My ancestors were spiritual plant growers, so it's not surprising that I hunt demons every day,

The Cui family's backyard.

Cui Ying led Gu Shiyin and the three little tails through a thick layer of mist and soon stood in a medicinal garden.

"Sister Ying, are these all?"

Looking at the garden full of spring colors, Gu Shiyin was filled with doubt and unease.

Although he vaguely knew that there was a small medicinal garden behind the Cui family's house, which Cui Ying used to grow medicinal herbs, these were all secrets of his sister, Ah Ying, so he never asked about them.

"These are all spiritual herbs and medicines that I cultivated using secret methods, and they are also the key to exchanging spirit stones to marry you."

Hearing Cui Ying's explanation, Gu Shiyin was delighted. What pleased him even more was that Cui Ying was willing to bring him here, which meant she truly considered him one of her own.

"Since this is a place where spiritual herbs and medicines are grown, what do you want me to do by bringing me here, Sister Ying?"

Cui Ying smiled gently, raised her hand, and first introduced everything in her small medicinal garden to Gu Shiyin:

“These growing at your feet are Heavenly Star Grass, the ones with red flowers next to you are Blood Spirit Grass, and the ones growing in that corner are all spirit herbs and fungi that I dug up from the Phoenix Mountain Range.”

After saying that, she chuckled and took out a bulging cloth bag, from which she removed various spiritual herb seeds wrapped in kraft paper and handed them to the boy, saying:

“Yesterday I dug up a batch of mature Heavenly Star Grass and Blood Spirit Grass, and with the five hundred spirit stones I got, I bought a lot of spirit grass seeds. Brother Shi Yin, you’ve come at just the right time. Help me plant the Purple Ginseng and Earth Profound Fruit in these empty spaces first.”

Although Cui Ying had Gu Shiyin do the work, he couldn't help but show a bright smile.

They immediately rolled up their sleeves, picked up hoes, and got to work.

After a short while, he had neatly shaped the vacant plot of land into four rows of ridges, with a small hole half a foot deep dug every hand's width between each ridge.

Next, he threw purple ginseng and seeds of the earth-mysterious fruit grass into the pit. Cui Ying had carefully considered why he was cultivating these two spiritual herbs first.

Because she was preparing to refine a pill that could increase magical power and help late-stage Qi Refining cultivators break through bottlenecks during their cultivation.

After much deliberation, he decided to refine the Xuanling Pill, which he was quite skilled at in his previous life, and the Purple Ginseng and the Earth Xuan Fruit were the main ingredients for refining this medicine.

"Thank you for your hard work, Brother Shiyin."

Seeing the sweat-drenched boy, Cui Ying chuckled and leaned forward to give him a quick kiss on the cheek.

Then, as usual, Cui Ying took out dozens of drops of spiritual liquid that she had prepared in advance, and used the "Spring Breeze and Rain Technique" to irrigate all the spiritual plants in the three-tenths of the herb garden.

Under Gu Shiyin's astonished gaze, the newly planted purple ginseng seeds sprouted from the soil under a layer of hazy light, and in an instant, they unfurled several pale purple leaves, swaying gracefully in the rain and dew formed from spiritual energy.

"Brother Shi Yin, this is the secret method for cultivating spiritual plants passed down from my sect. You must not pass it on to anyone else, or we will both be in mortal danger, understand?"

After much deliberation, Cui Ying decided to reveal the truth to Gu Shiyin, believing that she could only keep it a secret for a short time.

Moreover, she genuinely wanted to become his Daoist partner, and even harbored the idea of ​​finding the Marrow Cleansing Flower to help him embark on the path of cultivation.

Furthermore, she plans to switch to cultivating spiritual herbs in the future, and this information will inevitably be exposed to the public sooner or later.

Finally, this can be considered her final test for Gu Shiyin.

Of course, she still concealed the existence of the Taiyi Golden Crystal Gourd, only saying that it was a secret technique of spiritual plants passed down from her sect.

Gu Shiyin did not disappoint her; he immediately swore a blood oath with his life that he would keep her secret.

"Let's go, my mom is calling us for breakfast."

In the front yard, under the jacaranda tree.

