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

"Ah Ying, come, have some tea."

The grandmother, who had just entered the house, looked increasingly pleased to see the two of them chatting happily.

“Let me do it, Grandmother.”

Cui Ying had just taken a sip of water when the old woman reminded her again, "My dear Ying, you don't need to send us anything anymore. Your grandparents are getting old, and it would be a waste for them to eat those spirit beast meats."

"It's alright, Grandmother. This time I brought you spirit deer meat and spirit chicken. You can ask your aunt to stew them with some nourishing spirit herbs. It will be good for your health."

"There's also spirit deer meat? I remember your maternal grandfather hunted quite a few spirit deer when he was young. The spirit deer hides are worth some spirit stones. You must keep them safe and don't lose them."

"Don't worry, Grandmother, I know what I'm doing."

After Cui Ying finished speaking, she turned to look at the old man on the soft couch: "How is my maternal grandfather's health? Last time my mother heard that my maternal grandfather was seriously ill, she lost her appetite. That night she wanted to come and see my maternal grandfather."

When Wang Rong was suddenly mentioned, the two elderly people fell silent for a moment.

Finally, the old woman wiped away her tears and asked with some emotion, "How is your mother doing now?"

Cui Ying naturally nodded with a smile:

“My mother is doing alright. She was complaining to me at dinner today, saying that we’ve been eating spirit beast meat every meal lately and it’s making her feel hot. She told me not to go into the Phoenix Mountain Range to hunt demons anymore.”

“But my family is going to rebuild a new house in a few days. There will definitely be a lot of independent practitioners coming to help. If I don’t prepare more now, it would be a joke if we can’t provide food when people come to help.”

Hearing Cui Ying's undisguised boasting, Wang Yue and his wife became even more silent.

After a long while, the old woman spoke again: "Rebuilding the house is a good thing!"

"That's right. My father said he's going to rebuild a large three-courtyard house for the family so that my mother and my siblings and I can live comfortably. After the house is built, he's going to buy some servants to take care of my mother."

In fact, the reason why the mother, Wang, and the two elders have fallen into this situation is because the two elders of the Wang family look down on Cui Zhengming, who is a spiritual plant doctor.

Therefore, Cui Ying tried every means to speak well of her father.

But she wasn't lying. Building a new house was inevitable, and she had indeed thought about buying two reliable servants after the house was built to make things easier for her parents who had worked hard for most of their lives.

"A three-courtyard mansion, that must have cost a lot of spirit stones, right?"

The old woman was startled, somewhat surprised that her daughter's family wanted to build such a grand house.

"How could Cui Zhengming, a mere cultivator of spirit plants, accumulate so many spirit stones? Then why has he never considered rebuilding his residence all these years, but suddenly had the idea this year?"

After a long silence, Wang Yue suddenly spoke, his voice full of sarcasm and disbelief.

Sure enough, the old fox was shrewd; her explanations couldn't fool her grandfather at all.

Cui Ying sighed inwardly and could only try her best to embellish her father's reputation.

"You know my father and maternal grandfather. Their cultivation level is not high and they are mediocre, but they are hardworking and honest. If they have a spirit stone in their pocket, they will honestly hand it over to my mother. My mother has saved up quite a few spirit stones over the years through hard work and thrift. In addition, I have killed some spirit beasts and dug up some spirit herbs in the Phoenix Mountain Range recently. With these, we can make up enough to cover the cost of building a new house."

After Cui Ying said this, Wang Yue made no further rebuttal, but simply closed his eyes and fell silent again.

Seeing this, Cui Ying stood up and said:

"Grandfather, Grandmother, I'll head back now. I'll be going into Phoenix Mountain Range tomorrow, and I'll bring my mother to visit you both next time."

When the old woman heard that Cui Ying was leaving, she first looked anxiously at Wang Yue, who seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep. Seeing that he did not react, she stood up with great reluctance.

She trembled as she grasped Cui Ying's hand, her eyes welling up with tears again: "Be careful once you enter the Phoenix Mountains."

