Soul Marked.

“Mmm~, that’s right.”

“But… how can someone from a Yao Family be doing here? Didn’t all the other three families dislike the Shu Family? So how can they hold the engagement between us?”

When Haoyu saw her making a disheartened face, he immediately felt that he shouldn’t have asked that. She obviously knew that both of their families were in conflict with each other, and that’s the reason she made such an expression because deep down in her heart, she didn’t want all of this to happen.

Alas, things already happened, and she didn’t have any rights nor power to prevent it. She really loves Haoyu with all of her heart. One could say that her heart has been owned by Haoyu.

“You really don’t remember anything? Please tell me that all of this is just a joke. It’s a joke, right?” A sorrowful expression could be seen on her face.

A few seconds later, a sudden drop of tears could be seen flowing down her cheeks. She was literally almost crying at that time.

"Haoyu, please tell me this is a joke, right? Please… Sob Sob " She cried so hard.

“W-wait, Yao Yin, why are you crying? No, stop crying. I’m really sorry. It’s all my fault. So please stop crying.” Haoyu was trying to coax her.

“If I was powerful enough, I would have been able to prevent that from happening. I’m sorry, Haoyu. I’m sorry.” She said with a regretful expression on her face.

“Yao Yin, it’s okay now. So stop crying, please, for the sake of me.”

Sob Sob

“It’s really fine, so stop crying, okay? It’s not worth your time to cry over such matters.”

“B-but, I’m really sorry… If only I was powerful enough, I would have been able to prevent you from such situations.” She slowly stopped her cries.

When she looked down upon her knees, she could see that her lower body part of clothes was soaked in tears.

“It’s alright. I don’t want to see my fiancee in tears anymore, so you should just stop it, you dummy.”

"Haoyu started to provoke her to move on to a different topic.

"Hmphh? Who are you calling dummy? I'm genuinely concerned about you, and yet you called me dummy.. Hmph!" She pouted.

"Yes, you dummy." He smirked.

"Hmph! You should be honored that someone like me, who is an outer disciple sect beauty, has fallen for you! Hmphh!" She said with a proud expression.

"With such a top-notch beauty, you could easily trample the sect with your beauty alone, you know?" He mumbled.

"E-ehh? Did you say something?"

"Huhh, it's nothing."

"Mmm~, but Haoyu.. I was serious about what I said. If I had enough power, perhaps I would have been able to prevent things from being hard for you."

"Say, what do you mean by that?" Haoyu asked.

"My father said that if I could breakthrough to Qi Refining 1st stage and enter the inner court becoming an inner disciple, my family would have been siding with your family, but alas, I failed." Yao Yin said with a sad expression.

"Mmm~, what's your current cultivation?"

"Bone Tempering 9nd Stage! hehe~ just a step away from Qi Refining, but alas, I can't breakthrough no matter what I do."

Heard this, Haoyu can't help but become curious.

"Hmm? Did something happen before?" He asked.

"Did you really not remember? It was you who came and saved me at that time."

"I came and saved you, huh?"

"Yes, it was you who came to my aid. I was on a mission to collect some herbs, but out of sudden, a 3rd Star Monster Beast attacked me out of nowhere. I'm afraid if you didn't manage to come in time, then I would no longer be alive right now."

"You're only a bone tempering realm cultivator, and you face a 3rd star Monster Beast? Did you suffer some injuries?" He continuously asked her.

"Shouldn't be, even the best doctor in my family said that I suffered no injuries."

"Hmm~, Yao Yin, can you turn around and close your eyes for a moment?"

She then turned her body around and closed her eyes.

A few seconds later, Haoyu put his palm on Yao Yin's back. The sudden touch made her a little startled.

"H-haoyu? W-where are you touching?" She said with a slight embarrassed.

"Shh, I'm trying to examine your body," Haoyu replied.

He then poured his divine sense onto her using his hand. "This is? So it's no wonder that she can't make a breakthrough."

"Yao Yin, lower your soul suppression. I have found the root of your problem."

"H-huhh? O-okay." She was confused but she did it regardless.

"I'm a Qi Refining, and she is Bone Tempering. I could do it even if she didn't lower her soul suppression, but it's better this way as this method would help me from telling her the secrets," he said inwardly.

He then inserts a wisp of his soul into Yao Yin's knowledge sea. "So is this how the undeveloped knowledge sea looks like?"

The knowledge sea usually started to form once a cultivator reached the Qi Refining realm. However, since Yao Yin's realm was only a step below the Qi Refining, she already managed to develop a knowledge sea.

But her current knowledge sea isn't fully developed yet because of the injuries she suffered prevented her from forming a knowledge sea.

"Let me see, hmm~.. I was right, the monster beast that attacked her left a mark on her soul, and that's what prevented her from forming into a knowledge sea."

"And it was not a normal mark, the beast used a soul marking attack on her. It's impossible to not notice such injuries, unless someone purposely left it untreated... there must be someone behind this."