Chapter 42

This was the anti-theft seal.

Speaking of which..,

This mansion was built after she advanced in her cultivation..,

It was opened up.

At first, it was only a tiny bit. Later on, as she had the water spirit..,

Her cultivation level continued to increase..,

With the help of the water spirit..,

It slowly expanded.

Qin Jiao was a demon cultivator, and a lone demon cultivator.

Therefore, every blade of grass and tree here was slowly collected by her and the water spirit.

In the beginning, there were very few extremely precious items inside..,

Most of them were of average quality.

It wasn't until Qin Jiao accidentally obtained the water spirit..,

That it became what it was now.

Speaking of which, it was strange..,

Qin Jiao had never heard of such a treasure before, but according to the fact that it could upgrade the mansion and all kinds of treasures..,

It was enough to make all the cultivators go crazy.

Moreover, it also had the heaven-defying effect of washing the meridians and improving the physique.

All the cultivators knew..,

The most important thing on the path of cultivation and Dao was not how hard you worked, but your talent.

Talent could be innate or acquired.

Innate was very clear..,

It was born with.

Acquired..,

It was basically piled up with heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

But heavenly materials and earthly treasures..,

It was rare for a family to have one or two of them. How could they be willing to improve the talent of a junior?

Therefore, the higher the innate talent..,

They were basically people who were favored by the Heavenly Dao..,

It was good enough for one to appear in thousands of years.

Moreover, this' genius' that was piled up with medicine..,

Also had a lot of hidden dangers. After all, all the pills that could improve cultivation had pill toxins. In a short time, it was not obvious that the cultivation was low.

However, the higher the cultivation, the more pill toxins accumulated, and the higher the chance of a backlash.

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

And the difference between good and bad talent was the thickness of the meridians and the amount of blockage inside.

The thicker the meridians, the more spiritual energy could pass through, which was naturally beneficial for the growth of cultivation.

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

The more blockage, the less spiritual energy could pass through, which was naturally not beneficial to cultivation.

But on the contrary, the less blockage, the more spiritual energy could be absorbed, and the faster the cultivation would advance. Moreover, the foundation would be stable, and it would not be easy to suffer a backlash.

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

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 mountainous regions, and most of it was filled with spirit trees.

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

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

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

There were seven types of low-grade spirit rice, three types of mid-grade spirit rice, and one type of high-grade spirit rice.

There were also various types of spirit vegetables, spirit fruits, flower fields, and medicine fields.

It could be said that the spiritual field area alone took up 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 wasn't big, only about fifty meters in diameter.

It was an ordinary round shape.

This spiritual spring was formed by the snow pearls she picked in the snow region.

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

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

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

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

Although she wanted to obtain mid-grade and high-grade snow pearls, she wasn't strong enough. In the end, she only managed to obtain an upper-grade and mid-grade snow pearl.

Later on, when her strength increased, she was too lazy to search for more snow pearls. She could only slowly increase its grade with the Water Spirit.

Depending on the grade of the spiritual spring, the color of the spring water would also be different.

Low-grade spiritual springs were white to milky white, mid-grade spiritual springs were light blue to azure blue, and high-grade spiritual springs were emerald green to dark green.

Within the same grade, the higher the grade, the richer the color.

Its spirit spring changed from its initial 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 didn't notice that as she approached, the spring water around the snow pearls in the center of the spiritual spring began to boil crazily.

Suddenly, a ray of blue light flashed past, heading straight for Qin Jiao.

When it reached her side, it circled around her nonstop.

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 approach, Qin Jiao clasped her hands together, cupped them in front of her chest, and lowered her head to kiss it. "Thank you, Water Spirit."

Tears immediately flowed down her face.

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 didn't have a physical form and couldn't be touched at all.

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

When Qin Jiao first woke up, she carefully searched her soul and didn't feel the Water Spirit's existence, so she thought it had already "disappeared".

She didn't expect it to be in her mansion 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 spiritual infant!

