Cultivation: Starting with Sterilizing My Own Father

Fortunately, Xu Ruosheng took her in, so Wei Zhiying didn't have to spend the night outside. Being able to ride a scorpion all over the place was indeed enviable, but a one-meter-long scorpion was enough to scare a timid person into screaming. This was the first time in Wei Zhiying's life that she had slept in such a luxurious bed.

"If you like, you can stay here. Judging from Xiaoyin's expression, she probably won't let you in anytime soon."

Wei Zhiying was carefully using a pair of tongs to hold a mantis with its legs removed and feed it to a sand scorpion: "Judging from your words, it seems you're not very satisfied with this place."

Xu Ruosheng nodded slightly: "When we left home, all of Tianci's and my luggage was arranged by my father and mother. Tianci only wanted to take his toys, while I was just watching him to make sure he didn't run around. It wasn't until we arrived at Yunyin Lodge that I realized how luxurious the furniture was. It was so extravagant that it put me in a bit of a dilemma."

Wei Zhiying's lips twitched involuntarily. "...That's great, I also want to be troubled."

Xu Ruosheng chuckled, opened his mouth as if he was about to say something to comfort him, but couldn't think of anything after thinking for a long time.

Wei Zhiying slowly raised one hand and covered her chest with the other, feigning heartache: "There's no need to comfort me, and no need to make up those stories about suffering."

"I'm not making this up, I'm really thinking about it, but..." Xu Ruosheng scratched his head sheepishly, "I was only two years old when I was adopted by the Xu family, so I don't really remember much about the days before that. I just remember that I had a really tough time."

Wei Zhiying was taken aback, then realized that Xu Ruosheng was an adopted son of the Xu family. When he entered the sect, he also gave his name as the adopted son of the Xu family, the richest family in Tiansheng Kingdom: "But looking at your conditions, your current parents are really good to you."

Xu Ruosheng agrees with this point: "Tianci is my father's youngest son and only child. The family has always doted on Tianci, but they have never neglected me. I will have what Tianci has, because I am older than Tianci, so my share will even be more than Tianci's."

Wei Zhiying raised an eyebrow: "You were adopted just a moment ago, and now you have a son?" Seeing Xu Ruosheng nod, she couldn't help but tease him: "You are truly the lucky star of the Xu family. It seems that the Xu family patriarch and madam are destined to have no children, but you are destined to have siblings."

A hint of a smile flashed across Xu Ruosheng's eyes: "Actually, my father and mother have often talked about this over the years, and they say the same thing as you. They often advise me not to feel too indebted, but even so, I can never repay the great kindness the Xu family has shown me in this lifetime."

Worried that continuing the conversation would bring up painful memories, Wei Zhiying changed the subject: "Help me think of a name for this little guy. We can't keep calling him Little Scorpion."

"How about Kunling?" Xu Ruosheng quickly came up with an idea: "It's taken from the Book of Changes, Kun means 'thick and heavy,' representing the essence and spirituality of the earth. And this sand scorpion is also an earth element."

The little scorpion was stunned, as if it was quite satisfied with the domineering name.

Wei Zhiying tried to pick up the little guy, but failed. She then tried to roll him over: "I still don't know if this little guy is male or female. His father has always called him 'my son,' and I haven't asked about his gender in detail."

"Isn't it your son?"

"A daughter is a son too," Wei Zhiying said casually, grabbing a red string and tying a bow. Seeing how much the little one adored Wei Zhiying, she initially thought it was a girl. But the little one happily rolled over. Wei Zhiying noticed that the comb-like appendages on the little one's belly were long and dense, like two long brushes: "Oh?"

"What's wrong?" Xu Ruosheng still didn't understand what had happened.

Wei Zhiying opened her mouth and then closed it again, taking a long time to finally say, "This is... a little boy who likes bows."

Xu Ruosheng was also momentarily stunned; people are really prone to laughing when they're stunned: "That's true, after all, it likes the name Kunling. So... if it has to match its own characteristics..."

"Let's call him Tu Ling." Wei Zhiying was terrible at naming, so she chose the most common name: "If we need to go out and train in the future, this name is also quite suitable for disguising our gender. That way, we can easily escape being chased."

