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Chapter 39 - Spirit Wood Lines

Translated by Luxican

"Yue Jing Hua, you're back. How can you be a host like this! Inviting Sha Man to your home, but being absent the entire time." When Yue Jing Hua had just returned to her residence, she heard her mother's scolding, she began to repeatedly apologize, and put the Eight-Lost-Words Herb in her hand on the table. Hong Ling stood beside Lie Rou, accompanying Sha Man and Lie Rou while talking and laughing.

Sha Man's pitiful experience of losing her mother when she was young had caused Lie Rou's motherly instinct to kick in. So, the two of them had gotten along quite well in these few hours.

The apologizing Yue Jing Hua joined the conversation of the several women. Although her mouth was talking, her heart was a little distracted, her thoughts were circling about Yue Chen's origin.

The original "Yue Jing Hua" didn't remember much about that time because she had been quite young then, but Hong Ling, who was a few years older than "Yue Jing Hua", had to remember something.

"Yue Chen was brought back by Lord Yue ( Yue Jing Hua's father, Yue Nian Nian). When Lord Yue went out one day, he had picked up the Yue Chen wrapped in swaddling clothes in a field.

At that time, Yue Chen was only the size of a cat. When he was brought back, he was not even a month old, his body was all wrinkled, and he was only holding a jade whistle.

That jade whistle, Yue Jing Hua thought, it was always around Yue Chen's neck.

When Yue Chen first came, the people of the Yue Family, including young master Yue Minzhi, thought that it was the illegitimate son of Lord Yue, who was born outside, and was only baggage to the Lady, but the Lady didn't listen, even after Lord Yue went bankrupt and disappeared, and she went to her parental house, she took the young master Yue Chen with her."

After a long time, it was the first time someone asked about Yue Chen's life experience.

***

After dinner, Yue Jing Hua brought Sha Man to her room, before returning to her own.

Under the light of an oil lamp, Yue Jing Hua took out a needle casket. This needle casket was specially made for her and resembled a makeup box used by modern women, but inside the box was a set of ten specially-made engraved needles.

The extra Stone Monument in the Profound Technique Pavilion not only taught her the most basic engraving method, but also detailed the size and dimensions of the engravement needles used for engraving. A qualified engraver needed a suitable set of needles, this was as important as having good shoes to walk steadily.

There were many different kinds of spirit lines, and at Yue Jing Hua's current level, she could only learn to engrave spirit wood lines.

The needles were even thinner than the needles used for acupuncture, with a body as thin as a cow's hair, about three inches in size, and they needed to be made of silver.

For the sake of these needles Yue Jing Hua specially asked Hong Ling to find talented smiths to make them.

The peony, which had evolved from the Six-Lost-Words Herb, had reached it its limit at Eight-Lost-Words Herb.

Although Yue Chen had used some kind of cultivation method to allow it to advance two levels, after reaching Eight-Lost-Words Herb, the veins in its leaves had been clogged, and the only thing that could help it advance was to use external force, which was the Spirit Wood Lines.

In other words, the Eight-Lost-Words Herb's innate essence was too poor, for it to have grown to this point was already astonishing.

But if another layer of spirit wood lines were to be engraved on its body, it would be like re-installing an engine to draw more of the Profound Qi of the world, so it could be forced to advance.

Yue Jing Hua focused and steadied her hand, the needle tip had only just carefully touched the leaf surface.

The tip of the needle, infused with Profound Qi, left streaks on the leaf's surface.

"Whee," like a lit candle against a gust of wind, her hand was slightly unstable, the engraving needle was scrapped, and the leaf of the Eight-Lost-Words Herb immediately withered.

But Yue Jing Hua wasn't discouraged, she held her breath again, this time, she first used her spiritual to explore the interior veins of the peony, before the tip of the needle started moving again.

In this night, such a scene happened a few more times, she scrapped a total of five engraving needles.

Just at the sixth needle, when the last line was drawn, the surface of the entire Eight-Lost-Words Herb emitted a layer of bright red and green light, the bright light hung in the air for a moment, and the Eight-Lost-Words Herb was like a blazing fire which flames danced in the wind. At the same time the red and green light moved.

***

At dawn, Yue Chen, who had racked his brain to write a long letter, urgently went to his sister's residence.

He waited outside the house for a moment, but even after several minutes no one answered. He looked inside through a window and saw that there was nobody in the residence. Only his pot of Eight-Lost-Words Peony was placed on the table. Now he no longer hesitated. He pushed open the door and sneaked into Yue Jing Hua's room.


When the first ray of morning light touched the earth, in the quite courtyard, the tiny figure of Yue Chen swiftly entered Yue Jing Hua's room.

This was the first time he entered his "sister's" room, and to be precise, it was also the first time he initiated contact to the people of the Yue Family.

The room was very plain, without the luxurious decorations of a noble lady. After the screen of a four seasons silk weaving, there was a short couch, that was all decoration there is.

