Yunxi narrowed her eyes dangerously at those words, but she did not interrupt. She simply listened quietly as Feng Jiayun recounted everything.
"After the poison in Su Jing's body was cured, he left me a Storage Ring as compensation and went off to find his own Dao Companion.
"I was furious at the time, but I also knew an arm could not twist a thigh. I could only swallow my anger and take the cultivation resources he had compensated me with to the city where the Rogue Cultivator Alliance headquarters was located, entering seclusion there.
"I had a fire bottled up in my heart. I thought that only by raising my cultivation could I stop being controlled by others, so I calmed myself and cultivated. That seclusion lasted ten years. After shattering my core and forming a nascent soul, I accepted a mission from the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, left the city, and embarked on a journey of experience.
"Yet only a month later, while I was locked in a fierce battle with a Fifth Order Demon Beast, I was severely injured. Just as I was about to be killed, Su Jing intervened and saved me. Then he proposed that we become Dao Companions.
"I did not want to agree at the time. I always felt that he had some other motive. But the injuries I suffered had damaged my foundation, so he offered to treat me and help me break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, telling me to consider it carefully.
"At that time, it had been a long while since any cultivators from the Weiyu Realm had ascended. I feared that my injuries would affect my lifespan and that I would not live long enough to wait for all of you to ascend, so after weighing it again