Chapter 3
But the sparkling little star is very clingy. He looks at you with his pair of cute, round black eyes, and puts his round little head against your neck, just like a little kitten, acting coquettishly in a baby voice. Who can bear to refuse him?
At least Jiang Mingyan can't.
Therefore, Jiang Mingyan did not take the time to look at the golden and white Sumeru bracelet that his mother had given him today until the moon was high in the sky.
Although Jiang Mingyan is only twelve years old this year, Yun Zhaoming and Jiang Qizhuo are both tall, so he is naturally not short either.
At this time, he was sitting on a chair beside the crib. When he raised his eyes, he could see the fat little baby sleeping in the crib with his legs spread out.
Jiang Sui Yan slept until noon in the morning, but children tend to sleep a lot, so he pestered Jiang Ming Yan to play during the day. Jiang Ming Yan also doted on him and agreed with him in almost everything, so he played more vigorously and used up all his energy.
When Jiang Mingyan coaxed him to sleep at night, the fatigue that had been suppressed by playing during the day came back to him, and he fell into a deep sleep.
Jiang Mingyan listened to the soft breathing sounds coming from the crib, looked at the quilt on the baby's chubby belly rising and falling with his breathing, and couldn't help but curl up the corners of his lips.
"Little Fatty." He lowered his voice and said it with a smile in his tone.
"Aiya~" As if hearing the 'unfriendly' voice of his brother, the chubby kid on the small bed muttered and kicked away the thin blanket with his chubby little feet.
Jiang Sui Yan never slept well at night. His clothes were moved around when he slept. When he kicked off the quilt, his white, tender, round and soft belly was exposed.
Jiang Mingyan stood up, picked up the thin blanket that was kicked away by the little fat boy from the corner of the crib, and covered the little guy who was sleeping soundly with it again.
However, before covering the baby with the quilt, Jiang Mingyan couldn't help but touch the little guy's round belly.
Well, it's soft and looks like it's all meat.
Thinking of this, Jiang Mingyan's sharp brows seemed to be stained with a smile.
He sat back in his chair.
This time, he finally stopped staring at the little guy on the crib and really focused his attention on the Sumeru bracelet on his wrist.
Only when a cultivator reaches the foundation-building stage can he be said to have truly embarked on the path of cultivation.
After going through the thirty-nine heavenly tribulations, the Qi Refining cultivator's body is recast, his Dantian expands, and he enters the Foundation Establishment stage.
Those who are in the foundation-building stage can practice fasting, enlighten their sea of consciousness, concentrate their spiritual awareness, and live to five hundred years.
Jiang Mingyan is now at the third level of Qi training, so he has no spiritual awareness and can only observe with his naked eyes.
The gold and white bracelet on his hand was made of neither gold nor stone, and it flashed a sharp light under the candlelight. However, the green bracelet on Jiang Suiyan's chubby claws was completely different. It was a color as warm as jade, and it was thick and elegant, yet full of vitality.
Both bracelets are engraved with the same intricate and lifelike lotus patterns, and every turn is flawless.
To be honest, with the naked eye, Jiang Mingyan could only tell that the pair of bracelets were of extraordinary value, but if he was asked to say something specific, he would remain speechless.
Fortunately, Yun Zhaoming had used some unknown method to make the pair of Sumeru bracelets recognize him and Jiang Suiyan as their masters.
Therefore, as soon as Jiang Mingyan's meager spiritual power probed into the golden and white bracelet, some information about this pair of Sumeru bracelets flooded into his mind.
The Sumeru bracelet on his hand is called the Lanqiuying bracelet, and the one on Jiang Suiyan's hand is the Jiuchunzhan bracelet.
Just as Yun Zhaoming said, this pair of Sumeru bracelets is a rare spiritual weapon that can grow with the owner, and the space inside can expand as the owner's cultivation level increases.
It is even possible to form a small world that can operate independently as long as the owner is strong enough.
However, Jiang Mingyan's current strength is far from reaching that level, and the space inside the Lan Qiuying bracelet is only half the size of a room.
