The fragrance of tea filled the Main Hall of Undying Mountain.
"Madam... sob... please have some tea."
Qing Li served Ye Fu hot tea with reddened eyes, clearly overwhelmed by her reunion with the mistress of the household.
With her aptitude, she had all but been certain that ascension was beyond her reach.
Every day in the Lower Realm, she had meticulously cleaned the young master's and her mistress's old home, never daring to hope that she might truly serve her mistress tea again someday.
Ye Fu took Qing Li's hand, her eyes full of sympathy as well. "Good girl, you've suffered all these years. Stay here on Undying Mountain from now on. We won't have to part again."
Qing Li nodded fervently, finally smiling through her tears. She wiped them away and stepped aside, deftly taking up the familiar work of serving tea.
"The spiritual energy in this Immortal Realm... truly is terrifying," Si Che could not help remarking.
Terrifying hardly began to describe it.
Before they had even finished two cups of tea, even Third Uncle Granduncle's long-stagnant cultivation had begun to stir irrepressibly, showing faint signs of a breakthrough.
As for everyone else, their cultivation increased with every breath.
"This truly is a world of wondrous fortune..." Third Uncle Granduncle stroked his beard and let out a long breath, his eyes filled with astonishment.
The atmosphere in the hall was warm beyond measure, and gradually grew lively as well.
Si Che patted the shoulders of his son and daughter beside him and said solemnly, "Ming, Qing'er, come greet your eldest uncle, your aunt, and your third uncle."
Si Ming obediently stepped forward.
He had met Si Kai and Ye Fu as a child. Although he had no memory of his Third Uncle, Si Shuo, he had seen