“Bingbing!!”
Following Immortal Lord Qingxue’s urgent call, the flying birds and spirit beasts within the peak erupted into a commotion.
Everyone knew that Jade Immortal Peak had been shrouded in dark clouds these past few days.
Now the little girl was awake.
Everyone was overjoyed.
Wen Yuzhao stood guard at the mountain gate. Seeing Immortal Lord Qingxue return, he quickly bowed in a disciple’s salute.
“Master, Little Junior Sister has woken up!” His usually gentle face lit up with delight. “Not only is Little Junior Sister awake, but she also seems a bit sharper in the head.”
Sharper?
Immortal Lord Qingxue: “Bingbing isn’t foolish anymore?”
“Not exactly.” Seeing his master’s disappointment, Wen Yuzhao hurriedly added, “Before, Little Junior Sister was like a two-year-old infant, but now…”
“Now what?”
“Just say it already!”
This disciple was so slow-paced, it was truly maddening.
Immortal Lord Qingxue was so anxious that his hair had become disheveled. Remembering his appearance, he quickly smoothed his hair back.
“Now she’s at least three years old!” Wen Yuzhao chuckled with satisfaction.
“……”
What’s there to be proud of about being three years old?
“Wait!”
Immortal Lord Qingxue suddenly realized something and abruptly stopped.
Wen Yuzhao accidentally bumped into him.
“Bingbing is actually this smart now?”
“Yes, Master.” Wen Yuzhao rubbed his sore forehead. “Although sometimes I can’t understand what Junior Sister is saying, she can now speak in long sentences.”
This!
This was truly the greatest news on Jade Immortal Peak!
Immortal Lord Qingxue couldn’t wait a moment longer. With a slight application of magic, he teleported with Wen Yuzhao to the courtyard outside Jiang Bingbing’s residence.
The small courtyard gate was wide open.
From inside came a childish voice.
“Eldest Senior Sister, Bingbing really is fine now! My arms don’t hurt, my hands don’t hurt, nothing hurts at all!!”
It was his little Bing, no doubt!
The old father was moved to tears, weeping uncontrollably.
“Little Bing, you’re finally awake!”
Jiang Bingbing was still in Liu Zheng’s arms. She poked her head out and saw her usually aloof, white-haired master tearfully entering. A certain part of her heart softened a little more.
“Master!” She wriggled her way out of Liu Zheng’s embrace, waving her arms. “I had such a long dream after I fell asleep!!”
She blinked her big eyes, counting on her fingers. “In the dream, there was Master, Eldest Senior Sister, Second Senior Brother…”
At this point, she paused, tilting her head as if thinking about something.
Xie Yingnan, standing to the side with his arms crossed, thought to himself: This fool is as annoying as ever.
Just as he thought this.
He heard Jiang Bingbing, sitting on the bed, laugh even more happily and say softly, “In the dream, there was also Hua Kongque, who was very kind to Bingbing and bought me candied hawthorn to eat!”
“Our whole family lived together so happily!”
Family?
For the cultivation world, the concept of family was rather vague.
Everyone’s lifespans were incredibly long, and by the time they reached later stages, they had mostly forgotten what family meant.
Everyone present was touched.
Each of their eyes flickered with memories and nostalgia.
While Immortal Lord Qingxue and the other three reminisced about the past.
Jiang Bingbing was sorting out her thoughts.
She realized she was alive again!
Such a miracle had actually happened.
When she first woke up, she hadn’t fully processed it. Later, after a mental storm, she thought that for the sake of convenience in the future, she needed to make Jiang Bingbing slightly “smarter.”
But she was afraid the people of Jade Immortal Peak would notice anything unusual.
She only dared to restore her speech and behavior to that of a three-year-old child.
“Bingbing,” Immortal Lord Qingxue was the first to snap back to reality, tears glistening in his eyes as he pulled a brocade box from his sleeve. “This is your recovery gift from your master.”
Visible Spiritual Energy wafted from the box.
