Chu Qingli had been in seclusion for over a month. She emerged not because of a breakthrough in her cultivation, but upon hearing the news that her junior grand-uncle, Yan Luoluo, had left seclusion.
She always remembered that the only reason she was able to enter the Lingxiao Sect in the first place was due to Yan Luoluo's fervent plea back then. Whenever she recalled this, an indescribable wave of gratitude welled up in her heart, and she even faintly felt as if an invisible thread of karma connected her to her junior grand-uncle, making her instinctively yearn to be close to her.
However, when Yan Luoluo's perceptive eyes gazed at her and softly asked, "You entered the Unsparing Path, severing the roots of emotion... Is it truly painless? Can you truly bear to part with it?", Chu Qingli knew that the feelings she had hidden for years had long been seen through.
Chapter 29