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

This spiritual 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 spiritual infant was also a cultivator's lifeline. That was why there was a saying, "As long as the spiritual infant is not destroyed, the cultivator will not die".

Unless they were completely disheartened and had no other way out, no cultivator would choose to self-destruct their nascent soul.

Although the eyes of the 'spiritual 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 reached out and touched it, and the 'little nascent soul' immediately dispersed.

Finally, it condensed into the Water Spirit's' blue ball '.

Qin Jiao immediately felt 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' slightly moved.

"Silly, you're already great. You saved me from self-destruction, sent me here, and protected me well. Don't you think you're great?" "Besides, I think it's more important that you're alive 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 her.

Speaking of what she did, the Water Spirit immediately regained her vitality.

She led Qin Jiao to look at the spirit spring.

"You've leveled it up again." Leveling up from Middle Level to High Level wasn't something that could be done in a short period of time.

"How long have I been gone?"

The Water Spirit spelled out a few words.

"Two hundred years!"

Qin Jiao didn't expect that in the two years she spent in the other world, two hundred years had already passed in her own residence.

Although he lamented the difference in time, Qin Jiao wasn't surprised when he thought about the difference in spiritual energy between the outside world and his own 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 Spirit Qi in the Spirit Stone was absorbed, it would become a useless' stone 'that could not even store any Spirit Qi.

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 while the other was mid-grade intermediate level. They were both found by the water spirit.

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

Could it be that they didn't know?

After 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, each floor having 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 pill concoction, she reconstructed the walls with other materials. Otherwise, if a pill exploded, this small building would also be destroyed.

The other two rooms were used to store the "Pill Concoction Room" and as a storage room for various fruits, vegetables, and spirit rice.

Although one didn't need to eat after reaching the Golden Core Stage, 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 them.

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.

Other than 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 body and improve one's appearance. However, these were all done based on one's original foundation. No matter how powerful it was, it couldn't immediately transform a woman with no face into a fairy.

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

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

And she thought that she was 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 painstakingly extract and purify the spiritual energy from the outside. She only needed to cultivate in the rooms.

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

Thinking of Old Madam Qin and the others, Qin Jiao calmed down and her eyes were filled with smiles.

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

The little "blue ball" moved vigorously.

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

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

After they calmed down, Qin Jiao thought about the time difference between the outside world and the inside world. He decided to cultivate his soul first and bring his body in the next time.

The Water Spirit knew.

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

Qin Jiao didn't expect that he would meditate for 50 years.

In the outside world, the Qin Family was also in a mess.

"Then why are you asking me?" Qin Jiao cast a glance at him and said leisurely.

.....

Qin Zhao was speechless by Qin Jiao's words.

"I'll go up and put the books away first."

"Got it. Change your clothes while you're at it. You're covered in cold air. Don't catch a cold again. Otherwise, they'll knock on my head."

Hearing Qin Zhao's complaints, Qin Jiao was in a good mood and smiled at Qin Zhao.

By the time Qin Jiao finished tidying up and came downstairs, Wang Chunhua had already started placing the dishes on the table. When she saw Qin Jiao coming downstairs, she hurriedly asked, "Jiao Jiao, are you done tidying up?"

"Yeah," Qin Jiao answered casually.

Hearing Qin Jiao's perfunctory answer, Wang Chunhua didn't dare to get angry. She hurried to the kitchen. She was really scared of Qin Jiao.

Qin Jiao pursed his lips when he saw Wang Chunhua running away.

Qin Jiao looked around and didn't see Qin Zhao, so he went to the kitchen.

"Are you done?" Old Madam Yang asked when she saw Qin Jiao.

"Yeah, I changed my clothes. Qin Zhao told me to," Qin Zhao said lazily as he leaned on Old Madam Yang's shoulder.

"Yeah, your brother is finally reliable. The ginger soup is ready. Go outside and wait. The food here is very oily. Don't stay here. Be a good boy and wait outside. I'll bring you the soup later," Old Madam Yang coaxed Qin Jiao.

