If Shi Xuan knew what her master was thinking, she would definitely stick her tongue out in her heart.

At the time, in order to ensure that she, a contestant with five spiritual roots and weak spiritual roots, could successfully stay in the sect, she put on a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, which actually fooled the sect leader and her master.

Well, I can only blame myself for being too good at acting!

Peaceful times are rare in the cultivation world, and the past few hundred years have happened to be a period of tranquility where all obstacles have been swept away. Disciples of various sects have long been accustomed to this kind of life.

For them, the biggest struggles are probably the competitive events like the Six Sects Tournament, or the minor squabbles in the secret realms.

If it is true that Fan Hongde has fallen into demonic possession, then the cultivation world will surely face turmoil.

At this moment in the Demon Abyss, Fan Mingzhu, who had been missing for eight years, had completely changed her appearance.

Gone is the image of her former frailty; she now exudes a gloomy aura.

Individually, the facial features seem unchanged, but when put together, they transform from a delicate appearance to a ruthless and gloomy one.

The demons that were originally in the Demon Abyss have been completely unable to harm her in recent years.

The helplessness and loneliness she felt when she first fell into the abyss had disappeared from her face. As she grew stronger, she no longer needed those things.

In the first year, she was tormented by those monsters and lived in constant fear. She couldn't help but scream at the slightest disturbance.

Many times, it was the Heavenly Army that came to their rescue.

Not long after, her father actually found her.

Fan Hongde was able to find Fan Mingzhu so quickly because he had placed a tracking jade on Fan Mingzhu.

This jade was forged using a tracking array as its base and infused with the heart's blood of a close relative.

When you want to find someone, you can use your own blood to activate the formation and get their approximate location.

The Abyss of Demons was not easy to find. Fan Hongde lingered there for a long time before finally falling into it by chance.

When Fan Hongde found Fan Mingzhu, she had aged drastically.

His body was filthy, his hair was tangled like dry straw, and his face was almost unrecognizable.

Fan Hongde was heartbroken. His pampered daughter had never suffered such a terrible ordeal!

In the past, Luo Mingzhu always insisted on having her hair perfectly styled and refused to leave the house if her makeup had even the slightest flaw.

Fan Hongde immediately wanted to take Fan Mingzhu out. However, the Demon Abyss was easy to enter but difficult to leave, and finding a way out was not so easy.

After continuous exploration, Fan Hongde finally discovered that only demonic cultivators who had reached the level of Demon General could break the barrier of the Demon Abyss.

In other words, it is equivalent to the human stage of refining emptiness.

He was only at the third level of the Nascent Soul stage, which was far too far from the required level. Moreover, he was completely unqualified in the requirement of being a demonic cultivator.

Unlike Fan Hongde, Fan Mingzhu gradually calmed down after having her father as her backer.

Under the guidance of the Heavenly Army, he began to slowly cultivate demonic arts and absorb more demonic energy. Gradually, he became able to fight against simple demons in the Demon Abyss.

As time went by, Fan Hongde was also tainted by demonic energy.

Meanwhile, Fan Mingzhu's magical skills were gradually improving.

The overwhelming feeling of power fascinated Fan Mingzhu, and she frantically absorbed the demonic energy, her cultivation advancing by leaps and bounds.

Looking at his daughter, Fan Hongde knew in his heart that she could never go back.

"Zhu'er, do you regret it?" Fan Hongde asked her.

"Regret?" Fan Mingzhu scoffed. "What's the use of regret? Is there any magic medicine in this world that can make you go back to the past just by regretting it?"

Such is fate, such is destiny. If she could go back to the past, she would rather she hadn't exchanged any top-grade spiritual roots with Shi Xuan. She could choose not to exchange spiritual roots, but Shi Xuan must die in the Divine Cauldron Sect.

“There’s no going back, so what’s the use of talking about regret?” Fan Mingzhu said, “Now that I’ve entered the demonic path, there’s no turning back. From now on, I can only go down this path to the end. What other choice do I have?”

Hearing his daughter speak such desperate words in a cold, hard tone, Fan Hongde felt a deep sense of remorse.

He sighed, "It's my fault. You asked me to kill Shi Xuan, but I let her escape. If I had killed her then, none of this trouble would have happened."

Even without Shi Xuan, his daughter would still be living a good life by his side, and no one would notice anything amiss...

"Yes! It's because you failed to kill Shi Xuan!" Fan Mingzhu became extremely agitated when Shi Xuan was mentioned. All her misfortunes were closely related to Shi Xuan.

She had repeatedly asked Fan Hongde to kill Shi Xuan, but he failed to do so. Back then, outside the Silver Frost Secret Realm, he was worried about the reactions of other sects, so he sent him to kill Shi Xuan, but Shi Xuan escaped again.

"Father! I must kill Shi Xuan! The day I master my demonic arts will be her death day!"

Fan Hongde sighed deeply: "Fine! I will grant you this wish!"

So what if they are demonic cultivators? So what if they are human cultivators? In the cultivation world, the strong have always been respected.

Even after learning that he had changed his spiritual root, he still firmly held the position of sect leader of the Divine Cauldron Sect, and no one dared to question him. What was the reason for this? It was precisely because of the strength and status of the Divine Cauldron Sect at that time.

So what if he's possessed by a demon? As long as his power is great enough, no one can do anything to him.

Thinking this, Fan Hongde completely let go of his resistance to the demonic energy, allowing it to enter his body, and thus, together with Fan Mingzhu, he entered the demonic path!

After becoming a demon, Fan Hongde finally experienced the benefits of demonic cultivation. For many years, he had been stuck at the third level of the Nascent Soul stage, unable to make any progress. He tried all sorts of methods and took all kinds of pills, but to no avail.

Back then, his ability to reach the Nascent Soul stage was largely due to the support of elixirs. Later on, he probably consumed too many elixirs, which made their effects less noticeable.

But now, he was experiencing the same rapid progress as when he was in the Qi Refining stage.

It's a feeling of being able to clearly sense yourself improving!

It feels dangerous, yet it's irresistibly addictive.

Fan Hongde had a better foundation, and his progress was more obvious.

His cultivation progress in the Demon Abyss was extremely rapid; in just over two years, he was already close to becoming a Demon General.

That is equivalent to reaching the Great Perfection of the Divine Transformation stage.

The most powerful aspect of demonic cultivators is that they don't need to accumulate experience or undergo tribulations.

Therefore, what seems incredibly difficult to ordinary cultivators—the Refining Void Realm—is merely a matter of whether demonic cultivators have enough demonic energy.

Thus, in just two and a half years, Fan Hongde broke through to the Demon General level and became a powerful demon cultivator with comparable strength to the Void Refinement stage.

At this point, Fan Hongde was able to freely enter and leave the Demon Abyss.

However, Fan Mingzhu still needed to cultivate, and it wouldn't be safe for them to go out. So the two of them decided that Fan Hongde would go out alone first and find an opportunity to kill Shi Xuan.