Focused on feeling the spiritual qi flowing through her meridians for the first time outside the illusion, she didn't notice someone observing her from outside the second she broke through to the First Stage of the Qi Condensation Realm and stepped onto the path of cultivation and officially became a cultivator like her father, mother and brother had all managed to successfully do ahead of her.
The person in question wasn't Xuan Hao, but instead a spy that had been planted by the major family that had been blamed for being behind Lu Dongli's unfortunate timing for entering a deep sleep that was impossible to wake her up from.
After all, as the ones being blamed for the entire situation, it was obvious that they would grow suspicious and strive to find out the truth about the entire situation. Sending someone to try and see if they could get an idea about what had happened by observing the victim in question.
