The Shushan World was vast, and the original story never revealed where Li Ning and his daughter had been living before they appeared. Naturally, Hao Shuai had no way to get to Li Yingqiong ahead of time and take her in as his disciple.
Some might wonder: couldn't the Taoist Sect divine the secrets of heaven?
Couldn't Hao Shuai use divination or other methods to figure out where Li Yingqiong was?
The truth was, it wasn't that he didn't want to. He simply couldn't calculate her whereabouts!
To begin with, Hao Shuai had no karmic connection with Li Yingqiong yet, and he didn't know her birth date and time. With only her name, there was no way to locate her.
And even if Hao Shuai were so powerful that he could divine someone's whereabouts from just a name, he still wouldn't be able to find her.
When you got right down to it, the reason was that Hao Shuai was an outsider!
Put simply, he didn't have permission!
Think of the Heavenly Dao as a national household-registration system, and the Shushan World as the country. When Hao Shuai entered the Shushan World, it was like sneaking across the border from another country.
Since he had crossed over illegally, the registration system naturally had no information on him. That was why the Emei Sect couldn't use it to find Hao Shuai.
Likewise, as an unregistered person, Hao Shuai couldn't use the system to find anyone else. It was absurd to even try.
Still, Hao Shuai wasn't in a hurry, even though he couldn't find Li Yingqiong for the time being.
Unlike Zhou Qingyun and Yu Yingnan, who had been taken in by the Emei Sect early on, Li Yingqiong didn't obtain the Ziying Sword by chance until well into the story.