Cultivation: Starting with Sterilizing My Own Father

Just as Wei Zhiying was excitedly collecting pearls, the Lava Lion, which had been obediently staying in Wei Zhiying's arms, suddenly jumped out and plunged into the mud.

Wei Zhiying was startled and quickly grabbed the little guy's two hind legs, pulling the fire spirit, whose body was half-submerged in the swamp, out. She then discovered that the little guy, covered in mud, had a long, mud-covered object in its mouth.

Wei Zhiying took a closer look, and in fright, grabbed the long thing, snatched it from Huo Ling's mouth, and threw it far away: "Spicy strip!"

This sentence stunned everyone else. Wei Lanyin knew about spicy strips; after all, her younger brother had made them for her with konjac before, mysteriously saying that they were incredibly delicious. Wei Lanyin asked curiously, "Where did you get these spicy strips?"

Wei Zhiying pointed in the direction the snake had been thrown, opened her mouth, and finally shouted, "Snake!"

Before Wei Zhiying traveled back in time, her maternal grandfather's house in her hometown had been rebuilt. As a result, a jealous neighbor climbed onto the roof and threw a venomous snake into the yard. At the time, the whole family was out, leaving Wei Zhiying alone to watch the house. Suddenly, a hand appeared on the roof and threw down a snake, which caused Wei Zhiying considerable psychological trauma.

Even after transmigrating, Shanliang Village, nestled against the mountains, still had plenty of snakes and insects. Wei Zhiying was terrified at the sight of them and would avoid them like the plague. Therefore, the task of catching snakes and selling their gallbladders was always handled by Wei Lanyin.

Hua Yan took out a fan from her waist: "Be careful! That's a Mist-Condensing Silver Serpent. This kind of serpent can exhale mist with a bewitching effect, and its fangs have extremely strong cold poison."

Wei Zhiying quickly used her spiritual power to push the mud around her aside, separating herself from the mud and creating a relatively clean area. With a whistle, she summoned the iron sword.

Seeing Wei Zhiying hurriedly fly high on her sword, Hua Yan looked at Wei Lanyin and asked, "Your brother... is afraid of snakes?"

Wei Lanyin nodded: "It has been since I was little."

The others also used the same method to fly on their swords. After making sure everyone was airborne, Hua Yan quickly went to inform her sister and the girl who had just left the group: "Don't make any rash moves. These snakes can't fly; they're good at ambushing. Be careful they don't jump out of these swamps."

Hearing this, Wei Zhiying flew even higher, and Wei Lanyin quickly shouted, "Xiao Ying, you're flying too high! I can't see you anymore!"

Wei Lanyin quickly flew up, trying to pull her younger brother, but the thick fog had completely obscured Wei Zhiying's whereabouts. Just as Wei Lanyin was about to perform a wrist-flying maneuver online, she was forcefully pulled back, turning to see her senior sister Hua Yan's angry expression: "What did I just tell you?"

"I'm sorry, senior sister, my brother was too scared, and he flew away to a place I can't see."

Hua Yan looked up, but could only see a vast expanse of white mist: "If he really keeps flying upwards, he can fly over this mist. Anyway, let's go back and gather now. Besides, this secret realm training is over. We didn't find the water lotus, so let's call it a day."

As Wei Zhiying flew higher and higher, she felt her surroundings becoming clearer, and only then did she realize that she had already flown through the mist and was looking down at Lingxi Marsh below.

Wei Zhiying: ...I don't want to go down, it's scary~

Thinking that her older sister had been catching snakes since she was little, she should be fine, and giving birth to other senior brothers and sisters should also be okay. Wei Zhiying squatted on the sword, touched her chest, and suddenly realized that the earth spirit and fire spirit were still below.

At this moment, Earth Spirit, as one of the Five Poisons, has never been afraid of snake-like spirit beasts. Fire Spirit, the little gluttonous lion, was currently in Wei Lanyin's arms, and the little guy just wanted to bite one to taste it. Seeing this, Earth Spirit plunged into the mud and grabbed one, even considerately using its pincers to break off the snake's head. Fire Spirit puffed out its cheeks and spewed out a mouthful of fire. Then, it used its claws to pry open the hardened mud, revealing the already cooked meat underneath, and happily chewed on it.

