Chapter 22

In the evening, Qin Zhao and his son, Qin Weiguo and his wife, and Qin Weihong's husband, Ma Yuan, all rushed over after receiving the news.

"Little heartless girl, little heartless girl …" After Qin Zhao calmed down, he kept muttering Qin Jiao's name as he poked her head with his finger.

Although his actions were fierce, he didn't use much strength.

Qin Jiao allowed him to poke her this time.

However, Song Yu 'e wasn't willing to let him go. She grabbed his hand that was poking Qin Jiao and gently pushed it away. Then, she poked Qin Zhao's head with her own hand.

As she poked him, she nagged, "You little brat, your sister just woke up and you're poking her head like this. Let me poke you. What do you think? Does your head hurt?"

"Ha!

Is this how you treat your own son? "

Qin Zhao knew this would happen. Sure enough, as soon as his sister woke up, he immediately became the "empress". Qin Zhao rolled his eyes and thought to himself.

Looking at the mother and children quarreling, everyone was amused beyond words.

The Qin Family's gloomy weather finally turned sunny after half a year.

Seeing that her niece's body was getting better day by day, Qin Weihong hurriedly packed up her things and returned home.

It wasn't that she didn't want to stay and help. However, as soon as Qin Jiao woke up, her mother and sister-in-law Song Yu 'e's illness had almost recovered by 70%. The rest would take a long time to recover.

Since that was the case, there was no need for her to help.

Moreover, she had two children at home after all. The younger one had a temper that would chase after chickens and dogs. In the two days that she was not around, she did not know what kind of trouble he would cause at home.

A few days after Qin Weihong left, Qin Jiao took advantage of the fact that everyone in the family was resting to sneak into the mansion.

After all, he needed to make some preparations before he could talk to them about cultivation.

As soon as Qin Jiao came in, the little blue ball immediately rushed into Qin Jiao's arms.

Qin Jiao smiled and "patted" it.

This time, Qin Jiao planned to bring it out.

The two of them had accompanied each other for thousands of years. There was no reason for him to let the Water Spirit stay in the mansion by herself.

Furthermore, Qin Jiao intended to introduce the Water Spirit to his family.

In this way, the Water Spirit was a spiritual being. Being close to it for a long period of time would be beneficial to one's body and cultivation.

Secondly, both of them were her most treasured possessions, so she naturally didn't want to hide them.

"When I go out later, I'll take you with me." Qin Jiao stroked it.

The little blue ball jumped up and down. Qin Jiao could feel its emotions, so he did not bother about it.

Even though she didn't have any cultivation, because she was the owner of the mansion, she could control it with her mind. After all, this mansion was formed by the will of a cultivator.

Qin Jiao dashed into the bedroom on the third floor.

Last time, only her soul came in, and her body was left outside.

This time, Qin Jiao's main plan was to fix this body properly. After all, she didn't "fancy" it from the start. It only had a body similar to hers, but it didn't have any spiritual energy.

It was just that she was restricted by the situation and had no other choice.

Now that her things were back, Qin Jiao naturally wanted to act quickly.

With a wave of his hand, Qin Jiao poured the water from the spirit spring into the yellow jade bucket in the cubicle. After thinking for a while, he took out two white jade bottles from the cubicle and poured out two pills from each bottle into the water.

As soon as the pills came into contact with the water, the water in the bucket turned from light green to purplish-red.

Qin Jiao took off her clothes and entered the water. The moment she entered the water, she felt a sharp pain.

These two types of pills, White Muscle and Snow Bead, were actually just pills that she had made when she was bored and had nothing to do. She only had enough pills of lower and lower grade.

If it was in the past, these two pills would have had almost no effect on her.

However, her current body was just a mortal, and using these two pills was probably her limit.

If not for the fact that her soul had recovered, she wouldn't have dared to try it.

Pain!

Although Qin Jiao's soul was strong enough, her body seemed to be unable to withstand it.

As time passed, the water in the yellow jade bucket gradually became transparent.

Looking at the person in the bucket, her pale face slowly regained its color.

Qin Jiao opened her eyes and waved her hand to take a small crystal mirror from the dressing table. She held it and looked at herself.

In the past, although her skin was fair, it wasn't delicate enough.

Now that she looked at it, although it wasn't fairer, it was watery and very tender!

She sighed helplessly. There was nothing she could do. Although it was far from what she used to be, this was the best she could do without her cultivation.

This was only to remove the impurities in her skin!

Fortunately, her hair was much better. Qin Jiao comforted herself.

After finishing this, she rummaged through her old clothes. She didn't want to put herself in the "ugly and coarse" cotton dress anymore. After picking and choosing for a long time, she finally changed into a set of training clothes.

She had no choice. She couldn't wear anything else.

Although this set of clothes was extraordinary, it wasn't as eye-catching as the others.

Seeing that it was still early, Qin Jiao prepared to start drawing Qi into her body.

Drawing Qi into the body was the threshold of cultivation. If she could succeed, she would naturally be a cultivator. On the other hand, if she couldn't, it meant that she was not fated and should give up early.

She closed her eyes and slowly felt the spiritual Qi in the air.

Then, she guided it into her body.

Skin, flesh, and finally meridians.

Qin Jiao patiently guided the spiritual Qi to circulate in her meridians.

Until she slowly absorbed it …

After a small cycle, Qin Jiao felt refreshed and her body felt extremely comfortable.

