The next day, Jiang Sanlang took his little girl to the Baisheng Treasure Pavilion to pay a visit to Master Wang.
But there was more than just his daughter who came to the Treasure Pavilion to become a disciple, there were also a dozen other children.
Among these children, the oldest is in his teens and the youngest is five or six years old, and all of them have a chance to become immortals.
Jiang Sanlang was a little worried when he saw this, because the owner of Zhenbao Pavilion only accepted two disciples, but now there were fifteen people who wanted to become his disciples.
After a while, several servants came out and led all the children into the yard for examination.
Yingbao also said goodbye to her father and followed the servants to a garden on her short legs.
The garden was full of lush vegetation and many fruit trees. Yingbao drooled at the fruits at first, but after staring at them for a while, she realized that the fruits were all fake.
Yingbao was puzzled. She patted the fake tree with her little hand and actually felt the touch.
She blinked her eyes, climbed up a tree that was neither too big nor too small, and picked a fruit.
When I got the fruit, I found out it was made of soil.
Yingbao was curious and wanted to pick another one to have a look, but suddenly the tree collapsed and she fell to the ground and fell on her butt.
"Hahaha!" A burst of laughter came from behind her. Yingbao turned around and saw a five-year-old child wearing a golden crown, pointing at her and laughing: "How stupid!"
Yingbao got up from the ground with her butt sticking out, brushed off the dirt on her body, and said, "You're the stupid one!"
The little golden-crowned child snorted twice, walked over and said, "You're still breastfeeding, right? I don't want a kid like you to keep me company."
Yingbao frowned and said seriously: "I'm here to learn magic, not to keep you company."
The little boy was a little unhappy, and said with his hands behind his back: "Didn't you come here just to be my study partner? How dare you quibble?"
Yingbao was puzzled: "But Daddy said I came here to become his disciple."
The little boy snorted, looked Yingbao up and down, and said with disdain: "My mother won't accept female disciples as young as you."
Yingbao blinked, said "oh", turned around and walked out.
When the little boy saw that she had really left, he stepped forward and held her back, "Hey! I haven't finished yet."
"Then tell me quickly." Since no one wanted to accept her as an apprentice, she would go to the academy to learn how to read, and then learn magic on her own in the future.
The little boy frowned and said, "If my mother won't accept you, you can take me as your master."
Yingbao's eyes widened, "I want to be your disciple?"
"Yes." The little boy raised his chin and said, "I have already reached the third level of Qi training. I can be your master."
Yingbao frowned and thought for a moment, then nodded without hesitation: "Okay."
The little boy immediately smiled and patted her shoulder and said, "Why don't you call me Master?"
Yingbao: "Master."
The little boy smiled even more brightly, and took out an amulet from the storage bag on his waist and stuffed it into Yingbao's hand: "Here! This is a gift from your master."
Yingbao looked at the amulet over and over again and asked, "What is this?"
"The amulet can automatically block one attack from the Nascent Soul." The little boy said proudly, "As long as you practice hard, I will give you more treasures in the future."
"Can mortals use it?" Yingbao asked.
Child: “Of course.”
Yingbao's eyes lit up: "Thank you, Master."
After thinking for a while, he took out two fruits from his storage bag and stuffed them into the boy's pocket: "This is a gift for becoming a disciple."
The little boy smiled from ear to ear, patted Yingbao's little head and said, "My disciple is so good."
Wang Jin, who was not far from them, saw this scene, her mouth twitched, and she turned to the housekeeper and said, "Leave the child here." She originally wanted to find two study companions for her son so that they could grow up together. In case she failed in her tribulation, her son would not be alone.
But now his son has found a little apprentice and is giving him a gift in a proper manner. It is really ridiculous.
The housekeeper agreed and asked, "Are the other two still here?"
Wang Jin nodded: "Let them stay too. Let the four of them live in one courtyard, and have someone to take care of their daily lives."
"Yes." The butler took the order and left.
From then on, Yingbao stayed in the Wang family. In addition to learning to read and write every day, she also learned some magic spells.
Wang Jin tested Yingbao's fate with immortality and found that her spiritual roots were very strange. She did not have dual spiritual roots of water and fire, but she could cast water and fire spells.
She didn't know what method to use for her to practice, so she wanted to wait until Yingbao was five years old and then test her again.
After all, most children can only detect their fate as immortals when they are five years old. Wang Jin thought that Yingbao was too young, so her spiritual roots were vague and not obvious.
One day, a group of monks suddenly came to the door of the Treasure Pavilion, claiming to be from the Chen family of Suzaku City, and wanted to talk to the head of the Treasure Pavilion.
Wang Jin invited them into the living room to talk and asked, "What do you want to talk about?"
