The Round-Faced Daoist Nun had been very tired these past years.
Ever since her Lineage had begun rapidly growing and expanding several decades ago, she had faced suppression.
It was just that she had not felt it very clearly at the time, and had easily resolved everything.
Later, after noticing the suppression, she had deliberately begun limiting her Lineage's development in the Present World, instead putting more energy into the corresponding second-layer world.
With Qian Xiuyue's help, although the [Sun Flower Spirits] her Lineage grew were not the latest version, their version was still quite advanced.
Relying on the sunlight refined and harvested by large numbers of [Sun Flower Spirits], the Round-Faced Daoist Nun's Lineage had built an ever-larger safe zone in the second-layer world.
Now, many Lineage members lived permanently in the safe zone.
Those young Lineage members studied Daoist scriptures in their youth.
The few with a talent for study had gone to several heterodox sects; all the others had entered the Drowning Dao Lower Court.
But the Lineage's foundations were inadequate after all. The Lineage's children who had entered sects were still developing, relying entirely on the Lineage to support them, and could not yet give anything back.
Still, the Round-Faced Daoist Nun looked forward eagerly to these younger generations growing and giving back.
In the end, her calculations came to nothing.
Starting ten years ago, the Lineage had faced obvious suppression.
Especially this year:
The spiritual fields the Lineage had opened up were destroyed, its subordinate martial sects were wiped out overnight, and its various businesses were plotted against and plundered.
Numerous blows erupted all at once.
For a time, even the Round-Faced Daoist Nun, who could dance deftly with long sleeves, did not know how to respond.
What troubled her even more was this:
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