Although Li Ya's voice interrupted their questions, it did not interrupt their thoughts.
In Li Na's and the Sea Princess's eyes, what Li Ya was doing now looked just like a girl being shy.
"Stop being so secretive. Your mother went through the same thing." As she spoke, the Sea Princess laid a hand on Li Ya's shoulder, then her expression grew serious. She had not probed Li Ya's body with her spiritual power earlier, but now that she touched her, she discovered that Li Ya's cultivation had grown by a huge margin. She was already approaching two hundred thousand years of cultivation, on par with Li Na.
After checking Li Ya's physical condition once more and finding nothing wrong, the Sea Princess asked gravely, "How did your cultivation increase so much?"
"Oh, you mean that, Mom? I absorbed a pillar of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow," Li Ya said without hiding anything.
"Where did you find something that good?" the Sea Princess pressed.
"Yuhao gave it to me-the friend I mentioned. Oh, and I got these herbs from Yuhao too," Li Ya explained.
Case solved. The truth was out: Li Ya had found herself a wealthy partner. That was what the Sea Princess and Li Na thought upon hearing her explanation.
The Sea Princess still wore that expression of both relief and reluctance to let go, while Li Na's expression grew even more varied. Besides that sense of defeat, her face now showed both regret and pain.
"Does he treat you well? When will you bring him home for us to meet?" the Sea Princess asked with a smile.
"Yuhao treats me quite well, but she's out traveling right now."
Listening to Li Ya, the Sea Princess nodded in relief.
At that moment, Li Na squeezed in and said to