Tu Ling even helped by using pliers to remove the poisonous parts.

While wiping Huo Ling's dirty face with a handkerchief, Wei Lanyin looked up worriedly and said, "Yes, Xiao Ying has been afraid of snakes since she was little. She flew so high, but after we clear these snakes away, how are we going to notify Xiao Ying to come back?"

"Don't worry." Hua Rong and another senior sister flew over. "Let's just fly up too. We can also see if the sun has set. If it hasn't, we can use our flying land to go deeper into the swamp. It's not a swamp there anymore. We can pick some water lilies there. You don't need snake gallbladders, do you?"

Everyone else shook their heads. Wei Lanyin shook her head for a moment, then, knowing her younger brother's hoarding nature, she said, "Senior sister, I want to catch two snakes."

Upon hearing this, the earth spirit burrowed into the mud, and after a short while, it emerged from the mud with two large pincers, each gripping two snakes.

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Wei Zhiying had already used her spiritual power to clean the mud off her body and calmed herself down before flying downwards. At the same time, she used her divine sense to sense her surroundings, because the fog would become thicker as she went down, and it wouldn't be good if she bumped into someone.

Only after their two consciousnesses clashed did Wei Zhiying call out, "Senior Sister Hua Yan, is that you?"

"Xiao Ying!"

Hearing her sister's voice, Wei Zhiying cautiously flew down: "I'm here! I'm coming down to find you now."

Wei Lanyin made a gesture of promotion to everyone, and the others nodded in tacit agreement. Then Wei Zhiying slowly flew down and said, "Little brother."

Wei Zhiying chuckled and came over: "Sister~ I bet you know how to catch snakes and extract their gallbladders."

"Of course~" With that, Wei Lanyin suddenly pulled out two snakes hidden behind her back. Wei Zhiying let out a scream and, startled, leaned back and lost her balance. Just as she was about to fall, Hua Rong caught her from behind.

Then everyone burst into laughter, so loud it was like a clattering bell, and even Hua Yan's lips couldn't help but curl upwards. Only then did Wei Zhiying notice that what her sister was holding were two snake skins that had already had their gallbladders and meat extracted.

The fire spirit in Wei Lanyin's arms was still chewing, eating with great relish. The earth spirit behind Wei Lanyin had a small cloth bag on its back, and the aroma coming from it was probably the snake meat reserved for Wei Zhiying.

"You scared me to death!" Wei Zhiying felt her heart pounding. No matter how many times she took a deep breath, she still felt shaken and panicked.

Wei Lanyin patted her younger brother's head, mimicking how her mother and grandmother comforted him: "Put your fur on, don't be scared. Dogs and cats get scared, but you won't be. Okay, okay, it's alright now."

Wei Zhiying blushed: "Oh, okay, okay, I'm not a child anymore."

"You're just a little kid, you're only six years old."

"You're six years old too."

Wei Lanyin crossed her arms and said confidently, "But I'm the older sister."

"You're only a fraction older than me. We came out hand in hand. How much older can you be?"

"No matter what, I am the older sister, and an older sister's job is to take care of her younger brother."

Wei Zhiying retorted, "What kind of nonsense is this? Don't listen to your parents' and grandmother's rubbish. We were born together; how can there be any idea that one of us has to take care of the other?"

"Then why are you taking care of me?"

Now it was Wei Zhiying's turn to speak with self-righteousness: "Because I'm more mature than you."

"Alright, let's fly upwards now and collect water lilies. There are also hot springs over there." Hua Rong and Hua Yan flew upwards together, and Hua Rong explained, "Originally, this place was home to high-level spirit beasts like dragons and jiaos, who would cultivate in the secret realm. It was very dangerous! But as the spiritual energy plummeted, cultivators couldn't wait for the secret realms to open and would force their way in to search for treasures and improve their cultivation. Places like Chensha Plain were abandoned one after another. After realizing that this was a case of 'living hand to mouth,' our Guiyi Sect, in particular, urgently ordered other sects to stop, which is why the secret realms like Lingxi Ze became seasonal. At the same time, all the large spirit beasts here also left."

Wei Zhiying thought of Tu Ling's father, that enormous spirit beast: "Then, could spirit beasts return to those abandoned secret realms?"