Over the shadowed canyon, the wind howled, blowing with a bitter chill.
Inside the spiritual barrier enclosed by the formation, two more people had appeared, and the one who had spoken was the man among them.
The two wore loose white Daoist robes, plain and simple from head to toe; only their auras were extraordinarily deep and powerful.
"It's Shaoen!" a Xiao Family clansman cried.
Lu Qingshan had also recognized them by now. The two before him were none other than Ye Jingting and Xiao Shaoen.
The reason Xiao Shaoen had proposed a trip to Mystic Heart Prefecture right after his breakthrough was naturally because of the jade slips Xiao Yuanhong had sent.
In the end, he could not cut away his identity as a member of the Xiao Family.
He could watch the Xiao Family decline, but he could not watch the Xiao Family be wiped out, much less see his father die.
Moreover, this had already become the greatest heart demon of his Golden Core.
"Senior Ye, Senior Xiao, this junior is Lu Qingshan of Deer Cry Mountain, and is now Prefecture Lord Chen's disciple..." Lu Qingshan said, neither servile nor overbearing.
The moment those words came out, the other cultivators finally understood why Lu Qingshan had been able to break through so quickly.
With the prefecture lord of Mystic Heart Prefecture of the White Jade Faction at his back, such speed in breaking through was only natural.
Of course, Lu Qingshan was still extremely uneasy at this moment.
Previously, Prefecture Lord Chen had not made his status as a disciple public precisely because he was worried about this hidden danger.
A prefecture lord of the Righteous Path Sect held a high status, but in the entire Righteous Path Sect, there were a full seventy-two prefecture lords, to