Chapter 167 A Leisurely Day
Shen Ru didn't care about the thin spiritual energy. She had already reached perfection in her foundation building and just needed to wait for an opportunity to break through. The spiritual energy here was enough for her to use magic. At worst, there would be enough spirit stones for her.
Ji Qingling had enough spiritual energy absorbed by the little bud in a day for her to practice.
Therefore, the impact on her was very small. The spiritual energy in her body had always been sufficient. It was just a matter of making fewer talismans.
Shen Ru said: "If we go to other countries again, we won't have to conduct a nationwide test like this."
Ji Zuo was puzzled, "Then how do we find it?"
"We have to believe in fate. If we can't find someone after such intensive screening, we have to find another way."
"Then what should we do?"
"bump!"
Now the others didn't understand.
"Let's test all the children in these cities first. The announcement has already been made and it's difficult to change it.
Then we will treat this trip as a trip rather than a mission.
Just go wherever you want, maybe the shepherd boy you meet on the road is the child of destiny we are looking for?"
Is it so casual? Should the child of destiny herd sheep? Can't he herd cattle?
Ji Qingling felt that this was too much of a joke, "Senior Sister, this kind of luck-based approach won't work, right?"
"We'll know after we give it a try. Let's give it a try in the next month. If it doesn't work, I'll listen to you."
Okay, as a senior sister, she only asked to be the boss for a month, and there was nothing Ji Zuo and Ji Qingling couldn't agree to.
After discussing the important matters, some people were reluctant to go down the mountain, so Ji Qingling suggested that they just stay there and watch the sunset.
Compared with the next few thousand years of life, setting up a magic circle and sitting on the top of a mountain for a day is really nothing.
Ji Zuo took the three children to set up a psychedelic formation at the entrance.
In this way, ordinary people on the top of the mountain who enter the formation will forget what they are going to do and go home directly.
"Qingling, do you miss home?"
Ji Qingling knew that Shen Ru was certainly not asking about his current home.
She picked up the tea, took a big sip, smacked her lips and put the cup down.
“At first, I thought about how painful it would be for parents to lose their children so suddenly.
At that time, I really wanted to go back in my dreams, but as time went by, I slowly forgot about it.
I can’t even remember their faces now.”
Ji Qingling took out a piece of paper from the storage bag. On it was a man and a woman with gentle and kind smiles.
“I drew it because I was afraid I would forget it, so I used to take it out to look at it often.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s been too long, but I’m not sure if they look like this!
And to be honest, I don’t think about them very often nowadays.
There's something about it that makes me wonder, if time ran at the same speed, they might not be here anymore."
She turned her head and looked at Shen Ru, "What about you?"
Shen Ru smiled bitterly, "I am different from you. I was only in my twenties when I left, and I am much older now than before! If it weren't for the fact that I can live for a thousand or eight hundred years here, I would be dead wronged.
When I first came here, I had no relatives. Later, I was chosen by the master. As you know, this Nascent Soul will be in seclusion for several years or even decades.
By then, my senior sister who will be in charge of teaching me will also be going into seclusion to form an elixir. After all, I will still be the only one in our lineage at Sunset Peak.
Like Ji Zuo, at least he has me with him, and you are even more amazing, because you have the two of us to keep you company."
Shen Ru fell down again in dejection, not knowing what she was thinking about. "I always regret that I had to go on a spontaneous trip alone.
What are you thinking? Why not bring your parents along? They've always wanted to go with me.
Or just don't listen to your parents and take my uncle's or brother-in-law's car."
"You actually got into an accident with an acquaintance's car?"
"Yes, that person happened to be on a business trip nearby and took me with him. Who knew he would bring me into the sea?"
"That's really unfair~"
"I am the only child of my parents. They will be devastated when they receive the news.
In the early years, I always thought that maybe I could go back, so I didn’t want to have too much contact with the people or things here, and I didn’t want to have anything that I couldn’t let go of.”
But I waited and waited, and gave up over the years.
Like you said, if time ran at the same speed, they probably wouldn't be around either.
Luckily, my cousin is close to my parents, so I think they won’t be too lonely in their later years.”
Shen Rou's tone sounded somewhat pitiful. She came into this world alone.
Ji Qingling could not understand the loneliness she felt.
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"Sister, it's okay. I'm here, right? All we can do now is to live a good life. This is the best reward for them.
Maybe in the future they will ascend to become immortals, and those immortals will come down to earth to experience tribulations, and maybe we can go back and accompany them for the rest of their lives."
The four people over there came back after setting up the formation.
Ji Zuo said proudly: "Not to mention ordinary people, even if it is a Qi Refining Stage, it would not be that easy to pass through my illusion array."
Then he said to the three guys behind him, "Before you go down the mountain today, you can move freely and do whatever you want. There is no need to restrain yourself."
Without having to worry about the children, after eating and drinking and having a chat, Shen Ru began to lie down and sleep, while Ji Zuo was studying the formation book he had obtained.
Liang Yu tentatively approached Wu Ya and the others and found that they did not reject her approach. She suddenly became bolder and was eager to try riding the National Treasure, but was thrown off by the National Treasure.
Seeing that Ji Qingling was not angry, she happily got up again and continued to want to ride the national treasure and play with a few beasts.
Tong Cheng and Bao Xian took out their respective spirit gathering arrays and began to practice. Now that they had not yet drawn the energy into their bodies, they couldn't help feeling a little anxious.
They were somewhat envious of Liang Yu for being able to reach the first level of Qi Refining at such an early age.
The uncle masters gave each of the three of them a storage bag, but now only Liang Yu's could be opened.
Their luggage, including the large teacup that each of them got today, could only be left at Liang Yu's place.
Bao Xian, who had been unable to enter a state of meditation, opened her eyes. She couldn't calm down.
I couldn't sense the small bright spots that Liang Yu mentioned at all.
The life she has been living recently is something she would never have dared to imagine in her lifetime.
No one beat or scolded her, she wore clean clothes without patches, and had delicious meals, and her uncles were also very kind to her.
The more she thought about it, the more anxious she became. She was afraid that she would not be able to draw the energy into her body and would be sent back.
She really couldn't go back to the life she had before.
But the more anxious she was, the more she couldn't calm down. She walked out of the formation, feeling a little helpless. She needed to go to another place to calm down.
"Bao Xian."
She heard Ji Qingling calling her, "Come here."
Bao Xian walked over, "Uncle Master?"
"But you can't calm down?"
Bao Xian lowered her head. She was really a little ashamed and answered softly, "Yeah."
"What exactly are you worried about?"
Regarding Shen Ru, she is the protagonist of another story I want to write. It’s too early now, but I’ll mention her anyway in case she’ll be useful in the future.
(End of this chapter)