Chapter 30: Auspicious Clouds

Qin Bi: "......"

Qin Bi was stunned, thinking Rong Juan was fooling her.

Qin Lang also thought Rong Juan was talking nonsense; who had such power to summon even a drop of water?

For their group, summoning a single small water droplet would count as skill.

Qin Bi thought about it and laughed; she rarely found something amusing. She handed the tea bowl back and said, "Summon a drop of water for me to see. This bowl belongs to someone else; I won't use it. It's not even new."

Qin Bi's mind was not focused on the divine; she still found plenty to criticize.

"As long as the magic treasure works, why complain it isn't new?" Rong Juan waved his hand. "I told you how to cultivate plants in the small space of the Beast Realm only because you asked. I have no power to summon water. I'm going to dig for plants."

Rong Juan ran off, busy searching for plants to dig up.

Some could serve as medicinal herbs, others were edible; in short, if it was a plant, he dug it.

Forget about spiritual plants; without luck to guide the way, you couldn't find them.

Qin Tang and Jiang Xu were together, just over ten meters away. They didn't care about the nameless ground-hugging plants; whenever they saw one, they dug it up, knowing it would be valuable back home. Rong Juan ran toward Qin Xun.

Holding that magic treasure, Qin Bi had no intention of taking it back. "Who wants it? I don't use this."

Her lifespan had already been damaged; she definitely needed to trust in mystical arts. This magic treasure was an eyesore to her.

Qin Lang quickly took it. "Give it to me, give it to me."

With this one, he now held three summoning magic treasures, looking utterly formidable. Qin Lang was not yet old; after arriving in the small space of the Beast Realm, he dug up plants for a while, then followed his older sister as she slaughtered beasts with a cackle.

One could say Qin Lang felt no danger at all from the small space of the Beast Realm.

At this moment, the young boy walked as if floating, his mouth unable to close from joy.

In his happiness, Qin Lang pulled a small red tuber resembling a sweet potato vine from his sleeve. He fumbled to break off a small piece, opened his mouth wide, took a bite, and chewed it with a crisp, sweet crunch.

"Sister, stop planting things." Qin Lang handed the remaining small tuber to Qin Bi. When she didn't eat it, the boy ate it himself. "This small space rarely has areas with flowers and grass; this entire patch is compacted soil. Nothing you plant will survive. Let's dig up some plants and go back."

Qin Bi had an idea in mind. She asked Rong Juan again, holding the tea bowl she had condensed, which bore no pattern at all. "Just this tea bowl is enough to summon the water element?"

It made sense; a tea bowl was meant to hold water.

But it wasn't that simple. Rong Juan said, "You must use spiritual plant energy wood to draw a pattern on it, such as a stream, a small river, or a waterfall. As long as there is a little water, you can summon it. But the prerequisite is that you must possess a summoning spell and the ability to use it."

Qin Bi was dumbfounded and asked cautiously, "Can you tell me about the summoning spell?"

Rong Juan twitched at the corner of his mouth and spread his hands. "I don't know it! I don't even have a spiritual root. I heard about it when gathering with friends. That's roughly how it works. Without a water-summoning spell, there's no way. Cultivators who know summoning spells chant them in their mouths; they don't speak them aloud."

That was it; Qin Bi couldn't listen anymore. None of them knew.

Everyone was searching for plants to dig up in all directions. Qin Bi didn't dig; she looked down on these plants. Besides, she had already made a great harvest. Right now, she was just pondering how to cultivate something.

Qin Bi held the spiritual plant energy wood, hesitating. Rong Juan poked his head over and asked, "Do you plan to draw a stream?"

Drawing a stream was somewhat difficult. Qin Bi said, "I know how to draw rain."

Rong Juan thought rain was harder to draw than a stream. Beginners among energy condensers usually chose to draw streams. As long as the drawn pattern looked even slightly like water, a cultivator with good talent could use the magic treasure to summon water.

Qin Bi began condensing energy onto the magic treasure, and Rong Juan walked away.

