After Bai Yuxian, Xu Ziyan had held the position of Sect Leader of the Carefree Sect for many years.
Kind and meticulous by nature, she had made very few mistakes in handling the sect's affairs, great or small, over the years.
Not only did she have good relationships with many of the sect's Golden Core Elders, but she had also earned the deep trust of Song Qingming, Bai Yuxian, and several other Grand Elders. Her prestige was second only to the sect's Nascent Soul Old Ancestors.
Unfortunately, after failing to form her Nascent Soul twice in succession, Xu Ziyan's cultivation had remained at the Ninth Level of Golden Core to this day, still unable to step into the Nascent Soul Realm.
As a cultivator of Song Qingming's generation, Xu Ziyan's lifespan had long surpassed five hundred years.
Although she had once consumed quite a few high-tier life-extending spiritual items, giving her several more decades of lifespan than an ordinary Golden Core Cultivator of the same level,
she had now entered the time when her vital blood was declining. She likely had only thirty or forty years left to live.
At this time, Xu Ziyan chose to step down as Sect Leader and travel abroad.
Everyone present could see that she had yet to relinquish her hope of forming a Nascent Soul and wished to seek opportunities beyond the sect.
Hearing Li Xuanyi point it out directly, Bai Yuxian nodded slightly as well.
"Previously, I exchanged for a bottle of Cold Jade Spiritual Water at the Merit Pavilion and wanted her to enter seclusion within the sect.
"But Ziyan still insisted on going out for a walk. I tried persuading her for a long time, yet I could not change her mind.
"The path to immortality is as difficult as climbing