Central Continent, Spirit Affinity House.
Mountain peaks stood in clusters, clouds and mist drifting ethereally. Deep within a bamboo forest, a waterfall hung down like white silk.
Feng Jinhuang sat quietly on a pine branch, silently watching the waterfall before her as tears fell soundlessly.
During this period, the Gu Immortals Central Continent had sent to Northern Plains to investigate had already returned.
But there was still no news of Feng Jiuge.
To Feng Jinhuang, her biological father had vanished without a trace, stranded in a foreign region. Naturally, the odds were against him.
These past days, Feng Jinhuang had neither appetite for tea nor food, utterly unable to focus on cultivation. She constantly wiped tears from her face and grew thinner by the day.
Life and death.
These weighty words struck fiercely against Feng Jinhuang's fragile heart at an unexpected time.
It was not as though Feng Jinhuang had never witnessed death with her own eyes.
But when her own family faced such a predicament, she lost all her composure and calm.
Yet she was strong in the end.
The dreadful news had not completely crushed her. Only in corners where no one could see did she secretly wipe away her tears.
On the surface, she cultivated as she always had, though she had no idea what she had been cultivating lately.
A figure, like an ink-wash painting shifting from pale to dark, silently descended behind Feng Jinhuang.
"Daughter." A familiar call came from behind her.
Feng Jinhuang turned around and saw that it was her mother, Fairy Bai Qing.
"Mother!" Feng Jinhuang could no longer hold back. She plunged into Fairy Bai Qing's embrace and sobbed aloud.
Fairy Bai Qing comforted her for quite a while. Only then did Feng Jinhuang gradually stop sobbing.
"Mother, Father is so