"Okay." Qin Jiao walked out lazily again.

"This child is so lazy all day. If we don't pay attention, she will get sick easily. This kitchen is very oily. Her mother and I are afraid that she will fall sick again if we don't pay attention to her.

Sigh … She's like a child who hasn't grown up yet. She has so many worries, "Old Madam Yang complained to Wang Chunhua, who was cutting vegetables with her head lowered.

"Where did she come from? Jiaojiao is pretty, cultured, and very sensible. She will be blessed in the future."

Wang Chunhua said, but when Old Madam Yang couldn't see, she pursed her lips. In her opinion, Qin Jiao was just lucky to be reincarnated.

In her village, every girl would help her family do chores from a young age. When they were older, they would go to the fields to help their family earn work points. She had never heard of any girl who would fall sick after staying in the kitchen for a long time.

However, Wang Chunhua didn't dare to show any of these. She wasn't stupid!

Of course, Old Madam Yang wasn't complaining to Wang Chunhua sincerely.

It was just that she had noticed that Wang Chunhua seemed to be unhappy with Jiaojiao. At this time, Old Madam Yang naturally had to do a good job. She couldn't let any words that would harm Qin Jiao's reputation spread. At the very least, she had to do a good job on the surface.

As for what Wang Chunhua said just now, Old Madam Yang didn't care whether she was sincere or not. At least, she wouldn't dare to reveal anything now. Otherwise, Old Madam Yang would use this as an excuse to punish her.

When Old Madam Yang brought out the two bowls of ginger soup, Old Master Qin opened the door and came in.

"Grandpa, my grandma said you missed me." Qin Jiao acted coquettishly to Old Master Qin.

"Hey, of course. I said I would come to see you earlier, but your grandma insisted on delaying it until today. She's holding us up." Old Master Qin complained softly to Qin Jiao about his old wife.

"I think she's holding you up to play chess with someone." Old Madam Yang rolled her eyes at him.

"Haha, you're flattering me. I really miss our Jiaojiao." Old Master Qin quickly winked at his youngest granddaughter.

Qin Jiao immediately said, "That's right, that's right. My grandpa definitely misses me. Grandpa Li and that chess game can't compare to me."

When Old Master Qin heard this, he choked and awkwardly changed the topic. "Hey, this is ginger soup. It's just nice that I'm cold. Quick, give me a bowl."

Qin Jiao and Old Madam Yang looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh.

When her husband was young, he was as gentle as jade and had an elegant temperament. She didn't expect him to become more and more like a child now that he was old. The way he spoke was also more and more like those military generals. No wonder people always said that old people were like children. Wasn't he like this now?

"This is for Jiaojiao and Qin Zhao. Do you really want to drink it? Do you really want to snatch food from the two children?" Old Madam Yang asked her husband.

When Old Master Qin heard this, he said ingratiatingly, "I'll get it myself. Take a rest."

"Forget it," Old Madam Yang said and got up to get a bowl of soup from the kitchen.

"Grandpa?

Why are you here? "Qin Zhao had just finished his work and came out to see his grandpa sitting on the chair.

"I'm not here. I'm over there!"

Old Master Qin didn't dare to provoke his wife and his delicate granddaughter. However, he didn't hesitate to teach his grandson a lesson.

"No, Jiaojiao said that you weren't here. I was just expressing my surprise." Qin Zhao defended himself.

"I didn't say that ~" Qin Jiao unhurriedly refuted.

"Hey, no …" Ha!

Qin Zhao choked. Jiaojiao really didn't say that in person.

.....

"What are you talking about? You're trying to drag your sister into this. You're really something." Old Master Qin couldn't tell that his grandson had been fooled by his granddaughter.

"Hey, I can't stay here any longer. One after another, they look down on me." Qin Zhao complained.

"Then you can leave. No one will stop you," Old Master Qin added.

"Haha, I'm really your grandson."

"Alright, stop fooling around. Hurry up and drink the ginger soup. Come and have lunch," Old Madam Yang urged.

