After Shen Qingyi kicked the giant python twice to scare it away, she felt much more comfortable.
She hummed a tune as she walked along happily.
Suddenly, she noticed two massive mountains appearing to her left and right.
Each mountain was hemispheric, looking exactly like two overturned bowls.
Shen Qingyi stood between them, feeling dwarfed by their majesty.
She was hesitant to move forward.
She was amazed by the perfect shape of these two mountains, but at the same time, she suddenly caught a whiff of a rich, milky fragrance.
“It smells so good! These couldn’t be two giant milk buns, could they?”
Shen Qingyi spoke aloud, amused by her own strange description.
However, after her laughter subsided, she looked at the two mountains and felt her appetite surge.
Her stomach let out a loud growl.
‘Should be edible, right?’
Looking at the fair, tender color of the two mountains, the more Shen Qingyi looked, the more she felt they really were two giant milk buns!
With saliva constantly secreting in her mouth, she finally couldn’t resist and rushed forward.
Reaching the base of the mountain and feeling the strange softness of its mass, Shen Qingyi suddenly felt that this was a giant jelly.
Yes, a milk-flavored jelly!
Having been hungry for an entire day, she bit down immediately, tearing at the giant milk-flavored jelly with her teeth.
Strangely enough, she could indeed taste a very strong milky flavor in her mouth, but she couldn’t bite off even a tiny piece!
Furthermore, as she chewed and tugged, the giant jelly began to wobble and shake as if an earthquake were happening.
“Heh, it’s quite chewy!”
Shen Qingyi reached out and patted the giant jelly in front of her, sending ripples across its surface.
‘Alright, since I can’t bite this one, I’ll go bite the other one!’
Shen Qingyi withdrew her hand, turned around, and walked toward the other mountain.
This mountain was also exceptionally soft, and Shen Qingyi bit into it without hesitation.
Similarly, after she bit it, the mountain began to sway and oscillate like an earthquake.
Shen Qingyi tugged at it, but after realizing she still couldn’t bite anything off, she gave up.
Looking at the two mountains, her appetite remained undiminished, and she felt a bit of a complaint rise in her heart.
‘It’s so fragrant but I can’t eat it. That’s just unfair!’
Left with no choice, Shen Qingyi could only lie on the ground with an empty stomach, gazing up at the two mountains.
As she watched them, sleepiness took over again, and she closed her eyes, falling into a deep slumber.
When she opened her eyes this time, she found herself inexplicably back inside a small wooden hut, lying on a couch.
After getting up, Shen Qingyi scanned the room, taking in the surroundings of the cabin.
The fire in the stove was burning brightly, and the sound of firewood crackling filled the air.
Only then did Shen Qingyi feel a piercing chill.
She quickly wrapped herself in a quilt and huddled near the fire.
As she reached out her hands to warm them, she noticed that her hands were wrapped in layers of bandages, and her skin possessed a sickly pallor.
“I am…”
Shen Qingyi murmured.
Her gaze followed the bandages on her hands to her chest, where she discovered her body was also wrapped in various bandages of different sizes.
A tearing pain suddenly radiated from within.
“Sss—”
Shen Qingyi frowned in pain and lay back on the bed for a moment.
It seemed her movements had been heard outside, as an exclamation drifted in from the yard.
“Sister Qingyi! You’re awake?!”
It was a woman’s voice.
From the pitch, she sounded like a fairly young woman, perhaps around eighteen years old.
Thinking this, Shen Qingyi turned her gaze toward the door, just in time to see a girl with a high ponytail enter her field of vision.
She was indeed a young girl, her face still carrying a touch of childishness along with panic and worry.
Although Shen Qingyi didn’t recognize her, she understood deep down that the girl was worried about her.
She wanted to speak, but suddenly found that she could no longer control herself.
Her body moved on its own.
“I’m fine, Xin’er. I just woke up and my stomach is a bit hungry. Could you get me some water and food?”
