"Junior Sister Yang Chan is cultivating in the side hall. Please follow me, fellow cultivator."
Yang Jian hurriedly cupped his hands in return.
"Thank you for leading the way, Fairy."
He reined in the baleful qi that kept strangers at bay and followed Golden Phoenix Fairy into Wa Huang Palace.
After passing through several corridors, they arrived at a secluded side hall.
Immortal qi swirled within the hall.
A young girl in white sat cross-legged upon a jade couch.
Her features were exquisitely beautiful, her bearing cool and ethereal, and pure Creation Immortal Light surrounded her.
A Primordial Unity Golden Immortal!
Yang Jian saw through the girl's cultivation at once, and a surge of comfort rose in his heart.
This girl was none other than the younger sister he had thought of day and night—Yang Chan.
As though sensing the newcomers' presence, Yang Chan slowly opened her eyes.
The instant she saw the young man in green standing outside the door, her entire body froze.
"Se... Second Brother?"
Yang Chan's voice trembled faintly, and her eyes reddened at once.
As Yang Jian looked at his sister, a gentle smile finally appeared on his stern face.
"Third Sister, Second Brother has come to see you."
Yang Chan sprang to her feet and threw herself into Yang Jian's arms without a care for anything else.
"Second Brother!"
"Chan'er missed you so much!"
Tears burst forth like floodwaters breaching a dam, instantly soaking Yang Jian's robe.
Yang Jian gently patted his sister's back, and a trace of moisture flashed deep in his eyes as well.
Since the day their family had been destroyed and the siblings had been forced apart, countless days and nights had passed.
Now that they had reunited, neither of them was any longer the helpless mortal unable to bind