When the girl appeared in the mirror, Li Yan's pupils contracted sharply.
It was not because the woman in the mirror was exceptionally adorable.
Nor was it because Li Yan had never seen a woman before, but because...
That girl looked very, very much like one of Li Yan's disciples!
The moment he saw her face, Li Yan froze where he stood.
The girl in the mirror looked almost exactly like Misty Moon Immortal from over thirty thousand years ago, as though they had been cast from the same mold.
The Moonlight Sword Immortal—the female disciple he had rescued during the battle in the Divine Tomb.
Looking again at the girl before him, she was younger, brimming with youthful girlishness.
Yet the sight of her made Li Yan think of Longyue.
How could this be?
Hadn't Longyue ascended to the White Jade Capital? Could this girl possibly be her reincarnation?
Li Yan's eyes were filled with shock and confusion. He could not understand why his female disciple would have been reincarnated.
Was it an illusion? Or did this girl simply happen to resemble the Moonlight Sword Immortal?
While Li Yan stood there dumbfounded, beset by too many questions.
The others mistakenly assumed that he had taken a fancy to the girl.
The surrounding Blood Cultivators covered their mouths and snickered.
"Look, the Holy Son still likes them young."
"Of course. Yan Po Shan's daughter is both innocent and beautiful."
"Even Su Wang, the Su Family head, pales beside this little miss."
"Who would have thought that a rough brute like Yan Po Shan could have a daughter as beautiful as a celestial fairy?"
"I'm starting to wonder whether she's really his daughter. She doesn't resemble Yan Po Shan in the slightest."
"That Yan Po Shan looks like a black bear spirit—how did he produce such a devastatingly beautiful daughter?"
Amid everyone's chatter, Yan Po Shan secretly swelled with pride.
Looking at Li Yan's expression in the mirror, he knew there was hope for this marriage!
He utterly doted on his daughter, and she was absolutely his biological daughter!
For his daughter's future, Yan Po Shan had naturally not made this decision on a whim.
He had set his sights on Li Yan's status as the Holy Son, which could greatly elevate the Blood Serving Sect's standing in the cultivation world.
The Yan Family had risen from bandits, and people often used that against them.
As a result, his daughter could scarcely hold her head up before outsiders.
If he could place his daughter by the Holy Son's side, her future would be limitless. Their family could also transform in the blink of an eye and become related to the Holy Son by marriage.
If this marriage could truly be arranged, then the Blood Serving Sect would be able to hold their heads high before outsiders from then on.
His, Yan Po Shan's, daughter would no longer be some wild stray from a halfway bandit background.
Before outsiders, she could proudly hold her head high and declare that she was the Holy Son's Dao companion, while he, Yan Po Shan, was the Holy Son's father-in-law.
Wouldn't that be wonderful if it really worked out?
Looking at Li Yan's gaze again, there was hope! Plenty of hope!
Yan Po Shan lowered his voice. "Daughter, that Holy Son has taken a liking to you!"
Yan Family's daughter, standing before the bronze mirror, was also staring at Li Yan.
Covering her mouth, she whispered secretly to her father beside her.
"Father, Lord Holy Son is so graceful and refined, and he is truly handsome."
Yan Po Shan grinned foolishly. "When I called you over just now, you were still unwilling."
The girl lowered her head, a little bashful. "I... I thought he..."
At first, when her father had called her over for a "matchmaking meeting," Yan Qing Qing had not been very willing.
In her eyes, the Dao companions her father had previously found for her had all been burly, slovenly cultivators covered in blood.
Her father always wanted to find her powerful partners, but every one of them was over a hundred years old, some even several hundred...
At those ages, they could have been Yan Qing Qing's great-grandfathers.
Though age was not an issue in the cultivation world, Blood Law Cultivators were so careless about their appearance—hair loose and disheveled, unconstrained by trifles.
It made Yan Qing Qing, who had been raised in her boudoir since childhood, find them difficult to accept.
Even if it was for the sake of ascending and becoming immortal, she could not possibly choose those bald, greasy Blood Law Cultivators, could she?
Just now, her father had coaxed and cajoled her into coming before the mirror to meet Li Yan.
Yan Qing Qing had thought it would be like before—that her father had once again found some several-hundred-year-old old man to meet with her.
She had wanted to refuse, but upon hearing Li Yan's name, she had agreed as if possessed.
When she saw Li Yan on the other side of the mirror, Yan Qing Qing's eyes went wide.
Compared to the men from before, Li Yan was strikingly handsome, radiating holy light and an upright, awe-inspiring air. What a graceful and refined young Daoist!
For some reason, Yan Qing Qing felt a sense of closeness toward Li Yan.
Li Yan was looking at her, and she was looking at Li Yan as well.
Yet the girl shyly hid her face behind her fan, her bright eyes revealing her curiosity about him.
Meanwhile, Li Yan gradually recovered from his initial shock.
After thinking it over, he felt that this girl might merely resemble the Moonlight Sword Immortal.
Longyue had already ascended to the heavenly realm. How could she possibly have been reincarnated?
This girl was even a Blood Law Cultivator, making it all the more impossible for her to be the Moonlight Sword Immortal herself.
Moreover, communicating through a mirror with a mirror-image spell would naturally introduce some inaccuracies.
Only when he saw her in person and met this girl's true body could he determine whether she was Longyue's reincarnation.
At this moment, Yan Po Shan could tell that Li Yan and Yan Qing Qing had "fallen for each other at first sight." As her father, he naturally had to help bring them together.
"Ahem, Holy Son, when would it be convenient for you?"
"Allow me to make arrangements for the Holy Son to meet my daughter, Yan Qing Qing."
Li Yan naturally was not thinking in terms of romance between a man and a woman. What he wanted was to get to the bottom of this and see whether this girl had any connection to the Moonlight Sword Immortal.
After a moment of silence, Li Yan said, "Mm. If I have time in the next few days, I can make a trip to the Blood Serving Sect."
Yan Po Shan secretly clenched his fist and silently cheered.
Now everyone was happy. His daughter was very satisfied with the Holy Son, and the Holy Son was also willing to meet them.
Excellent, excellent!
Yan Po Shan cupped his hands toward Li Yan in the mirror. "Then I shall go make arrangements at once!"
With that, Yan Po Shan shut down the mirror-image spell and looked toward his precious daughter.
"Daughter, you must make some preparations these next few days. When you meet the Holy Son, you two young people should have a good talk."
"Your father won't meddle in you young people's affairs."
Yan Qing Qing shyly lowered her head and lightly bit her rosy lip. "Father, this hasn't even begun to take shape yet, and you already..."
"Ah, you're being so annoying! I'm not talking to you anymore!"
Watching his daughter roll her eyes and flee from the main hall as though escaping, Yan Po Shan burst into laughter and stroked his thick beard.
"My Yan Family began as mountain bandits. If we can become related to that Holy Son by marriage, who would dare look down on my Yan Family in the future?!"
"The Holy Son is young and handsome, and my daughter is beautiful. Once these two young people meet, it'll be dry firewood meeting a blazing flame—one spark, and they'll ignite!"
After his delight faded, Yan Po Shan began to ponder something.
"Mm, I must quickly send someone to fetch the Holy Son, lest another faction beat us to the punch."
While they all believed Li Yan had taken a fancy to Yan Qing Qing.
Li Yan was instead worried for his female disciple's safety. Was Yan Qing Qing truly Longyue's reincarnation?
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