Another twenty years slipped quietly by, and the spiritual energy within the Fog Valley Secret Realm grew ever more abundant.
Although no new seventh-stage spirit veins had appeared over these years, the number of sixth-stage spirit veins had increased considerably.
With the Void Ancient Dragon's breakthrough, the secret realm could now be converted into a grotto-heaven at any time, so the Ye Family no longer needed to worry that it would go to waste if Fog Valley was exposed!
At that moment, two auras erupted from either side of the seventh-stage spirit mountain.
They formed two vortices that swept across heaven and earth.
Ye Qingfeng, Ye Haicheng, and the others guarding the spirit mountain instantly took flight, and the arrays activated almost simultaneously.
Yet after examining the fluctuations in spiritual energy and their sources, Ye Qingfeng felt a faint trace of disappointment:
"Uncle Jingzhong and Yunzhen are breaking through to Spirit Transformation."
She was not disappointed by their breakthroughs themselves. On the contrary, she was delighted for them.
It was simply that her father remained her greatest concern.
Advancing from Spirit Transformation to Void Refinement was by no means guaranteed, and her father had not taken the Spirit-Pattern Void Return Pill.
Moreover, because they also possessed Soul-Locking Spirit Contracts, they knew that Soul Pacts had certain limits.
Ye Qingfeng had already known that her father Ye Jingcheng's Divine Soul was struggling to bear the burden.
Thus, she was even more worried that the Void Ancient Dragon's breakthrough would place too much pressure on his Divine Soul and cause his own breakthrough to fail.
Of course, she also looked toward her father's cave dwelling at that moment. Five-colored spiritual light still shimmered there, and spiritual energy continued to gather at a steady pace.
This meant that his breakthrough had not been