I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 537 Changing Dreams (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

After a series of assessments and inquiries from the manager of Jubaohang, Jiang Yi signed a piece-rate contract and boarded Jubaohang's ship to head to Blackhorn Island.

The cultivators recruited by Jubaohang, together with the Ling family, are currently attacking Blackhorn Island.

The main force consists of Foundation Establishment cultivators and Golden Core cultivators. Nascent Soul cultivators from various forces have gathered around the main island of Ten Thousand Poisons Island to suppress the high-level cultivators of Ten Thousand Poisons Island, allowing those behind to take the opportunity to reclaim their respective territories.

Jubaohang didn't want to mobilize its own weapon refiners, but they were happy to recruit Jiang Hongli, who came to their door. The cultivators fighting there needed a lot of disposable magic weapons, and they also needed to repair their damaged magic weapons in a timely manner.

Furthermore, those warships and large machines all require cultivators skilled in weapon crafting to maintain and repair them.

Jiang Yi still prefers to associate with people from the Chamber of Commerce. They value reputation and credibility in business, cultivate relationships with various forces, are more tactful, and understand the importance of equal exchange.

Compared to those powerful family groups, signing a contract with a chamber of commerce is safer.

As the merchant ship set sail, Jiang Yi stayed in the weapon-refining room arranged for her by Jubao Company. The boxes next to her were filled with weapon-refining materials that she needed to process along the way.

Just then, Zhen Hongli sobered up.

"Ahhh, I'm going to kill you!!!"

In Youxian Ferry, a family tragedy unfolds once again.

Hongli transformed into a young girl, jumped up and pounced on Jiang Yi, straddling her and choking her.

Jiang Yi lay there yawning; Hong Li's strength was no match for her nascent soul body.

After Hongli sobered up, she habitually squatted down and scratched her ear with her paw. As she scratched, she realized that neither her paw nor her ear felt right. She tentatively reached in and found that the storage box where she hid her secret stash of money was gone.

Hong Li knew perfectly well who did it, and immediately jumped up to attack Jiang Yi.

"I'm borrowing it, I'll pay you back double in the future!" Jiang Yi said lazily.

"Three times!" Hongli argued forcefully.

Qingxiao, Huagu, Zhaoming, and Yaoling watched Jiang Yi being pinned down without giving her a second glance. They were used to seeing this kind of mother-daughter squabble every few days.

Perhaps this is the way Jiang Yi and Hong Li get along. The two of them are enjoying it, and anyone else's opinion is just meddling. They might even get scratched by Hong Li.

Moreover, even Hua Gu could see that if Hong Li really didn't want Jiang Yi to touch her private stash of money, she should have changed the place to hide it after Hua Gu complained last time. However, Hong Li never changed the place, and her own storage pendant was even kept open to Jiang Yi.

Isn't this love?

"Alright, alright, three times it is. Once you're awake, go out and get to work. Don't let anyone notice anything amiss. Zhenshan is outside and will tell you what's going on. I need to hurry up and do my experiment, lest the experimental consumables completely die in a few days."

Hongli then angrily released Jiang Yi, snatched the bracelet from Xibing Hongli's wrist that was used to conceal her demonic aura, put it on fiercely, and went out in a furry manner.

Hua Gu pulled Jiang Yi up to sit up, and Jiang Yi laughed, "You were furious, but you still went out to work without a single complaint. So cute~"

Jiang Yi handed the talisman book, talisman pen, talisman paper, and talisman sand she had bought to Hua Gu, saying, "Go, learn how to make talismans from Zhu Xin."

"Ok!"

Hua Gu obediently took the item, then turned around and divided it into three pieces.

One went to Zhuxin to learn how to make talismans, another went to the winery to process the materials for Huimeng Yizui, and the third ran to the Refining Weapon Cave to see how her little clay figurines were being fired.

Jiang Yi chuckled and shook her head, wondering if she should also split her soul.

