Chapter 20

Qin Jiao shook his head, which was still a little dizzy. When his vision cleared, he looked around and realized that this was his mansion!

After thinking about it carefully, he realized that he was really stupid.

Ever since he found out that he could purify Spirit Qi, he only thought about cultivating. He never thought that if he could purify Spirit Qi and absorb it for cultivation, he would definitely be able to open up his mansion.

Seeing the place he was most familiar with, Qin Jiao immediately relaxed.

Speaking of which, this mansion was created after she advanced in her cultivation.

At first, it was only a little big. Later on, with the help of the Water Spirit, her cultivation level increased continuously, and with the help of the Water Spirit, it slowly expanded.

Qin Jiao was a demon cultivator, and a lone one at that.

Therefore, every blade of grass and every tree inside was slowly collected by her and the Water Spirit.

At first, there were very few extremely precious items inside, and most of them were of average quality.

It was only after Qin Jiao accidentally obtained the Water Spirit that the mansion became like this.

Speaking of which, Qin Jiao had never heard of this kind of treasure before. However, based on the fact that it could upgrade a mansion and all kinds of treasures, it was enough to make all kinds of cultivators go crazy.

Moreover, it could also cleanse one's meridians and improve one's physique.

All cultivators knew that the most important thing on the path of cultivation was not how hardworking one was, but one's talent.

Talent could be innate or acquired.

Innate talent was very clear. It was something that one was born with.

Acquired talent was basically made up of heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

However, it was rare for a family to have one or two types of heavenly materials and earthly treasures. How could they be willing to use them to improve a descendant's talent?

Therefore, the higher one's innate talent was, the more they were favored by the Heavenly Dao. It would be good if one of them appeared in millions of years.

Moreover, a 'genius' made up of heavenly materials and earthly treasures also had a lot of hidden dangers. After all, all pills that could improve one's cultivation level had pill toxins. It was not obvious if one's cultivation level was low for a short period of time.

However, the higher one's cultivation level, the more pill toxins accumulated, and the higher the chance of a backlash.

From this, it could be seen how precious a person with great talent was.

The difference between good and bad talent was the thickness of the meridians and the amount of blockage in them.

The thicker the meridians, the more spiritual energy that could pass through them. Naturally, it was beneficial for the growth of one's cultivation.

And this stagnation was closely related to the absorption of spiritual energy.

The more stagnant it was, the less spiritual Qi would pass through. Naturally, it was not beneficial to cultivation.

On the other hand, the less stagnation there was, the more he could absorb, and the faster his cultivation base would advance. Furthermore, his foundation would be stable, and it would be difficult for him to suffer a backlash.

The Water Spirit was able to widen the meridians and expel the blockage.

From this, it was obvious how heaven-defying this treasure was.

The reason why Qin Jiao was able to cultivate to the late stage of Divine Transformation was because the Water Spirit had been constantly improving his physique for thousands of years.

If it wasn't for the Water Spirit, with her background as a Demonic Cultivator, her aptitude was ordinary, and she didn't have the guidance of her clan members, she wouldn't have been able to cultivate to this level in her lifetime.

However, he didn't expect that incident to happen later on. What a pity …

Qin Jiao pulled back his thoughts and looked at the place he was most familiar with.

Over the past thousands of years, her residence had been constantly remodeled by the Water Spirit and herself. Before her accident, it had already expanded to over five thousand mu.

It sounded like a large area, but most of it was occupied by mountains, and most of it was filled with spiritual trees.

The area that could be used for other purposes was only about a thousand mu.

This thousand mu was roughly divided into three areas by her.

They were the spiritual field, the bamboo house, and the spiritual spring.

In the spiritual field, there were seven types of low-grade spiritual rice, three types of mid-grade rice, and one type of high-grade rice.

There were also various types of spiritual vegetables, spiritual fruits, flower fields, and medicinal fields.

It could be said that the spiritual field alone occupied two-thirds of the usable area.

From this, it could be seen how much Qin Jiao valued this area.

On one side of the spiritual field was the spiritual spring.

The spiritual spring was not big, only about fifty meters in diameter.

Its shape was ordinary and round.

