Chapter 327 Rooted and Sprouted
Su Li frowned, and didn’t intend to answer the little fatty. But after thinking about it, she felt it was inappropriate. Before recovering her memory, she would never turn down any invitation from any playmate, and now she had nothing else to do…
“Brother, wait for me.”
Su Li got up and bounced to follow. They two left the village along the river until they stopped at the foot of a low mountain. Tieshui River stopped here. The large beasts on the mountain had completely been killed by hunters long ago and only small animals were left. So, there was no danger and villagers therefore did not prohibit their children coming here to play.
After carefully looking around, the little fat boy didn’t find anyone but Su Li, so, he jumped into the river and the water just pa.s.sed his ankles.
Su Li watched him bending over and had no idea what he was groping for in the river. She didn’t rush him and turned to look at the nameless low mountain. Since no herbalist lived in the village, there should be enough medicinal herbs in the mountain. She planned to pay a visit, when the fat boy left.
“Erya, look!”
At this moment, the little fatty straightened up and took out a sludge-wrapped palm-sized ring from the water, which looked ragged and tattered but had its quaint and beautiful pattern.
The little chubby boy laughed with extreme glee, “This is the treasure what I said before!”
Buzz!
The moment her gaze encountered this object, Su Li’s face changed drastically and she jumped down into the river without hesitation, s.n.a.t.c.hing the ring from the hands of the boy. She cleaned it in the water, with both hands trembling.
Although the fat boy was a bit unhappy, he didn’t mind it at all and watched Su Li, because this thing was originally supposed to present Su Li as a gift.
The sludge slowly faded away with the river, so, the original face of the ring revealed, like a bracelet engraved with intricate flower patterns, which looked exquisite and chic.
This object was the same as the one she had seen in Yuxu Sect back then, except that it was transparent in the middle, for the most important mirror surface was missing, and only the mirror frame remained.
Reincarnation Mirror!
Was Reincarnation Mirror broken?!
Su Li frowned tightly and fumbled the frame, failing to sense the existence of any reincarnation illusion from it.
After the illusion was ruined… where did those who were once trapped in it go?
Ling Li, Fang Yuan, Qu Qingning… her family members and friends and her son, where did they go?
Su Li suddenly grabbed her chest abruptly, with her face faintly pale, and a familiar obsession lit up in her black pupils.
She thought she could leave everything behind and embark on the path of cultivation again, but when the wreckage of Reincarnation Mirror was placed in front of her, she found that…
She couldn’t let it go!
Well, in that case, she’d like to let everything come to a real end.
Su Li sighed deeply. Her eyes focused back onto the ring, and a coldness appeared in the corner of her mouth. The sarcasm in her eyes grew thicker.
The spirit of Reincarnation Mirror, had it ever thought of this?
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“Erya, what’s wrong with you?”
The little fat boy suddenly came over, and his big round face almost filled Su Li’s view, “It’s going to be dark if you stay dull.”
Su Li suddenly recovered and put the ring on her hand, and her voice was as clear and sweet as a sweet spring water, “Thank you, Brother. I like the bracelet very much.”
The little fat boy jiggled and whispered, “Let’s go back. Hide the bracelet in your sleeve, and don’t let anyone find out. If my mother finds out I’m hanging out with you again, it’ll be miserable for me!”
Su Li nodded obediently. Although it was only the frame of Reincarnation Mirror, it would certainly bring trouble, if it was leaked to some cultivators. Of course, she would not let that happen.
Getting the promise from Su Li, the little fat boy was relieved and talked with her for a while before he went home contentedly.
Su Li glanced at the slightly dim sky and shook her head slightly. It seemed that she couldn’t go up the mountain today. She would just find something at the foot of the mountain and go back.
Soon after returning home, it was dark. Seeing that Huang hadn’t returned yet, Su Li skillfully fired to cook and sautéed the wild vegetables picked from the mountains.
After finis.h.i.+ng this, the moon was already high. Huang carried a medicine bags in his hand and finally returned.
Seeing the meal already set on the table, Huang was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly put down his medicine bags and went to Su Li’s room.
Su Li, who was studying the ring of Reincarnation Mirror, heard the movement and hurriedly looked up, just in time to meet Huang’s face. She smiled like a suns.h.i.+ne, “Grandpa, you’re back!”
Seeing that the wound on Su Li’s hands hadn’t yet fully healed, Huang was on the verge of tears, but he forced himself to hold it back, nodding and laughing, “Yeah, hurry out to eat. Let me taste the meal cooked by Li.”
“Okay!”
Picking up the chopsticks, Huang took the wild vegetables in his mouth and tasted it. He had expected the dish would be bitter, but a faint sweet taste spread.
His eyes lit up slightly. Chewing in his mouth, he praised indistinctly, “Li, my granddaughter, your cooking skill is much better than mine. How lucky I am. Hahaha…”
Su Li nodded, her eyes sparkling brightly, “Grandpa, I am glad to see that you are happy. I will make it for you every day.”