There were a few thick history books on the book table, and the pot of Eight-Lost-Words Herb had become the only bright color in the room.

When he saw the Eight-Lost Words Peony, the letter in his hand fell silently to the ground, and Yue Chen's small mouth opened wide.

Did he see wrong? He rubbed his eyes, opened them and looked again, there was nothing wrong, "Nine-Lost-Words Herb".

That flowerpot, the branch arrangement, although a few leaves and flowers were missing, it was true. Nine-Lost-Words Peony. She really did it.

Yue Chen only grabbed at his chest, the jade whistle was held tightly in his hand.

Yue Chen, who was in deep thought, didn't notice that there was an extra person behind him.

His collar was abruptly grabbed and he was raised up by two jade like fingers.

A shadow was under Yue Jing Hua's eyes, she yawned, "Little brat, a woman's bedroom is not something you can just barge into."

Bedroom? Yue Chen's plump face crumpled up, and his glass marble-like eyes were full of suspicion... could this still be called a bedroom?

"Can't even make a noise to agree, you're really not a lovable child," Yue Jing Hua smoothly pinched Yue Chen's pinkish cheeks that looked like they would drip water, and picked up the letter that had fallen to the ground, the writing on them was very beautiful.

After reading the letter, Yue Jing Hua's eyes had a touch of praise in them, only a child of ten years old, she hadn't expected him to have such a nice writing.

The content of the letter ranged from Lie Rou to Yue Jing Hua's daily life, and only briefly talked about himself, without mentioning the ostracism of the Ming Xiang Courtyard in the Lie Estate.

This child, although he looked dull, he was still quite clever.

She caught a glimpse of Yue Chen in the corner of her eyes, his little head was tilted to the side, and he secretly observed Yue Jing Hua's expression.

Yue Chen, she was afraid, he never received heartfelt praise since he was a child, his heart was soft, Yue Jing Hua folded the letter, and tapped the little head of Yue Chen: "You wrote it very well. As a reward, I'll give you this pot of Nine-Lost-Words Herb.

Yue Chen first raised his head in surprise, then he quickly glanced at the furnishing in the room that was almost nonexistent, and bit his lip, as if he had made a choice with great determination, "Give, you."

"You twisted child, yesterday you even refused to let me borrow it for one night, but now you're so generous, then I won't be polite and take it. But as your sister, I won't take it from you for nothing. You've put a lot of thought into this letter, and I'm afraid you didn't sleep well last night, so go to your room and take a nap. After lunch, I'll take you to the market to buy some new flowers and plants, as compensation." Yue Jing Hua didn't shrink back, this pot of Nine-Lost-Words Peony had a greater use.

Firstly, it could be used as raw material for refining the second pill, and secondly, it would allow her to further train her spirit wood lines.

After accepting the peony, Yue Jing Hua couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart. She was never popular in her previous life, at least not in the traditional way. After arriving in the Azure Dragon Continent, the first flowers she received were actually sent by a 10-year-old.

She didn't have the heart to think further about this, she didn't even pay attention to whether or not Yue Chen had discovered the difference between the previous Eight-Lost-Words Herb and the now Nine-Lost-Words Herb.

Not to mention the thoughtful eyes of Yue Chen before he left. At this time, Yue Jing Hua, had her thoughts completely focused on the new pills hidden in her sleeves.

After sending Yue Chen back, Yue Jing Hua took out the newly refined mysterious pills.

There were three pills in her hand, they were the pills made with the Nine-Lost-Words Peony, instead of having a color like fire as you would expect, they were black as ink and gave off an unpleasant smell, the surface was uneven, with tiny spikes, at first glance, it looked like a mini-version of the durian of her previous world.

"This stuff can really increase Profound Qi Cultivation?" Yue Jing Hua had knitted her brows.

After the pot of Nine-Lost-Words Herb, which had been carved with spirit wood lines, had advanced, she didn't hesitate for even a moment and immediately went to the Pill Room to start refining the second pill.

Part of the reason Yue Jing Hua was so eager to refine the second pill because the Precious Jade Pill was of little use to her nowadays. The other reason was because of Yue Minzhi staying alone in the Long Zhan State.

The situation of the Long Zhan State was much more complicated than in Shang Country, it had countless experts. Yue Minzhi was only a cultivator of the Profound Earth Realm, and the Precious Jade Pill would not work on him.

The second pill recorded in the Rare Calligraphy Sacred Cannon, this pill, according to the Sacred Cannon, did not allow one to directly advance to the next realm, but it had another unexpected effect.

It was a pity that refining this pill was more difficult compared to the Precious Jade Pill, and Yue Jing Hua could only refine three of them in one night. And the appearance of the pills was truly odd, making her reluctant to try it.

"I'll have to find someone to try the pill first and then see if it works, as for the candidate, there is already one," Yue Jing Hua's mouth curved and she already had a "test-subject" in mind.

T/N: Spirit Wood Grain should be Spirit Wood Lines, I'll change it in the future.





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