Yet she couldn't enter the world of hermits, she couldn't enter paradise.

Even if she did become an inhabitant of Heaven, she'd still be pursued by Hell, just like a hermit.

After all, even the Celestials of paradise are just people of the Six Realms.

That's why she's clung on to this drab world for over 1400 years.

The answer is found in a cup of liquor. In the taste of the homeland in the wicked hermit's memories.