This spiritual spring was formed by the snow pearls that she had collected in the snow region.

After cultivators reached the Nascent Soul realm, they would open up their own residence.

The snow region was a place where cultivators could collect spiritual springs for their own residences.

There were snow pearls of all grades inside, and it depended on whether one had the ability to obtain high-grade snow pearls.

Although she had reached the Nascent Soul realm back then, her talent was too poor, and her cultivation was not high among those of the same level.

Although she wanted to obtain mid-grade and high-grade snow pearls, she was not strong enough, and in the end, she only managed to obtain a high-grade and mid-grade snow pearl.

Later on, when her strength increased, she was too lazy to search for more snow pearls, and could only slowly raise its grade with the water spirit.

The different grades of the spiritual spring had different colors.

The low-grade spiritual spring was white to milky white, the mid-grade was light blue to azure blue, and the high-grade was emerald green to dark green.

For the same grade, the higher the quality, the richer the color.

His spirit spring changed from its original light blue color to an azure blue color.

Wait, if her spiritual spring was azure blue, then what was the emerald green spring water in front of her?!

Qin Jiao did not notice that as she approached, the spring water around the snow pearls in the center of the spiritual spring began to boil more and more violently.

Suddenly, a blue light flashed past, and directly rushed towards Qin Jiao.

When it reached her side, it kept circling around her.

Upon seeing this thing, Qin Jiao immediately stretched out her hands. Upon closer inspection, her outstretched hands were actually trembling slightly.

When the little thing saw its master's outstretched hands, it immediately scurried over.

Seeing it scurrying over, Qin Jiao clasped her hands together, held them in front of her chest, and lowered her head to kiss it gently. "Thank you, water spirit."

Tears streamed down her cheeks.

It turned out that this little thing was the water spirit that had protected Qin Jiao from self-destruction and lured her here.

The water spirit looked like it had color, but it did not have a physical form, and it could not be touched at all.

However, Qin Jiao still carefully "touched" it, and "touched" it again and again.

When Qin Jiao first woke up, she carefully searched every part of her soul, but did not feel the presence of the water spirit, so she thought it had "disappeared".

She did not expect it to be in her residence all this time.

"Are you okay?" Qin Jiao asked softly.

Hearing Qin Jiao's question, the water spirit's figure dissipated.

The blue stream of energy slowly condensed, and finally condensed into Qin Jiao's original appearance.

No, it was her Spirit Infant!

Every cultivator who cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage would break their core and condense their Nascent Soul.

This Spirit Infant was a miniature version of the cultivator's body.

As one's cultivation increased, their Nascent Soul would also become more solid and powerful.

This Spirit Infant was also a cultivator's lifeline, which was why there was a saying, "As long as the Spirit Infant is not destroyed, the cultivator will not die".

Unless they were discouraged and had no other way out, no cultivator would choose to self-destruct their Nascent Soul.

Although the eyes of the Spirit Infant in front of her were tightly shut, from her exquisite facial features and beautiful figure, one could see how beautiful Qin Jiao's "real body" was.

Qin Jiao stretched out her hand to touch it, and the "small Nascent Soul" immediately dispersed.

In the end, it condensed into the water spirit's "blue ball" shape.

Qin Jiao immediately sensed the water spirit's sadness and waved her hand.

She waved at it, and when the water spirit gathered on its hand, it gently stroked it while asking, "Do you feel sad and blame yourself because you didn't protect my Spirit Infant well and let it disappear?"

The "blue ball" moved slightly.

"Idiot, you're already great. You saved me from self-destruction, sent me here, and protected me well. Don't you think you're great?" "Moreover, I think that you being alive is more important than anything else. Aren't you happy to see me?"

This time, the movement of the "blue ball" was very obvious.

"Then be happy, okay?

Let me see what you did when I wasn't here. "Qin Jiao comforted it.

Speaking of what it did, the water spirit immediately regained its vitality.

She led Qin Jiao to look at the spirit spring.

"You advanced it again." It took a long time for it to advance from the Intermediate Stage to the Early Stage.

"How long have I been gone?"

The water spirit spelled out a few words.

"Two hundred years!"

