Fan Ying's words made Shen Mo recall what had happened all those years ago.
More than two hundred and fifty years earlier, Fairy Yuquan had battled Venerable Myriad Saints. To stop that demonic true immortal from gathering enough demons to set up the Myriad Spirits Divine Baleful Array, the Fairy had rallied every faction, and countless powerful cultivators had launched an expedition against the Corpse Tuo Mountain Range.
During that great battle, Shen Mo had accepted a mission issued by the Taihua Mirror Spirit and taken an imitation immortal mirror to reinforce Jade Verdure Grotto, which lay on the eastern slope of Five Dragons Mountain!
However, Jade Verdure Grotto had already been infiltrated by Venerable Myriad Saints' power and turned into a trap aimed at the Taihua Mirror.
The moment Shen Mo set up the imitation immortal mirror, Venerable Myriad Saints activated the sacrificial method he had prepared for so long, twisting and mutating all eight hundred million immortal and mortal inhabitants of the secret realm into evil insects. They poured endlessly into the imitation immortal mirror, attempting to exploit the close connection between the two to directly contaminate—or even destroy—the immortal artifact known as the Taihua Mirror!
Watching hundreds of millions of humans, immortals, and mortals alike reduced to evil insects, Shen Mo's Dao heart suffered a tremendous blow. Even his cultivation realm showed signs of falling.
Fortunately, a little girl's crying had jolted him awake. He had barely managed to preserve his Dao heart and cultivation, and that little girl had been Fan Ying. By that reckoning, Fan Ying had rendered him the kindness of a warning!
Fan Ying had been very young then, with no cultivation at all. Yet she was the reincarnation of a great immortal Dao cultivator, and her Divine Soul was unusual, allowing her