The cock crowed three times, and the morning light was dim.
Tao Fengnian practiced all night, and his cultivation level was as solid as a rock, without any slack.
He pushed open the door and walked out, and saw that the small blue brick courtyard had suddenly become neat and clean, and everything looked brand new.
The little girl in grey chores' uniform had a crooked bun on her head and she clumsily dragged a broom that was bigger than herself, sweeping the golden fallen leaves under the ginkgo tree one by one, panting and sweating profusely.
It was only one night, but she already had a spiritual aura, which shocked Tao Fengnian slightly.
Although it is not difficult to draw the energy into the body, for children who are just starting out, meditation goes against their nature, not to mention the need to calm down and feel the spiritual energy. Many children find it difficult to pass the meditation stage.
But there was already a spiritual light around her, which meant that not only had she passed the level of meditation, but she could also feel the existence of spiritual energy and absorb it into her body.
Even though he had made great achievements in his studies and was calm both physically and mentally, it still took him three days to attract the first ray of spiritual energy. Moreover, in the early stages, he had no idea when the spiritual energy would be fully gathered, and without a goal it was extremely easy to become restless.
Tao Fengnian's eyes flickered. Seeing Jiang Yuebai's calm expression, he thought of what Hong Tao said about her strong character...
Jiang Yuebai wiped the sweat from his head with his sleeve and found Tao Fengnian standing at the door of the north room. A smile like the rising sun immediately appeared on his face.
"Look, Grandpa, I've cleaned the yard."
Tao Fengnian pretended to be indifferent, raised his right hand, and a glimmer of light burst out as his fingers moved, turning into a breeze that swept across the fallen leaves under Jiang Yuebai's feet, and in an instant all of them piled up under the tree.
"Why bother with something that can be solved with a wind vortex..."
"Wow! Is this magic? Grandpa, you are so powerful."
“… …”
Jiang Yuebai's eyes were bright and his face was full of admiration. He was not at all frustrated by the wasted effort. Instead, he looked at Tao Fengnian with longing.
"Grandpa, can I learn this spell?"
Tao Fengnian put his hands behind his back and said, "If you want to learn magic, enter the first level of Qi Refining first."
Jiang Yuebai silently glanced at her cultivation panel.
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She didn’t sleep all night to catch the light ball. Although it was difficult and slow, she could directly see the improvement and goal. She was full of energy. At this speed...
"Don't worry, Grandpa. I will be able to reach the first level of Qi training in another six days."
Tao Fengnian sneered when he heard this. "You are so good at bragging at such a young age. It took me 27 days to enter the first level of Qi training. If you can succeed in six days, I will keep you. If not, get out as soon as possible!"
"Okay, Grandpa, don't lie!" Jiang Yuebai's face was full of confidence.
Tao Fengnian frowned, but after thinking about it he still felt it was a fantasy. If she had a single spiritual root or double spiritual roots, with the help of elixirs and in a place with abundant spiritual energy, it would be possible for her to survive for six days.
Five spiritual roots
Unless all the root values are nine, then... forget it!
Tao Fengnian looked at Jiang Yuebai for a while. After washing her face, she looked very pretty. She was always smiling, which made people feel good about her.
But she was sent here to kill him.
Shaking his head, Tao Fengnian went to the kitchen to cook. As usual, he scooped a bowl of spiritual rice and was about to wash it, but after a pause he angrily added another half bowl.
After the meal was ready, he didn't call Jiang Yuebai. The little girl came over with a shy smile and waited until Tao Fengnian finished eating and put down his chopsticks before she ate up the leftovers in the pot and washed the pots and bowls.
As usual, Tao Fengnian would inspect the spiritual fields every day. He would put on a bamboo hat and carry a hoe and go out.
Huaxi Valley is like a village on earth. All the farmers live in a small village at the entrance of the valley. Behind the village are thousands of acres of spiritual fields, where spiritual grains are mainly grown.
"Mr. Tao, it's so early today."
Someone greeted him on the side of the road, but Tao Fengnian was in a bad mood and didn't want to pay attention.
"Oh~ What a smart and pretty girl, are you Master Tao's apprentice?"
"Sister, you are so beautiful, like a fairy in a painting."
Hearing the voice, Tao Fengnian turned around and saw Jiang Yuebai standing in front of Song Peier with a well-behaved look on his face.
Song Pei'er, wearing a cherry pink dress, was all smiles when Jiang Yuebai praised her.
"I haven't heard anyone call me sister for a long time. Little girl, do you know that sister is already sixty-one years old this year?"
"ah?"
Jiang Yuebai opened his eyes wide in surprise and horror. The person in front of him looked to be in his early twenties at most, not at all like a sixty-year-old woman with wrinkles all over her face.
"Good boy, take this red cherry and eat it."
The red spiritual fruit was stuffed into Jiang Yuebai's hands, and she bowed quickly, "Thank you, sister...sister."
After shouting with gritted teeth, Jiang Yuebai ran after Tao Fengnian.
On the way out of the village, Jiang Yuebai found that almost everyone would greet Tao Fengnian when they saw him and were very respectful to him, as if he was the village chief.
Tao Fengnian couldn't help himself at last, "Once you enter the Immortal Sect, there will be no more mortal titles. Those who are higher than you in cultivation level will be called senior brothers and sisters, those who are lower will be called junior brothers and sisters, those who are one level higher will be called uncles, and those who are higher than you will be called Jindan Zhenren Yuanying Zhenjun. You must address them by honorific titles."
"I've remembered. Grandpa, do you want to eat the red cherry fruit?" Jiang Yuebai held up the fruit like he was presenting a treasure, swallowing his saliva quietly.
Tao Fengnian ignored her, walked to the field, put down his hoe, pinched some rice, crushed it in his palm, and checked its growth.