The thought had barely surfaced when Jiang Yi shook her head forcefully to dismiss it. She couldn't resist it; things were fine as they were. She could take things slowly and there was no need to rush. She could live for another eight hundred years.

The ancient purple tree rustled, and tiny purple flowers drifted down. Jiang Yi summoned golden needles and red threads, piercing the major acupoints of the unconscious female cultivator beneath the tree, sealing her dantian, qi sea, and five senses. This ensured that even if she were to awaken unexpectedly, she would be unable to use her magic or divine sense, let alone perceive her surroundings.

After checking everything, Jiang Yi precisely focused his divine sense into the dream mark above the other person's head.

The surrounding scenery dispersed like ripples on water, then reassembled into a real scene.

Jiang Yi appeared in a small fishing village by the sea. She quickly found the female cultivator in a small courtyard in the village. The four of them were sitting around a table in the courtyard eating.

The female cultivator was about twelve years old at the time, and there was a seven or eight-year-old boy beside her.

The middle-aged man at the dinner table had dark skin, and although he wasn't old, he already had gray hair and a weathered face; he was just an ordinary person.

He picked up his rice bowl, but couldn't swallow. Finally, he sighed, put the bowl down, and looked at the two children in front of him.

"Ning'er, An'er, your father and mother have discussed it, and our family can only afford to contribute one sum of money to send one of you to an island to cultivate immortality."

The woman next to him also sighed heavily.

The girl named Ji Ning's face grew increasingly somber, her eyes filled with undisguised disappointment. But she still spoke up, "Father, Mother, you should send my brother away. His spiritual root aptitude is definitely better than mine. We can't delay. I'll wait two more years."

The little boy, Ji An, looked blankly at his sister, then at his parents. His mother shook her head slightly at him, not knowing what it meant.

The middle-aged man said, "Let Ning'er go first."

Ji Ning looked up in surprise, not expecting her father to choose her.

Most of the people in their small fishing village are ordinary people, but in the Floating Light Sea where cultivators roam, ordinary people also want to cultivate immortality. Moreover, their fishing village has produced many people with spiritual roots, and the village also has its own simple methods to test spiritual root aptitude.

As long as you can afford the fare, you can board a merchant ship passing through the fishing village and head to the island of cultivators to work as an apprentice in the merchant guild and earn cultivation techniques and resources.

The fare was negligible for cultivators, but very expensive for ordinary people like them.

Moreover, most people in their fishing village are sexist, and those who can be sent out to cultivate immortality are all boys from each family. Even if the girls have better aptitude, they don't have the opportunity.

In Ji Ning's family, her younger brother was more talented, so she had even less of a chance. That's why she found it unbelievable when she heard that her father had chosen her.

"father?"

The middle-aged man looked at Ji Ning seriously, "Of course, your father hopes that you and your brother can both cultivate immortality, but given our family's situation... your brother is still young, it doesn't matter if he is delayed for a few years. You go first, and when you become successful in the future, we will come to pick him up."

As she spoke, the woman beside her took out an old wooden box.

“Ning’er, this contains spirit pearls that your father has risked his life to collect over the years. It should be enough for you to hitch a ride on a passing merchant ship. This is all the family can offer. You must live up to his expectations and come back to pick up your brother soon.”

"mother……"

Ji Ning covered her mouth, unable to hold back her tears.

Jiang Yi sat on the roof of the Ji family's house, looking at this harmonious family, and felt a little out of place.

Could the dream that female cultivator Ji Ning had been about be her own past experiences?
As Jiang Yi had predicted.

Half a month later, Ji Ning personally saw her younger brother Ji An off onto the merchant ship, willingly, while her parents smiled even more sincerely and brightly than they had at the dinner table that day.

So, is this the beginning of Ji Ning's transformation into a villain?
After observing for half a month, Jiang Yi decided to intervene from this moment on and try to change the course of this dream.

　See you tomorrow~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)