Shu Jianyue kissed them, then pulled out the pendant hanging around her neck and smiled.
In her past life, she had stumbled upon a pendant like this one and accidentally unlocked the Planting Space. She had worked hard to cultivate it in her rebirth and turned it into an oasis.
From her memories, she knew this pendant had been left to the original owner by her mother.
Shu Jianyue bit her fingertip and let a drop of blood fall onto the pendant. Watching the blood get absorbed, she let out a sigh of relief.
She didn’t know if it had any connection to the space from her past life.
But she hoped the original space had come along with her, because in her past life she had stocked up on quite a bit of milk powder and baby supplies—all swept from maternity stores, covering every stage.
Closing her eyes to sense it, she immediately felt the space’s presence.
Without a second thought, she carried both children into the space.
On one side was an orchard, on the other a vegetable field—these were things she had planted after her rebirth, and they hadn’t changed. But the place where she had originally stored supplies was completely empty, with only a few purple flowers swaying there.
Shu Jianyue was stunned. “Where’s my milk powder? Where are my supplies?”
This was clearly her original space, so why were all the supplies she had gathered from sweeping through malls and such places after her rebirth gone? Her two kids’ food supply was gone too!
Shu Jianyue’s face, which had been stiff, relaxed again when she saw the stretches of orchard and vegetable fields, along with the pond.
The orchard and vegetable fields were still there—that was better than having nothing at all.
“Ahh…” The older twin’s cries pulled her back from her daze.
“Sweetie, what’s wrong?”
“Ahh…” The older twin opened his mouth and cried, while the younger one, though not making a sound, was smacking her little lips.
Could they be… hungry?
But how to nurse them?
She looked down—it was just a tiny bit higher than a flat plain. Could this possibly hold enough milk for the babies?
She pulled open her clothes and let the children try. Fortunately, there was still some.
“I need to give you both names. What should you be called?”
Shu Jianyue thought for a while before settling on names she was satisfied with. “The older one will be Yuchuan, and the younger one Yanxi. May you look up to mountains and rivers, and cherish the good times.”
Yuchuan and Yanxi fell asleep after eating.
Shu Jianyue was starving too. She picked a pear and bit into it without even wiping it off. It tasted different from before—sweeter and fresher.
She was so caught up in her joy that she didn’t notice her body had been slowly recovering ever since she entered.
Eating the pear sped up the recovery even more. Shu Jianyue could clearly feel the fatigue in her body and the pain in certain places gradually fading away.
Looking at the core in her hand, a possibility occurred to her. She immediately went to pick another pear and devoured it. It really was the pear’s doing.
She went and picked an apple to test it out—same effect as the pear.
Her space had mutated!
If she ate these long-term, could it change her constitution too?
Shu Jianyue placed the children on the soft grass and slowly walked into the orchard. As she walked, she spotted a towering tree. Shu Jianyue was puzzled—she remembered there being no such tree in the space.
What, the supplies had been replaced by a big tree?
That really wasn’t necessary. She would much rather have the supplies.
Especially now, when she had two babies to raise.
Drawing closer, she saw a seven-colored vine climbing the tree, with three fruits on each colored vine, and a single rainbow-colored fruit hanging from a purple-red vine in the middle.
The rainbow-colored fruit was somewhat shaped like a mist lotus, but smaller than one.
Shu Jianyue leaned in to sniff it, and surprisingly, it even had a fragrance. Without any hesitation, she plucked the rainbow-colored fruit, examined it, and took a bite. “Mm, it’s pretty sweet, but not crispy enough—a bit soft.”
The next instant, her entire body began to twitch slightly. “Damn, are there fruits in this space that can’t be eaten?”
The pain spread through her more and more intensely, as if someone were pulling her tendons and stripping her bones.
Shu Jianyue reached her limit of agony and directly slammed herself against the big tree, then after hitting the tree, she started pounding the ground, until the pendant on the chain smashed into her brow, and only then did she pass out.
The flower-bud-shaped pendant embedded in her brow emitted a blinding light, enveloping Shu Jianyue within it, slowly nurturing her shattered body.
When Shu Jianyue woke up, she sat there in a daze. The pain just now was truly unforgettable, piercing straight to the depths of her soul.
After blanking out for a while, she finally sensed something different about herself. She checked her own body and found a surge of energy rapidly flowing through her meridians, finally entering her sea of consciousness and forming a vortex of energy.
Not only could she cultivate now, but she had also gone from being a waste to a prodigy, leaping straight up to the ninth level of Lianqi!
The cultivation ranks here were: Naqi, Lianqi, Zhuji, Jindan, Yuanying, Huashen, Lianxu, Heti, Dacheng, Dujie.
Others had to go through drawing energy into their meridians and channeling it to their dantian, but she had skipped straight past Naqi and jumped to the ninth level of Lianqi—one more step and she could reach Zhuji!
Moreover, it had been absorbed into her sea of consciousness!
If her memory served her right, everyone absorbed spiritual energy into their dantian, didn’t they?
Shu Jianyue felt like her face had been slapped particularly hard just now.
She owed an apology for her previous ignorance.
But why were there three shackles in her sea of consciousness?
It felt like they were locking her soul, and a slight tug would send a wrenching pain from the depths of her soul.
What did this mean?
Shu Jianyue closed her eyes and sensed it, only then realizing these were the original owner’s three wishes—complete one to unlock one shackle.
Why did this routine feel somewhat familiar?
But why hadn’t she been told what the wishes were?
If not told, how was she supposed to know how to fulfill them?
Was this a joke?
She let out a breath and touched her brow, which was as smooth as if it had never been injured.
With a thought, the entire space unfolded in her mind, many times larger than before.
New mountains, rivers, and streams had appeared, and at the boundary between the fruit grove and the vegetable field, a spring had also emerged.
The purple flowers on the open ground were clearly more delicate than before.
The supplies she had collected in her past life hadn’t disappeared either—they were now within the towering Yunxiao Shu. This tree contained three thousand small spaces, and the supplies that had previously taken up nearly half her space now occupied only one of those small spaces, not even filling it.
Of the three thousand small spaces, only two were currently revealed; the rest were sealed.
One held the supplies, and the other contained two books: one was the Qianxi Fuling Jue, and the other was the Fuhuan Shenbian.
The Qianxi Fuling Jue was a cultivation method, and with her cultivation talent after marrow cleansing, comprehending it would be no trouble at all.
As for the Fuhuan Shenbian, there was even ready-made material—the Fushen Teng that had fallen when she picked the fruit only needed to be refined, and it could be forged into an excellent Fushen whip, perfect for practicing the Fuhuan Shenbian.
The reason the space had changed like this was that her original space had merged with the original owner’s space, so it had grown larger and also mutated.
Shu Jianyue put away the two secret manuals and the Fushen Teng, let out a deep breath, and picked up a set of clothes to go wash up by the river. Fortunately, when she had gathered clothes earlier, she had swept through the shops as she passed, collecting quite a few ancient-style garments without missing any.
Looking at the face reflected in the water, it was still the same face as before, except that a flower-like, yet not quite flower-like, mark had appeared on her brow.
This was the mark of the space.
With this, she could conceal her cultivation at any time, and unless she willed it, no one would ever know of the space’s existence.
She hid the mark away, took out a large tent, boiled water to bathe the children, and then dressed them in pure cotton little clothes and swaddling blankets.