After Zhou Quan returned to the Chu residence, he saw Li Mai and obediently placed what he had obtained in front of her, looking at her with a smile.
At this moment, he was once again the Zhou Quan that Li Mai knew.
Chu Yan and Zhong Hui went to see the head of the Chu family and didn't come along. Otherwise, they would have discovered that their master's husband was like a different person in front of their master.
"What?" Li Mai asked him in surprise.
"Open it and take a look." Zhou Quan glanced back at the open door, went over to close and lock it, pulled her into the inner room, and whispered, "Let's go into the space."
Li Mai responded, and the two of them appeared in the space.
Li Mai looked at one of the boxes, paused for a moment, reached out and picked it up to open it, and sure enough, it was a water-type magical artifact.
It's also a jade koi.
Just by looking at it, she could already sense the spiritual energy fluctuations within the jade koi.
Zhou Quan had been watching her closely, and from her movements, he knew that she could sense that this was a water-based spiritual artifact.
Li Mai looked up at him. "Thank you, husband. I wonder where you got this? Spiritual artifacts should be very rare in this world."
Zhou Quan nodded and hummed in agreement, then recounted how Chu Yan and Zhong Hui had taken him to meet an old man outside the capital.
After hearing this, Li Mai found it incredible, "There are actually other cultivators in this world?"
Zhou Quan nodded, "Yes, I don't know where this old man came from. He said that if he can't find a wood-type spiritual artifact to break through to the Earth Rank and enter the Heaven Rank, he might disappear from this world."
After listening, Li Mai was silent for a while, then nodded. "That's true. I remember our teacher telling us that the path of cultivating the five elements of spiritual power relies entirely on spiritual power, which in turn relies entirely on spiritual energy. When there is no spiritual energy, you have to find spiritual artifacts. But now that there is no spiritual energy in this world, we can only rely on the five elements of spiritual artifacts. No wonder the old man was willing to be a junk collector to stay near the capital."
When Zhou Quan heard him mention the word "teacher," he raised an eyebrow slightly and asked, "How many teachers have you had?"
Li Mai glanced at him. "There's only one teacher who teaches cultivation and supernatural abilities."
Zhou Quan clenched his fists slightly as he silently watched her.
Now, fragmented images are appearing in his mind, in which he has made a fairly accurate guess about his identity.
Or rather, he felt that it must be his past life, and now, with the awakening of his spiritual root, he actually had memories of his past life. Such a thing was somewhat strange and unbelievable.
However, within this memory, he discovered something: there was a girl named Li Mai. But her appearance seemed somewhat different from Xiao Mai's.
It was because of this girl with the same name as Xiaomai that he would sometimes sort out those memories, trying to figure out who he was in his past life and to find out if that little girl was Xiaomai.
Where exactly is that world that seems somewhat different from this one?
What touched him most was that the group of children also called him teacher.
He seemed to be quite young back then, about the same age as he is now.
Among those children were sixteen or seventeen, and also eighteen, nineteen, or twenty years old, but they were all very innocent and carefree.
He had paid special attention to Li Mai. She was eighteen or nineteen years old, which was about the same age as Xiao Mai now. He noticed that she always listened very attentively in class and would ask him many questions, which he would answer patiently.
But his memory of how he felt in that world was not happy. He only felt lonely in that world. He seemed to have never laughed. He had no family and no friends.
He only felt a little warmth in the world when he was with those children.
He also remembered that, besides teaching them how to cultivate and fight, he always seemed to go to a very tall building to receive missions and kill wild beasts.
Those wild beasts seemed quite different from those in this world; they looked strange and were very powerful.
"What are you thinking about?" Li Mai suddenly asked him.
Zhou Quan snapped out of his daze and stared intently at her. "The teacher you're talking about, is it the one you told me about before? The one with dual water and fire spiritual roots?"
Li Mai nodded, looked him up and down and said, "Well, it's quite a coincidence. You look a bit like my former teacher, especially your eyes. You also have dual spiritual roots."
Zhou Quan slowly loosened his clenched fist, his heart skipped a beat, and stared intently at her, asking softly, "Xiaomai, where does the teacher you mentioned live? Can you take me to see him? I want to thank him for teaching you, and I also want to ask him if he has any way to help you awaken your dormant spiritual root."
Li Mai looked at him, then turned her head away and shook her head. "You won't see him again, he's gone!"
Zhou Quan: ......
How did he die?
"I don't know, it was probably eaten by a mutated beast!" Li Mai said, a flash of sadness crossing her eyes.
Zhou Quan saw it.
He suddenly reached out and pulled her into his arms, holding her tightly, and whispered, "Xiaomai, can you tell me who you really are?"
For some reason, he suddenly felt a little panicked, afraid that she was the Li Mai from his memories, and afraid that she would abandon him as her husband after she found out that she might be the reincarnation of her teacher.
From those memories, he could sense that she respected and admired that teacher very much. Whenever she had a question she didn't understand, she would ask the teacher, and after the teacher answered it for her, she would smile brightly and bow to the teacher to express her gratitude.
But the version of myself in that memory always had a cold expression towards her, never giving her a smile.
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