Qin Weimin and Song Yu 'e didn't go home for lunch unless there were special circumstances.

When the three of them went to have lunch, Old Madam Yang and Wang Chunhua were already seated.

Ever since Wang Chunhua moved to Qin Jiao's house, she had been eating with them.

When Wang Chunhua first arrived, she was shocked when she saw that they had to prepare several dishes for a meal.

She grew up in the countryside and had never seen such a life.

Now, Wang Chunhua was used to such a life. Sometimes, when she went back to visit her family, Wang Chunhua began to despise the life in the countryside.

"Today, I played chess with Old Li and he gave me something." Old Master Qin bragged to everyone.

Everyone knew that when Old Master Qin said "give", it meant that he lost a bet. After experiencing it so many times, everyone was no longer as curious as before. It was nothing more than a piece of handwritten calligraphy.

Old Master Qin looked at everyone's perfunctory expressions and couldn't hold it in any longer. He hurriedly took out something from his pocket.

Old Madam Yang took a look. Oh, it was a flower.

Old Master Qin hurriedly explained when he saw the look in his wife's eyes. "Don't be fooled by the Yushui head. Look at how beautiful the flower carving is."

Qin Jiao casually glanced at the flower when he heard his grandfather's words.

Yes, it was indeed very beautiful.

Then, he lowered his head and continued eating.

！！！

No!

Spiritual Qi!

At night, Qin Jiao meditated on the bed with the jade flower on the table. She focused on sensing the spiritual energy in the air and patiently guided them into the jade flower. After an unknown period of time, Qin Jiao felt weak all over. But when she felt the pure spiritual energy in the jade flower, Qin Jiao's heart trembled.

He had actually succeeded!

However, there was too little spiritual qi. It would be troublesome if he could only store so much spiritual qi each time.

Qin Jiao frowned as he thought to himself.

After absorbing the spiritual qi in the jade flower into his body, Qin Jiao lay on the bed and thought to himself that he had to search for other objects that could purify spiritual qi like the jade flower.

Since the jade flower was made of jade, he would start looking for jade artifacts.

The warm sunshine of the early morning arrived on this cold winter day as promised.

When Qin Zhao woke up, he found his younger sister already sitting at the dining table.

When Qin Jiao heard her, he looked up and smiled at Qin Zhao. He asked politely, "Qin Zhao, are you free today?"

"What's wrong? Why are you so obedient today? You even know how to ask about me?" Qin Zhao was flattered.

"Hehe, I have a favor to ask of you."

"Heh, I knew it. Tell me. Let me know what your eldest sister wants." Qin Zhao teased Qin Jiao.

Qin Jiao got up and pulled Qin Zhao to the sofa in the living room. He leaned over and whispered in his ear, "Do you know where I can buy jade artifacts?"

"What do you want to do with them? They're not allowed to do that now."

Qin Zhao asked in surprise when he heard Qin Jiao's words. Then, he wondered if it had something to do with the jade flower he saw at noon yesterday.

Qin Jiao thought about it for a long time last night. He felt that it was better to let his family find out more about it.

Otherwise, with her current ability, she wouldn't be able to get those jade artifacts. Moreover, she spent a lot of time with her family. How could she keep it a secret?

After thinking about it, she decided that it would be better to reveal it from the beginning. That way, they could accept it.

If they couldn't accept it, she could leave. Once her cultivation recovered, all of this wouldn't be a problem anymore.

However, she couldn't tell them everything. She had to find a way to explain it.

"I found something, but I'm not sure yet. I need to prove it." Qin Jiao explained.

"Does it have something to do with the jade artifacts you want to buy?" Qin Zhao didn't expect Qin Jiao to explain.

"Yes, but I'm not sure yet. I need to verify it. I'll tell you the details then."

"Okay, but you have to ensure your own safety." Qin Zhao stared into Qin Jiao's eyes and reminded him.

"Okay, I'll definitely protect myself." Qin Jiao answered seriously.