Zhou Yuanyuan is a novice in cultivating immortals, but Xiaoyu is a thousand-year-old jade spirit. It recognizes Zhou Yuanyuan as its master. There are some things that Zhou Yuanyuan has not considered, and Xiaoyu has to think ahead for Zhou Yuanyuan.
Just because Zhou Yuanyuan hadn't encountered any other cultivators in this realm didn't mean she was the only one. In the tens of thousands of years since Xiaoyu's awakening, experience had taught her that the struggles among cultivators were brutal. Cultivation required a vast amount of resources: techniques, elixirs, spirit stones, and the like—the more the better. Consequently, cultivators often fought over these resources.
Zhou Yuanyuan was currently only at the Qi Refining stage, which was merely the initial stage of cultivation for a cultivator. The next stages, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Spiritualization... every cultivator in each of these realms was too much for a cultivator like Zhou Yuanyuan to handle. It was practically impossible for a cultivator like Zhou Yuanyuan to handle without a flick of their finger if they were displeased with her.
Xiaoyu never forgot her purpose in accepting Zhou Yuanyuan as her master. If she wanted to return to her original state, she needed Zhou Yuanyuan's strength. Only when her master was strong could Xiaoyu become stronger. Therefore, Xiaoyu wouldn't refuse anything she could do for her master, but she would also resolutely refuse anything that would harm her master.
Last time at Wen Yiran's house, Wu Xiuli and her daughter thought Zhao Qingshan had left and spoke ill of him without restraint. Wen Yiran was so ashamed that he almost suffered another blood vessel burst during treatment. If Wen Yiran died during Zhao Qingshan's treatment, the consequences would be something Zhao Qingshan's family could not bear.
In a moment of desperation, Zhou Yuanyuan recalled a manual she'd read that stated a cultivator's spiritual energy could nourish the meridians, bones, and blood of ordinary people. She channeled a trace of her spiritual energy and injected it into Wen Yiran's brain through the silver needle inserted into his skull. While channeling her spiritual energy, Zhou Yuanyuan recalled the refreshing feeling Xiaoyu had felt when she injected it into her sea of consciousness, and inadvertently tapped into Xiaoyu's spiritual energy. Although Xiaoyu later refined the spiritual energy from the white jade daffodil, she was unable to regain the lost spiritual energy.
Xiaoyu couldn't lose too much spiritual energy, otherwise it would affect her progress in repairing Zhou Yuanyuan's sea of consciousness. The crack in Zhou Yuanyuan's sea of consciousness was no small matter. While she might appear normal at ordinary times, Zhou Yuanyuan couldn't practice the spiritual consciousness techniques in the Soul Refining Technique until the crack was 80% repaired.
You should know that the most profound techniques within the Soul Refining Art are those that cultivate the divine consciousness. The reason the Soul Refining Art is so highly sought after by cultivators in the Sky Realm is precisely because of the power of these techniques. Among cultivators of the same rank, cultivators with divine consciousness techniques are guaranteed to have the upper hand in a duel. Even if a higher-ranked cultivator is negligent, defeating them is not a dream.
Xiaoyu didn't know if there were other immortal cultivators in this world, so she couldn't let her guard down. Zhou Yuanyuan's proficiency in one or two spiritual techniques gave her some extra assurance.
Xiaoyu knew that Zhao Qingshan was the person Zhou Yuanyuan respected the most, and if possible, she would also like to share some of her spiritual power with Zhao Qingshan. To avoid disappointing Zhou Yuanyuan, Xiaoyu came up with an idea for her: Zhou Yuanyuan could mobilize her own spiritual energy to nourish Zhao Qingshan's tendons and veins every day. Although the effect would be slower than Xiaoyu's innate spiritual energy, doing so would also allow Zhou Yuanyuan to learn to precisely control her spiritual power, killing two birds with one stone.
Zhou Yuanyuan felt a little ashamed after hearing Xiaoyu's advice. She hadn't really thought things through. Seeing Wen Yiran's healing effects, she'd set her sights on Xiaoyu. Honestly, Xiaoyu recognized her as her master, but she, as her master, hadn't done anything for her. Instead, Xiaoyu had been so busy repairing her sea of consciousness that she'd even neglected her own cultivation.
Zhou Yuanyuan couldn't help but reflect on herself. After her rebirth, she'd been showered with care from so many others that she'd neglected her own efforts. Some time ago, when she was punishing the Zhou family, Wen Ziqing tirelessly carried her back and forth between Zhaojiagou and Zhoujia Village every day, staying up all night with her to pretend to be a ghost and scare Wu Jinfeng. When Zhou Yuanyuan was unsettled by Zhou Zhixin's return to Zhoujia Village, it was Wen Ziqing who stepped in, silently accompanying her to Zhoujia Village and ultimately resolving Zhou Zhixin's life-or-death crisis.
And there was Zhao Qingshan. She was just a granddaughter from a different family, but Zhao Qingshan was willing to pass on the most important wooden box inheritance of the Zhao family to her, allowing her to open a magical door to cultivating immortals.
Wen Yiran's treatment was also aided by Xiaoyu's spiritual energy. As a cultivator, was she too reliant on the help of others, neglecting her own efforts? Zhao Qingshan was her grandfather. She knew her own spiritual energy could slowly nourish Zhao Qingshan's tendons and veins, so why did she ask Xiaoyu to contribute her own spiritual energy in order to cure Zhao Qingshan's stubborn illness in one fell swoop?
The more Zhou Yuanyuan thought about it, the more ashamed she felt. To put it bluntly, was she simply relying on the indulgence of Zhao Qingshan, Wen Ziqing, and Xiaoyu to get whatever she wanted? Since her rebirth, besides consciously guiding Zhao Yunxiang against the Zhou family's oppression and offering her a few pointers while she cooked, what else had she done to benefit them?
After rebirth, my body became a six-year-old girl. Could it be that even my brain capacity has become smaller?
Zhou Yuanyuan asked herself this question and was so shocked that her back was covered in sweat.
From that day on, Zhou Yuanyuan seized every opportunity to practice. In addition to practicing, Zhou Yuanyuan took the opportunity to learn acupuncture techniques from Zhao Qingshan and inserted needles into Zhao Qingshan's injured leg every night. Each time she inserted needles, Zhou Yuanyuan controlled the silver needles to attach a trace of her own spiritual power. With Zhou Yuanyuan's daily uninterrupted spiritual nourishment, Zhao Qingshan felt numbness in the injured knee. After a week, it became itchy again. After more than a month, Zhao Qingshan felt a slight "click" in his knee. The internal energy that had been stagnant in the old knee injury rushed out with a "whoosh" sound, and together with the internal energy in other parts of the body, it began to circulate. Zhao Qingshan felt his whole body light and instantly possessed infinite power.
When Zhao Qingshan stood up, he found that his slightly lame leg had regained its flexibility. What made Zhao Qingshan even happier was that his internal force circulated to the knee that had been injured before for the second time and passed through it easily.
Zhao Qingshan laughed heartily, looking up to the heavens. He hadn't truly imagined his injured leg would ever recover. Once his internal energy was reconnected and circulated throughout his body, he could once again practice the internal skills of the Zhao family martial arts. In martial arts, progress is the opposite of progress. Over the years, Zhao Qingshan's internal energy had slowly waned due to his leg injury. For the once highly skilled Zhao Qingshan, this was a source of regret.
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