"Mother!" Xiao Qingqing suddenly raised her little lotus-root-like arm and pointed a chubby finger precisely at where Yao Lao sat cross-legged. In her babyish voice, she said, "Grandmaster is waking up!"
At her words, Xiao Yi Xian's long eyelashes trembled slightly as she looked at her daughter in astonishment. She had indeed sensed a stronger soul fluctuation coming from the core of the energy vortex around Yao Lao, a sign that his consciousness was about to fully awaken. But that was only because of her Spiritual State Soul power. From the outside, there was no visible change around Yao Lao at all.
Yet her daughter, only three years old, had immediately identified that it was Yao Lao who was about to awaken rather than Xiao Yan. Such judgment was beyond even the prodigies nurtured by Starfall Pavilion, let alone a child.
Looking at the smiling Xiao Qingqing, Xiao Yi Xian felt a complicated emotion pass through her heart. As a mother, she had always carefully protected her daughter's childhood. Her greatest wish was for Xiao Qingqing to stay away from conflict and grow up carefree, enjoying the purest happiness like any ordinary child. Yet now, it seemed that without any intervention at all, her daughter's nearly monstrous talent for the soul was already becoming impossible to hide.
Xiao Yi Xian temporarily pushed aside those jumbled thoughts and lifted Xiao Qingqing high in her arms. "Qingqing got it right. Grandmaster will be here soon, and then there'll be one more person who likes Qingqing."
Xiao Qingqing nodded her little head as if she understood, but her attention was quickly drawn to the immense spectacle around Yao Lao. Centered on him, an invisible suction force drew in vast amounts of Dou Qi, forming a huge vortex. At its center, the long-dormant pale