Demon Realm.

Mo Zuili wanted to stop Shen Ling from turning evil, but the safest place for Shen Ling after his bloodline awakened was still the Demon Realm.

I'll need Shen Ling's help again in the future to find ways to consolidate my cultivation in the Demon Realm, so naturally I'll need to provide Shen Ling with more life-saving weapons.

At first, Shen Ling refused, but Mo Zuili persuaded him by saying, "The method to consolidate the foundation may be in the Demon Realm. If we have to trouble you again in the future, we will have to ask you for help. Besides, the Mo Family Martial Arts Pavilion is all-encompassing and may have clues about your bloodline mutation."

Mo Zuili, holding the token given to her by Mo Yuan, passed through without hindrance. After Shen Ling entered, she told Shen Ling to find it herself.

After all, the novel didn't go into that much detail, so who knows where that magical artifact is?

After wandering aimlessly around the Martial Arts Pavilion with her arms crossed, Mo Zuili remembered that she should look for the scrolls on talisman drawing.

At that moment, a faint voice, tinged with laughter, drifted over as if carried by a gentle breeze, intermittently.

Mo Zuili wasn't used to eavesdropping on strangers, and just as she was about to turn around and walk back, she precisely caught her own name from the hushed sounds.

Stopping and turning her head, Mo Zuili began to feel curious.

The group of people were heading towards Mo Zuili's location, and soon the sound grew closer and closer until Mo Zuili could hear it clearly.

"Yesterday's events were all because of Mo Zuili. She's so useless now that her master has expelled her from the sect! Back then, the patriarch humbled himself and begged someone to accept Mo Zuili, but after only a few months, he was personally sent back."

"I heard that the patriarch fought with Mo Zuili's master because he couldn't save face after she was sent back. Isn't that ridiculous?" A rough voice mocked without any attempt to hide its amusement.

Upon hearing this, Mo Zuili raised an eyebrow in shock and straightened her back slightly as she leaned against the wall.

Another person spoke in a sharp, sinister voice, continuing, "Mo Zuili is a complete waste! She only drags the family down! And she's so shameless, clinging to the position of young master. If you ask me, that position should belong to Brother Zhen."

"Don't talk nonsense. How can we talk about the position of young master?" The third gentle male voice was filled with heartache as he said, "My cousin's birth mother is missing, and my uncle is the one who loves her the most. He gave her a lot of resources when she was young. She was the best among our peers. My uncle is the head of the family. With his support, it is beyond reproach for the patriarch to choose my cousin as the young master."

Who is this? So rude! Mo Zuili felt nauseous after hearing this person's words.

But the other two flattered the third person, continuing their attack on Mo Zuili with a mix of praise and criticism: "That was so long ago! Who knows if her cultivation regressed because she used evil magic in her childhood and is now suffering the backlash."

Now that she's become useless, she should wisely step down and give way to a more capable person.

"That's right! The patriarch clearly values ​​Zhen-ge highly, but because she's so shameless, the patriarch can't say it outright. Otherwise, Zhen-ge would already be the young master of the Mo family."

A gentle male voice sighed, "Alas, my cousin is still too young to let go of her pride. She will understand our good intentions when she grows up."

"Brother Zhen, you still spoil her too much! She doesn't even understand the principle of 'the capable rise to the top,' and she's such a failure as to be a good-for-nothing. If it weren't for Brother Zhen, how could Mo Zuili possibly be... a ghost!"

His shrill voice already gave him a sinister air, making him seem like a bad person, and he spoke with a fawning, obsequious manner.

Ugh, so ugly.

Mo Zuili glanced at him once before shifting her gaze from the shrill-voiced man, and smiled, saying, "Me, unable to let go of my pride? And what about your 'good intentions'?"