——This is already very good. The storage bag that Jiang Mingyan used before was not even a quarter of the size of the space inside Lan Qiuying bracelet.
Because he has not yet condensed his spiritual consciousness, Jiang Mingyan cannot see the specific appearance of the space, but he can vaguely feel something.
It was empty, with only a dozen wooden boxes neatly stacked in the corner.
Jiang Mingyan didn't open it, but he knew that it contained all the spiritual plants that his parents had found over the past year or so to make the Soul-Restoring Pill for him.
Warmth overflowed from his heart, and his brows relaxed unconsciously.
When this pair of Sumeru bracelets were refined, twin lotus flowers were specially added. Due to the characteristics of the twin lotus flowers, Jiang Mingyan could sense the condition of Jiang Suiyan who was wearing the Jiuchun bracelet from the Lanqiu bracelet.
Perhaps because Jiang Suiyan had never been wary of Jiang Mingyan, Jiang Mingyan could still vaguely see the inside of the Jiuchun bracelet.
Of course, if Jiang Suiyan consciously sensed it, he would be able to see what was inside the Lan Qiuying bracelet.
——They have never been wary of each other.
The space inside the Jiuchun bracelet is also half the size of a room, and is filled with all kinds of small toys.
Jiang Mingyan recognized at a glance that these little toys were all made by Jiang Qizhuo.
Because all of his childhood toys were carved and polished by Jiang Qizhuo himself, and now they are just a little old, they are all placed in the house on the west side of the courtyard and properly stored away.
Jiang Mingyan just wanted to try whether he could feel Jiang Suiyan's condition, but he didn't expect that Jiang Suiyan trusted him completely, allowing him to see into the space in the Jiuchun bracelet at a glance.
He had no intention of exploring further and quickly withdrew his perception.
However, through the size of the space of the Jiuchun bracelet, Jiang Mingyan became more certain of his previous guess - Suisui's soul-devouring body was not an unsolvable situation.
At the beginning, when Jiang Suiyan was one month old, he detected the single wood spiritual root and the spirit-devouring body.
As exciting as the former is, the latter is just as disappointing, or even more so.
The Soul Devouring Body, like the Sword Embryo Body, is a special physique.
However, the Soul Devouring Body is a physique that has mutated to an inferior degree.
The owner can draw spiritual power into the meridians, but once the spiritual power enters the body, it will disappear like a drop in the ocean, without any further news.
Even if Jiang Sui Yan possessed a single wood spiritual root of extremely high purity, he could not change this fact.
As a result, Jiang Suiyan was judged by the Jiang family to have inferior cultivation qualifications and was no longer given any attention.
At that time, Jiang Mingyan was standing in the audience, watching his father holding Sui Sui to test his spiritual roots and physical fitness.
When the Jiang family member who conducted the test announced the inferior qualifications, Jiang Mingyan watched helplessly as his father's face darkened slightly and he pulled the thin blanket around the soft baby in his arms tighter, as if to block out all the gossips that were rising around him.
But the mother beside him remained expressionless. Father looked at her from afar and saw her gently shaking her head. Then his complexion improved a little.
Jiang Mingyan never doubted the love his parents had for them.
His spiritual roots were broken, and he fell from being the envied prodigy to a worthless person with declining cultivation. Those who admired him in the past wanted to trample him under their feet, but his father and mother never gave up on him.
During those confused and gloomy days, my father's childish teasing and my mother's concern hidden in her indifference...
Dad and Mom will not give up on Suisui just because of the so-called inferior qualifications judged by the Jiang family.
But unlike when they were busy collecting the spiritual plants needed to refine the Soul-Restoring Pill for him, his father and mother seemed to have reached a consensus and kept silent about Sui Sui's soul-devouring body.
Jiang Mingyan had some guesses in his mind, thinking that his mother might have a plan, so he didn't mention it.
However, today, by chance, he saw the space in the Jiuchun bracelet, and the silk thread floating in Jiang Mingyan's heart was finally tied.
