Clan Cultivation: The Ye Clan

Ye Zhenzhen left the dining hall and walked home, reflecting on the current state of her family. Because of the scarcity of spirit stones, their cultivation level was low; because of the low cultivation level, they had few spirit stones. Their cultivation lineage was probably also at a very low level, otherwise they wouldn't have developed to this point.

Meanwhile, Ye Zhenrong went to the council hall to see his grandfather, Ye Shibai. After entering, he saw that his father, Ye Anbo, was also there. After bowing and greeting him, he repeated what he had said to Ye Zhenzhen and then sat down on a chair next to him to wait.

Grandpa Ye Shibai lowered his head and pondered for a while, then looked at Ye Anbo, "Bai'er, what do you think?"

“We can’t tell anything yet. She’s just learning about the family’s basic situation and hasn’t shown anything else. We can tell her and see what she wants to do.” Ye Anbo said, looking at Ye Zhenrong.

Ye Zhenrong nodded and said, "That's what I think too."

"Bai'er, let's go check on Zhen'er's soul tonight. I'm afraid she might have been possessed by some old guy."

Ye Amber thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

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Ye Zhenzhen returned to the courtyard and, finding no one home, went back to her room. She thought for a moment about what she could do for the family now. Her cultivation level was only at the first level of Qi Refining, which was useless; her divine sense could cover a thousand miles, but she couldn't tell her family, so it was also useless for the time being; right, she had memories, which contained many cultivation techniques, spells, inheritances, and cultivation experiences from her previous life. How could she reasonably hand them over to the family?

Ye Zhenzhen racked her brains for a long time but couldn't come up with a reasonable solution, so she sat on the futon, facing the sky with her palms facing upwards, and began to cultivate.

After circulating spiritual energy through his body for eight major cycles, a sharp pain shot through his meridians, indicating that he had reached the limit of his cultivation for the day.

Ye Zhenzhen opened her eyes, looked outside, and saw that it was almost dark. She walked out of the house, sat on the swing, and waited for her family.

Soon after, Dad, Mom, and my brother returned, and the atmosphere became a bit tense.

As soon as they entered the courtyard, the three surrounded Ye Zhenzhen, setting up a scene of interrogation.

Ye Zhenzhen looked at the three of them with a puzzled expression. "What's wrong?"

Ye Zhenwen: "How was your study today?"

Ye Zhenzhen thought to herself, "That's great!" She had heard everything she needed to hear.

Ye Zhenwen: "Your fourth uncle told you to go see him after class, why didn't you go?"

Ye Zhenzhen suddenly opened her eyes wide. It seemed like there was such a thing. Why was it? It seemed like it was sleeping before class. Why was her fourth uncle so petty? He even complained about such a small thing. Petty fourth uncle, Ye Zhenzhen pouted as she thought.

"Snapped"

Ye Anxin slammed her hand on the table, startling Ye Zhenzhen. She said, "You're disobedient on your first day of class."

Seeing his wife's anger, He Ruonan took her hand, blew on it, and tried to smooth things over, saying, "Zhen'er, it's only the first day. You need to get used to it. You'll be fine next time, right? Zhen'er."

He gave his little girl a wink and quickly admitted his mistake.

Ye Zhenzhen received her father's signal, opened her big, bright eyes, and sincerely apologized to Ye Anxin, "Mother, I was wrong. I will definitely go to school obediently from now on and won't misbehave anymore."

After speaking, he looked at He Ruonan, winked, and asked: How about that? Wasn't that sincere enough?

Ye Anxin was furious. Looking at the tense exchange between the father and daughter, she knew she couldn't vent her anger any longer. She glared at her husband and said, "Just keep spoiling her."

After saying that, he turned around and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Leaving the father and his two sons behind, Ye Zhenzhen rolled her eyes at her brother Ye Zhenwen and said angrily, "Brother, you know I got teased, why did you have to tell on me? It's so annoying."

Ye Zhenwen looked at his younger sister with a helpless expression. "I really didn't tell on this. I just got out of school, and my fourth uncle was waiting for me at the gate of the yard to tell me about this. My parents happened to be passing by, and that's how it happened."

"Fourth Uncle is so stingy. He only slept for a little while and he complained. Humph, I don't like him anymore."

"You really wronged your fourth uncle. He asked you to come to him not to scold you, but because he saw that you missed the Qi Induction class last week and was going to give you a make-up class this afternoon. But you ran off on your own."

"Um, Fourth Uncle, I'm sorry," Ye Zhenzhen said earnestly, admitting her mistake.

He Ruonan picked up his daughter and said, "It's good that you know you were wrong. Your fourth uncle was genuinely looking out for you, but you misunderstood him like this. You have to apologize to your fourth uncle tomorrow, understand?"

"Okay," Ye Zhenzhen replied obediently.

Ye Zhenwen smiled helplessly at the sight.

Dinner was served shortly afterward. After dinner, Ye Zhenzhen pulled her brother and ran into her bedroom.

"Brother, please teach me how to guide qi into the body. I'm afraid it will be awkward if Fourth Uncle teaches me."

Looking at his earnest younger sister, Ye Zhenwen began to teach her how to guide qi into the body. "Guiding qi into the body means drawing the free-floating spiritual energy in the air into the meridians... The incantation is: Exhale three inches and draw the breath in to the heels, keeping it continuous and tightly closed like a bottle, letting the qi circulate through the internal organs, opening the pores and connecting the human and heavenly realms..."

Listening to Ye Zhenwen's explanation, Ye Zhenzhen earnestly assumed the Five Hearts Facing Heaven posture and began to sense the spiritual energy. She thought to herself, "How can I get rid of him? I'll just pretend to listen. Why is he getting more and more excited? Is he planning to watch me sense the spiritual energy all night?" No, I have to get him away. I'll pretend to be asleep.

Thinking this to herself, Ye Zhenzhen's breathing gradually calmed down. She swayed slightly to the left, and just as she was about to fall, Ye Zhenwen scooped up his sister, put her on the bed, covered her with the blanket, and went out. He thought to himself, "Still that little lazybones."

After sensing that her brother had left, Ye Zhenzhen opened her eyes, thinking about the problems that had arisen during the day—how should she hand them over to the family?

But his hand accidentally touched under the pillow. "Huh?" This is the storage bag I took from the bear den. How could I have forgotten about it? Now I have a solution.

The original owner of the storage bag had long since perished in the bear's belly. Ye Zhenzhen easily probed it with her divine sense and found more than two hundred low-grade spirit stones, a crimson alchemy furnace, several bottles of pills, and three jade slips inside. The original owner was probably an alchemist.

He didn't touch the others, but took out the three jade slips, randomly picked one up, and stuck it to his forehead. The contents transformed into his sea of ​​consciousness—a complete guide to herbs. He put it down and sensed the next one; it contained the original owner's alchemy experience and the formulas for most first-tier pills, which would be very useful to the family. The third slip contained a cultivation technique called Thousand Breaths Tempering Earth Technique, suitable for those with earth-elemental roots, and could be cultivated to the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage. This storage bag had yielded a rich harvest.

Everything in the storage bag was useful. Originally, she had planned to erase the original contents of the jade slip and write down the knowledge from her own memories, but now that was impossible. It seemed she would have to find a way to get a few blank jade slips tomorrow. Thinking about this, Ye Zhenzhen prepared to go to sleep.

I had just lain down on the bed when I sensed someone approaching. I immediately used my divine sense to investigate. Why were they here?