Qin Xun was Qin Bi's older brother. He walked over to take a look and couldn't help but freeze. For an energy condenser, drawing patterns consumed a great deal of energy; condensing a single magic treasure was difficult, and drawing patterns on it was even harder.

In Qin Bi's hands, it was much simpler. She just needed to poke small dots on one side of the tea bowl. More dots meant rain.

Rainwater is transparent. Energy condensers usually preferred to draw it as light blue rain. However, with Luo Bi, a single piece of spiritual plant energy wood solved the problem.

Condensing a new magic treasure was no easy feat. Qin Xun wanted to stop her, but it was too late. Poking small dots was fast; in the blink of an eye, she had poked a patch of them. Qin Xun stared at the small dots on the tea bowl, speechless for a long time.

Qin Lang leaned over and said, "Oh my, I reckon this can summon ants."

Qin Bi laughed in anger. "Go dig up your little plant seedlings."

Qin Xun also worried that this patch of small dots might summon beasts and suggested, "Try summoning ants."

Qin Bi immediately summoned, but the summoning magic treasure remained motionless.

Qin Xun and Qin Lang were puzzled and hissed.

Qin Lang walked away in confusion, and Qin Xun went to find plants too. Everyone was busy. Rong Juan and the others only ran over to take a quick glance at Qin Bi. None of them had much experience; seeing that it looked like ants but summoned nothing, Rong Juan and the rest went back to their work.

Qin Bi didn't dig for plants; she focused entirely on holding the tea bowl and muttering incantations.

Rong Juan knew Qin Bi didn't know the water-summoning spell and didn't pay much attention. As Qin Bi wandered around for a long time, Qin Lang wiped his sweat and began to worry too, taking out a bamboo tube to drink some water.

Qin Bi was also covered in sweat. She never sweated before, but since her lifespan was damaged, she sweated at the slightest movement.

"What are you muttering?" Qin Lang didn't wait for his sister to answer and offered advice. "You might as well chant 'heavy rain pouring down.' Maybe your summoning magic treasure is powerful enough to drop a basin of rainwater."

"No need for a downpour." Qin Bi sounded listless. "A gentle breeze and light rain will do. Just rain."

Qin Bi held the tea bowl and summoned. Qin Lang said, "A gentle breeze and light rain won't even fall."

As soon as he spoke, under the hot sky, a light rain fell directly on Qin Lang's head. Gentle breeze and light rain, neither warm nor cold, neither heavy nor light, covering a small area, lasting only a brief shower.

Not far away, both Qin Tang and Jiang Xu got caught in the rain.

Qin Lang was stunned: "......??!!!"

Qin Tang was only stunned for an instant before shouting to Qin Xun, "Qin Xun!"

Qin Xun looked over and was also dumbfounded by this light rain. Jiang Xu wore an expression of utter disbelief. His combat energy value was high enough, and his energy condensation was formidable. Whether his luck was good or not was unknown, but to summon a light rain without a summoning spell was incredible.

What else could be said?!

This illegitimate daughter of the Qin Yan Marquis Prefecture was simply extraordinary.

Rong Juan was dumbstruck. After a moment, he came to his senses and hurriedly intervened. "Stop, stop. You are consuming too much energy in the small space of the Beast Realm. If you go back now, your talent will stagnate. What if you can't use spells anymore?"

Qin Bi didn't know either. Looking at the sudden rain, she was bewildered. "I don't know how to recall the spell."

Rong Juan: "......"

Qin Tang stopped digging for plants too. He, Qin Xun, and Qin Lang stared at the gentle breeze and light rain, worried.

Qin Bi's ability in the water element was low. After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the rain stopped.

The sky was clear and bright. A small cluster of auspicious clouds flew over and arrived before Qin Bi. The auspicious cloud was extremely tsundere.

The auspicious cloud's tsundere attitude was useless. Qin Bi had no experience. Rong Juan exclaimed with delight, "The small space of the Beast Realm is gifting you a first-grade high-tier auspicious cloud."