As Madam Tianyao's sole successor, Ni Lanxin had entered the Dao relatively late, but she possessed natural beauty and a body unlike those of ordinary people, with an innate fragrance. Practicing Lady Tianyao's arts brought her twice the results for half the effort.
Back when Gods Bing Rong, the Divine Lord of Scarlet Cloud, captured her on Zhongtiao Mountain, she not only came to no harm, but absorbed a considerable amount of his essence qi.
Over the years, her cultivation had grown ever stronger, and she had become "quite renowned" among the world's circles of dissolute unorthodox practitioners.
In the original story, she had successively taken up with Zhu Hong, the Wutai traitor, the Green-Robed Ancestor, and Demon Corpses Gu Chen.
Now fate had brought them together again. She returned to Mount Wangwu to find her master, only to be seized by Gu Chen upon arrival and forcibly given the highest level of reward this world had to offer.
Ni Lanxin would have followed in her master's footsteps, but on her way back to the mountain this time, she happened to encounter Lu Yu.
Lu Yu did not reveal herself then, merely setting up an illusory realm in the mountain wilderness.
Ni Lanxin thought she had stumbled upon a once-in-an-age opportunity and wandered into an Ancient Immortal's cave abode. Inside, she saw an incense burner still smoking, and fragrant elixir qi filled the air.
She opened the Alchemy Furnace and found an Immortal Elixir within. She took it out and swallowed it, but when she left the cave and looked back for it, there was nothing but barren, rocky hills, as though everything had been an illusion.
Thanks to that Immortal Elixir, after eight days and eight nights of fierce battle, Ni Lanxin was not rewarded to death by Gu