Eastern Wasteland, Qingqiu Mountain.
This was the territory of the Sky Fox Clan. Ordinary clansmen lived on the outskirts; only core clan members were permitted to reside on Qingqiu Mountain.
Within a sprawling small courtyard paved with blue tiles, a young woman in a white palace dress sat inside a stone pavilion. Four snow-white tails extended from behind her. She was none other than Bai Ling'er.
After Bai Xin rescued her from Song Xiruo, Bai Ling'er cultivated bitterly for over a century and successfully advanced into the Nascent Soul Realm, gaining four tails.
Each time she crossed a major cultivation realm, she gained another tail. This was an ancestral reversion phenomenon. The Sky Fox Clan possessed the bloodline of the Nine-Tailed Immortal Fox, but throughout the clan's history, the member with the highest cultivation had only possessed five tails. It was said that one had to reach the Spirit Realm to grow a sixth tail.
Bai Ling'er was currently at the Nascent Soul Early Stage. Had she not been wounded by Wang Qingshan, then captured by Huang Fugui and sold to Song Xiruo, her aptitude would have brought her to at least the Nascent Soul Middle Stage by now.
She had spent a century serving as Song Xiruo's spirit beast, wasting far too much time. Clan members who had once looked up to her had caught up. Bai Ling'er had once been one of the Demon Race's most dazzling beauties, bearing the title of the Demon Race's foremost beauty. Yet generation after generation brought forth new talents. During her disappearance, many young prodigies had emerged among the Demon Race, and Bai Ling'er had fallen far behind them. The culprit behind it all was Wang Qingshan.
Liu Ye had openly declared that Wang Qingshan was his grand-disciple. If Bai Ling'er wished