“Cough, you said it yourself—we are of the same kind. Your master is just as penniless as you are.”
Ye Wan: “…”
Her dream of inheriting her master’s treasure vault was finally shattered.
“What were you thinking, Master? Do I look like the kind of person who would sponge off the elderly?” Ye Wan expressed that she was actually a very respectful person.
“You’d better not be,” the woman replied, her expression saying she had seen right through her.
“Can’t there be a little trust between us, master and disciple?”
“Alright, stop being cheeky. After you leave, cultivate well. I will wait for you and your daughter in the upper realm,” she said. Looking at the small doll in Ye Wan’s arms, she added, “The intent is sufficient, but the spiritual energy is lacking.”
As she spoke, her figure turned into specks of starlight and sank into the Suisui doll in Ye Wan’s arms.
“This is a wisp of divine sense I left in the legacy stone. I shall merge it into this doll to nourish its spirit with my remaining power. Consider it a meeting gift for my little grand-disciple.”
As the last bit of starlight vanished into the doll, Ye Wan’s vision blurred. She found herself back in her room. She immediately sat cross-legged to accept the legacy.
The Path of Weaving primarily uses spiritual energy to transform into threads for weaving techniques. For example, during combat, one can weave protective barriers or offensive spells, or weave dreamscapes to trap people. Those with profound cultivation can even weave their own “Domain.”
In addition, by finding suitable materials and refining them into thread, one can weave auxiliary physical objects, such as protective nets, dharma robes, and formation nets. As one’s cultivation increases, one can even weave living spiritual creatures. It was truly a combination of combat skills and a way to make a fortune.
After accepting the legacy, Ye Wan opened her eyes. A whole night had already passed.
Outside, the sky was just beginning to brighten. The legacy stone in her hand was gone, replaced by the little Suisui doll in her arms. Because of her master’s divine sense, the doll appeared even more lifelike.
Since the doll could be brought out, did that mean the things she saw in the legacy space earlier were real?
Thinking this, Ye Wan checked with a thought and actually saw a space enclosed by four racks.
On the racks were the weaving threads and tools she had seen before. In the center of the open ground floated an ice-crystal-colored soft whip, its color pure and its texture like translucent icicles.
It was the matching dharma treasure for this legacy.
Ye Wan glanced at Suisui, who was still snoring on the bed. She took out the dharma treasure and immediately dripped blood onto it to claim it as her life-bound treasure.
The treasure combined needle and thread; the needle was the handle, and the thread was the whip. In combat, she could freely switch between whip, needle, and thread. The whip shadows were like lightning, and with thousands of threads and ten thousand needles, its power would be boundless if used correctly.
Ye Wan was extremely glad she had taken that gamble. This wasn’t just turning a bicycle into a motorcycle; it was turning it into a battleship.
Ye Wan named her life-bound treasure “Thousand Shadows” and stored it in her dantian for nourishment. Then, she tried to take out the thread from the rack.
In the blink of an eye, that bundle of thread actually appeared in her hand! This meant she had also inherited the space enclosed by the four racks.
At this moment, Ye Wan felt like she was the biological daughter of the Heavens.
The Heavens: No, you’re not.
Ye Wan suppressed her excitement and tried to put the teapot from the table into the space.
The teapot disappeared. Just as the corners of Ye Wan’s mouth began to rise, the teapot spun around in the space for a second before being kicked back out.
Ye Wan: “…”
She tried again, but the teapot didn’t budge. It had clearly become a persona non grata in the space.
Refusing to believe it, Ye Wan tried every item she had poured out of her storage bag earlier. Every item put in was kicked out. By the end, she had lost all hope.
Suddenly, the last item—a rank-three spiritual herb—did not reappear. Ye Wan instantly perked up and looked into the space.
My goodness! It seemed a force was trying to categorize the spiritual herb onto the racks, but the racks were disgusted by it. After spinning around, the herb landed on the open ground in the middle.
