Chapter 129: Just Wait and See

"Huh? What's going on? There's a story behind this?"

The old lady chuckled, "She's just as greedy as Zihan. When she was handling the family's properties in Jingcheng, she got bored at night, climbed over the wall into the Shun Prince's mansion, and snuck into the kitchen to steal food. The Little Prince saw her, couldn't forget her afterward, and insisted on marrying none other than her. That's how their love story began."

Qiao Mai's mouth hung open, her face full of surprise, "Wow, so I've accidentally managed to latch onto a princess?"

"Hehe, you little sly one. You clearly don't care, yet you have to say it like that."

"I do care, I do care. Who says I don't? A big tree gives good shade. Don't look at it being useless now—maybe it'll come in handy later. So, Jiaru has gone to Jingcheng?"

"Mm, her father couldn't go, so her mother took her. The Main Family is handling the wedding date negotiations with the groom's side."

"Then won't I not be able to see her anymore?"

"Jingcheng isn't that far from here. Ten days by carriage. If you ride a horse yourself, it's four or five days. The dowry has already been sent to Jingcheng. She'll be married from the residence there. She told me that once the date is set, she'll let you know. Then you can come with me to Jingcheng for her wedding."

"Alright, I'll bring my whole family along then. We'll broaden our horizons in Jingcheng, stay a few days, and try the local snacks."

While planting bamboo shoots, she was also daydreaming happily—this counted as multitasking.

"If I'm not mistaken, the wedding should be in September this year. What are you giving her? Fruit? Vegetables? Pastries? Or something else?"

What she wanted to plant now was bamboo. She wanted to grow a bamboo grove, hehe, all for the sake of getting fresh, tender bamboo shoots.

"Hehe, I'm not telling you that yet. But no matter what strings I have to pull or what doors I have to knock on, I'll get her something good."

Her spiritual power happened to be of the Gold, Wood, and Fire attributes. According to the books, she could study Pill refinement and artifact forging, though she could dabble in other fields too.

After nights of hard work, the space now had 990,000 mu of land. She wanted to witness the space upgrade with her own eyes.

Qiao Mai clicked her tongue twice in the air, then descended. As soon as she hit the ground, she felt the earth beneath her feet start to shake.

But the prerequisite was that she had to have forging materials on hand. Those materials were even more expensive than spirit stones, and she couldn't afford them.

Bamboo didn't need to be planted densely; it would spread underground. Planted sparsely, it would soon grow thick and dense.

Lately, she had gained a certain understanding of cultivation. To escape this predicament, she had to choose a profession from the Cultivation Realm.

One meter, two meters, three meters, four meters, five meters—and it was growing across ten thousand mu all at once. The scene was too spectacular.

"You're thoughtful. Don't push yourself too hard."

Watching the bamboo below grow continuously, with new shoots sprouting in the gaps, she felt that life was truly magnificent. Not just animals, but plants too—they all strive to live and reproduce.

Holy crap, holy crap, it finally had water! Damn, that was not easy at all.

This was the growth of all things, so miraculous. Nature truly made her feel its infinite wonders.

Over 900,000 mu of grassland was more than enough for the little animals to romp around in.

The shaking lasted nearly two hours before stopping. She could clearly feel a faint mist in the air and quickly closed her eyes to inspect.

They say bamboo shoots grow joint by joint after rain, and it was true. After being watered, the shoots kept growing, sprouting a new joint every moment, accompanied by a crackling sound.

She happened to have a ReverseSkySpace. With Spiritual Energy, she could plant Spirit Medicine, right? She could replicate a SpiritMedicineField with unlimited harvesting. That way, she'd have no problem supplying medicinal ingredients for her pill refinement.

The bamboo grew to six meters before its growth slowed. The surrounding land began to expand slowly, slowly outward, and she clearly saw how the space replicated itself.

"Exactly. That's why she didn't want to get married—she's used to running wild outside."

