"Mindful of Father's teachings, your daughter will remember them well!"
After exchanging a few simple words, father and daughter crossed the wooden trestle bridge and arrived before the cave dwelling where Yang Yuanling resided.
Before they could open their mouths to inquire, the stone doors of the cave dwelling lit up with dharma light and slowly opened.
At the same time, Yang Yuanling's cool, gentle voice drifted out from within. "Senior He, Xiao Shuping, you have traveled far and must be weary. Please come in and sit."
From the moment the two had stepped into the Mystic Ancient Tree, Yang Yuanling had sensed them through that Wood Dao Dharma Aspect.
Afterward, their route through the estate and their conversation with that Direct Disciple of the Immortal Estate had all been known to this Yang Clan Prodigy.
Unlike her younger brother Yang Yuanzhao, who cultivated fire arts and excelled in slaughter and battle, the Dao arts Yang Yuanling cultivated were not renowned for their killing power. Instead, she possessed unique gifts in sensing, investigation, concealment, and the like.
Not long after the Pill Origin Ceremony ended, she had followed the arrangements of her own Immortal Venerable and entered Miaomu Immortal Mansion, taking up a nominal post as a steward under the status of an external retainer.
Before Yang Lingshu attained the True Intent Realm through his act of opening the Dao, Yang Yuanling had appeared to outsiders as no more than a middling prodigy born of the Yang Clan, utterly unremarkable compared to Chen Huai'an, Lin Qiao, and the others.
But ever since her father, Yang Lingshu, had displayed the might of his Dao arts atop Clear Sky Peak—withstanding the lightning tribulation with an unprecedented, heaven-shaking bearing, refining the tribulation spirit, cultivating a second dharma body through the Nascent Soul Dao,