Shi Nianyao cultivated the Phoenix Nirvana Art, the foundational immortal art of the Heavenly Phoenix Palace. It could be cultivated all the way to the True Immortal Realm, and its might was exceptionally formidable.
Moreover, she had mastered the Undying Fire Phoenix Dharma Aspect, which no one in her sect had managed to cultivate in nearly a thousand years. Its ability to recover from injuries and be reborn through nirvana was even stronger than Shen Mo's Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique and [Remnant Body Rebirth] divine ability!
Even if both Dao Body and Divine Soul were utterly destroyed, so long as a single particle of flesh and blood or a wisp of remnant soul remained, she could return to her original state through the method of nirvana.
This made her exceedingly difficult to kill. Even a True Immortal would have to expend considerable effort to take her life!
When she received the Five Dragons Hall's decree and rushed to other immortal mountains to purge evil spirits, Shi Nianyao had never imagined she might fall. On one hand, she relied on the strength of her cultivation art; on the other, she had immense faith in the Earthly Origin Absolute Array.
Even if she encountered evil spirits with strength comparable to Earthly Immortals or Celestial Immortals, she had been full of confidence that she could preserve her life, then borrow the great array's power to suppress and kill them.
Before encountering the light-being evil spirit, everything had indeed gone as she expected. Her progress had been remarkably smooth, and she had slaughtered dozens of fifth- and sixth-tier evil spirits like dead trees snapped by a gust of wind.
Yet she had not expected that the moment she encountered the light-being evil spirit at Gourd Mountain, she would stumble into a fatal fall.