Chapter 79: M Cultivation

『Bang――』

A burst of white light suddenly exploded from Grandma’s body. Tu You blinked her eyes. “It shattered… it shattered…”

Mu Xue and Sang Chu looked at her anxiously. “What shattered?”

“Hurry up and tell us! What exactly shattered?”

Realizing her words were ambiguous, Tu You quickly explained, “No, no, it’s the barrier! I didn’t expect the power of that demon stone to be so strong. If I’d known, I would’ve risked my life to dig up a few more for Ah Chu to play with! I really missed out!”

Sang Chu gritted her teeth. “If I dared to dig, those big shots would’ve shown up the very next second. You might want to die, but I don’t! But now, can you be more serious? How is Grandma?”

Tu You said, “Don’t worry, Grandma’s the most familiar with this kind of spiritual energy—just the kind that ordinary people have. Grandma’s barrier was thick, but the power of the demon stone broke right through it. Look!”

As she spoke, Tu You hurriedly pointed at Grandma. After the white light faded, a faint green glow radiated from Grandma’s body. Then, a scroll of green light appeared directly in front of her.

Unfortunately, this scroll wasn’t as convenient as the ones on Demon Mountain. The skills and cultivation methods didn’t directly enter the mind. Sensing something different in her body, Grandma opened her eyes and saw the scroll in front of her. “This, this is…”

Tu You immediately squatted by Grandma’s leg. “Grandma, quickly take it! This is the wood-type root cultivation method. You’ve already broken through your barrier, so you can start cultivating from now on!”

At this point, Sang Jingwen was growing anxious. Grandma had already awakened, so why couldn’t he? Did he not even have a spiritual root, let alone an ability?

Unwilling to give up, he kept sitting there. But Grandma didn’t take the scroll right away. Instead, she looked at Sang Jingwen.

Sang Chu went over, held Grandma’s hand, and helped her pick up the scroll. “Grandma, take a look at this scroll first. Tu You and I will teach you how to start cultivating.”

Looking into Sang Chu’s eyes, Grandma glanced at Sang Jingwen again, then nodded helplessly. Without saying a word, she took the scroll in one hand and hugged Tu You with the other as she walked aside.

Lin Muxue looked at Sang Jingwen with eyes full of heartache, tightly holding Sang Chu’s hand, feeling very distressed.

No one knew how long it took before Sang Jingwen finally opened his eyes. For a moment, his expression was full of disappointment, but when he saw his sister’s anxious face, he forced a smile and said, “Looks like I don’t have a spiritual root. It’s fine, I have Sang Sang and the others with me. You don’t need to worry.”

“Brother.”

“Brother Jingwen.”

Sang Chu and Mu Xue looked at him with a hint of sadness, but Sang Jingwen stood up and forced a smile. “It’s okay, your brother isn’t that fragile. At worst, I’ll just keep trying every day. Maybe my barrier is just too thick.”

Mu Xue took a deep breath. At this moment, the one she felt most sorry for was Brother Jingwen, but he was the one comforting her. “It must be like that, Brother Jingwen. You have to let me keep an eye on you from now on!”

“Alright, then I’ll rely on you!”

Sang Chu fell silent for a moment. “There’s another possibility—maybe my current spiritual root isn’t compatible, so I can’t awaken an ability. Like how Xiaoxue’s space ability and Lu Minli’s innate skills—I don’t have those either. Brother, if that’s the case, you can focus on cultivating your mental power here. Maybe that’ll work too!”

Mu Xue nodded. “Yeah, that must be it! I can try too. I’ve made some progress with my mental power recently. Sang Xiaochu, teach me how to do this too. Maybe Brother Jingwen and I will both become powerful ability users!”

“Okay.”

Sang Jingwen hugged his sister, feeling a warm current in his heart. For a moment, he felt that not having an ability wasn’t so scary after all—as long as the family was together, everything would be fine.

Grandma looked at the three siblings hugging each other, her eyes full of love. She reached out and pulled him over. “Ah Wen, whether you have an ability or not, as long as our family is together, that’s all that matters.”

Mu Xue chimed in, “Exactly, Brother Jingwen. When we were little, you always protected me and Sang Xiaochu. Now that we’ve grown up, whether you have an ability or not, you’re still my brother. From now on, I’ll protect you too, just like Grandma said. We’re always family, so don’t ever feel distant from me just because of this ability thing!”

Sang Jingwen couldn’t help but tap her on the head. “In your eyes, is your brother really that fragile? That I’d stop caring about you just because I don’t have an ability?”

Sang Chu laughed. “She’s just afraid she won’t have any family left. What if Lu Minli bullies her in the future?”

At that, Lin Muxue’s face and ears instantly turned red. She let go of Sang Jingwen and Grandma and glared at Sang Chu. “Sang Xiaochu, what are you talking about! I’m going to accuse you of slander!!”

Sang Chu shrugged, looking innocent. She wasn’t actually shy or embarrassed, just too scared to take the first step. “See, just mentioning it and she’s already panicking. Brother, Grandma, look at her—she’s accusing me of slander…”

Her dragon pearl was too bright—Mu Xue’s blushing face and ears couldn’t be hidden at all.

Sang Jingwen looked at her embarrassed expression and said, “Don’t worry, your brother will always have your back. If Lu Minli dares to bully you, I’ll go beat him up myself!”

Mu Xue pouted and walked over to Grandma. “Grandma, look, they’re bullying me!”

Grandma Lin looked at her lovingly. “Minli’s not a bad kid. He took care of you for so long during the apocalypse. Now that things are better, he still looks after you. But if you really don’t like him…”

“I don’t!”

No one knew what she was hesitating about, but Grandma saw her emotions were a bit unstable and quickly comforted her. “If you don’t, then you don’t. It’s his loss. My Xiaoxue just doesn’t like him!”

Mu Xue: “………” Grandma, it’s not that serious!

She didn’t say anything, just lowered her head. Sang Chu laughed, “Alright, alright, we know you don’t like him. But let me remind you—if you two ever do get together and want to… you’ll need to take off your physiological inhibitor in advance, soak in the spiritual spring water more, or go straight to the healing room to get your body ready. After you take off the inhibitor, it usually takes about a month for your body to recover to normal, and only then can you… you know.”

At this, Mu Xue’s face turned even redder. “Sang Xiaochu! You’re making fun of me on purpose! I’m going to beat you up!”

With that, she ran at Sang Chu, her little fists pounding away.

Sang Jingwen had been feeling a bit down, but seeing them playing around, his gloom slowly faded.

“Grandma, I’m fine. You go ahead and cultivate. I’ll sit here a bit longer and let those two play.”

“Alright, Grandma will stay here with you. Don’t rush, take your time. Grandma believes in you.”

“Okay, I know.”"