In other words, it wasn't just Fuling; Qiongqi also helped Li Fan a great deal back then, bearing the brunt of the demon gods' firepower, allowing him to survive the ordeal of the demon gods' inner tribulations.
Now, this incarnation of Qiongqi was facing the same predicament Li Fan had once encountered. Inside the Dao body, only Qiongqi and the twin dragons of Qiankun remained. These two dragons and a tiger, the three Nascent Soul demon gods, were balancing each other. Other mountain gods also took the opportunity to make trouble while being uncooperative. Even though Qiongqi still controlled the body, it could not invoke the full power of the Dao body and had to rely solely on Qiongqi's innate abilities to fight. Consequently, despite having accumulated so much negative energy over a long period due to moon-worship practices, the progress of cultivation was still affected by major damages to the Primordial Spirit, preventing any breakthroughs.