Xie Lian

Xie Lian is a Sacred Ancestor (Grand Ascension stage being) of the Elder Devil Realm. She is a Devilish Foral Tree that gained sentience. She is the twin sister of a Matriarch, one of 3 rulers of the realm. She maintains distance from her twin sister whose strength draws the ire and competition from other Sacred Ancestors. 
== Stemborer Queen ==
As a Sacred Ancestor, Xie Lian participated in protecting the Elder Devil Realm from the Stemborer Queen, an fearsome insect-like existence that threatened to devour all life within the realm. The Stemborer Queen had been sealed within a formation by immortals. However, the seal weakened over time resulting in the queen's offspring being able to attack the seal from the outside. In order to deal with the threat, Grand Ascension beings from neighboring realms assisted in an operation to prevent weakening of the seal. However, the task force underestimated the strength of the queen and became trapped by the queen. The task force included all three of the active Devilish Patriarchs and Matriarchs.
Xie Lian did not join the original task force because she was in seclusion at the time. However she joined the second task force led by her sister, and comprised of reinforcements from the neighboring realms. As a result, Grand Ascension beings arriving from other realms often visited Xie Lian in order to learn of what happened to the original task force. One of these visitors was Han Li who had come unannounced in order to learn about the whereabouts of Mo Jianli and Ao Xiao. She was able to immediately identify Han Li due to the the Devilish Patriarchs putting him on a realm-wide wanted list and his subsequent reputation for wreaking havoc by slaying clones of other Sacred Ancestors.
As a member of the second task force, Xie Lian teamed up with Han Li, Daoist Xie, and Lu Shi to investigate and repair the formation that sealed the queen. In the process, she encountered human-faced Stemborers that had strength equivalent to Sacred Ancestors. However, she possess powers beyond the average Sacred Ancestor and was able to easily slay the human-faced Stemborer that ambushed her.
==References==
Category:Characters
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Category:Devils
Category:Grand Ascension