A day later, when Ling Shuang and the other two returned to Shenshuo Peak, they happened to see Yang Lingrui and Luo Qianchou emerging from the cave dwelling together.
The delight on the face of this peerless figure of the Dao Academy was impossible to hide. Even his complexion looked a little rosier. Clearly, his discussion of the Dao with Yang Lingrui had brought him considerable insight.
Neither Rui Qingxue nor Xuanyuan Xinghe had ever seen Luo Qianchou so happy in public. Even Ling Shuang had not.
And his reaction proved once again just how precious the True Intent of the Way of Slaughter that Yang Lingrui possessed truly was.
Before meeting Yang Lingrui, Ling Shuang had told Xuanyuan Xinghe and Rui Qingxue that ever since the Soul-Severing Karma Cut, this Azure Waves official's cultivation could no longer be understood through ordinary measures.
As the foremost practitioner of the Killing Dao in all of Azure Waves, unrivaled by ancients or those to come, he was the supreme cultivator at the very forefront of that path. No one knew what he had achieved by now, or what Daoist arts he had mastered that had never before appeared in the world.
As Ling Shuang had put it then, for every cultivator below the Mystic Insight Realm in Canglan Continent, Yang Lingrui himself was the greatest opportunity and stroke of fortune to be found.
At the time, however, Xuanyuan Xinghe and Rui Qingxue had both been somewhat skeptical. They wondered whether Senior Sister Ling was overstating the case.
Their doubts were understandable. Both had once been prodigies featured on the Golden Roll's front page, while Yang Lingrui had never made it onto that list before attaining True Intent.
Ling Shuang could tell they did not quite believe her, but she offered no further