Finding that the grains were dry and lacking water, Tao Fengnian frowned, looked at the increasingly scorching sun, and hurriedly took two steps back and made hand gestures.
Gather clouds and turn into rain!
In the gentle breeze, the rice waves surge, and the deep yellow color is far and near, deep and shallow.
Jiang Yuebai hid the red cherry fruit that he was reluctant to eat in his lapel. When he looked up, he saw Tao Fengnian's fingers flying. White mist gathered from all directions, passed through his fingers, and gathered above the rice field to form a thin white rain mist.
Soon, raindrops began to fall from the mist. The raindrops were icy and soaked into the rice fields. The heavy rice grains swayed slightly, emitting vitality and vigor again.
Jiang Yuebai looked at the rain and fog in front of him, his pupils trembled violently, and his heart was shocked.
Then, her expression suddenly darkened, the smile on her face disappeared, and she lowered her head sullenly, clutching the corner of her clothes.
After Tao Fengnian had applied rain to more than 20 acres of land, he had used up most of his spiritual energy and stopped to rest. Turning around, he saw Jiang Yuebai, who was still full of energy just now, sitting under an old locust tree with his knees hugged, his eyes red but he was trying hard not to cry.
Tao Fengnian was a little annoyed, but he still walked over with his hands behind his back, "What happened suddenly?"
"Grandpa, was that spell you just cast difficult to learn?"
"That is the Cloud and Rain Skill, a spell that can be learned at the first level of Qi training. It is not difficult."
"If I learn it, can I water the millet with rain like you?"
Tao Fengnian nodded.
Jiang Yuebai's eyes were getting redder and redder. "Why didn't I come to the Immortal Gate earlier? If I had learned the Cloud and Rain Art earlier, so many people wouldn't have died in Jiangjia Village due to the drought. My father, mother, and brother all died because it didn't rain."
"Grandpa, why? For a cultivator, a matter that can be solved with a flick of the finger can cost the lives of all of us in one fell swoop? I don't understand, I really don't understand..."
Jiang Yuebai buried her head, her shoulders shaking as she cried silently. Tao Fengnian's eyes suddenly turned red, and her heart felt bitter.
He sighed heavily, "My wife lost her life because her leg was broken by a carriage. But in the world of immortal cultivation, two spells are enough to heal the bones and wounds."
Jiang Yuebai raised his head and sniffed his nose, his eyes full of tears.
Tao Fengnian's eyes were filled with misery and helplessness. "Perhaps this is the reason why countless mortals risk their lives to become immortals. The fate of mortals is determined by heaven, but the fate of immortals is determined by heaven."
Jiang Yuebai nodded, not quite understanding, not realizing that the 'golden light' left by the 'female fairy' was guiding her to understand the truth. "I seem to understand a little bit, why I want to cultivate immortality..."
Others cultivate Taoism for strength, wealth, power, and longevity.
Children from a family of immortal cultivators are born to cultivate immortality, without ever thinking about why, or just to make their parents happy.
Jiang Yuebai used to work hard to have enough food to eat and not be bullied, but now, she works hard to fight against birth, aging, sickness and death, natural disasters and man-made calamities, in order to not be arranged by fate and break the shackles of heaven.
If it doesn't rain, she will make it rain!
"It turns out that cultivating immortals is against the will of heaven, and what you are going against is this kind of destiny!"
Jiang Yuebai's gaze was fixed, and the [imperceptible golden light] completely disappeared into the depths of his eyes.
"Remember, the road to immortality must be fought for!"
The voice of the female fairy resounded through her mind. Jiang Yuebai felt something being poured into her body by that [the golden light that supported the top of her head broke through, guiding the rhythm of heaven and earth], which made her entire soul tremble, and the world in her eyes instantly became extremely clear.
A strong wind rose from the ground, the old trees rustled, and the leaves fell like rain.
Tao Fengnian was shocked all over, watching in horror as the fallen green leaves transformed into colorful petals around Jiang Yuebai. A mysterious Taoist aura emanated from her and spread like ripples.
The sky is full of chaos, the Taoist charm is added to the body, cleansing the tendons and marrow, changing the bones and strengthening the roots!
This is an extremely rare sign of enlightenment of the Way of Heaven!
Even a Jindan Zhenren might not be able to touch the Dao rhythm of heaven and earth all at once. She is just a child who has not yet entered the Dao!
Although it will not improve her cultivation, it can help her lay the foundation for the supreme Tao heart, allowing her to achieve twice the result with half the effort in her future cultivation at the state of mind level.
Of course, the most important thing is that the value of the spiritual roots that are destined by heaven to be difficult to change will be improved once. This will only happen when a cultivator realizes the great Dao for the first time in his life.
Tao Fengnian hurriedly took out a set of formation flags and set up a large formation around her to block detection and protect her. Fortunately, there was no one around at the moment.
It would be a blessing for the geniuses in the cultivation families, but it would be a disaster for a mortal woman like her with no background.
The Dao rhythm came and went quickly. Jiang Yuebai, a six-year-old girl, realized the Heavenly Dao in an instant [under the influence of the golden light], but she was unable to deepen her understanding.
But she discovered that the spiritual root value in the cultivation panel had changed!
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I have no choice but to mark the key words with [ ]. I guess pirated versions won't see this sentence. The heroine is young and there is a reason why she comprehends the way of heaven. I also commented on the first chapter about rooting. She is not useless. Rooting will change. I also marked it with [ ]. I just hate that Qidian didn't make it bold and big. I still don't understand it. If it's too exaggerated or too nonsense, just abandon it. Be decisive. Hesitation will lead to failure! Can you stop messing with people's mentality
Amitabha, your merits are immeasurable!
(End of this chapter)