Just as Cui Ying was about to step out of the room, a hoarse voice suddenly sounded behind her:

"Victory and defeat are common occurrences in war. If you encounter a powerful monster or enemy, just turn and run. Prodigies are dazzling but easily fall. Only the middle way is the path to longevity. Do you understand?!"

The old man who had previously threatened to fight to the death was now instructing her to run away as soon as things turned sour.

While Cui Ying found it amusing, a strange, tingling sensation also arose in her heart.

-

After returning from the Wang family, Cui Ying was deeply moved. She stood quietly outside her mother's room for a long time, unable to fall asleep.

Taking advantage of the bright moonlight, he simply moved a large chair to the jacaranda tree in the yard, sat cross-legged and cultivated for a whole night. Finally, at sunrise, he successfully broke through the barrier of the fourth level of Qi Refining and became a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator once again.

At the same time, another piece of information appeared in her mind: with her breakthrough, the spiritual liquid that the Taiyi Golden Crystal Gourd could convert had increased to forty drops per day.

In this way, she was able to cultivate spiritual herbs and medicines even faster.

The following morning, Cui Ying took her elder brother Cui Cong and Zhu Chaoyun into the Phoenix Mountain Range again.

This time, they still only traveled around the outer edge of the mountain range. Cui Ying found some valuable seedlings of spiritual herbs and had her elder brother Cui Cong dig them up to transplant into the herb garden in the backyard.

Of course, besides these time-consuming and laborious tasks, Cui Ying also killed some small demons and beasts and collected several pieces of their hides and bones.

Today, Cui Zhengming finally received news that it was time to go out and escort the shipment.

As dawn broke, Cui Ying began to take stock of the items she needed to sell this time.

Two five-colored deer hides at the third level of Qi Refining, a giant lizard armor at the third level of Qi Refining, a demon fox hide at the fourth level of Qi Refining, a demon tiger hide at the fifth level of Qi Refining, a large bag of Mind-Clearing Grass, and spiritual herbs she had cultivated using spiritual liquid.

As for the two young jade spirit mushrooms, Cui Ying had already transplanted them to her own backyard herb garden. She watered them every morning and evening with the Spring Breeze and Rain Technique mixed with spiritual liquid, intending to keep them for herself to increase her magical power later.

Since she had too much to bring, Cui Ying simply put it all into her storage bag.

Of course, along with her parents' incredulous and envious gazes were also included.

"Ahem~ You must keep this very valuable item safe and not lose it."

After nodding to her mother, who seemed hesitant to speak, Cui Ying continued:

"Mother, I've put that little golden scorpion in our herb garden. Could you keep an eye on it for me and make sure Xiao Wu doesn't wander off?"

During her few days at home, Cui Ying used the Beast Taming Technique she had obtained in her previous life to make the little golden scorpion relinquish its master. She also selected two Blood Spirit Grasses that had been accelerated to twenty years of medicinal age with spiritual liquid to feed it. Finally, last night, she managed to help it advance to the first level of Qi Refining.

To Cui Ying's delight, this golden scorpion not only possessed potent venom, but also had a remarkable ability to burrow underground and conceal itself despite only having the cultivation level of the first stage of Qi Refining.

She was worried that no one would take care of the treasures in the herb garden while she was away for the past two days. This was like a godsend, and she temporarily assigned the little golden scorpion the task of guarding the herb garden.

Wang Rong also witnessed firsthand how that tiny golden scorpion, smaller than her own palm, poisoned several golden pheasants with its stinger, and how it disappeared so mysteriously.

So, looking at Cui Yan who was playing carefree in the yard, she waved her hand irritably: "I know, you've said it eight times already."

Thinking of the fact that Cui Yan's aptitude was much better than Cui Yue's, yet he still hadn't been able to cultivate Qi into his body, Wang Shi was furious.

"If Xiao Wu doesn't learn his lesson and runs off to the backyard to get poisoned, he deserves it. He's wasting so many of my spirit stones and pills. My Ta Xue is much more worry-free."

"Wang Wang Wang"