In the original story, Xiao Ran had a pure water spiritual root and obtained the divine beast Water Qilin as well as an ancient-grade cultivation technique that only a pure water spiritual root could cultivate.
This technique had powerful healing effects.
Although its offensive power was not strong, its miraculous healing ability allowed Xiao Ran to accumulate countless connections and favors, attracting many outstanding male cultivators.
She eventually formed a Dao partnership with her sect sword cultivator, Chi Jia, and rejected other outstanding male cultivators.
Because of the incompatibility between Dao and demon, she used the admiration of powerful demon cultivators and beast cultivators toward her to repeatedly deal heavy blows to demonic sects and the demon race.
Until she ascended to the Spirit Realm, those demonic and beast cultivators turned dark and forcibly took her in succession.
Later, even Spirit Realm experts pursued her, and Chi Jia also tolerated her involvement with other men and willing to share her with others.
Only then did she abandon her insistence on monogamous Dao partnership and stay with those who admired her.
Because the cultivation technique derived from her pure water spiritual root gave her extremely strong endurance and recovery ability, she was able to withstand the desires and demands of so many men.
But Xiao Ran is now a mutated ice spiritual root with even greater destructive power.
She originally thought these changes were a butterfly effect caused by her transmigration. So, while the whereabouts of the Heavenly Orb remained unknown, she could not suppress her anxious feelings.
After inquiring that Xiao Shou went to the market once every seven days, she began tracking him every time she visited the marketplace and determined not to miss the Divine Tree's Coreflame again.
But Xiao Shou said it started from two years ago.
This was also around two years ago for her.
Her original plan had been going smoothly.
Within a few years, she had already gained Xiao Ran and Xiao Yi's trust.
So why did Xiao Ran change?
Thinking of this, Yu Lin could not help but feel even more anxious as she looked at the sorrowful Xiao Shou and asked, "What happened to her two years ago?"
"I do not know what I did wrong. Sister Ran seemed to grow tired of me. She rarely came to see me anymore. Whenever Brother Yi came over, she would quickly appear as well and find excuses to pull Brother Yi away. For a long time, I hardly had the chance to properly speak with both of them. During the recent Frozen Moon Secret Realm, I was injured by the demon beast guarding the Soul Tempering Grass. I clearly smelled…" Xiao Shou abruptly stopped this sentence in panic.
He forced a smile and said, "In any case, from two years ago, Sister Ran stopped giving me anything. Only Brother Yi still takes care of me. In such a situation, how could she still give me anything? The stone bead you mentioned, I know about it. That was my third aunt's dowry. It was the only memory left by Sister Ran's mother. How could she possibly give it to someone else? Senior, I will take my leave now."
Yu Lin watched as Xiao Shou left with a sorrowful expression.
She could sense his distance and disgust toward her, and his sadness, confusion, and pain when speaking of Xiao Ran.
If she had stolen his thing, that reaction was normal.
When speaking of Xiao Ran, his aura did not seem like he was lying.
So it really was not her illusion.
Xiao Ran had changed two years ago.
Was it because of transmigration, or rebirth?
She walked back toward the sect while carefully thinking over Xiao Ran's behavior over the past two years.
The more she thought, the darker her expression became.
If Xiao Ran was also a transmigrator like her, then the mismatch between soul and body would definitely have been noticed by her master.
If the Heavenly Orb had some kind of soul-concealing function, then it would make sense.
She herself was a reincarnator from birth, only realizing after entering the sect that she had entered a novel world, so naturally she was not afraid of that.
Then the only possibility was that Xiao Ran, who could foresee things and had hostility toward her, who refused to hand over the Heavenly Orb, who became cold toward her clan cousin, and became distant and indifferent toward Chi Jia while only caring about Xiao Yi, was most likely someone who had been reborn from the future of her world.
Since discovering that she had transmigrated into a book, Yu Lin had already planned her future arrangements.
As for Xiao Ran, that white lotus bitch, she was nothing more than someone who only knew how to treat injuries, cry, and moan, constantly shouting "no, no"
In her eyes, Xiao Ran was a woman who could be had by any man, a woman in a adult novel where she was treated as someone available to all.
She held no respect for her at all.
Instead, she felt it was a pity that all those outstanding male leads inside the story were played with and entangled by her, deceived and twisted into completely different people.
They had all been so stunning when they first appeared, yet the moment they met the female protagonist, they completely changed, becoming madly obsessed with loving her.
On what basis…
Was it the favor of the Heavenly Dao?
Yu Lin clearly understood her own plan.
She intended to take away all of Xiao Ran's opportunities and the most outstanding among her male companions, leaving her with nothing but a pure water spiritual root that could not achieve anything else.
Then she would use Xiao Ran's favorite Chi Jia and her ignorance to lure her into committing various sins, using karmic retribution to damage her fortune.
Once her luck was completely worn down, she would kill her.
If Xiao Ran truly had returned from such a future, then she would definitely hate her to the core.