Breaking through in the Yang household was quite a harrowing affair, and Yang Qing should know; he had gone through it himself. Despite reaching the absolute limit of what the body refinement realm could offer and becoming the first in the clan's entire history to achieve the peerless jade body, quite a number of his clan members, led by his grandfather, murmured and sighed in mourning when he broke through to the qi refinement realm. They even made him stand vigil before the ancestors' tablets in complete silence, without moving or eating, for four days as atonement for his breakthrough.
He had a belly full of anger and hunger for those four days. But once he was released from the atonement, had eaten, and could think calmly again, the looks his grandfather and his cohort gave him—that look of betrayal and regret—brought Yang Qing a sense of joy and fulfillment he couldn't quite understand at the time. Only later did he realize it was joy born out of good old vengeance.