Cui Zhengming, who was in a hurry, had already gone to Fengxi Ridge, leaving only Wang Rong and Cui Ying and her siblings eating breakfast, while three small animals frolicked and played nearby.

Suddenly, out of the corner of their eyes, everyone saw a flickering light. The Iron-Eating Beast, whose body had been shrunk by Cui Ying's Size Control Technique, suddenly reverted to its original form, crushing half of the dilapidated courtyard wall.

Also falling down were the two or three thousand catties of demon bear meat piled up in the corner.

Although her family has been consuming about a hundred catties of demon bear meat every day recently, and some of it has been distributed to the high-level cultivators in the village, they brought back another demon bear yesterday, and the remaining demon bear meat is still frighteningly plentiful, piled up there like a mountain of meat.

Although she had frozen it with her Frost Technique, it was July, and the ice was formed from spiritual energy. As the spiritual energy dissipated, the ice slowly melted.

A gust of wind blew, and a faint smell of blood permeated the courtyard.

Cui Ying glanced at it, then frowned slightly and looked away, turning her gaze to the culprit, the little iron-eating beast.

"It seems your magic power has recovered somewhat. We'll be sending you back in a few days."

Cui Ying put down her chopsticks, looked at the Iron-Eating Beast lying on its back on the ground for a long time without being able to get up, nodded, and once again used the Size Control Technique to shrink it before picking it up.

Hearing this, Cui Yue, standing behind, cried out with a face full of reluctance:

"Third sister, do you really have to send it back? The little iron-eating beast is so adorable, why don't you keep it as a spirit pet?"

"That's right, Third Sister. At worst, I'll just stop sleeping in and go cut down some spirit bamboo for it to eat."

Immediately afterward, Cui Yan's voice rang out, also showing a reluctant expression towards the little iron-eating beast.

"Let's talk about it then."

Although Cui Ying was somewhat tempted by what she heard, she shook her head. She already had Ta Xue and Little Golden Scorpion, and had no intention of raising another spirit pet.

Knowing their third sister's decisive nature, Cui Yue and Cui Yan immediately put down their chopsticks and gathered around the small iron beast, their expressions downcast.

"Ah, I'm so reluctant to part with you, little iron-eating beast."

The little iron-eating beast seemed not to understand what she was saying, it just kept climbing up Cui Ying's body along her hand.

Cui Ying had no choice but to place it on a pile of spirit bamboo in the corner of the courtyard to distract it.

By the time the family finished breakfast, it was already past 9 AM.

After sending Gu Shiyin home, Cui Ying rushed to the family's spirit field to tend to the remaining spirit rice with her mother.

As the weather grew hotter after lunch, the stench of blood in the yard became increasingly strong and pungent.

So she sent a telepathic message to Zhu Chaoyun, who was helping out at Fengxi Ridge, and told him that she planned to take the demon bear meat to Leiyun City to sell the next day.

After receiving a response from Zhu Chaoyun, Cui Ying took advantage of having nothing to do that day and decided to cultivate at home.

Cultivating immortality knows no time, let alone a mere few hours.

Wang Rong knew that Cui Ying was cultivating and had no intention of disturbing her. Even when she was having dinner, she only knocked on the door twice and when there was no response, so she simply detained Cui Yue, who was about to go back to her room to sleep, and forbade her to disturb Cui Ying.

Before she knew it, the appointed time arrived, and Cui Ying finally opened her eyes with a sigh of relief.

Before Wang Rong and the others got up, she first went to the courtyard and cleaned the demon bear meat with the Water Condensation Technique, then shrunk it to a certain size using the Size Control Technique before putting it into her storage bag and putting the extremely heavy storage bag back on her waist.

After doing all that, she thought of the medicinal herbs she had planted yesterday.

Purple ginseng and earth-mystery fruit must be at least fifty years old before they can be used in medicine, and the quantity needed for alchemy is also enormous. Even with the aid of spiritual liquid, she still has a long way to go.

So she hurried to the herb garden at the back and used the newly replenished spiritual liquid to irrigate the seedlings of the purple ginseng and the earthworm fruit.

When she returned to the front yard, she saw her mother already busy in the kitchen.

"Mother, I'm going to take the leftover demon bear meat to Thundercloud City to sell later. Do you want to come with me?"