‘Xin’er… such a familiar name. It feels like I’ve heard it somewhere before, a sense of déjà vu…’
“Mhm! Sister Qingyi, just wait, I’ll go right now!”
The girl called Xin’er nodded vigorously and then flew out of the room.
At this point, Shen Qingyi could move again.
She endured the pain and struggled to get up, wanting to follow the girl out to see.
But the moment she moved, the tearing pain throughout her body made her feel miserable.
She fell back onto the bed.
‘This isn’t right, is it?’
‘Am I dreaming? Why is this pain so realistic?’
Suddenly, Shen Qingyi had a realization.
‘Dammit! This couldn’t be another memory from one of my past lives, could it!’
‘Xin’er…’
‘Why is there another Xin’er!’
Before she could think further, the girl walked back in carrying a bowl of hot porridge.
“Sister Qingyi, the porridge is here. Come, let me help you up.”
Shen Qingyi discovered that as soon as this girl appeared, she lost control over her own body.
However, her senses remained intact.
‘Yes, this is definitely some damn memory, but the sensations are even more real than the other two?’
Being helped up, Shen Qingyi looked at the hot porridge in the bowl and felt it was truly nothing more than clear water.
‘Is this porridge?’
‘The amount of rice is pitifully small!’
However, looking at the simple and crude wooden hut, Shen Qingyi felt it was only natural.
After being helped to drink a mouthful of porridge, Shen Qingyi coughed, looked up at the girl, and said, “Xin’er, you have a Heavenly Spiritual Root, a rarity seen once in a century. If I take you back to the Sword Sect to acknowledge a master and practice cultivation, would you be willing?”
‘Heavenly Spiritual Root? Wasn’t that the Fourth-grade Spiritual Root Su Qiulian mentioned?’
‘Good heavens!’
Shen Qingyi wanted to express her shock but couldn’t.
She could only follow the actions of this body.
“But Sister Qingyi, I…”
“It’s fine. I’ll take care of the money! Once you come with me to the Sword Sect, you just need to focus on your cultivation.”
“Focus on cultivation…”
The girl in front of her murmured the words.
Then, Shen Qingyi saw her nod heavily.
“Mhm!”
And then, everything before Shen Qingyi’s eyes instantly turned pitch black again.
She woke up.
Temporarily tossing that nonsensical dream to the back of her mind, she shouted at the top of her lungs, “I — AM — HUNGRY!!”
It was true; she hadn’t eaten anything all day yesterday.
No wonder she had fainted immediately after coming out of the Six Desires Turbid World Scroll.
Su Qiulian and Bai Luoshuang quickly brought over a fairly generous breakfast.
Each took one of Shen Qingyi’s hands and led her to the dining table.
After she sat down, they stood on either side of her, stuffing various foods into her mouth.
A steamed bun.
Munch, munch, munch.
A meat bun.
Munch, munch, munch.
Naturally, because Shen Qingyi couldn’t see, she didn’t know that the two women were secretly rubbing their own chests.
They had glanced at each other and realized that Shen Qingyi’s sudden biting of them last night was simply because she was hungry.
Well, there was nothing for it.
If the child wanted to bite, then let her bite!
“By the way, are we back at the inn now?”
Shen Qingyi asked, her mouth full.
“Yes, Little Shen. We’ve already returned from the Yushenzong. Eat slowly, no one is going to snatch it from you.”
“Oh, good… you two didn’t fight while I was asleep, did you?”
“Of course not! Xiao Yi, I won’t be so impulsive anymore!”
Bai Luoshuang promised.
“That’s good then!”
Shen Qingyi nodded with satisfaction and continued her feast.
It wasn’t until she was completely full and let out a burp that Su Qiulian and Bai Luoshuang pulled her into their arms, one on each side.
“Little Shen, now then, can you tell us exactly what you remembered? The Sword Sovereign and I are both very curious!”