The leading elder in the Foundation Establishment Stage bowed to Wang Jin and said, "To be honest, we are from the Chen family of Suzaku City. We are here to claim back a little girl. We heard that she was taken into the Treasure Pavilion a while ago, so we came to disturb the host."
"To get the baby girl back?" Wang Jin frowned. "May I ask who you are to the baby girl?"
Chen Shan said proudly: "I am the master of this girl."
Wang Jin was surprised: "Master? But the two girls I adopted a while ago were both civilians, and they didn't become my disciples, right?"
Chen Shan's face darkened. "Boss Wang, that Jiang child is the disciple I have long chosen. Her parents are so rude that they sent her to the Treasure Pavilion. I hope Boss Wang will return the child to me."
Wang Jin sneered when he heard this and called the housekeeper: "Go and call the Jiang family!"
The butler agreed and left.
Wang Jin ordered someone to bring Ying Bao over and asked, "Ying Bao, have you ever taken this gentleman as your master?"
Yingbao immediately shook her head: "I didn't take him as my master. They bullied my brothers and sisters, and scolded my brother and mother until they cried."
Chen Shan's face darkened. "Little kid, did I say before that I would take you in as my apprentice?"
Ying Bao blinked and shook her head: "I already have a master, I don't want to be your master." Then she pointed at Wei Qi who followed her: "He is my master."
Wei Qi immediately puffed out his chest, "Yes! I am her master, who are you? How dare you snatch my apprentice from me!"
Chen Shan couldn't help but laugh when he saw a four or five-year-old boy saying such words. He turned to look at Wang Jin and said, "Boss Wang, if you go against the Chen family of Suzaku City, you will not get any good results."
Wang Jin looked at Chen Shan coldly: "Why? The Chen family of Suzaku City wants to snatch people from my Treasure Pavilion?"
Chen Shan refused to give in: "I was the one who had my eyes on this child. I am only here to take him with me. How can you say I am snatching him away?"
Wang Jin was almost amused by this man's unreasonableness, and with a wave of his hand he drove this group of Chen family members out of the Treasure Pavilion.
She has already reached the great perfection of Jindan, and only needs an opportunity to enter the Nascent Soul stage. If she hadn't been concerned about her family's business in Suzaku City, it would not have been as simple as driving her away just now.
Chen Shan and his group were driven out of the Treasure Pavilion by Wang Jin, but they were still unwilling to accept it. They wanted to find trouble with the Jiang family, but when they thought of the child, they finally did not do it. Instead, they went to the branch of the Chen family in the county and asked them to keep an eye on the Jiang family's child and take her to Suzaku City if they had a chance.
The Chen family, a branch of the family, naturally agreed immediately and sent people to monitor the area near the Treasure Pavilion.
However, they waited for more than three years. During these three years, every time the Jiang family's children returned home, they were surrounded by Wei Qi and a group of guards, and the Chen family had no chance to take action at all.
During these three years, Yingbao secretly gave the elixirs grown in the Divine Mansion to her parents, who then sold them to the Treasure Pavilion. The Jiang family finally bought household registration for everyone in the family and bought a large house in the county town, and the whole family moved in.
But in his spare time, Jiang Sanlang and his two elder brothers would still go to the forest to collect medicinal herbs in exchange for the family's living expenses.
Yingbao was worried about the safety of her father and uncles, so she equipped each of them with a protective magic weapon, a storage bag that could be activated without the need for spiritual power, and a magic weapon for escape, which cost her a lot of high-level spiritual medicines.
She was also thinking of saving up some time to equip her own yard with a protective formation that could not be broken by cultivators below the Jindan stage.
That day, Wang Jin retested Yingbao's spiritual roots and found that she not only had fire and water spiritual roots, but also earth, wood, and gold spiritual roots.
After testing again, she turned out to have dual spiritual roots of water and fire, which was outrageous.
Wang Jin frowned and looked at the little kid, very puzzled.
This child has never found the right mental method, but it seems that she can use any spell, especially the fire spell. Although her attack power is outstanding and is almost catching up with the Jindan cultivator, her cultivation level is still the fifth level of Qi training.
Wang Jin looked at his son again.
The eight-year-old Wei Zhan has broken through the ninth level of Qi training with the help of various high-level spiritual medicines. He has been clamoring to go out for training, and said that the reason he couldn't beat his little apprentice was because he didn't go out for training.
Wang Jin shook his head and decided to take some time to take the children out for a walk.
But before they could set off, the Jiang family's door was suddenly surrounded by a group of Chen family members.
A woman knocked on the door of the Jiang family and cried, demanding that the Jiang family return her daughter.
She said there were golden scales on her daughter's back, and the midwife who delivered the baby testified, so she asked the Jiang family to return the child.
Chunniang was horrified and pulled her husband to cry, "How did she know that Bao'er had scales on his back? Could she really be Bao'er's biological mother?"
Jiang Sanlang frowned, having a bad feeling.
