Chapter 6: How Could There Be a Seed Inside the Dantian?

“Master, there’s something I want to confess to you in advance.”

“What is it?”

“Actually, I deliberately shattered my spiritual root,” Si Nansheng said softly, looking at Li Tianhen.

“Hm? Tell me your reason!”

“Hehe! Master, how about you first take a look at my dantian?” Si Nansheng smiled sweetly at Li Tianhen. Li Tianhen placed his hand over her dantian.

“This is...”

Si Nansheng’s dantian, which should have been empty, surprisingly held a dull, inconspicuous mass—it looked like a spiritual root!

But wait, she had already destroyed her spiritual root before. On the way back, he had personally checked and found nothing. So how could this root be here?

“Good disciple, do you want to explain to your master what’s going on?” Li Tianhen looked at Si Nansheng.

Since she had the courage to decisively destroy her spiritual root, she must have known what was really happening, right?

“Before, I always thought I only had a water-elemental spiritual root. It wasn’t until recently, when Master... no, Feng Zeyan sent me to the Snow Mountain to retrieve a thousand-year Ice Lotus for Liu Xuewei, and after exhausting my spiritual power, that I suddenly discovered it.”

Si Nansheng thought: Master, Master, I’m sorry. Please don’t be mad at me. I really tried to deceive you because I didn’t know how to explain it!

In the original story, after Si Nansheng’s spiritual root was excavated, Feng Zeyan helped heal her and discovered she actually had another spiritual root. It had been suppressed by her previous water-elemental root, which is why no one noticed it.

Later, Feng Zeyan tested her spiritual roots again and found a worthless all-elemental spiritual root.

He had someone find a Spirit Refining Herb to wash her all-elemental root into a single-element root, which turned out to be a rare, top-grade root. As her cultivation surged, her meridians also recovered.

Afterwards, Feng Zeyan forced her into seclusion for a hundred years, during which she not only regained her previous cultivation but advanced several realms to reach the Golden Core stage.

Unfortunately, all this cultivation was ultimately used as nourishment to help Liu Xuewei advance.

When Feng Zeyan and Liu Xuewei ascended to the higher realms, he pushed Si Nansheng into a pack of demonic beasts, where she was torn apart alive.

“Hahaha, good, this means you still have a chance to continue cultivating. Rest well for now. When your body recovers, your master will test your aptitude again.”

“All right,” Si Nansheng nodded.

“But something about your spiritual root seems a bit off,” Li Tianhen said, looking closely at Si Nansheng’s root again.

“Off?” Si Nansheng glanced over. Except that the root looked weak and droopy, she didn’t notice anything unusual.

Besides, in her memory, this root was just an all-elemental one with nothing strange.

Later, Feng Zeyan had someone find the Spirit Refining Herb and transformed her root into a single-element root, making it even less likely to reveal any issues.

“It doesn’t look like a spiritual root but rather... a seed?” Li Tianhen observed carefully and gave his verdict.

“Huh?”

What on earth? Why would there be a seed in her dantian?

Shouldn’t it be a spiritual root?

The original story never mentioned anything like this!

“Master, can you tell what it actually is?”

“Not yet. Maybe we’ll have to wait until you begin cultivating,” Li Tianhen said after a thorough inspection, gently shaking his head.

It was strange—he couldn’t see through this spiritual root’s true nature either!

“My little junior sister has awakened,” Ye Yanqing walked in, his expression gentle as he looked at Si Nansheng.

“He is your senior brother Ye Yanqing. You have four other senior brothers who are currently out on their own training journeys; when they return, I’ll introduce them to you,” Li Tianhen said softly to Si Nansheng.

“Hello, senior brother,” Si Nansheng smiled and greeted him.

“Oh, I used to envy other sects for having little junior sisters. Now, I have one too. Junior sister, as your senior brother, I specialize in talismans and formations. Later, I’ll prepare some talismans and formations to protect you. If anyone dares to bully you, I’ll smash them with talismans.”

Senior Brother had already contacted the second senior brother to find some high-quality ores to forge a storage ring for her.

Hearing Si Nansheng’s sweet, soft voice calling him senior brother, Ye Yanqing felt his heart bubble with warmth.

Indeed, junior sisters are far cuter than junior brothers—so soft and adorable.

He now wished he could put all the best things right in front of her.

“Thank you, senior brother,” Si Nansheng smiled warmly.

“By the way, senior brother bought you several sets of magical robes. They’re not high grade but can withstand attacks from the Golden Core stage. You can wear them for a few days. When your second senior brother returns, he’ll make you robes of higher grade and better appearance. He has many treasures for forging robes,” Ye Yanqing said, smiling as he piled all the robes he had gathered over the past few days in front of Si Nansheng.

“S-Senior Brother, this... this is too much, isn’t it?” Si Nansheng was surprised. These were even more than what the senior brothers at the Holy Heaven Sect had bought for Liu Xuewei!

Ye Yanqing just gave them all to her? Couldn’t senior brother find a more spacious place to store all these?

“It’s not too much, just that your senior brother drew more talismans,” Ye Yanqing replied with a gentle smile.

Not too much? This was enough to bury her!

“Since it’s from your senior brother, accept it. Your meridians haven’t recovered yet, so having these robes will be beneficial,” Li Tianhen said, pulling her away from the robes and smiling. Only then did Si Nansheng accept everything.

“Thank you, senior brother.”

Si Nansheng looked at the robes, her eyes moist. In the past, at the Holy Heaven Sect, she was always the one giving.

Now, her senior brother gave her so much without hesitation, which moved her deeply.

Ye Yanqing saw his little junior sister’s reddened eyes and wanted to say something but was stopped by Master’s shake of the head.

From what Si Nansheng had said before, she must have suffered many grievances at the Holy Heaven Sect.

Now, having left the sect and having brothers who treated her kindly, she probably wanted to vent her pent-up frustrations.

“Yanqing, go on and be busy. Let Nansheng rest well,” Li Tianhen said, directly sending Ye Yanqing away.

After Ye Yanqing left, he immediately sent messages to the other senior brothers to inform them about the little junior sister.

However, they were still busy and couldn’t return yet. They all told the senior brother to take good care of the little junior sister and promised to bring gifts when they came back.

“These are the things you entrusted to me for safekeeping. I’m returning them to you,” Li Tianhen said, taking out the jade pendant Si Nansheng had given him earlier.

“Thank you, Master. This is the only thing left from my parents,” Si Nansheng said, staring down at the pendant in her hand.

“This doesn’t look like an ordinary jade pendant; it’s more like a clan emblem,” Li Tianhen said softly, also looking at the pendant.

“Master, do you know which clan it belongs to?”

“Hm... I can’t recall. For now, keep the pendant safe. Maybe one day, we’ll find your parents’ clan members.”

Li Tianhen gently rubbed Si Nansheng’s head. The pendant’s material was unusual, suggesting that her parents’ identities were not simple.

Si Nansheng looked at the pendant, her mood heavy. This pendant was a symbol of her identity and the token for recognizing her family.

Unfortunately, long ago, she had given this token to the wrong person, allowing Liu Xuewei to seize the opportunity.

In this life, she was determined to protect them all.