Reborn with a Space: Building a Fortune Amidst Famine

Chapter 1399: Cultivation

Nangong Xingyun was dissatisfied; this was already the best of today’s batch.

He knew he couldn’t be impatient. Since he’d decided to pick, he had to pick a good one.

These three female cultivators were kept.

The three young girls knew exactly why they were here, and the other party was a Golden Core Cultivator. In their eyes, that was already a Great Cultivator.

How could they be unwilling when they had a chance to attach themselves to a Great Cultivator?

The three were arranged into the same courtyard. Knowing they were each other’s rivals, they didn’t talk.

Over the next few days Nangong Xingyun selected a total of ten. The best Spirit Root was a girl with Dual Spirit Roots who had already reached Qi Refining Seventh Level.

In the end he kept this Water and Wood Dual Spirit Roots girl named Li Mengzhi.

The remaining female cultivators each received a bottle of Elixir and a hundred Spirit Stones and were sent away.

Li Mengzhi was unwilling to be kept. She was different from the other girls; she didn’t want to depend on anyone. She knew her Spirit Roots were Dual Spirit Roots, and she would definitely have hope of Foundation Establishment in the future.

Her family hadn’t attached themselves to the Nangong Family; they were Loose Cultivators. Her father had gone to the Demon Beast Forest and been injured, and now urgently needed a Fifth-Order Rejuvenation Pill.

Even if her family sold pots and pans, they couldn’t scrape together that many Spirit Stones. In the end, with no other options, she heard that the Nangong Family was recruiting female cultivators.

They stated it clearly: they just wanted children, and if a child was born they could grant a formal status. Even if you passed the preliminary selection but weren’t chosen in the end, you’d still get a hundred Spirit Stones.

Gritting her teeth, Li Mengzhi came over, never expecting to really be kept.

Nangong Xingyun looked at the plain-looking girl and still chose to keep her.

He directly had his subordinates send the Li Family two Fifth-Order Rejuvenation Pills and two thousand Spirit Stones.

Li Mengzhi sat in the room in a daze. Her father should be fine now. And with two thousand Spirit Stones, her younger sister’s cultivation shouldn’t be a problem either, right?

She might as well stay. It wasn’t all that bad, was it? He’d already told her that all future Cultivation Resources would be given to her.

Nangong Xingyun took her away from here and went to another city.

This place had been allocated to him. Here, he had absolute authority.

A man with more than ten concubines dealing with a little girl was something done with a flick of the wrist.

The two spent all day together, cultivating in the daytime and doing unspeakable things at night.

Nangong Xingyun had been watching Li Mengzhi closely the whole time.

Three months later, he hadn’t expected she would actually become pregnant.

At this moment, "joy" could no longer describe his mood; it was ecstasy.

Li Mengzhi also knew she was pregnant. After that, her treatment became even better.

For the sake of his next generation’s Spirit Roots, Nangong Xingyun gave her every good thing he had.

The two were together every day, their relationship now truly harmonious like zither and harp in concert.

Moreover, Nangong Xingyun had already shrouded this place with a Sixth-level Array, and Li Mengzhi understood how seriously he regarded the child.

She was only at Qi Refining Seventh Level, and during pregnancy her cultivation hadn’t dropped. Although her cultivation hadn’t increased, her body, nourished by Heavenly Spirit and Earthly Treasure, had indeed become much better.

One day when they were together, she asked, "After I give birth, will you still want me?" This was something every woman cared about.

She was no longer that proud, aloof little girl.

"I will, and we’ll always be together. We still have to have a second and a third child."

"We still have to?" Li Mengzhi looked at Nangong Xingyun with worry.

He put his arm around her shoulders. "What? You don’t want to? This is the child that carries the bloodline of the two of us.

In the future, once you see the child, you’ll want a second and a third."

Li Mengzhi said nothing. After that, Nangong Xingyun kept supplementing her even more, and they lived every day inside a Spirit Gathering Array; Spirit Stones were spent like running water.

The only one who knew his situation outside was his grandfather; everyone else knew nothing. He was afraid someone would make a move against his child.

He knew that once this child was born, it would be the Nangong Family’s eldest son and eldest grandson. So the Spirit Roots had to be good.

Two months later, Tan Shaoting’s family of three all came out of the Trial Tower, each of them greatly changed.

Especially Qi Wen; she no longer had that careless, slack attitude.

Inside the Trial Tower there wasn’t only Spell cultivation but also a Heart Refining Array, which had allowed her to see herself clearly.

Su Yuanyuan saw her young woman and, heart aching, held her hand.

"Mother, I’m fine. I’ve figured things out."

"Good. Don’t push yourself too hard. Remember, you still have your parents, your elder brother, and your younger brother."

"Mother, I know. I’ve just thought it through. I don’t want to waste such good talent and opportunities, and I don’t want to be left behind by you."

"Mm. Good, as long as my girl can figure things out."

That night Tan Shaoting held onto Su Yuanyuan and wouldn’t let go. "Wife, what am I going to do? My Illusion Realm was full of you. I can’t live without you."

Su Yuanyuan gave him a light slap, amused. "Isn’t that a good thing?"

Tan Shaoting buried his head in Su Yuanyuan’s neck and mumbled, "It’s good enough for me."

"What if someone wants to harm you later and uses my image in an illusion?"

"That won’t happen. I can tell the difference."

The next day the family of three practiced Swordsmanship on the mountaintop. They’d all made great progress.

Especially Su Yuanyuan and Qi Wen—mother and daughter had improved even more in Spells. The two of them could now use any one Spell of the Five Elements. Although they still couldn’t release them instantly, as long as they were given time, they would definitely be able to.

"Qi Wen, this is a Divinity Transformation Daoist Monarch’s Swordsmanship. We’ll use this Swordsmanship in the selection competition and ranking matches."

"Mother, is that necessary?"

Su Yuanyuan nodded solemnly. "It’s very necessary.

That Xiao Ho has been accepted as a disciple by a Late-stage Golden Core cultivator."

The family of three fell silent. After a long while, "Mother, do you think Xiao Ho regrets it now? I keep thinking her grandfather must have known her Spirit Roots, so he wouldn’t let her cultivate, right?"

Su Yuanyuan pulled her young woman back into the inner room. "Whether she regrets it or not is her own choice. Qi Wen, we must be extremely cautious and careful."

Su Yuanyuan regretted that her daughter had the same Spirit Roots as she did. If they were ordinary Spirit Roots, that might actually be better. Then they wouldn’t need to be so tense.

"Mother, should we help that Xiao Ho?"

Su Yuanyuan shook her head. "We’re just bottom-tier cultivators. How could we help? If she herself hadn’t been willing, she wouldn’t have been taken in, right?"

Qi Wen sighed. She just felt a kind of ruefulness. The girl must be regretting it in her heart now; she probably would rather have ordinary Spirit Roots— even Five Spirit Roots would be better than this.

"You don’t need to worry about it. Everyone has their own fortune. I believe in destiny."

The three of them no longer wanted to talk about it and instead sat together studying that Swordsmanship manual. This way, on the basis of Qi Wen’s own understanding, she could add her parents’ insights, achieving twice the result with half the effort.

Over the next few days the family didn’t go out. One day a servant disciple came over and told them they could go register.