Ye Wan: “…”
She searched the original owner’s memory. This herb was called Moying Grass, a primary material for making Heart-Clearing Pills. Heart-Clearing Pills can dispel miasma and keep the mind clear, making them an essential medicine for cultivators on trials.
Why was it that everything else was kicked out, but this spiritual herb wasn’t?
Ye Wan stared at the racks, her eyes darting around. With a thought, she forcibly moved the spiritual herb on the ground onto one of the racks.
The rack acted like it was being forced into something against its will, shaking violently to fully express its resistance.
“Hehe! Little baby, give up the struggle. Today, even if you shake yourself apart, you won’t stop me from uncovering the truth.” Ye Wan’s sly laughter echoed in the space.
Finally, the rack could no longer hold out. After a shimmer of light, words appeared on every bundle of thread on the rack.
Rack Number One held rank-one to rank-three spiritual threads, which could be used for any woven item below rank-three. It also displayed the material composition.
Rack Number Two was for ranks four to six; Rack Number Three for ranks seven to nine. Rack Number Four held tools like needles, shuttles, and looms that could be used for weaving, varying in rank.
So, the Moying Grass was rejected from joining because it hadn’t been processed into thread?
What surprised Ye Wan the most was that the shunned Moying Grass also had a word prompt: Stem bark can be refined into rank-one spiritual thread.
This was equivalent to a recognition assistant. In the future, whether it was a spiritual herb she knew or didn’t know, she could just toss it into the space to see if it could be refined into spiritual thread.
Looking at the Moying Grass that had fallen to the ground, Ye Wan had an idea. “Little Rack, can only things related to weaving be put in here? And can’t this Moying Grass be refined into spiritual thread? Isn’t that related to weaving? You can’t reject its entry just because it looks different.”
This time, the rack seemed to hesitate for a moment before separating a small rack to hold the spiritual herb, looking very much like a proud person saying, ‘You don’t deserve to be near me.’
Ye Wan: “…”
For a moment, she couldn’t tell if the space had a spirit or if the racks themselves were sentient.
Whatever, at least she had successfully bluffed it.
Ye Wan then tried putting the Suisui doll into the space. The doll was automatically categorized onto the rank-five rack, and the information identified left Ye Wan dumbfounded.
[Rank-five woven item. Can absorb negative emotions such as negativity, depression, and anxiety.]
When she was weaving this doll, she was thinking about how happy Suisui would be to receive it. Could it be that the effect of the legacy’s woven items depended on one’s state of mind?
Or was it because of that wisp of her master’s divine sense exerting its remaining power?
Whichever it was, the function of this doll was perfect for a child, absorbing negative energy and allowing the child to grow up carefree.
Ye Wan knew her daughter was most afraid of needles. While her daughter was still asleep, she quickly used a needle to prick a drop of blood from the little finger for a blood-binding.
Suisui seemed exceptionally sensitive to needle pricks. Her small hand retracted, her mouth smacked, and she slowly opened her eyes.
“Mommy…”
Suisui tilted her head and saw Ye Wan. She called out in a milky voice, crawled over, and threw herself into her arms. “Waa… Mommy, I dreamed someone pricked my hand with a needle-needle.”
Ye Wan: “…”
My daughter really has an extraordinary sensitivity to needles.
“Let Mommy see, which hand is it?” Ye Wan grabbed the chubby little hand.
“This one.” Suisui pointed precisely to the finger that had been pricked in the dream.
“Then Mommy will blow on it for you.” Ye Wan lowered her head and blew on the little finger.
“It doesn’t hurt anymore!” The little cub was immediately comforted, looking up at her mother with bright eyes and a silly, happy grin.
Seeing that the little dumpling’s complexion had returned to a rosy hue and she was in good spirits, Ye Wan was relieved. She reached out to rub the child’s soft hair and pinched her chubby face.
