In fact, even if she hadn’t run into Su Luowan today, she still intended to go to Su Luowan’s house.
After all, how could she pass up the chance to rub salt into Su Luowan’s wounds?
Unfortunately, her father had not yet finished instructing her on what to do, or she would have gone after Su Luowan immediately.
Before, she had thought she and Su Luowan shared similar misfortunes. In this village, she had no friends—and neither did Su Luowan.
Moreover, she believed Su Luowan was even more pitiable than herself! After all, outsiders mocked Su Luowan as a fatherless, pitiful girl.
But ever since Su Luowan got engaged to Qin Chengyi, she had become the envy of every girl in the village.
With Su Luowan’s older brother joining the army, life for Su Luowan’s family gradually improved.
How could she not feel jealous?
Why could Su Luowan be more beautiful than her? Why could she get engaged to Qin Chengyi? Why did her family’s life get better and better?
Even Su Luowan’s name sounded nicer than hers.
Why, at her age, was she still being called “Er Ya, Er Ya” all day long?
However, fortunately, Qin Chengyi had broken off the engagement with Su Luowan. Hmph—she wondered what kind of family Su Luowan could find now.
People—this is fate. Su Luowan wasn’t meant to enjoy a life of ease!
Thinking of this, Lin Er Ya finally felt somewhat relieved and left, humming a little tune.
After dinner, Su Luowan called out to Su Luonian, who was about to go back to his room:
“Xiao Nian, before bed tonight and again after you wake up tomorrow, practice the mental method I taught you today. Focus on feeling the emergence of power with your heart.”
Su Luonian nodded solemnly. Even if his sister hadn’t told him, he intended to practice diligently.
He had been craving those wild chickens and rabbits for a long time! Thinking of that, he swallowed hard.
Returning to her room, Su Luowan closed the door and immediately entered her space.
Inside, the first thing she saw was still the egg. Last night she hadn’t had the mood to deal with it, but now she wanted to see what it really was.
She stepped forward and gently touched the egg. The small creature inside seemed to respond, nudging the spot where her hand rested.
Su Luowan remembered seeing scenes on TV where a creature “recognized its master through blood.” Could it be that this egg needed her blood to hatch?
Just like this space, perhaps it required her blood?
With this thought, she fetched a silver needle she had kept in the space and pricked her finger.
She let a drop of blood fall onto the eggshell. The blood was quickly absorbed.
She waited a moment, but the egg still showed no reaction.
Could her guess be wrong? Perhaps this wasn’t the way to open the egg?
Su Luowan decided to leave it alone for now, focusing on cultivating her mystical power instead.
She went to the bedroom inside, sat on her usual meditation cushion, and began circulating the mental method, quietly sensing the presence of mystical power.
She didn’t know if this body could cultivate mystical power, but she wanted to try anyway.
Completely absorbed in cultivation, the air around her seemed to vibrate subtly with her breathing.
At first, there was only silence inside her body. Over time, with persistent circulation of the mental method, a faint heat began to rise from her dantian.
Success!
Feeling this familiar mystical power, Su Luowan secretly exhaled in relief.
The mystical power she had just cultivated was slightly weak in strength, but it was only the beginning. The well water and medicinal herbs in her space would greatly help her power grow.
Thinking this, she circulated the mystical power through her body for several cycles.
With each cycle, the faint heat seemed to strengthen.
She could clearly feel her body gradually adapting to the changes brought by this new power.
After several cycles, Su Luowan stood up.
Sometimes, haste makes waste. This body had just begun to receive mystical power; she couldn’t rush too much, or the foundation would be unstable.
She went to her small vegetable garden, harvested the mature vegetables, and planted more.
Not far from the garden, she had also planted rice and wheat. The well water in her space had the effect of strengthening the body and improving physical health.
Back in modern times, most of the ingredients used by her sect for daily meals came from her space.
Of course, only her two masters knew about the space. She always took out ingredients under their protection.
In her space, she even had graphite her masters had bought to grind wheat into flour, and tools to husk rice.
The space had no electricity, so all tools were manual, but with them, she could freely make rice and flour in this era.
While working, she thought about her future plans.
Back in modern times, besides cultivating with her two masters, she spent her time watching TV shows or reading novels on her phone.
She had read many transmigration novels and knew how impressive the heroines were at making money.
Looking at the vast array of rare herbs in her space, she thought: with these herbs, why bother earning money?
Besides, she wasn’t diligent by nature, and in this era, trying to earn money could easily be seen as profiteering.
So, earning money—forget it.
She had her space to rely on.
The main goal now was to accumulate merit and maintain close contact with her two masters.
But how could she quickly gain merit?
Even though she had mystical skills, offering feng shui readings or fortune-telling was out of the question—she might be arrested before she even opened a business.
If she were alone, it wouldn’t matter, but now she had family to protect. It was better to stay “low-key.”
It seemed her best option was to heal people with her medical skills. But she was so young—who would trust her medicine and come to her for treatment?
With nearly two years before the college entrance exams resumed, she still had a long way to go to get a medical degree.
Su Luowan sighed deeply: “It’s hard.”
But all journeys start with the first step. She believed that as long as she gradually proved her medical skills, she would have the opportunity to heal more people.
Then, would she still worry about earning merit?
As a healer, even if not for merit, she would strive to help those in need—especially in an era where medical knowledge was limited.
For now, though, her mystical power wasn’t enough to treat difficult diseases.
So, this was the perfect time to cultivate her mystical power and strengthen herself.