It knew what could be purified and what couldn't. She'd wait and see if this space could eventually evolve a Space Spirit.

Qiao Mai wasn't satisfied just watching from below. With a thought, her whole person appeared in the air above.

That was the sound of their joints growing. Qiao Mai watched intently, mesmerized.

Qiao Mai looked at the sky and surveyed her surroundings. She was sure this space had a consciousness.

SpaceLevelFive: added two million mu of land, one Linghe River, Spirit Energy Density fifty percent.

Otherwise, this Spiritual Energy simply wouldn't be enough.

Heavens, this was too amazing, almost like an illusion. At first, it was blurry, then gradually became lifelike, and finally turned into an identical bamboo grove. Ten thousand mu had become twenty thousand mu of bamboo grove—truly unbelievable.

With a thought, she appeared by the Linghe River. Before seeing it, she imagined it would be as surging as the Yellow River. But when she saw it, it was just a stream about two meters wide.

"Mm, so she won't be able to come out easily anymore, right?"

Looking at the pitiful few large buckets of pure water, she used a thought to sprinkle the water onto the land. When the buckets refilled, she sprinkled again. Don't say she was slow at farming—the main issue was that the water source could never keep up.

"That's right. Don't stay cooped up at home all day. I have a residence there too. Then you won't need to stay at an inn or at the Wang Family's main residence, so you won't feel uncomfortable."

With a thought, she peeled the bamboo shoots and piled the skins in a corner. Then she watched the skins slowly disappear.

"Ah, then I'll have to prepare something rare for her."

But one thing suited her better than artifact forging, and that was pill refinement.

At night, when everyone in the Qiao Family had gone to sleep, Qiao Mai entered the space.

Things like talismans and formations were also options. The more attributes one had, the better for learning other professions. She felt that more attributes meant more work, so it was better to master just one or two.

She wouldn't feel bad using them for practice. If she had Pills, she could sell Pills; if she had Spirit Medicine, she could sell Spirit Medicine. Once she learned these skills, why would she still sell fruits and vegetables?

She hoped this space upgrade would bring enough water. Of course, she also wanted the Spiritual Energy content in the air to reach a higher level.

At this moment, the twenty-thousand-mu bamboo grove was still growing slowly, just not as fast as before.

It was as if the replicated land had taken some of its nutrients, and it was repairing itself.

The pile of bamboo shoots, like a small mountain, was planted into the soil one by one with her thoughts, half exposed.

"Don't worry, just wait and see."

Her college major happened to be mechanical engineering, so pill refinement and artifact forging suited her best.

She cleared ten thousand mu of grassland and planted bamboo shoots every ten meters. One mu needed sixty shoots, so ten thousand mu needed six hundred thousand shoots.

In both her past and present lives, she had never experienced an earthquake, but she had seen them on TV. This was no different from an earthquake.

After watering the ten thousand mu of land, she looked back at the bamboo shoots. There weren't many left.

At the edge of the land was a large pile of freshly sprouted bamboo shoots. She had grown them over the past few nights, saving up enough bamboo seeds for ten thousand mu.

Qiao Mai did nothing else. She sat cross-legged at the edge of the land and just watched the bamboo shoots.

Lately, she had been selling goods online and saved up a lot of gold. The spirit stones she exchanged for hadn't been used yet—not enough to level up even once. She was waiting to reach SpaceLevelFive before advancing.

Her space, her territory—she could do whatever she wanted, see it from any Angle she pleased.

Made something for the Cultivation world and used it to trade for spirit stones.

She thought, this should be the initial stage of the Linghe River; later, as the space continuously upgrades, it will become wider, right?

She looked left, then right, and saw no end of the Linghe River in either direction.

She lowered her head and looked down; the Linghe River was clear to the bottom, about a meter deep, and beneath were pebbles, each one quite pretty.

She squatted down, reached out to touch the water; its temperature was neither cold nor hot, about the same as the air temperature here.

Not bad; later she could come here to soak.

(End of chapter)