Once, Gong Chenying had thought she lived her life only for the Tianli Clan, only for her father's honor. Later, after the matter of the Wind Beast was resolved and she and Li Yan were wed, she finally had her own true path of immortality.
Unexpectedly, in a very short time, Li Yan's fate became unknown, his life or death uncertain. For many years afterward, she constantly missed Li Yan, and in her heart she was even more unwilling to believe that Li Yan had already fallen. She devoted herself to bitterly searching for traces and clues of him...
During that stage, her cultivation did not progress very quickly. It was only when Li Yan returned that Gong Chenying learned of Mu Guyue's existence as well, and that she had already borne Li Yan a son.
That meant that even after she ascended to the Immortal Spirit Realm, throughout all those years, though she had kept cultivating, far more often she had been in an incomparably low mood.
It could be said that her failure to bear Li Yan even half a son or daughter had occupied a great deal of her mind. Only after giving birth to Little Beast did Gong Chenying's thoughts truly return to single-minded cultivation.
Especially whenever she thought of her mistress Zhao Zhi, she became even more unwilling to end up in such a situation herself. She wanted to stay with Li Yan forever, she wanted to step onto the summit of immortal spirits, and the only way to do that was through diligent cultivation. Aside from one's own aptitude and effort, all of this required the support of powerful cultivation methods.
Gong Chenying already bore two top-tier arts: the "Qiongqi Purgatory Art" and the "Red Lotus Burning Fire Scripture." Her spell-cultivation method was the