“Great, great, great…”
A simple dinner was spent in warmth, and after was.h.i.+ng the dishes, Huang boiled a large bucket of hot water. He put the medicine bags into the water, while urging Su Li,
“I bought you some medicine, which is good for your health. You should soak yourself in it for at least one hour, Okay?”
Su Li nodded. After Huang left, she became serious, staring at the turquoise bath water.
She could smell at least five kinds of herbs that were quite effective in healing and dispelling scars. Now she really needed them to recover from her wounds. But where did the old man get the money to buy them? These herbs were not cheap.
“Well, it’s no use thinking about it. When my cultivation is partly restored, I’ll repay him.”
With a slight smile, Su Li took off her clothes and sat in the bath bucket, leaning against the edge of the bath barrel, and quietly moving her pneuma and blood to speed up the recovery of the wounds. The water became clearer visibly. In less than an hour, there was only clear water left. Su Li had absorbed almost all the medicine.
And the great part of Su Li’s injuries was already healed, for she was in the prime of her life, and it was much easier to recover than when she was older.
But her face became even paler because she moved her pneuma and blood to speed up her recovery.
“The medicinal herbs that supplementing pneuma and blood are very precious to warriors. I am not sure if there are any left on that low mountain.”
Su Li’ became stunned slightly after sensing the pneuma and blood condition in her body.
Just then, the star-filled sky suddenly sprinkled a starlight that wrapped Su Li in, when she was stunned.
In an instant, a breath of coolness and mildness encased her completely, and a series of sounds crackled from her thin and weak body.
Su Li immediately felt that her physical fitness had been improved at least three times. The weakness that she had acc.u.mulated over the past seven years had disappeared. She was physically no worse than the girls in ordinary big families now.
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Su Li was in a state of shock and uncertainty. In one sudden stroke of inspiration, she lifted her right hand, and the ancient bracelet on her wrist was emitting a faint fluorescence, which could not be noticed unless one looked closely.
“Can Reincarnation Mirror restore itself?”
Su Li was stunned, and took it for granted immediately. After all, this thing was an ancient treasure. Even if it was broken, there was a possibility to rebuild itself.
She looked up at the starry sky with no abnormalities, and narrowed her eyes slightly.
In that case, even without any practice, her physical body would still be strengthened by the constant refinement of the starlight. She had suffered so much in her previous life in the illusion.
In this life, the broken Reincarnation Mirror became a big help for her.
“I just take it as a compensation.”
Su Li smiled coldly, closed her eyes and tried to pull the power on the bracelet to continue to refine her body. As expected, some of the starlight surged into her body, covering her newly born internal organs with a layer of silver dust. The sc.u.m inside her body was discharged bit by bit along the pores. A sense of etherealness gradually spread out on Su Li.
She sensed that the starlight on the bracelet had been absorbed by herself after a long time. She opened her eyes, quickly cleaned the dirt on her body and got up to dry herself.
As soon as she jumped up, Su Li felt a distinctive lightness spread all over her body, as if she could fly out with just a little strength from a tiptoe.
Of course, Su Li knew this was an illusion, for she hadn’t begun to re-cultivate. No matter how she refined her body, she would not be able to fly.
Putting on the linen garment, Su Li glanced at her wrist, which was already free of scars. Her pupils shrank, and then she covered the sleeve again, hiding the reincarnation bracelet by the way.
She thought for a moment, ran to the well again and pumped a bucket of water. Then she saw her face from the water in the moonlight.
The ugly scars were less, but they were still there.
Su Li was relieved. If the scars on her face disappeared, she really didn’t know how to explain. And if it attracted more attention, she might be exposed. Fortunately, things didn’t go in the worst direction.
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Time flew by, and two months pa.s.sed in the blink of an eye. Huang finally noticed that the wounds on Su Li’s body had disappeared, but he wasn’t surprised, instead he was very happy. He attributed it all to the child’s self-healing ability.
As a result, he was looking forward to the time when the injuries on Su Li’s face would completely disappear as she grew up, so that he wouldn’t have to worry about Su Li being alone or isolated after he pa.s.sed away.
At the same time, Su Li had finally made sure of one thing.
Reincarnation Mirror had the ability to s.h.i.+eld nature’s mystery, otherwise those Mighty in that illusion would impossibly suffer no nature’s punishment.
Although the broken frame of the mirror was not comparable to the complete Reincarnation Mirror before, it was enough for her use now.
So, she finally began to cultivate the practice method of Ghost Clan, which she named as Secret Records of Black Lotus. As to Ao Sword Skills, she decided to postpone it. After all, she had comprehended the first nine hurdles in the illusion. What she lacked was just time. For now, she just wanted to find out what made Secret Records of Black Lotus so special.
No one knew that the source of the carnage that stirred up Qingshui Circle back then had been rooted and sprouted again in this mountain village of mortals, who didn’t even believe in cultivation or immortals…