Heart Knot

Ye Lingling nodded and had originally been walking toward the courtyard gate on her own.

But just as she reached the entrance, she seemed to realize something. She turned around and headed toward the kitchen.

Not long afterward, she came out carrying a bamboo basket. After thanking Tang Liu, she left the courtyard.

Tang Liu set down the watering can in his hand, and the little tune he had been humming came to a stop.

Afterward, a blue-gold halo spread out from his body, enveloping the knee-high Blue Silver Grass before him and the peach tree surrounded by the grass.

All the Blue Silver Grass swayed and danced within the blue-gold halo, radiating cheerful emotions.

Soon afterward, more tender green leaves sprouted from the peach tree's branches.

"She has gained the ordinary heart that accepts whatever comes, the vigilance needed for survival, and the benevolent heart of a healer. Add to that the resolution of her final heart knot... Counting carefully, she should be close to the threshold of rank fifty. Mm, very close."

Carrying the bamboo basket filled with food, Ye Lingling made her way toward the western part of Clear Sky City.

When she spotted that little run-down temple in the distance, her steps involuntarily halted.

Then, when she reached the entrance of the small temple, her feet stopped again.

In the end, she still walked inside.

Her gaze turned toward the corner covered in a pile of straw.

The legless man was still there, sleeping unconscious.

But the boy was nowhere to be seen.

Ye Lingling stood inside the temple entrance for a long while without moving. Tang Liu's words from yesterday kept echoing in her mind.

That man—her father.

After personally forcing her mother to death, handing her over to human traffickers, and giving away