Over the next five years, Yunxi lived in peace. She trained her Nominal Disciple while tirelessly refining the strand of Soul Thunder within her Nascent Soul, occasionally studying poison arts. In the process, she discovered that the two poisons, "Ying Ruo" and "Entanglement," truly shared certain similarities.
Yunxi felt that the inspiration for creating "Ying Ruo" had come from "Entanglement." Thirty percent of the poisonous plants used to refine the two poisons were the same, and for poisons, that was already an exceptionally high proportion.
Thus, she became very interested in the ghost cultivator from the Fengdu Realm who had developed "Ying Ruo." Unfortunately, with hidden dangers still lurking within her, she could not leave the Haoran Sect and could only postpone her plans to meet that person.
During those five years, Xiang Sizi came to visit her once. Learning that Haoyi was still in seclusion, she exchanged poison arts with Yunxi for two days. Having gained something from the discussion, she happily returned to the Rogue Cultivator Alliance. This time, she was confident she could break through to the Body Integration Realm.
In the eighth year after Yunxi returned to the sect, Situ Xuanming brought a female cultivator to meet her.
At that moment, Yunxi had followed a sudden impulse to visit the Artifact Refining Peak. The one receiving her was its current Peak Master, Xi Muran, Peak Master Yulian's Personal Disciple. After stumbling and struggling all the way, coupled with the benefits gained from the entire realm's ascension, Xi Muran had successfully advanced to mid Spirit Transformation and taken on the burden of the Artifact Refining Peak. Meanwhile, his master, Yulian, was in seclusion attempting to break through to the Void-Traversal Realm.
Looking at Xi Muran, whose appearance had not changed but who had grown far more mature,