What's the worst possible time to start? When the snake demoness's life is already more than halfway over. This includes, but is not limited to, being backstabbed by her former Dao companion, who stole her inner core and gave it to his new lover.
And then, after losing her inner core, the snake demoness's cultivation would regress drastically. She would be hunted down by the Great Demons of the Ten Directions Mountains until every last piece of her flesh was devoured, becoming nutrients for their own advancement.
This was the kind of disastrous start Tan You now faced. In fact, thinking back on it, she'd faced quite a few "hell mode" beginnings since she started doing missions.
Take her life as Adina, for example; Tan You really had to rack her brains just to survive. Or her life as Han Tingting—if Tan You hadn't raised her grades, her only path would have been to drop out of school and work.
