It was the middle of that year.
After spending nearly six months consolidating her cultivation, Xiao Yunzhi finally emerged from seclusion.
Xiao Yunzhi came from a distinguished Confucian cultivator family and placed considerable importance on etiquette.
Thus, the first thing she did upon emerging was visit the higher-ups of the Snowflight Sect to thank them for lending her their spirit vein to attempt her breakthrough to Core Formation.
True Person Qian Xue received her. Xiao Yunzhi keenly sensed that something seemed amiss with her condition, but out of respect and courtesy, she did not pry.
Only after a friendly conversation did she smile and take her leave.
Once she left the Snowflight Sect's grounds, Xiao Yunzhi flew eagerly toward Changping Ward.
Imagining Li Ping's expression when he saw her, she could not help smiling.
She was a Core Formation True Person now. How would Li Ping treat her?
Landing outside the cave abode in Changping Ward, Xiao Yunzhi gave two light coughs to clear her throat, then leisurely took out the formation access-
token, intending to enter the cave abode.
She and Li Ping rented this cave abode together, and she also had a token that could open it.
To her astonishment, however, her token no longer worked. She could not get into her own home!
Standing outside the cave abode, she could not help entertaining all sorts of thoughts. Why would Brother Li change the entrance formation and even lock me outside? Could he have-
Xiao Yunzhi was dumbfounded. She had merely spent a little over three years in seclusion attempting her breakthrough to Core Formation.
Had someone stolen her home out from under her?
At that thought, she took a deep breath, pulled out a Sound Transmission Talisman, spoke a few words into it, then tossed it into