Beauty to Please Others, Appearance to Pity Oneself, Lingxi Is Poisonous, Connecting Hearts and Spirits!

"Several decades ago, the Five Elements Divine Sect took us in and gave us a place to live."

"But things weren't as good as they appeared on the surface back then. There were demons wreaking havoc outside, while the disciples within were divided and disloyal... As for Ling Jun's affair, although time eventually revealed the truth, it did have plenty of negative repercussions at the time. Many disciples who weren't steadfast enough toward the sect were lured into joining other schools."

"With troubles within and enemies without, all of us older-generation experts did our best to raise our cultivation so we could shield the younger generation from wind and rain."

"At the time, aside from Fu Jiusheng, Chu Kui, and Wang Yuan, who possessed Golden Core combat strength, the only other newly advanced Golden Core Cultivators were Xu Huanzhen and a guest elder who had joined our Luo Tian Sect halfway through."

"Hui Niang and I were both anxious to break through to the Golden Core Stage. At that time, cultivators from the Divine Sect also ordered us to go to the Three Paths River battlefield and reclaim a strategic stronghold."

"Then, one day!"

"Hui Niang suddenly underwent a transformation. Her mana surged, her realm skyrocketed, and she stepped into the Golden Core Realm in a single stride. Her realm even continued rising wildly, with no sign of stopping!"

"At the time, I still had no idea what had happened to her. I only knew that when the Three Paths River battlefield was in crisis, even Wang Yuan had become embroiled in a bitter struggle. Then she suddenly arrived on the battlefield and brought us all back alive."

"In that battle, Xu Huanzhen, who had finally condensed his Golden Core with great difficulty, fell. The guest elder who had joined