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After the Great Celestial Venerable Yuqing sensed a faint disturbance, Holy Mother Taiyuan asked in surprise, "Teacher?"
The Great Celestial Venerable Yuqing's fingers paused on the strings. "So a young Daoist friend has arrived."
"A young Daoist friend?"
Holy Mother Taiyuan froze for a moment. It took more than a dozen breaths before she sensed that faint, subtle, icy aura approaching, slowly spreading like rosy clouds and circling like the Northern Star. "The Northern Emperor's Son? The Weaver Girl?"
The previous Northern Emperor's Son, and the only one to have been acknowledged as such so far.
That meant that, in the eyes of the foremost of the Four Imperial Sovereigns, her terrifying foundation—enough to earn her an imperial title—her boundless origins, and her peerless Sword Qi were the source of the very concept of rosy clouds. Because she had once been the Northern Emperor's Son, if she attained the Dao and truly took up the title of Northern Emperor, then even when facing the Great Celestial Venerable Yuqing, she would need only address him as a Daoist friend.
That was why the Great Celestial Venerable Yuqing had called her merely a young Daoist friend.
It was a mark of recognition for her foundation and experience.
His attitude toward her was utterly different from his attitude toward Qi WuHuo.
Daoist Qingyu said flatly, "It seems this is one of his tribulations. Taiyuan, the Northern Emperor's Son and you are both in the Immortal realm. Your foundation and knowledge surpass hers by a great deal, but she was one of those entangled in tribulation energy in the previous age. In terms of killing power and sensing auras, she is your superior. Leave at once, or she will sense you."
Even among the Twelve Holy True Ones, only Heavenly Marshal Tian Peng