I woke up to find myself as the villain's older sister.

The boy stiffened slightly, somewhat confused and incredulous: "Are you serious? You'll provide me with cultivation resources?"

“I have no reason to lie to a child,” Yun Qingyi said.

A glimmer of hope appeared in the little boy's eyes: "Okay, I'm willing to follow you."

Although he didn't know how this woman in front of him could tell at a glance that he had spiritual roots, and perhaps she was dangerous, he still chose to believe her.

Yun Qingyi put the little boy down on the ground: "But I can't take you away right now. I have other things to do. Are you willing to wait for me?"

The little boy nodded earnestly at her: "I said I would follow you, and I will definitely wait for you."

"Then it's settled." Yun Qingyi smiled.

Turning to Qi Heng, he said to the pancake stall owner, "Boss, would you be willing to take him in for a few months?"

After saying that, he took out ten taels of silver from his storage ring and added it to the silver he had placed on the stall earlier: "In addition to what I gave you before, these ten taels are a deposit. When I come back, I will give you another fifty taels."

The pancake stall owner touched the silver in front of him with his rough hands and said with a smile, "I'm willing! I'm willing!" Of course, he couldn't earn this much silver in his next life. All he had to do was help take care of the child for a few months. This deal was simply too good to pass up.

Thinking about it, he looked at Qi Heng and couldn't help but sigh: This kid has met a benefactor!

"Okay, if you're willing, that's good."

Yun Qingyi looked at Qi Heng, who was not even as tall as her waist, squatted down to meet his gaze, and said, "Since you're going to follow me from now on, then take my surname. My surname is Yun, and you'll be called Yun Qi Heng from now on."

"What's your name?" Yun Qiheng asked.

"Yun Qingyi".

Yun Qiheng nodded: "I've remembered. I'll always remember your name. Please don't forget to come and pick me up."

In the end, Yun Qiheng's voice was pleading.

"No." Yun Qingyi touched his thin face, his cheeks sunken due to long-term malnutrition. She stared at him for a while, then asked gently, "Can you use spiritual power?"

"I know a little. I'm already at the first level of Qi Refining," Yun Qiheng said.

Indeed, if he hadn't already cultivated, he would have frozen to death on the street long ago, looking like he was practically naked.

Yun Qingyi quietly slipped a storage ring into his arms and whispered, "This ring can be opened with spiritual power. The contents inside are still useful to you right now, so keep it safe."

After saying that, Yun Qingyi stood up, and as if she had thought of something, she said lightly, "By the way, eat more in the future and take good care of your health. You are clearly six years old, but you are like a three or four-year-old. I don't want you to still be like this when I come back in a few months."

This was said not only to Yun Qiheng, but also to the pancake stall owner.

Yun Qingyi looked at the pancake stall owner, her expression calm: "Do you understand?"

"Understood! Understood! Please rest assured, young lady, I guarantee that the child will be healthy and chubby when you return!"

"Ah."

"Arou, let's go." After saying that, Yun Qingyi took Yun Qingrou's hand and walked out of the capital of Daliang.

Yun Qiheng watched the receding figure, touched the storage ring folded against his chest alongside the jade slip, and murmured softly in his childish voice:

"You really have to come and pick me up."

……

"Sister." Outside the capital, Yun Qingrou finally couldn't help but ask, "Does that child have some other relationship with us?"

"No."

"Then why take him back?" If you just can't bear to see the child die on the street, why not just find a good family, give them some money, and let them adopt him?

Why go through all this trouble? Yun Qingrou asked, puzzled.

"Don't you think raising her is fun?" Yun Qingyi asked with a glint in her eyes.

"Cultivate? What is cultivation?"

"It's about nurturing a promising talent and using them for your own purposes."

"Otherwise, what do you think I was doing holding him for so long? I tested him several times," Yun Qingyi said.

It must be said that some of the little skills her master taught her were quite useful at times, and were suitable for detecting other people's talents without making a sound. However, in terms of accuracy and testing speed, they were still not as good as the Spirit Testing Stone.

Yun Qingrou nodded thoughtfully: "Since he was able to be kept by my elder sister, he must have great talent."

"Yes, it is indeed very good." Yun Qingyi smiled and said, "It is a top-grade single metal spiritual root. It's just a pity that the value cannot be accurately measured, but based on the density of spiritual energy sensed, the root value is at least ninety or higher."

Yun Qingrou opened her eyes wide, somewhat surprised.

If mutated spiritual roots are extremely rare among all spiritual roots, then the metal spiritual root is the rarest of the five elements spiritual roots. It generally only appears among multiple spiritual roots, and dual spiritual roots become very rare.

The only person she has met with a golden spiritual root, and a heavenly spiritual root at that, is Gu Qiqing.

She silently suppressed her dislike for Yun Qiheng. Since he was useful to her older sister, she would reluctantly accept his existence.

Seeing Yun Qingrou's eyebrows furrow and relax at different times, Yun Qingyi asked with curiosity, "What are you thinking about?"

"It's nothing." Yun Qingrou gave Yun Qingyi a slight smile: "I just thought that you kept that child because she was special to you, but I didn't expect it was because of her spiritual root."

Yun Qingyi was slightly taken aback. She had to admit that Arou's assumption was correct; the so-called spiritual root was the secondary reason.

Regardless of whether the child was talented or not, or whether he was an ordinary person, she would still choose to save him.

It's not just about saving him, it's also about saving yourself.

These unpleasant memories in the modern world, if she were still living in that world, might just be casually mentioned as childhood trauma to others. However, in the cultivation world, they can easily lead to inner demons due to negative influences such as guilt and pain.

So, she wanted to find redemption for herself here, for the life that wasn't saved back then.

Tell her that she did a great job back then.

Thinking of this, Yun Qingyi looked at the sky and smiled, "Let's go, we might really have to camp out in the wild this time."

Because of the child's matter, a lot of time had been wasted. Yun Qingyi calculated the time and sighed. Even if she was on her best today, she could only reach the great forest at the border of the Tianluan Domain at the farthest point.

Resigned to his fate, he summoned his spiritual energy and flew away with Yun Qingrou on their swords.

……

At this moment, the bright moon hangs high in the night sky.

Yun Qingyi and Yun Qingrou looked down at the forest and decided to rest for the night on the outskirts of the forest.

The two of them were not very strong, and traveling at night would easily lead to encounters with nocturnal monsters. Even if they could defeat them, it would be a waste of time and effort.

In addition, they had been flying on their swords all day, and to be honest, they were quite tired. Even with the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Technique, their spiritual energy was still greatly depleted.

Upon reaching the edge of the forest, the two found a relatively open spot and started a fire.

The low-level demonic beasts that were afraid of firelight quickly left the area where the two were.

There were no high-level spirit beasts on the outskirts of the forest; most of them were low-level demonic beasts and a few mid-level ones. Yun Qingyi and Yun Qingrou sat by the campfire and set up a barrier around themselves. As long as any creature stronger than them entered the range of the barrier, the two of them would sense it immediately.

With their safety assured, Yun Qingyi and Yun Qingrou tacitly crossed their legs to begin their cultivation.