Chapter 483 - 474: Actress 41
Lian Xianxian, in a moment of urgency, resorted to all sorts of means to separate Lian Qianqian and that mortal. However, not only did her various tactics fail, but they also strengthened the bond between Lian Qianqian and the mortal.
Lian Qianqian refused to leave her husband. In desperation, Lian Xianxian began to stop at nothing, and even went as far as threatening Lian Qianqian with the lives of the mortal’s family to coerce her into returning to the rightful path of cultivation. As a result, Lian Qianqian, in a fit of anger, destroyed her own Immortal Root and became a mortal!
One could say that Lian Xianxian was a standard villainous female supporting character early on, one that readers loved to hate. But in the end, her character underwent a reversal; it turned out there was a reason why Lian Qianqian’s parents didn’t want the most likely one to attain immortality, Lian Qianqian, to fall in love with a mortal.
Four thousand years ago, when the Demon Path dominated the Mortal World with rampant destruction, turning it into a Purgatory, the Heavenly Ladder was destroyed by the Demon Venerable, preventing the Immortals from descending to help expel the demons. The cultivators of the Mortal World had to join forces with the Demons to resist the Demon Clan.
Among the demons, the strongest were the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox clan. The unity of humans and demons led, after a war lasting hundreds of years, to the ultimate destruction of the Demon Clan. The Demon Venerable was sealed by the Demon Suppression Sword, crafted jointly by human cultivators and demons.
The human cultivators and the strongest Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox clan guarded the sealed Demon Venerable to prevent him from breaking the seal.
However, as time passed, the human cultivators gradually died, and fewer and fewer could inherit the cultivation talent. Gradually, the human cultivators’ traditions were lost, and the task of guarding the Demon Venerable fell entirely to the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox clan.
Yet as time went on, the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox clan could not attain immortality due to the broken Heavenly Ladder, leading many powerful foxes to die gradually. The seal on the Demon Venerable weakened, and the possibility of him breaking the seal and entering the Mortal World loomed large. The only solution was for another Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox capable of attaining immortality to emerge.
Even though the broken Heavenly Ladder meant that ascending to the Upper Realm was impossible, when a Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox attained immortality, it would unleash an unparalleled amount of Immortal Spirit Qi. This aura could bolster the Demon Suppression Sword to reseal the Demon Venerable for several thousand years.
Lian Xianxian knew this, which was why she desperately resorted to any means necessary when Lian Qianqian refused to return. She didn’t expect Lian Qianqian to be so engrossed in love, willing to forsake the Immortal Path and refuse to return, making the Demon Venerable’s emergence inevitable.