CHAPTER 995: CHAPTER 985: VISIT

At the top of the Immortal Mountain, within a certain cave mansion near the peak.

Like a statue, Ye Qingqing, who had been meditating here for many years without moving, finally opened her beautiful eyes slowly.

"In terms of foundation, I am still a bit lacking."

"With the assistance of that trace of power I absorbed from Chen Hai, the condensation of the Three Flowers into the Taoist Fruit went smoothly, with no obstacles arising."

"Imprinting myself in the river of time by gathering oneself is extremely challenging for me, and I don’t know how many years it has taken."

"But fortunately, no matter how difficult the process was, I have ultimately succeeded in stepping into the Daluo Golden Immortal realm."

"With my current strength, on this Black Water Immortal Mountain, I should no longer bring shame to Chen Hai as I did before!"

...

With a light sigh, Ye Qingqing muttered to herself.

Her body trembled slightly, and her clothes, previously covered in dust accumulated over unknown years, suddenly appeared bright and new.

After putting Chen Hai through quite a bit following his emergence from closed-door cultivation, she absorbed a few strands of power from him and found the opportunity to break through. Ye Qingqing had been in seclusion for years since.

During the fifty years when Chen Hai taught the disciples at the mountain’s peak, Ye Qingqing, immersed in the river of time due to her closed door cultivation and breakthrough, perfectly missed this great opportunity.

However, for her, who had already comprehended the Charming Law, listening to Chen Hai’s teachings didn’t matter much for the time being.

Watching the sect members below one by one achieve the Daluo Golden Immortal, as the wife of the patriarch, she had been stuck at a bottleneck for so many years, unable to elevate her strength. For her, nothing was more important than advancing to the Daluo.

The disciples from the Black Water Lineage advanced rapidly in early cultivation stages, but their advancement slowed once they reached the Daluo. Naturally, Ye Qingqing knew this well.

Now she, having just stepped into the Daluo, was a pillar on this Immortal Mountain as long as she had the strength of a Daluo Golden Immortal.

To those disciples, her level of strength was not considered weak.

"It’s good to have successfully broken through, as this has been my wish for many years."

"Now that my wish has come true, I wonder if Chen Hai has time these days?"

"If he’s not in closed-door cultivation, I hope he can share in my joy and celebrate with me properly."

...

Stretching lazily, Ye Qingqing stood up. After moving her body, she opened the door to her cave mansion and walked straight outside.

Today, the weather was fine, the sky was clear and breezy.

Having been secluded in the cave mansion for so many years, she was almost isolated from the world. Savoring the thick spiritual energy in the air and the fragrance of flowers and fresh earth, a sense of bliss involuntarily welled up in her heart.

"I wonder if he’s still in seclusion or wandering around!"

"If he’s in closed-door cultivation and can’t come out, then so be it. But if he’s free, with my achievement of the Daluo, he should celebrate with me for a year or two at least!"

"That guy, he only behaves in front of me, but behind my back, he’s all schemes and tricks."

"Make his legs go weak, exhaust him completely, and then he’ll behave!"

...

Thinking of some past incidents, a hint of sweetness suddenly appeared on Ye Qingqing’s face.

Standing on the open ground in front of the cave mansion, she looked toward the cluster of palaces in the distance.

With the palace walls blocking the view, she naturally couldn’t see what was happening inside with the naked eye.

However, if she used Divine Sense to scan, that would naturally be a different matter.

But on this Immortal Mountain, sweeping various regions with Divine Sense was inherently taboo.

Moreover, the important halls within the palace cluster or the private cave mansions on the mountain usually had array defenses to isolate Divine Sense spying.

"That guy isn’t in the cultivation hall he uses for seclusion?" with a frown, Ye Qingqing muttered to herself.

Given her relationship with Chen Hai, she naturally knew well the places where Chen Hai meditated.

In her understanding, if the array covering the cultivation hall was activated, it meant Chen Hai was cultivating inside. If the hall was empty, with a sweep of Divine Sense, she could see the inside completely.

Given Ye Qingqing’s status, she wasn’t randomly spying on others’ privacy with Divine Sense, just scanning her man’s cultivation spot; naturally, she had no reservations!

"He’s not in the hall, where did he wander off to?" Lifting her steps, Ye Qingqing slowly headed towards the mountaintop direction.

When her Divine Sense inadvertently swept past a partial hall, she blushed and cursed under her breath angrily: "Adulterer, to dare to be together with someone else’s master and disciple..."

The previously good mood instantly soured. Her once smiling face darkened.

Her figure, moving like lightning, returned to her own cave mansion, and the freshly opened door slammed shut once more with a bang.

...

Several days later, within the Yuxiang Garden.

Weary, Lady Yuji and Shi Qingying had just returned home for less than the time of a stick of incense when Li Huachun, whom they hadn’t seen appearing for a very long time, suddenly showed up.

"Master!"

"Junior Sister!"

In the living room, as soon as Li Huachun stepped inside, he bowed to the two of them. Under Lady Yuji’s invitation, he slowly took a seat on a chair near the tea table.

"Huachun, what have you been busy with these years?"

"After you left Yuxiang Garden, in the first thousand years, you often came to visit, but in the last few hundred years, you have never been seen."

"If not for your Lee Family’s thriving development on Golden Dawn Island without any sign of decline, I would have thought you encountered misfortune and something happened to you?"

...

Though she invited Li Huachun to sit, Lady Yuji showed no expression on her face, offering no goodwill whatsoever.

Her words were plain but carried a clear undertone of resentment.

It seemed that in recent years, the actions of Li Huachun, who had been elevated from Senior Brother to the ancestor of the Lee Family, greatly displeased Lady Yuji.

"Senior Brother, you still remember that Lady Yuji is your master!"

"Living in the Black Water Immortal City, just a few steps away, whether it’s you or the other two Senior Sisters, it’s been at least five hundred years since any of you appeared before Master."

"I even thought that you and the Senior Sisters had grown wings and could fly, completely forgetting that you have a master within this Immortal City!"

...

With a disgruntled expression, Shi Qingying glared at Li Huachun, her words full of sarcasm.

Compared to Lady Yuji, her speech was far less polite.