“Does Suisui feel uncomfortable anywhere?”
Doctor Kong said the cub was in the talent awakening stage. She didn’t know if she had awakened yet.
Suisui shook her little head. “I feel like I have so much strength. I could eat a whole ‘head’ of chicken.”
“Little dummy, it’s ‘one’ chicken.” Ye Wan tapped her little nose.
Suisui buried her blushing face in her mother’s arms, her little head burrowing and burrowing before looking up and giggling. “Got it, it’s one chicken.”
“Right! Suisui, feel carefully again. Do you see anything, or is there something extra in your body?”
“How do I feel it?”
“Close your eyes and think with your heart.”
Suisui obediently closed her eyes and even covered them with her chubby paws.
Mommy said to think with her heart. Suisui thought of eating cakes, ice cream, spicy things, fried chicken…
Wait! A fruit! A very red and beautiful fruit!
Ah! The red fruit is gone!
“Mommy, I saw a red fruit, but the fruit ran away. It didn’t want to be eaten by me,” Suisui opened her eyes and complained crossly.
Ye Wan knew exactly what the little thing had been thinking about. What else would a three-year-old milk-dumpling think about besides food? She would just let nature take its course.
“Then we’ll eat chicken legs.” Ye Wan took out a roasted chicken leg from her storage bag.
The chicken leg had been made yesterday. Although the storage bag didn’t have a preservation function, Ye Wan had used her body’s rank-six Qi Refining level to improve their lives quite a bit over the years.
For example, using the Dust-Removal spell for cleaning and drawing basic preservation talismans. If it weren’t for the outbreak of Suisui’s constitution, this rank-six Qi Refining level would have been enough for her to lie flat comfortably for a lifetime.
“Mommy is the best! I love Mommy the most!”
Suisui lunged forward and took a huge bite of the chicken leg from her mother’s hand. She said indistinctly, “If there were spicy-spicy things, Suisui would love Mommy even more!”
Ye Wan kissed the cub’s chubby cheek. “No spicy-spicy. I have ‘Mommy’s Loving Palm’ though. Does Suisui want that?”
The “spicy-spicy” things were spicy strips (latiao), which Ye Wan occasionally made for herself out of boredom. The little cub was bad at eating them but still wanted to try.
Last time, she had snuck some when Ye Wan wasn’t looking. Not only did she cry from the spice, but she also had diarrhea, which really worried Ye Wan.
Suisui’s eyes went round. She took the chicken leg and moved her little bottom to the side, wearing a little expression that said, “Suisui is good, Suisui is eating her chicken leg.”
Ye Wan almost burst out laughing. She rubbed the child’s head. “Why does your mother feel like you’ve gotten ’rounder’ again?”
Hearing this, Suisui immediately sucked in her belly. She didn’t last long before giving up, puffing out her cheeks in defense. “That’s just ‘expanding’ a tiny bit more because of adorableness.”
“Expand a bit more and I can sell you by the pound.”
“Mommy won’t sell!” Suisui cupped her chubby face.
“Mm, Mommy won’t sell. Suisui will sell.”
“Suisui won’t sell either!” Suisui said very loudly.
“Then how about selling this?” Ye Wan took out the Suisui doll.
Suisui’s big round eyes were fixed, unable to even turn away. She didn’t even care about the chicken leg in her hand as she joyfully lunged forward to hug the tiny version of herself.
“Mommy, is this me? Is it? Is it?”
“Yes, yes, yes. Suisui can take it with her from now on. Not only can it keep you company, but it can also protect you.”
“Mm! I will protect Little Suisui too!” Suisui hugged the doll tightly and rubbed her face against it, overjoyed.
“Then you play with Little Suisui first while Mommy packs things up.” Ye Wan somewhat regretted not weaving a Suisui-version doll for her daughter sooner.
“Okay!” Suisui continued gnawing on the chicken leg while holding Little Suisui, swinging her short legs as she watched her mother work.
