Below Yudu Mountain, camps stretched for ten li. Inside an enormous tent far larger than the ordinary kind, a middle-aged man with thick, colorful paint smeared across his face was beside himself with excitement, gesturing wildly.
"Miss Ning is actually about to break through! The young master's uncle is already one of the few Heavenly Sabers under heaven. If Miss Ning breaks through as well and becomes a Dao-attaining master, the Fifth Family will surely return to its former peak and laugh proudly across the Nineteen Provinces! Good, wonderful!"
Inside the tent, several powerful experts—old and young alike, all men—sat cross-legged behind long, square brown tables. Like the painted man seated at the head, every one of them wore an expression of excitement and wild delight.
Today had originally been an ordinary shift, yet the famed Heavenly Saber had arrived hand in hand with the family's young miss and asked where on Yudu Mountain the spiritual energy was most abundant.
At first, no one understood. Only after the Heavenly Saber explained did they learn that Ning Ke—the Fifth Family's young miss—had already reached the point of breaking through to attain the Dao. This thrilled the experts guarding the various vital paths of Yudu Mountain, and after pointing out the location, they had all gathered in their leader's tent.
"Indeed. Though the Heavenly Saber is peerless beneath heaven, he is ultimately a man of the Divine Constable Gate. There is a distinction between kin and strangers, and the human heart is hard to fathom. He may not necessarily do much for our Fifth Family.
"Miss Ning is different. If she truly succeeds in breaking through this time, the family will have a supreme martial artist at its back. We will no longer need to cower in Xiangzhou. We can expand our