Looking at her cultivation level of the second level of Qi Refinement, Qin Jiao thought that she had finally succeeded in drawing Qi.

However, there were too many blockages in her meridians, which was very detrimental to her cultivation.

If it was someone else, they would probably stop at the Foundation Establishment stage.

However, it didn't affect her much. After all, she had the water spirit.

At most, she would have to walk the same path that she had walked before.

After tidying up, Qin Jiao left the mansion.

Unexpectedly, she looked at the watch on the table. It was only two in the morning.

In her current state, it wouldn't affect her even if she didn't sleep.

Since she was bored, Qin Jiao decided to do something else to pass the time.

She glanced at the jade ball on the table that the old lady had given her and immediately had an idea.

She took the jade ball and entered the mansion again.

She waved her hand and took a small bowl of spring water. Qin Jiao reached out and put the jade ball in her hand into the bowl. After thinking for a while, she took some starlight powder and sprinkled it in.

This starlight powder was obtained from the horn of a beast called the Star Horn Beast in the Sao Ruo Continent.

It was mostly used to refine cultivators' life-bound magic treasures. It could strengthen the magic treasure's attributes.

Qin Jiao's life-bound magic treasure used to be a purple bamboo sword. Unfortunately, it disappeared after that accident.

Although the Star Horn Beast was only a fourth grade demonic beast, it was a social beast.

It was easy to defeat one beast, but it was hard to defeat a group of them.

Therefore, this starlight powder was not something that could be easily obtained by any cultivator.

Her life-bound magic treasure had been destroyed. Sooner or later, she would have to refine it again.

Although this jade ball was made of the most ordinary jade, she still wanted to try and see if she could successfully refine it.

Now, she wanted to use the spiritual spring water and starlight powder to see if it could increase its attributes. Only then could she decide if it was suitable for refining.

Otherwise, with its current attributes, it wouldn't even be able to get close to the lowest grade 'earth fire'.

This wasn't something that could be done in a short period of time.

Qin Jiao decided to take this opportunity to pack some 'meeting gifts' for her grandmother and the others.

Looking at the boxes in the room that were full of cloth, fur, and brocade, Qin Jiao didn't find it troublesome and picked them one by one.

Green silk wouldn't do. It was too soft and didn't suit her mother.

Violet silk would do. Her grandmother would definitely wear rich and elegant clothes.

Blue silk would do. It would suit her grandmother's composure.

…

After much difficulty, Qin Jiao finally picked out one item for each of them. He was also very tired.

Seeing that there were still many items left, Qin Jiao wasn't in a hurry and didn't plan to continue. He only found two more bolts of silk brocade and stopped.

"Water spirit ~ Let's go. It's time to go out." Qin Jiao called out to the blue ball that was playing happily with the two Kirin Rats in the distant mountains.

Hearing Qin Jiao calling out to it, the water spirit spread out and circled around the two Kirin Rats. Then, it flew towards Qin Jiao.

"Come." Qin Jiao touched it and stretched out his left hand.

The water spirit changed its' body 'and circled around Qin Jiao's wrist.

At first glance, it really did look like there was a blue jade bracelet on her wrist. It really made her hand look fairer and more delicate.

This was an old 'rule' between Qin Jiao and the water spirit. Although the water spirit couldn't speak, it had consciousness and was very lively.

In the past, Qin Jiao would let it turn into a bracelet and stay on her wrist if it stayed in her body for too long.

Since Qin Jiao planned to bring it out this time, he naturally wanted it to be the same as before.

The water spirit was very lively once it left the mansion, as if it was curious about this world that it had never been to before.

However, no matter how curious it was, it didn't remove itself from Qin Jiao's wrist. Instead, it kept circling around Qin Jiao's wrist.

"Be good. I'll take you to see it in the future." Qin Jiao patted the mischievous' little blue circle 'on his wrist in amusement.

After hearing Qin Jiao's words, the 'little blue circle' immediately became obedient.

However, it didn't stay still for more than two minutes before it suddenly circled around twice, stopped twice, and circled around twice more.

Seeing it like this, Qin Jiao patted it in amusement. "I know, I know. I promise I won't lie to you this time."

He didn't expect this little blue circle to be so 'vengeful'.

The story of "holding a grudge" had to start from when he first obtained the Water Spirit.

Back then, he accidentally entered a mystic realm. While he was looking for a way out, he saw the water spirit at the bottom of the lake.

When he got closer, he immediately felt a strong vitality from it.

He wanted to try to subdue it.

However, it didn't have a physical body. All his efforts were in vain.

No matter how unwilling Qin Jiao was, he couldn't do anything about it. He just thought that he wasn't fated to be with it.

He was about to give up and leave, but he didn't expect it to not let him leave. It kept circling around him.

Qin Jiao couldn't hit it, so he couldn't leave.

Seeing that it didn't want to hurt him and was very happy, he helplessly said, "Why don't you leave with me? There are so many fun places outside."

It was just a casual sentence, but who knew that because of this sentence, it would 'follow' Qin Jiao all the way until now.

After Qin Jiao found out about the heaven-defying benefits of the water spirit, he spent most of his time on cultivation. He didn't have the time to really bring it out to play.

Every time it made him feel helpless, he would coax it and say, "In the future, in the future."

Unexpectedly, before this "in the future" could come true, he accidentally came here.

It was probably tricked by her so many times that it didn't believe in her "in the future" anymore. Fortunately, it slowly calmed down this time.