Xu Ruosheng seemed not to have thought of this, but he truly felt that his junior brother was thinking far ahead. The inner sect was still nowhere in sight, yet he was already thinking about future training.

The next day, because it was a day off, everyone was lazy and didn't get up until late morning, except for Wei Zhiying. After all, it was her first time raising a spirit beast, so Wei Zhiying got up early to feed it, but the little guy didn't want to eat.

The chase scene unfolded again in the yard: "Take a bite! How can you not eat?"

Wei Lanyin was about to go out for breakfast when she opened the door and saw the 1-meter-long scorpion. She slammed the door shut again.

The Feng sisters were planning to go out, but after opening the door, they shouted that they felt nauseous and then closed the door again.

As usual, Leng Yue's fellow disciples from the Northern Shu Kingdom arrived at Yunyin Lodge early in the morning to wake him up for training. As soon as Leng Yue stepped outside, he saw the scorpion and instinctively tried to shrink back, but was stopped by his extremely strict senior sister: "Perfect timing to toughen up, junior brother. Can Leng Yue touch your little spirit beast?"

Wei Zhiying looked at Leng Yue, who was clearly crying from fright, and stammered, unable to say anything: "Tu...Tu Ling, what do you think?" Then she secretly winked at the little guy frantically. Fortunately, Tu Ling understood and immediately burrowed into the soil and disappeared.

Wei Zhiying breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh dear, what bad luck, the little guy ran away."

"Alright." The spirit beast ran away, and the senior brothers and sisters did not insist. They took Leng Yue to the training ground to practice Leng Yue. Before leaving, they turned around and gave Wei Zhiying a grateful look.

No sooner had these people left than the Earth Spirit poked its head out of the ground, making sure that the large amount of unfamiliar energy had left before crawling out.

"How clever!" Even so, it wasn't sustainable for the retail scorpion to go without food. Wei Zhiying had no choice but to go to the library to find books specifically about sand scorpions. She learned that juvenile scorpions like the Earth Spirit, although in a rapid growth phase and needing a lot of nutrition, only needed to be fed every two to three days. Adult scorpions, being more resilient and able to withstand hunger, could be fed every three to five days, or even seven days. Wei Zhiying had already fed it a cricket with its hind legs removed last night. Although it was only 5 centimeters long, it ate quite a bit.

Wei Zhiying read those few lines of text over and over again, as if to confirm that it wasn't an illusion: "So this thing is that easy to raise? Then that big gift pack I bought, my goodness, is enough for about five or six meals, which means it can last for almost half a month!"

Although the holiday is not supposed to end until the day after tomorrow, Wei Zhiying is already impatient and wants to start class as soon as possible. After all, the elder made it very clear in the last class that the next class will be about how to form a contract with a spirit beast. Then, she can cultivate and be granted a general mental cultivation technique to achieve spiritual communication with the spirit beast. She won't have to speak to it in a high-pitched, gentle voice like she does now.

However, before that, Wei Zhiying had to solve a very serious problem, since she couldn't keep sleeping in Xu Ruosheng's room forever.

Wei Zhiying went to great lengths to weave more than a dozen flower wreaths, dressing up the little sand scorpion as an elf that had run out of the flowers.

They even wrapped the scorpion's stinger in pink cloth. Pink has a relaxing effect, relieving stress and anxiety. In addition, this kind of delicate color is generally considered more suitable for women, and it has gradually become a feminine color.

Sure enough, when Wei Lanyin opened the door, she saw the pink little thing covered in flowers. Before she could react, her younger brother reminded her that this was the scorpion her brother had raised yesterday.

Seeing that her sister hadn't closed the door, Wei Zhiying immediately realized something was amiss: "Sister, Tu Ling really doesn't bite, I swear. And his food is absolutely safe too, it's all sealed up."

Wei Lanyin cautiously stepped forward and slowly reached out to touch the earth spirit. The earth spirit responded cautiously as well. Both were very careful, but in reality, they were both afraid that the other would bite them. To get the earth spirit to cooperate, Wei Zhiying lied to the little guy, saying that her older sister could bite scorpions.

Wei Zhiying touched her nose. The result was excellent. As for how it happened, she didn't care. As long as the result was good, that was enough.