"Yuan Zhen did it!"
The good news lifted Chen Yang's spirits. His stone body flashed, carrying him from the Stone-Body Grotto-Heaven to Shenshuo Peak in the Fifth Layer Heaven Domain of the Yang Family Sacred Land.
Inside the cavern chamber of the hall atop the peak, Yang Yuanzhen sat quietly with her Companion Jade Blade in hand, cross-legged on a cushion fashioned from the breath of Divine Wind.
Her small figure floated three feet above the ground. Three forms of spiritual energy surrounded her, growing denser the closer they came to her body.
When Chen Yang's stone body entered the chamber, he saw that the spiritual-energy crystals she had condensed clung seamlessly to her skin, coating her in a layer that made her look like a finely carved crystal statue.
Because Yang Yuanzhen bore neither karmic ties nor fortune, any outsider who saw this would never have guessed that a living person was hidden inside the crystal.
"Yang Lingrui greets the Immortal Venerable!"
"Yun Xiwu greets the Immortal Venerable!"
Seeing Chen Yang appear in person, Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu, who were guarding their daughter as she cultivated, bowed to him together.
Yang Lingrui had originally been meant to accompany Yang Yuanhong and the others to the Azure Dragon Clan. But Yang Yuanzhen had sensed an opportunity for Dao Entry, so after discussing it with the Immortal Venerable, he had decided to stay and guard his daughter.
As the daughter of a fate official and a person born free of karmic ties, Yang Yuanzhen's Dao Entry drew close attention throughout the Yang Clan.
Everyone wanted to know whether she could remain untouched by karma and fortune after entering the Dao.
And after inheriting Yang Lingrui's Killing Dao, what kind of unprecedented Dao Path would she forge?
"No need for ceremony.