Jiang Bingbing licked her lips. “Master, what is this? It smells so good!”
The gazes from the others grew intense.
Immortal Lord Qingxue raised an eyebrow proudly.
“This is a thousand-year blood lotus.”
Liu Zheng and the other two: “!!!”
“I went through great pains, arguing on your behalf, to get this from your Sect Leader uncle,” he said, pretending to wipe the corner of his eye.
As if he had suffered immensely.
Xie Yingnan and Wen Yuzhao exchanged a glance.
Their expressions were equally helpless.
Everyone in the sect knew that the Sect Leader had been scolded by their master for several hours every day lately.
To play the pitiful card in front of their junior sister, their master would say anything.
How the times have changed, how the times have changed!
Jiang Bingbing caught the “eye exchange” between her second and third senior brothers out of the corner of her eye.
She immediately understood what was probably going on.
Her master’s pitiful act was fake!
But the blood lotus was the real deal!!
She reached out, grabbed the blood lotus, and stuffed it into her mouth. Xie Yingnan let out a startled cry and grabbed her arm, urgently saying, “You fool…”
Remembering their master was right there.
Xie Yingnan changed his tone.
“What are you doing! Junior Sister, this is a thousand-year blood lotus, not cabbage! You can’t just gobble it down like that!”
Fortunately, Xie Yingnan stopped her in time.
The pained expressions on the other three faces faded slightly.
Liu Zheng held out a Storage Bag. “Junior Sister, I know you love delicious food. I hunted monster beasts in the secret realm and froze them inside here. Let your second senior brother cook them for you!”
“Thank you, Senior Sister,” she said sweetly.
Liu Zheng’s stern face struggled to form a “gentle” smile for her.
Wen Yuzhao looked a bit embarrassed.
“Junior Sister, your second senior brother is quite poor and not very capable, but I promise to go to Sumptuous Peak every day to learn new dishes, so you can enjoy different delicacies!”
“Wah…” Jiang Bingbing rubbed her reddening eyes. “Second Senior Brother, you’re so kind…”
Just as she was about to burst into tears of gratitude, a cool, cocky voice chimed in.
“Ahem, since everyone’s giving gifts to our junior sister, I, with all my wealth, will give her a hundred sets of dresses!”
“Wow!”
Jiang Bingbing widened her dewy eyes.
Her gaze toward Xie Yingnan changed entirely.
It was blatant flattery and bootlicking.
Xie Yingnan snorted and turned away.
Everyone chatted merrily in her room for a long time until Liu Zheng noticed she was getting sleepy.
She suggested everyone leave to rest.
However.
The outcome of those gifts was as follows.
The food and clothes could be given to Jiang Bingbing as usual.
But the thousand-year blood lotus was entrusted to Immortal Lord Qingxue for safekeeping, with Jiang Bingbing allowed to eat just a tiny bit each month.
After everyone had left the room.
She thought to herself.
This felt just like having her New Year’s money confiscated.
“It really feels like family.”
Jiang Bingbing propped her chin and murmured softly.
Before transmigrating, she was a diligent office worker with no family. During holidays, she would stay alone in her small apartment.
Every year before vacations, her colleagues would look at her with a hint of pity.
But Jiang Bingbing never minded.
Perhaps because she had never experienced what “family” felt like.
She even found it quite nice to be free and alone, ordering takeout and binge-watching shows.
Now…
Her master doted on her.
Her senior sister and second senior brother treated her well too.
Only that Xie Yingnan was rather odd.
But after confirming she was genuinely foolish, the malice towards her now wasn’t so great.
While Jiang Bingbing was pondering these thoughts inwardly,
she was unaware that atop the spiritual platform in her Consciousness Sea sat a Scarlet-Robed Sword Cultivator.
Fen Jue had originally been meditating with closed eyes, but upon hearing Jiang Bingbing’s inner voice, he murmured to himself, “I thought she was just a little waste of talent with no cultivation aptitude, but it turns out she’s a clever girl, good at playing the fool to catch the tiger.”
“How interesting.”