True Person Yuding's eyes grew moist, but he forcibly suppressed his emotions and waved his hand. "Silly child, don't act like some lovesick girl! The auspicious hour has arrived. Go at once—every moment sooner that you rescue your mother is another moment sooner that you and your mother can reunite!"
Yang Jian bowed repeatedly without rising. Then he stood and stamped the ground. Golden light burst forth as he shot into the sky like an arrow loosed from its string—this was the Elucidation Sect's secret technique, the Leap Ground Golden Light Method. He crossed ten thousand miles of cloud road in the blink of an eye.
He stood at the foot of Peach Mountain, facing its towering slopes. Solemnly, he knelt and performed three prostrations and nine kowtows, his throat choking as he cried, "Mother, your son has come! You've suffered!"
The Mountain God had sensed him the moment he entered the mountain's domain. He quietly concealed himself amid the clouds and watched. He saw pure qi steaming from the young man's body like smoke and mist, surging more than three feet above his crown. It was pure and mighty, unmistakably the true inheritance of the Great Dao. The Mountain God's heart tightened. Daring not delay, he immediately lit a stick of Heaven-Penetrating Incense. Green smoke curled upward toward the South Heaven Gate as he urgently reported to the Heavenly Court.
Fairy Maiden Yao Ji was gathering dew in the mountains when she suddenly heard a heart-rending cry. She jerked her head up, and immortal light swept toward the mountain gate like lightning. There, a young man in his early twenties was prostrate before the stone steps. His features were sharp as if carved by a knife, his figure stood straight as a pine, blood glistened at his temple, and