Beneath the three elders, there had originally been four young cultivators as well.
Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao were currently on their way home.
Lin Qiao and Yang Yuanxing, meanwhile, had already left the Sacred Land.
Together with the other Northwest cultivators named in that transfer order, they had all set out for the Southwest to quell the unrest.
Lin Qiao had possessed the bearing of a heaven-favored prodigy to begin with. After enduring the trials of climbing the peak and the baptism of the battlefield, the innate weakness in her temperament had been utterly worn away without a trace.
The word "courage" that Yang Lingqing had once explained to her had now become the firmest conviction in her heart.
After several years of quiet cultivation and consolidation, when Demonic Dao cultivators began infiltrating the Northwest, she happened to break through and stabilize her Core Formation Realm. Naturally, she became one of the earliest backbone members of the Demon Extermination Squad.
Over five years, in terms of efficiency in carrying out demon extermination missions alone, she was not much inferior to Chen Huai'an. As for the total number of missions completed, she had ridden alone in a cloud of dust, leaving everyone else far behind.
The reason the Yang Clan had sent her to the Southwest this time, aside from answering the Central Region Dao Academy's call, was to broaden her horizons and, incidentally, see whether she could find new opportunities and fortunes in that land.
With Lin Qiao's talent, a mere Northwest borderland could never contain her.
In the future, like Yang Yuanhong and Yang Lingrui, she would step into the great tides of conflict in the Central Region.
By taking this opportunity to exterminate demons in the Southwest, she could make the acquaintance of some Central Region cultivators.