When she brought Yingbao home, no one except her family knew that she had scales on her back. So why did the Chen family members believe that their daughter was her daughter
He looked at his family and asked, "Have you talked about Bao'er with outsiders?"
Old Man Jiang and Mrs. Jiang Liu shook their heads: "Sanlang, you worry too much. Why would anyone in the family spread the news about Baoer?"
Jiang Dalang and Jiang Dasao also said: "We never talk about Yingbao in front of outsiders."
Jiang Sanlang then looked at Jiang Erlang and his second sister-in-law Leng.
Leng turned her eyes away guiltily and did not meet her third uncle's gaze.
A few days ago, Leng went out to chat with the women outside. One of the women asked about Yingbao intentionally or unintentionally. Leng started to talk nonsense and said that Yingbao was adopted by her third uncle. Then, under the guidance of others, she also mentioned that Yingbao had scales on her back.
Who would have thought that within a few days, someone would come to claim the child.
"Sanlang, since they have come to claim the child, just give it to them. He was never a child of our Jiang family..." Before she could finish her words, Leng was slapped in the face by her husband Jiang Erlang.
"What do you know?" Jiang Erlang said angrily, "Since that family threw the child away, it is obvious that they have bad intentions when they come back now. How dare you say such a thing? Do you still have a conscience?"
If it weren't for Yingbao, how could their family afford a household registration and a house in the county town
Now Yuanbao Huzi and other children are studying in the school, where does the money for tuition come from? Can they do it just by collecting herbs
This stupid woman actually dared to say such things in front of my third brother.
Jiang Sanlang glanced at his second sister-in-law coldly, and when he saw that she was beaten by his second brother, he said nothing.
Outside the yard, the Chen family saw that they could not open the Jiang family's door, so they went to call the county officials and cried, saying that the Jiang family had kidnapped the Chen family's child.
Jiang Sanlang had no choice but to walk out of the house and confront him.
Finally, the officials went to the Treasure Pavilion to summon Yingbao, and went to the county government office for questioning together with the Jiang family.
After identifying the scales on Yingbao's back, the county government ordered the Jiang family to return the child, but the Chen family had to pay the Jiang family a sum of child support. Even Wang Jin's words were useless.
This result seems fair, but it completely disregards the feelings of the Jiang family.
Chunniang burst into tears and held Yingbao tightly, refusing to let go.
It was the police who snatched Yingbao away and handed her over to the Chen family.
Ying Bao was furious and shot a beam of fire towards the Chen family, but the Chen family seemed to be prepared. A strange Jindan stage cultivator clamped her and put soul-binding chains on her hands.
In the blink of an eye, Yingbao was taken to Chen's house and locked in a dark room.
After a while, a group of Chen family members came in, and one of them was the old man who wanted to take her as his apprentice.
Yingbao was very angry and wanted to go up and beat someone up, but she was tied firmly to the black iron pillar and could not move.
Then several strange monks circled around her, examining the scales on her back and drawing her blood to compare with the monster's.
Yingbao fainted due to excessive blood loss. When she woke up, she saw her biological mother Han with a look of disgust on her face.
Han threw a bowl of porridge on the ground and looked at her coldly: "You ungrateful little beast, you are so lucky that you can't die even if you bleed to death."
Yingbao narrowed her eyes slightly. If she was not unable to move, she would really want to burn down the Chen family.
"Eat it." Han kicked the basin on the ground and looked down at the little girl squatting on the ground: "This is what our dog left over. It's a bargain for you."
Yingbao didn't even look at her, let alone bend over to eat the food in the bowl.
Her hands were tied behind her back, and she was trying to figure out how to break the soul-binding chains on her wrists.
Seeing the little girl's arrogant look, Han became even more angry and kicked her, hitting her on the forehead.
"Han!" Chen Laoshuan came in with his hands behind his back. Seeing this scene, he frowned and shouted, "What are you doing? Get out now!"
When Han saw that it was her father-in-law coming, she turned around and left embarrassedly.
Chen Laoshuan leaned over and said to Yingbao, "Child, I'm sorry for making you suffer. The Jiang family is such a jerk. They stole you from our family and caused your parents to look for you for a long time."
Yingbao watched the old man acting with an expressionless face.
Chen Laoshuan added, "Don't blame your mother. She was just mad. We took you home with good intentions, but you set her on fire. How could she not be heartbroken?"
Yingbao thought for a moment and said, "I won't burn her anymore, please let me go."
Chen Laoshuan shook his head: "The key is not with me. Alas, we are doing this for your own good. When we return to Suzaku City, we will definitely set you free."
Yingbao tilted her head and asked, "Are you going to Suzaku Castle too?"
"Yes." Chen Laoshuan smiled and said, "When we get to the master's house, you must be obedient and never burn anyone with fire again."
"good."