Ye Wan packed everything into her storage bag, taking everything from the house that could be moved.
“Wow! Mommy is so amazing! Shoo… it’s gone!”
Suisui got off the bed and circled around Ye Wan, trying to find the things her mother had hidden.
“This is a storage bag. It can hold a lot of things. Mommy will buy one for you in the future.”
“I want it! Mommy, I want to use it for hide-and-seek. No one will be able to find me if I hide inside!”
It had to be said, a child’s thoughts were truly adorable.
“It can’t hide Suisui, but it can hide Little Suisui. Do you want Mommy to help put it away?”
“No, no! Little Suisui will be scared if no one is with her.” Suisui had just gotten a new playmate and was unwilling to put it down so soon.
“Then tell Mommy when you can’t carry it anymore.” Ye Wan took Suisui’s hand and walked outside.
“Mommy, where are we going?”
“To find delicious food to fatten Suisui up so I can sell her by the pound.”
Delicious food!
Suisui’s eyes brightened. She swung her mother’s hand. “Mommy loves Suisui the most; she wouldn’t have the heart to sell Suisui!”
…
The sky was just beginning to brighten. The villagers had already gotten up to work, and the small path leading out of the village was quiet.
Ye Wan took Suisui and knocked on the gate of Kong Qing’s courtyard.
Kong Qing was already up, turning the medicinal herbs on the bamboo trays so they could be set out to dry when the sun came up.
“You’re here.” Kong Qing didn’t seem surprised by the pair’s arrival.
He stepped forward and picked up Suisui, glancing at the doll in her arms. “Does Suisui feel uncomfortable anywhere?”
“Grandpa Kong, I’m doing great! I don’t need to take bitter-bitter medicine!” Suisui resisted a bit, fearing Grandpa Kong would prick her with needles or make her drink bitter medicine.
Kong Qing checked Suisui’s body and was relieved to find that yesterday’s outbreak state had stabilized for the time being.
“Not bad. Listen to your mother in the future. Otherwise, you’ll have to come back and let Grandpa Kong prick you with needles and drink bitter medicine.”
“I’ll listen to Mommy. Mommy has to listen to me too, okay? Otherwise, she has to come back for needles and bitter medicine.” Suisui turned her head to look at her mother, her eyes darting around.
In the future, when Suisui wanted to eat delicious things, Mommy should not stop her—that would make her a good, obedient Mommy.
“As expected of my daughter. You’re already making little calculations at your age.” Ye Wan gently pinched the chubby face and took out the prepared payment.
“Besides saying goodbye to you, Doctor Kong, I have a modest thank-you gift.”
Ye Wan took out a small hoe, the two rank-three spiritual herbs, and the piece of ore material.
“Cough, this is the only thing I can offer right now. It doesn’t compare to the spiritual energy you gave Suisui. I am a disciple of the Wanyan Sect. If fate allows us to meet again in the future, I will make it up to you. Or, if you feel there is something I can help with, you can come to the Wanyan Sect to find me.”
Even with Ye Wan’s thick skin, she was a bit embarrassed, as she had clearly gotten the better end of the deal.
She had to keep the spirit stones for use when entering the cultivation world. It was said that a poor home requires an abundant road, though the spirit stones she had weren’t exactly abundant.
As for the damaged dharma sword, she had to keep it as a temporary tool for entering the cultivation world and couldn’t give it away.
The hoe was something the original owner had bought when taking on tasks for the spiritual fields. It happened to be suitable for Kong Qing to use for digging herbs. Although it wasn’t a dharma treasure, it was still sharper than the ordinary hoes of the secular world.
Anyway, it was better than nothing, even though Kong Qing didn’t actually need it.
“Just right. I happen to be lacking a hoe for digging medicine. The spiritual herbs and ore are unnecessary.”
Kong Qing was only willing to accept the hoe, but then he took out something that made things very difficult for Ye Wan.