Chapter 2: The Guardian Spirit Boy

  Mao Xiaofang hummed and said, "With these two abilities, you can travel the world in the future, searching for ancient lost treasures. You can also gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to use when establishing your own sect. This is a heavenly treasure that other sects cannot obtain, yet you are still not satisfied."

  "Haha, Master taught me well." Jiang Le hurriedly smiled and admitted his mistake. As the owner of the fallen treasure, he naturally understood the function of this immortal treasure better, and previously was just pretending to be clever.

  "Oh right, Master. What about this ghost baby now? I did promise the female ghost that I would take good care of him. A man's word is his bond, what's your advice?"

  "Ghost infant?" Mao Xiaofang picked up the blood ring, his expression becoming serious.

  "To say the least, this vengeful spirit is quite troublesome. It died before it was born and harbors deep resentment in its heart. Later, it was refined by its mother into a malevolent blood ghost infant, becoming even more evil. Even if this little guy were to be reborn successfully, it would still become a great villain, bringing harm to the world."

  "Does this mean it can't reincarnate?"

  Mao Xiaofang nodded and said: "Its current state is indeed not suitable for reincarnation, but there may be a way that is best for him."

  "What method?" Jiang Le's eyes lit up:

  Mao Xiaofang smiled and said: "Transform into a spiritual child."

  Jiang Le didn't understand: "Ling Tong? What's going on?"

  "First, use the scriptures to eliminate all evil spirits and grievances from his body, restore him to a pure and innocent infant state. Then, cultivate him with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and after forty-nine years, he will be thoroughly spiritualized and become a guardian spirit child."

  "Forty-nine years? It's going to take that long?"

  "You think so? I suppressed the Blood Demon and it took me eighty-one years to refine him, but you're complaining that forty-nine years is too long."

  Ginger has one black stripe.

  Is this comparable? You had already attained the Tao at that time, with great magical powers. Now I'm just a young and inexperienced novice, and even my own cultivation feels like there's not enough time.

  Mao Xiaofang continued: "You shouldn't mind the time being long, this Guardian Spirit Child is not simple. Once successfully cultivated, it will definitely be a great help. All evil spirits and ghosts are afraid of the Spirit Child."

  Jiang Le was shocked: "So fierce?"

  Mao Xiaofang said seriously: "It's extremely formidable, and this is also a coincidence. This ghost infant was nourished by the mother's womb, its innate vitality was not lost, and it had the foundation to become a spirit child. Normally, even if someone wants to obtain one, they would have to look at their character."

  Jiang Le's heart moved. It turned out that this wasn't a waste of effort after all. Thinking about having a spiritual child by his side to ward off evil spirits and monsters in the future, it seemed like a pretty good idea.

  "Alright, whatever Master says, I'll do." Jiang Le gritted his teeth in agreement.

  "Look at you, wanting to transform into a Spiritual Child? It requires three preparations: first, sufficient Heavenly and Earthly spiritual energy; second, your magical powers must reach the level of Tongmai; third, you need to master a transformation scripture. You're only just entering the Foundation Building stage, it's still too early for you to transform into a Spiritual Child."

  Jiang Le hehe dryly smiled.

  Mao Xiaofang continued: "However, with your cultivation speed, after building the foundation for a hundred days, you can start to open up the meridians. Moreover, with sufficient heavenly and earthly spiritual energy, you can use the Golden Money of Falling Treasure to gather it. As for the Sutra of Transforming Evil, I know one, and when your cultivation reaches the required conditions, I will teach you."

  "Then I'll become a master of Taoist magic soon."

  Mao Xiaofang snorted: "You think that with just a few months of effort, you can pretend to be a big shot? The Condensation Method is just the foundation. As long as there's a proper Dao lineage, it'll take at least half a year or two years at most to complete. What's difficult is unblocking the meridians. Unblocking the meridians requires the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, using external energy to supplement internal methods. Now that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is so scarce, wanting all eight meridians to be unblocked isn't a simple process."

  Jiang Le smiled and said: "I have the Golden Treasure that gathers the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, this is not difficult for me."

  Mao Xiaofang shook his head and said, "The fallen treasure can gather spiritual energy, but it also needs spiritual energy to gather. With my perception, the heavenly spiritual energy in Qingyang City is scarce, you can gather for a year, but it's not enough for one day of cultivation."

  Jiang Le said seriously: "There is no difficult task in the world, only people who are willing to work hard. If Qingyang City doesn't have it, I'll go elsewhere to find it. I can always satisfy my own cultivation conditions. Master also said that since we've embarked on this path of defying heaven, we absolutely cannot compromise."

  Mao Xiaofang smiled slightly, her eyes full of praise.

  This kid is like that, on the surface he's carefree and laughing, but in his heart, his persistence towards things is beyond imagination.

  "Alright, spiritual power isn't something you can just talk about, hurry up and cultivate it."

  Three days in an antique shop again.

  For three days, Jiang Leru eagerly sought knowledge about cultivation from Mao Xiaofang's mouth, from cultivation to talismans, from spell-casting to demon-slaying, and also listened to Mao Xiaofang tell stories of past supernatural events and tales of subduing demons and evil spirits, absorbing useful knowledge points from them.

  In just three short days, Jiang Le felt a sense of rebirth, and he had gained a deeper understanding of his cultivation.

  Of course, this is just because he lacks knowledge of Taoist cultivation in his heart, so there is such a feeling of being full. In fact, there are still many things to learn.

  Besides, the hundred-day foundation is not a joke. The law of condensation has just been formed, and the newly born law power is very weak, just like a newborn baby needs all-around care. A baby can go out in full moon, but the law power takes a hundred days to penetrate the meridians.

  Otherwise, the law power is insufficiently warm and nourished, the foundation is unstable, and in the future it will inevitably be limited.

  At this point, Mao Xiaofang repeatedly warned Jiang Le, and Jiang Le naturally did not dare to be careless. Every day, he cultivated his spiritual power until his mind was exhausted. His spiritual power naturally improved with each passing day, and the trend was favorable.

  In addition, he also went home for a few days and concealed his cultivation. He only discussed the antique shop business with his mother and hoped that she could put down her current handicraft work to take over the antique shop business.

  No matter what, the antique business is still more profitable than mother's handicrafts. And it's also much easier.

  And now that I have millions in my hands, if I still let my mother work herself to death every day, then I would be unworthy of being a human son.

  Although Jiang Hua didn't say anything about her son inheriting Jin Lao's business, she felt uneasy letting him take charge of the antique shop and had a guilty conscience as if she was taking over someone else's family business, so she kept making excuses.

  In the end, Jiang Le threatened that if his mother didn't agree, he would have to go back to school and they could only sell the antique shop.

  How can this be? Just inherited the shop and sold it immediately, this is going to be gossiped about.

  Jiang Hua had no choice but to agree to come and help out.

  In this way, the antique shop had an arrangement, and my mother was also freed from that laborious handicraft work, and I myself stepped onto the true path of cultivation, everything looked so good.

  Jiang Le felt an unprecedented sense of relief in his heart, for the first time feeling that life was so wonderful.