Ma Ling looked his way in confusion, though there was sothing different this ti, and that sothing grew more and more prominent, the more Ma Yuan tried to gently coax her not to be fearful.
Ma Yuan gently and slowly brought up things they used to do together, her favorite als, what they'd do on a typical day, what she liked doing, what she hated, but had to do like the morning punching routines her mother had her do diligently without fail.
Every story Ma Yuan brought up, seed to evoke sothing from her, even though it seed like she was still wary of Ma Yuan and the rest, the things Ma Yuan said, made her pause her movents.
From the way her eyes moved, it seed like the things seed familiar, yet unfamiliar to her, as she scrunched her face at why strange things seed familiar despite her having no recollection of it.
The final nail was when Ma Yuan took sothing out of his storage ring. It was a short knife, though from the crude design, calling it a knife was an understatent. From its shape, it looked like a grafting knife.
It had lumps all over, the edges looked dull, and the material used to make it was sand iron which was a low-grade earth-rank material, while the wood used as a handle, was a mortal-rank wood, which had been processed poorly.
However, that crudely shaped knife had been encased in a box made from prismatic juniper wood, which was a top-tier sky rank tree.
"Do you rember this, you made this when you were four, and it is one of the greatest treasures I have.." Ma Yuan said with a proud smile as he gently picked up the harvesting knife and slowly passed it to Ma Ling, who from the mont the knife appeared, froze as a look of rembrance appeared on her.
She stopped moving back to the board of the bed and crawled forward, slowly taking the knife from Ma Yuan's hand as she closely examined it.
She traced her hands over it, examining every single part with her touch and sight, seeming more familiar to it with every sense.
"Dew harvester.." she absentmindedly muttered.
"Yes!" Ma Yuan excitedly said.
"You nad it the Dew harvester, saying I could even harvest dew with it.." Ma Yuan said, then beca embarrassed when he rembered there was company present, and the craftmanship of the knife.
He wasn't the only one, because Ma Ling's cheeks reddened with embarrassnt too.
"Who are you? Your voice seems familiar but I've never seen you...I don't think I have.." she tilted her head in contemplation as she closely scrutinized Ma Yuan.
Ma Yuan's lips opened and closed a couple of tis as if in a struggle with what to say.
"I'm your father, Ling'er.." he said after struggling with it.
His eyes held fear and hope in them, as he said it, along with regret, and guilt.
"Father.." her eyebrows joined up in consternation at those words.
"But I don't have one. I'm an orphan that the Ice Erald Sect took in from when I was a child. My parents died to bandits when I was small, and Elder Deng Yaozu found and took back to the sect..
Who are you?! Where is Elder Deng Yaouz?!"
She started to get hysterical which left Ma Yuan heartbroken and confused about what to do.
He felt his spirits plumt to the ground and his heart break at his daughter's reaction. Earlier when she recognized the knife, he thought maybe things were not as bad as he had imagined.
He had personally seen what mory-altering gu could do to soone, and when his wife and daughter got taken, of the worst case scenarios, of the one that had most probability in his mind, was them having their mories altered, and souls controlled. This was why, though he felt hurt, his daughter had one in her, he wasn't as affected greatly by the revelation.
But then, he ca here, saw her, whatever experience and expectations he had, all went with the wind, and he beca a parent with the hope that his only child rembered him, and when she showed signs of it, the gloomy world he had been living in for the past seven years, seed to light up, and now with her present reaction, he felt he had been thrown to an even deeper darkness than before.
Tan Jie flashed to where the hysterical Ma Ling was and gently tapped her forehead, which put her to sleep, as she gently laid her on the bed. She ford a seal with her hands and the water barrier from before reappeared but now Tan Jie left it to run autonomously as plant tendrils appeared below Ma Ling's bed and wrapped themselves around the water barrier.
The water barrier seed to change when it ca into contact with the tendrils. A purifying, gentle energy started pulsing from it, which made even the heartbroken Ma Yuan have so semblance of calm.
"Your daughter will be fine, the fact that she recognizes your voice, and certain objects from her past, is a really good place to start.
We have had worse, and we still managed to restore them, fully..." Tan Jie comfortingly said.
"We will do the sa with your daughter.." she firmly added.
"Really?" Ma Yuan asked, desperate to cling to sothing.
"We will.."
"Okay.." he said as he took a seat next to Ma Ling.
"Now as far as the treatnt goes, we will do things gradually. You can talk with her about her past, things she did, as for revealing your identity or her mother's, let's wait until her mind and ntal sea are stable, which should be after about three or four months.."
"Okay.."
"Your daughter is in the best hands possible.." Yang Qing said as he patted Ma Yuan's shoulder.
"Thank you, Judge Yang Qing, for all you have done. I don't know how I can ever repay you.."
"Don't worry about it, worry about your daughter that will be paynt enough.."
"I'll leave you to your daughter, the dical Valley has accommodations you can use, right Tan Jue?"
"Yes, soone will be here shortly to guide him.."
"Good, Ma Yuan I wish you and your daughter well, and should you need anything, you can always reach out to , don't hesitate.."
"I will.."
"Tan Jue, I leave them in your care, and thanks.."
"MmH.."
Yang Qing turned and left and made his way to the Judicial Review Committee, as per Vice President Tao's orders, and he also had the matter with the Spiritual temperance sect territory to present.
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