Fan Mingzhu became even more certain of her guess, while Shi Xuan remained as stubborn as he had been yesterday.

"Looks like you had a good day yesterday." It was clear that Fan Mingzhu's smile was genuine.

"I'm perfectly fine!" Shi Xuan said stubbornly, her neck stiff. She looked just like a child who had done something wrong and was caught by her elders but refused to admit it. She was a little guilty, but she just wouldn't give in.

Fan Mingzhu felt an overwhelming sense of superiority from Shi Xuan's subtle expressions. As she looked at Shi Xuan, she had already imagined a series of scenes of her being tortured to the point of madness by a group of monsters that night.

She had personally experienced this kind of pain, so at this moment, she could also personally feel the degree of pain that Shi Xuan was experiencing.

Not enough. Two days is not enough. She struggled here for a year and a half before finally adapting to everything.

She still has a long way to go.

Further words are pointless. At this moment, whatever Shi Xuan says will be interpreted as hypocrisy by Fan Mingzhu.

She was clearly exhausted and had no energy left, but she stubbornly refused to admit it. What good would denying it do? Did she think that denying it would prevent others from seeing what she looked like?!

Fan Mingzhu turned and left, feeling extremely pleased.

After Fan Mingzhu left, Shi Xuan continued her monster-collecting plan. She moved faster and faster.

Those demons lurking in the shadows had nowhere to hide under the shroud of all things.

Shi Xuan doesn't need them to manifest; wherever all things grow, the demons will all disappear.

In just three days, Shi Xuan successfully advanced to the next level.

It went from the second level of the Nascent Soul stage to the third level of the Nascent Soul stage.

When Fan Mingzhu arrived again, she noticed that Shi Xuan was different; the aura of a demonic cultivator seemed stronger on her.

She could exude a demonic aura simply by standing there.

She seemed to have become possessed, but Fan Mingzhu wasn't sure.

In contrast, Shi Xuan seems to be struggling and lingering on the verge of falling into demonic possession.

This is the most painful stage.

Fan Mingzhu feigned concern, but was actually smug, saying, "Are you feeling unwell? Haha, you'd better bear with it. If you can't hold it in, just become a demon. There's nothing wrong with being a demonic cultivator, look at me, right..."

Shi Xuan's eyes showed struggle; she seemed to have been fighting with herself for a long time.

Fan Mingzhu was too lazy to check on Shi Xuan's miserable state every day. Anyway, even if she were in her own residence, she could imagine what kind of situation Shi Xuan was in now.

When Fan Mingzhu returned to her residence after reviewing Shi Xuan's status again, Fan Hongde found her.

“Zhu’er, Shi Xuan is a very strange person. We should get rid of her now to prevent any unforeseen complications.”

He still harbored resentment about the last time he failed to kill her, a mere Nascent Soul cultivator, despite being at the Void Refining Realm.

They felt that Shi Xuan's fate was quite tough.

Even after things had come to that point, someone still opened a portal in the void for her and saved her.

What's more, everyone knows what the void is like. It's not that no one has ever gone there before, but there's simply no way anyone could survive there.

At that time, he had fallen into the void, and he thought that even if he didn't see her die with his own eyes, she would eventually be doomed.

But in the end, it turned out that she was able to escape this ordeal.

In just five short years, she returned unharmed and even advanced to the Nascent Soul stage!

Killing her now would be much more difficult than it was five years ago!

Now that she has fallen into the abyss of demons, she is at her weakest in the fight against demons. If she is not killed now, once she truly falls into demonic possession and becomes a demonic cultivator, she may turn around and attack them.

She has a wide range of methods, making her truly difficult to guard against.

Rather than causing trouble later, it's better to kill her now, while she's at her weakest!

“Father, why be so cautious?” Fan Mingzhu said casually. “At this point, even if she doesn’t stay in this state for a year, it’s about right. When that time comes, it won’t be too late for us to kill her in six months.”

Fan Mingzhu hadn't seen enough of Shi Xuan being tortured, and she couldn't bear to kill him.

She suffered too many grievances at Shi Xuan's hands. Except for a period of time right after she changed her spiritual root, she was always in a state of frustration.

She was used as a comparison, people said her spiritual root was stolen and she didn't live up to her reputation, she stole the limelight from the Alchemy Grand Competition, she was backfired by her spiritual root, she was hunted down and ostracized, and she exposed her identity as a demonic cultivator...

There are so many incidents, one after another, that sometimes it takes a long time to think about them all.

How could she be willing to let her die a quick and painless death like that?

Fan Mingzhu couldn't swallow her anger until those monsters tormented Shi Xuan for months!

The father and daughter disagreed on how to deal with Shi Xuan, but they were in complete agreement on one thing: they both believed that Shi Xuan was at her weakest point and could be killed at will.

In the end, Fan Hongde still failed to persuade Fan Mingzhu.

Fan Mingzhu insisted on seeing Shi Xuan at her most haggard and broken, and Fan Hongde, who doted on his daughter, naturally couldn't argue with her and could only let her have her way.

Not only Fan Hongde, but even Tianjun was reminded in Fan Mingzhu's mind: "Shi Xuan is full of tricks. If we don't get rid of him now, we'll be raising a tiger that will cause trouble and burn us."

But it still didn't help.

Fan Mingzhu was so engrossed in watching Shi Xuan's pain that she couldn't extricate herself.

Every two or three days, she would go to see where Shi Xuan was hiding and what kind of messy state he had become.

Shi Xuan has almost explored the entire wilderness of the Demon Abyss. The entire area has been completely devastated; all the demonic plants have been uprooted and the demons have been completely digested, leaving nothing but barren land wherever he goes.

The Demon Realm used to be a no-man's land. After the demon cultivators were all wiped out hundreds of years ago, this place has been abandoned ever since.

Starting with Fan Mingzhu, the number of demonic cultivators began to increase, and a residential area was built here.

It's like a small village in a wilderness, separated by an array to prevent demons from entering.

This formation was created by the Tu family, and it hasn't even been two years.

Shi Xuan excluded the residential area. For now, she didn't want to deal with the Tu family's affairs.

Shi Xuan went through all the areas except the residential areas and cleared out most of the monsters.

By this time, there were not many monsters attacking her at night anymore.

Shi Xuan left a few that she hadn't completely cleaned up, to use in her performance for Fan Mingzhu.

At this point, Shi Xuan had reached the edge of the entire Demon Abyss, where he could no longer go any further as he was blocked by the barrier.

The barrier here is different from that in the cultivation world; it is supported by magical power rather than spiritual power.

Whether it's a formation or a barrier, it needs the support of energy to function properly.

Shi Xuan placed his hand on the barrier, and at that moment, he felt a sharp pain in his hand.