The Chieftain's Daughter

Pausing for a moment, he continued,

"Recently, I have been studying the formula for the Soul-Awakening Pill found in ancient texts. However, the refinement process and techniques for this pill are extremely complex, and our sect lacks many of the required medicinal herbs. I plan to wait for the Sect Master and Master to return, ask for their opinions, and then make a decision. Until then, we can only maintain the current treatment method."

"I never expected Tong Jialiang's condition to be so severe..."

Liu Yunan was somewhat surprised.

Originally, he thought that someone in Tong Jialiang's condition might just be experiencing a temporary mental breakdown. With Sun Yigao's treatment, along with the company of his good friend Han Weishu and his cousin Baojian, a full recovery should merely be a matter of time.

He didn't expect the reality to be so far from optimistic.

Although he had no personal relationship with Tong Jialiang, seeing a perfectly fine person reduced to such a state due to persecution filled his heart with regret and sympathy.

The two arrived at Lin Xiao's house, and Sun Yigao raised his hand to gently knock on the courtyard door.

"Is that Mr. Sun?"

Baojian's inquiring voice came from inside the courtyard.

Then, before Sun Yigao could answer from outside, the courtyard door was opened from within.

Seeing that it was indeed Sun Yigao, Baojian showed a joyful expression and quickly stepped aside to invite him in.

"Mr. Sun, please come in quickly."

Because Sun Yigao held the academic title of a Xiucai and taught in the village, the villagers all called him Mr. Sun, so Baojian and the others followed suit.

When Sun Yigao nodded to him and walked inside, Baojian finally noticed another person standing next to Sun Yigao, who usually came alone. He froze for a moment before reacting with a smile,

"So it's Young Master Liu who has returned. Please, both of you, come inside."

When Liu Yunan and the others were in the capital, due to Mo Yuanjiao, Baojian had frequently run into Liu Yunan and Qin Jianghe, so he was quite familiar with him.

Right now, late at night, seeing someone who was supposed to be in the capital suddenly appear here after so many days, he was momentarily dazed.

The courtyard door closed, and the three entered the house. Sun Yigao then began to treat Tong Jialiang.

Baojian, Han Weishu, and Liu Yunan waited in the main hall, not disturbing his treatment.

Han Weishu had interacted with Liu Yunan before when they went to the Huanyou Kingdom to rescue people. Now that she knew about the existence of the Lingxian Sect and that he was a member of it, seeing him again made her hesitate for a moment before she finally asked,

"Senior... Liu, I have a matter I would like to ask about..."

Seeing her somewhat unnatural expression, Liu Yunan, who was being called Senior for the first time, also felt a bit awkward. He quickly said,

"I wouldn't dare accept the title of Senior. We are about the same age, so Miss Han can just call me Daoist Liu. What is it that you want to ask?"

Seeing that he genuinely didn't seem to want to be called Senior, Han Weishu smoothly went along and immediately corrected herself.

"Then I will boldly call you Daoist Liu."

Saying that, she did not dawdle any longer and immediately asked the matter weighing on her mind.

"I heard that Daoist Liu was in the capital recently. I want to verify something with you. Is our Pusi Kingdom going to... is there going to be a war?"

Hearing this, Liu Yunan looked at her in surprise.

He wondered in his heart: it hadn't been long since the imperial court decided to crusade against the Huanyou Kingdom and contacted the three major sects to discuss the matter. How could this person know this news?

He did not answer whether the matter was true or false, but instead asked back with a normal expression,

"Where did Miss Han get this news?"

He saw Han Weishu hesitate and subconsciously bite her lip. After a good while, she finally spoke.

"My father is Han Shangyi, the head of the Qinghe Sect."

Hearing this news, Liu Yunan was somewhat surprised.

Originally, although he knew Han Weishu was from the Qinghe Sect, seeing that this girl's cultivation was only at the first level of Qi Condensation, he thought she was just a newly enrolled disciple or something similar.

He never expected her to actually be the daughter of the sect head.

In that case, it was no wonder she knew about such an important matter.

However, this matter was of great importance, and Liu Yunan felt it was better not to speak of it openly. Therefore, he still did not directly answer Han Weishu, only saying,

"This matter is not something we should be discussing. If you know any news, just keep it well in your heart. Whether it is true or not, you will know in the future."

Hearing his answer, Han Weishu knew that this matter must be true.

In fact, the reason she knew this news was not, as she deliberately misled Liu Yunan to believe, because her sect head father had passed the news to her.

Rather, it was because she had her Earth Spirit, Qiuqiu, return to the Qinghe Sect to eavesdrop.

Although she held a lot of resentment towards her father, Han Shangyi, and deeply hated his disdain and rough discipline towards her, she still harbored a trace of hope in her heart that her father would pay more attention to her.

Like this time when she ran away from home, encountering such a disaster on the road, and later her friend being persecuted into his current state.

She had fantasized in her heart that if her father had promptly discovered she was missing from the sect and immediately come out to look for her, perhaps the villains who went to that mountain stronghold to kidnap people would have been brought to justice on the spot by her father.

Perhaps A-Liang wouldn't have turned out like this.

Or perhaps, on the way when she was tailing those people, if her father could have appeared, he could have stopped the kidnapped people in time and prevented the subsequent tragedy from happening.

However, the reality was that even up until now, her father had not come looking for her.

A dignified sect head, a Nascent Soul cultivator, how easy would it be if he truly wanted to find an ordinary person in this mortal realm.

She hadn't even deliberately hidden her tracks.

Han Weishu felt both sad and indignant in her heart.

She wanted to know what exactly her father was so busy with that he showed no reaction at all when his own biological daughter had been missing for so many days.

So she had the Earth Spirit Qiuqiu return to the Qinghe Sect to find her father.

But she didn't expect it to happen right when the imperial court sent letters to the various sects explaining the purpose and reasons for crusading against the Huanyou Kingdom, and the sect head and elders of the Qinghe Sect were discussing this matter in the assembly hall.

Having heard the general gist of the situation, Han Weishu knew that their country was going to uproot the royal family of the Huanyou Kingdom along with the sects that acted as their accomplices.

After learning about this, she, who had originally been harboring a young daughter's resentment towards her father for not coming to find her, began to worry about her father's safety.

Although her father was a Nascent Soul cultivator and would not easily meet with mishaps.

The targets they were going to crusade against also had Nascent Soul cultivators among them.

But even though she knew about it now and had verified it, she still could not do anything.

In this matter, she couldn't help at all.

If only her cultivation was higher, at least she could follow the Qinghe Sect to fight as a cultivator.

But with her current cultivation level, the first level of Qi Condensation, hah, she was merely slightly stronger than an ordinary person. Facing true cultivators, she would be nothing more than cannon fodder.

After experiencing the incident at the Ji Stone Mine, up until now, apart from relying on the Earth Spirit to obtain a little information, she could do nothing but watch from the sidelines and hide in the back when facing these events.

At this moment, Han Weishu seemed to finally understand a little bit why her father always wanted her to hurry up and cultivate, and why he was always so furious at her slacker attitude.