Sheng He carefully held the ring in her hand. She looked up at the immortal with envy and asked, "Will I be as powerful as you in the future?"

"certainly."

Yuan Chen smiled and stroked her hair: "In ten days, Qingyun Sect will recruit disciples in Qingshan City. If you set out today, you can still catch up."

"Thank you, Immortal! Thank you, Immortal!"

Mother pulled Sheng He and knelt down quickly. Sheng He looked at the ring in his hand in confusion. When he looked up again, the immortal was no longer in front of him.

The spiritual power in his body was ready to break through at any time. Perhaps he felt that he had lost the last bit of ties in the world. Before going through the thunder tribulation, Yuan Chen went to Qingyun Sect.

As usual, Chu Heng respectfully called her "Uncle Master" and went to practice sword. When Xuan Xiao saw Yuan Chen, his eyes, which had always been calm, finally showed a hint of joy.

"Yuan Chen, you're here, have you figured it out?"

Yuan Chen shook his head: "I am going to ascend, Xuan Xiao, you know I have never been interested in love affairs. You are talented and now you are already in the late stage of transformation. Even if you don't rely on dual cultivation, you will be able to ascend sooner or later."

"But we have been together for hundreds of years! Yuan Chen, we have been through so many life and death situations together, do you really have no feelings for me at all?"

Xuan Xiao took a step forward and grabbed Yuan Chen's shoulders tightly. He looked into Yuan Chen's eyes, as if trying to see a trace of longing and affection in them.

But not.

Nothing.

There was no trace of emotion in Yuan Chen's eyes. She took out a bottle of pills from her sleeve and placed it on the table.

"We have been together for hundreds of years. I thought you already knew that there is only the Tao in my heart."

"Your injuries from last time have not yet fully healed. This is the last time I will refine pills for you. Xuanxiao, don't go to the Eastern Sea again. Eating mermaid meat to forcibly improve your cultivation is not what a noble and upright sect would do."

Xuan Xiao gritted his teeth and tugged at the corner of Yuan Chen's clothes, feeling unwilling: "But Yuan Chen, you can't, you can't just leave me and go to the upper realm alone!"

"I have been protecting you for so many years. If it weren't for me, you would have died in the hands of others long ago!"

"Yuan Chen, I've helped you so many times, you should help me once! Just once!"

Xuan Xiao looked at Yuan Chen madly, and his hands holding Yuan Chen's shoulders kept exerting force. Yuan Chen frowned, and a soft but irresistible force stopped Xuan Xiao's next move.

Xuan Xiao was pushed back by this force, but he still wanted to draw his sword and move forward unwillingly.

Yuan Chen sighed slightly. Her original intention of coming to Qingyun Sect was to ask Sheng He to become its disciple. But now it seemed that if she forced Xuan Xiao to accept her as a disciple, it would probably backfire.

Well, she would have ascended to heaven by then, and when Xuan Xiao saw the ring he would understand everything. Even if he was still angry with her and refused to accept her as a disciple, the other elders would not let go of such a good talent.

Thinking of this, she glanced at Xuan Xiao and said softly, "I will pass the thunder tribulation and ascend to heaven in the next two days. Xuan Xiao, don't be stubborn anymore."

"Who is so stubborn? Yuan Chen, you can't just abandon me like this! Don't even think about abandoning me like this!"

Yuan Chen had already left, and the gentle power in his body had dissipated. Xuan Xiao leaned against the wall weakly, murmuring in a low voice: "You can't leave me."

He had been stuck in the late stage of the Spirit Transformation for decades, and his cultivation had made no progress over all these years. He finally watched Yuan Chen advance from the late stage of the Spirit Transformation to the great perfection of the Spirit Transformation stage, and he was about to ascend.

At this time, as long as Yuan Chen was willing to practice dual cultivation, he could use secret methods to make Yuan Chen's cultivation his own. Yuan Chen had already reached the great perfection of the Spirit Transformation Stage, so what did it matter even if his cultivation regressed a little?

Yuan Chen can still practice again and find an opportunity to ascend, but what about him?

How many more years will he have to endure in Qingyun Sect?

"You can't abandon me."

"How could you abandon me?"

He was thinking about his own sincerity, and even more so, his path to ascension.

The day Sheng He arrived in Qingshan City was the last day that Qingyun Sect came to Qingshan City to accept disciples.

Seventeen-year-old Sheng He watched her mother being murdered and her own spiritual roots being replaced like a bystander. As for the ring that she had long forgotten, it was also snatched away by Zhao Yanran.

A sigh came from his ears. Sheng He didn't say anything, but just watched his previous life struggling in Qingyun Sect.

Her spiritual roots were not good, and she was almost the last one among that batch of new disciples to complete the process of drawing Qi into her body. Naturally, she was classified as a menial disciple.

Menial disciples have to do a lot of rough labor every day, but they can only receive very few spirit stones every month, so they have almost no time to practice.

It took her a full sixty years from drawing Qi into her body to building her foundation. During this period, Zhao Yanran mentioned her countless times "seemingly unintentionally". Zhao Yanran did not need to do it herself. She only needed to slightly indicate that she did not like the new five spiritual roots menial disciple, and naturally there would be countless people serving her.

Those sixty years were the most difficult sixty years that Sheng He had ever lived. She wanted to change her destiny all the time, but the mountain of fate was pressed firmly on her head by Zhao Yanran, and she could not break free for a moment.

After building the foundation, Sheng He was promoted to an outer disciple, and outer disciples needed to take turns to guard the mountain guarding formation regularly.

This was originally an easy job. The mountain protection formation was jointly set up by several founders of Qingyun Sect. Except for the disciples of Qingyun Sect, it would be almost impossible for evil cultivators and monsters to force their way in.

However, when it was Sheng He's turn to be on duty, various problems would always arise in the mountain protection formation, either monsters would break in or disciples would go missing.

She was punished again and again by the disciples of the Discipline Department, and the skin on her back would often be torn apart before it could heal again.

At that time, Sheng He finally realized that it was the brilliant young disciple of Xuanxiao Sword Master who was targeting her.

But why?

At that time, Sheng He asked herself again and again at night, she was just an outer disciple who had just established her foundation, but Zhao Yanran had already broken through to the Nascent Soul stage and became the number one among the younger generation of Qingyun Sect.

Sheng He couldn't understand it, and she desperately wanted to become stronger. After becoming an outer disciple, she finally had the opportunity to enter the library.

The library had six floors. She spent thirty years reading all the books in the library. Finally, on that day, she saw "A View of Spiritual Objects".

That was her only remaining hope, and also the beginning of her nightmare.

Zhao Yanran seemed to have predicted the future. Sheng He wanted to go to the Jingyue Secret Realm to get the Qingmu Vine, but the next day her qualification to go to the secret realm was replaced.

She wanted to go to Wuwang Sea to get the Qingyan True Fire. In the end, she managed to get it after risking her life and exerting amazing perseverance. However, the moment she got it, she was asked to give it to Zhao Yanran.

The reason is that the Ten Thousand Sects Competition is about to begin, and Zhao Yanran is about to break through. She has a top-grade fire spiritual root and can bring glory to the sect. But what about Sheng He?