Qin Jiao didn't expect that two hundred years had passed in his mansion while he stayed in the Other World for two years.

Although Qin Jiao lamented the difference in time, he didn't feel surprised when he thought about the difference in the spiritual energy in the outside world and in his mansion.

The most precious thing in Qin Jiao's mansion wasn't the spirit spring, spirit herbs, or spirit pills.

It was the two spirit veins.

On the Suo Ruo Continent, all the spiritual energy was produced by the spirit stones in the spirit veins.

Once the spiritual energy in the spirit stones was absorbed, they would become useless useless stones that couldn't even store spiritual energy.

However, spirit veins were different. Spirit veins could continuously produce spirit stones over time. In other words, they could produce an endless supply of spiritual energy.

It could be said that with a high-grade spirit vein, the spiritual energy a cultivator needed for cultivation would never be cut off. Naturally, cultivation would be much easier.

Of Qin Jiao's two spirit veins, one was high-grade beginner level and the other was mid-grade intermediate level. They were both found by the water spirit.

Therefore, Qin Jiao was really confused. Why didn't anyone fight for such heaven-defying treasures?

Did they not know?

After he recovered from the great joy of reuniting with the water spirit, Qin Jiao brought it to the Bamboo Garden.

This' Bamboo Garden 'was built by Qin Jiao himself using high-quality spirit bamboo. It contained almost everything she had collected over the years.

The Bamboo Garden was divided into three floors, and each floor had four rooms.

The first floor was used by Qin Jiao as the 'Pill Room'. The four rooms were the 'Medicinal Materials' room, which was used to store the medicinal materials she had collected.

One of the rooms was the 'Pill Concoction Room'. Due to the special requirements of the Pill Concoction Room, she reconstructed the walls with other materials. Otherwise, if a pill exploded, this small building would be destroyed.

The other two rooms were used to store the 'Pill Concoction Room' and as a warehouse to store all kinds of fruits, vegetables, and spirit rice.

Although one would no longer need to eat after reaching the Golden Core Realm, she saw that many of the spirit fields outside were idle. Therefore, she casually scattered many seeds of spirit rice and spirit vegetables.

These seeds matured very quickly if they were below the Intermediate Stage. Therefore, she had no choice but to vacate a room to store these seeds.

Fortunately, they didn't take up much space in the storage jar.

The second floor was where she meditated and cultivated daily.

Most of them were miscellaneous items.

On the third floor, the largest room was her living room.

Apart from that, there was a room dedicated to storing cloth, clothes, shoes, and the like. The other room stored all kinds of skincare and beauty products.

Don't say things like 'cultivators don't have ugly faces'. That was purely a lie.

It was true that when one's cultivation level was high, one would be able to adjust one's physique and improve one's appearance. However, this was all based on one's original foundation. No matter how powerful it was, it couldn't immediately transform a woman with no face into a celestial immortal.

In fact, it was more of a change in one's bearing.

Therefore, the pursuit of beauty had nothing to do with age or status.

As for her, she considered herself to be one of the best.

She used to regard beauty as the most important thing besides cultivation and the Water Spirit.

When she brought the Water Spirit to look through the rooms one by one, Qin Jiao finally felt confident.

With these things, she didn't need to work so hard to extract and purify Spirit Qi from the outside. All she needed to do was cultivate inside.

As long as her cultivation level could catch up, she had nothing to be afraid of.

Thinking of Old Lady Qin and the others, Qin Jiao calmed down. The hostility in his eyes was replaced by a smile.

"Water Spirit, do you know that I have a family now? Although they are all ordinary people, they are very good to me. Very, very good."

The little 'blue ball' moved vigorously.

Qin Jiao could feel the Water Spirit's happiness. He smiled and continued to tell it about her encounters after arriving in the Other World. "That's how it was …"

"Then I came in and found you again." Qin Jiao finished telling it everything.

After they calmed down, Qin Jiao thought about the time difference between the outside world and the inside world. He decided to nourish his soul and cultivate it first. The next time he brought his body in, they could catch up.

The Water Spirit knew.

Qin Jiao was cultivating. He didn't disturb her. He just slowly spun around her.