Leng Yue's arrival did not interrupt Li Yun's cultivation.
Instead, when she saw that Li Yun intended to continue grinding away the Calamity within Snow Woman, and that the process would take some time, she quietly left Vast Cold City again.
Li Yun and Snow Woman knew Leng Yue was safe for the time being. A stroke of fortune had also raised her to the Five-Wheel Realm, so ordinary Undying Ancient Gods could no longer threaten her. Neither of them stopped her.
The two resumed the refining they had left unfinished.
Another two hundred million years soon passed.
Li Yun drew the lingering Calamity out of Snow Woman bit by bit, then ground it down and refined it with the Life-and-Death Millstone. At last, she was free of the torment she had endured for years.
Only then did her own undying power begin to revive.
In just two years, she completely shed her rabbit form and became human again. Her First Immortal Heavenly Wheel also began to stir.
Snow Woman was beside herself with joy, tears of excitement filling her eyes. She embraced Leng Yue, who had hurried back upon hearing the news, and both women choked up on the spot.
Calamity had tormented her for far too many years.
It had been far worse than what others saw: an inability to maintain human form, leaving her trapped as a rabbit.
The suffering behind it had been immense. Every day, every hour, every moment had been agony.
Now, in a single stroke, she was free of Calamity's grip.
It felt no different from climbing out of the eighteenth level of hell and returning to the world of the living. No matter how much hardship that world held, it felt like a new life.
Anyone would have been overwhelmed by a