Chapter 80: The Female-Dominated Cultivation World (Part 1) Ugly Bird

In the winter of Lan State, heavy snow was falling, with snowflakes descending continuously for many days without any sign of stopping.

The entire city was covered in a thick layer of silver frost, with snow piled up to people’s calves on the ground, making it difficult to walk.

Although there was occasional city defense cleaning, with the continuous heavy snow of these days, there were few people on the streets.

On this day, on the empty streets of Lan State City, three cyan-robed cultivators wearing the Cangyu Sect’s Taoist robes descended from the sky on flying swords.

“Shishu, this is the last city in the Northern Liang Kingdom. We have been searching here for over a month, but we still haven’t found the destined woman from the Elder Ancestor’s prophecy…”

The disciple standing with hands folded looked hesitant and troubled.

Three years ago, the Tribulation Realm Elder Ancestor of the Cangyu Sect had passed away. Before her death and disappearance, she had used the Heavenly Eye technique to prophesy that in ten years, the demon race would sweep across the spirit realm, throwing the world into chaos. The only one who could save the world was a woman, the reincarnation of the Tribulation Realm Elder Ancestor, with the compass pointing towards the Northern Liang Kingdom.

The prophecy indicated that the destined woman was the reincarnated Elder Ancestor, but her soul and body needed to merge, requiring time for cultivation.

At this time, having just been reborn, her cultivation level was not high. They needed to do their utmost to find and protect her, using the full power of the entire spirit realm to help her quickly regain her abilities.

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Since then, the nine most powerful sects in the entire spirit realm – Tianxin Sect, Xiaoyao Sect, Jishang Sect, Cangyu Sect, Tianhua Gate, Jiuli Gate, Beast Taming Gate, as well as Tianyin Temple and Dunshi Immortal Palace – had sent out all their elite disciples, sparing no effort in the search.

But after searching for a full three years, they had found nothing.

This was already the fifth comprehensive search. Almost every woman in Northern Liang with cultivation potential had been selected and carefully nurtured by the various major sects, yet no world-class talent had emerged.

The slightly older cyan-robed woman remained silent for a moment, her expression also grim.

The disciples beside her didn’t know, but she had received news three months ago that this would be the last search.

These years of activities by the righteous cultivators in Northern Liang had already alerted the demon race. If they continued to search openly, the prophecy would likely no longer be kept secret.

Their Cangyu Sect, being closest to Northern Liang, had been ordered by the Sect Leader to search personally. If they still couldn’t find the destined woman, they would have to wait for the sect’s recruitment a month later.

Guan Yunqing sighed, pointing at the sky, and said with a bitter smile, “Let’s leave it to fate. The nine major sects have used all their efforts to find the destined woman. If we still can’t find her, when the great calamity befalls the spirit realm in the future, we’ll just face it with all our might.”

Turning her head, she saw the two personal disciples behind her looking dejected.

She comforted them, “There’s no need to be disheartened. Our spirit realm already has three Tribulation Realm Elders. Now, the Dunshi Immortal Palace’s Master Pei has been in closed cultivation for ten years. When she emerges, she will likely cross the threshold of the Great Perfection stage of the Dacheng realm and enter the Tribulation realm. This is also a great help to our spirit realm. How could we be as vulnerable as the prophecy suggests?”

Upon hearing this, the two disciples behind her brightened up, their spirits lifted. However, they didn’t notice the faint bitterness on Guan Yunqing’s face.

Elder Ancestor Yun’s Heavenly Eye technique had never been wrong. Her last prophecy before death couldn’t be baseless.

The spirit realm… In recent years, it had been peaceful and prosperous, suppressing the demon race in the demon realm. Who would dare to boldly claim that the spirit realm had no future worries?

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Lan State, Cangya Ridge, Wujun Barren Mountain.

The reason Wujun Mountain was called a barren mountain was not because no grass grew there. It was because hundreds of years ago, the villages in this area were occupied by the demon race, the water sources were polluted, and the fertile fields at the foot of the mountain were destroyed.

The fields could not be cultivated, the crops yielded no harvest, and over time, no farmers lived around Wujun Mountain anymore. The mountain itself became even more desolate. Thus, the entire mountain became barren along with it.

The mountain was overgrown with weeds, ancient cypresses towering.

From afar, the mountains looked peaceful and majestic, but once one ventured deep inside, it was an old forest in deep mountains, fraught with danger.

At this moment, in the depths of the mountain that had been as silent as a hibernating beast, a sudden loud noise erupted.

The earthen stone blocks suddenly burst open from the inside. As the dust settled, upon closer inspection, it was a woman covered in dirt.

Her body was covered in black grime, looking quite disheveled. She suddenly raised her head, a flash of sword light passing through her tea-colored eyes. Although her face was covered in dirt, those eyes were cold and profound, sweeping around with a sharp gaze.

As she flew out of the broken stones, the insects and birds around fled and disappeared without a trace.

Liu Changning looked down at the impurities seeping out of her body, and her eyebrows, covered in black grime, couldn’t help but furrow into a bump.

The divine sense of a Tribulation Realm Elder Ancestor quickly swept through the mountain, bringing the entire Wujun Mountain into view.

Whether it was luck or not, she actually found a hot spring suitable for bathing.

Liu Changning didn’t care about the cold weather at this moment. She used a cleansing technique to roughly clean the dirt off her body and quickly rushed towards the mountain stream.

Crossing the Foundation Establishment stage truly marked entering the threshold of cultivation. However, in the spirit realm full of experts, such cultivation was far from enough.

Fortunately, her spiritual consciousness was undamaged, and her sea of consciousness was that of a Tribulation Realm Elder Ancestor. After the Foundation Establishment stage, spiritual power automatically entered and circulated in her body, so there was no need to worry about recovering her cultivation.

Liu Changning had no choice. She had originally thought that reversing the immortal array would take her back to when she first met that person. Who knew that Jing Huan had used her demon body’s self-destruction as the price to twist the array’s time.

When she first arrived here, her soul was depleted. Out of desperation, she found a body that wasn’t completely dead and reincarnated into it.