He was at the third level of Qi training, and the space inside the Lanqiuying bracelet was half the size of a room. Suisui hadn't started training yet, but the space inside the Jiuchunzhan bracelet was also half the size of a room. This seemed to be because Suisui's body was full of spiritual energy, and it was not like what the Jiang family said, that the spiritual power was swallowed up after entering the body, without any ripples.
In the more than one year since his spiritual roots were shattered, Jiang Mingyan has become more deeply aware of the importance of strength.
He didn't want to be like him every year, unable to practice, without the ability to protect himself, and could only be slaughtered by others.
Whenever Jiang Mingyan thought about the day when the soft little fat boy would be ridiculed and sob with tears in his eyes, he felt an unbearable pain in his heart.
Jiang Mingyan was in a good mood when he realized that Sui Sui didn't have to fall into his position.
Soon, his father and mother would return with the osmanthus moon lotus and black hedge grass. His spiritual roots would recover, and his spirit-devouring body would no longer be a flaw. The four of them would leave the Jiang family...
Everything is thriving.
Jiang Mingyan's eyes were gentle. After checking the chubby boy's quilt again, he couldn't help but gently kiss the soft and chubby little baby.
After sucking the cub, he couldn't hide his excitement while lying on the bed.
With infinite expectations for the future, Jiang Mingyan fell asleep peacefully.
Time flies like water, and before they knew it, Yun Zhaoming and Jiang Qizhuo had been gone for five days.
On this day, Wu'an City, which had been sunny for nearly half a month, was covered with dark clouds early in the morning. The heavy clouds seemed to be about to collapse at any moment.
The wind was howling, the branches of the peach tree in the yard were shaking, and the pink petals were fluttering in the air like butterflies with broken wings.
Inside the house, Jiang Mingyan sat at the table, with the little fat boy sitting on his lap, his soft little body leaning against his brother's chest.
There were several pieces of white paper on the table, each with a big word printed on it.
Jiang Mingyan pointed to the first word and said, "People."
Little Fatty: “Eeh!”
Jiang Mingyan pointed to the next word: "Law."
Little Fatty: “Ah!”
Jiang Mingyan: "Earth."
Fatty: “Ah!”
Jiang Mingyan was not annoyed and pointed back to the first word: "People."
"Ah, ah!" The little fat boy babbled in response to his brother, but none of the knowledge entered his little head.
Because that little head has been occupied by sweet fruits!
The little fat boy lifted up his chubby little feet and thought happily, "Sui Sui, today is great. I got up early to play with my brother."
Sui Sui is so well behaved, will her brother go get some fruit for her soon?
The more I thought about it, the happier I became, and my fat feet were about to lift up onto the table.
Jiang Mingyan helplessly grabbed the fat feet and patted them gently: "What are you thinking about instead of studying hard? Your saliva is about to flow out."
"Hehe! Hehe!" The little fat boy tilted his round face up and looked at his brother with dark eyes.
"Want to eat Ningling fruit?"
"Ah!" The little fat boy nodded quickly, his hair swaying from side to side like a small animal with its fur standing up.
"You only know how to eat." Jiang Mingyan pretended to bite the fat foot: "I see your little foot is full of meat, tender and delicious."
"Aa ...
The two brothers laughed and joked, and the room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
But before the smile in Jiang Mingyan's eyes faded, a dazzling white light cut through the dark sky.
For some reason, Jiang Mingyan suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart.
"Boom—"
Accompanied by loud thunder, Jiang Mingyan hugged the little guy tightly in his arms.
The sky was dark and the rain was pouring down, roaring and surging as if to swallow everything.
"Ah..." The little guy seemed to feel something and calmed down.
Jiang Mingyan was just about to comfort the frightened little guy when the gate was pushed open.
Jiang Mingyan looked through the heavy rain and saw the thin-faced man who had come a few days ago.
He walked towards us in the rain, holding an oil-paper umbrella.
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