They buried Doudou under a big tree in the yard.
Doudou always liked to climb up and down this tree. It took out several bird nests, so that no birds dared to build nests in this tree anymore.
Qin Xinyao placed a stone on the small raised earth bag. The stone is a slightly darker azure, just like the color of Doudou's eyes.
"Sister Jing, does everyone have a day when their lifespan runs out?"
Jing Yingrong said "hmm".
Qin Xinyao: "Even if you practice to the highest level, is it inevitable?"
The mirror reflected a pair of dark pupils, and suddenly there was a wave of wind.
She whispered: "No."
"What about you, Sister Jing?" Qin Xinyao stared at Jing Yingrong, "Will you be like this one day?"
Jing Yingrong was silent for a moment.
"I live as long as heaven and earth," she said.
Not showing off, not exaggerating, she just stated it calmly.
Qin Xinyao's eyes widened slightly, but she was just surprised, but not suspicious at all.
"Then you are immortal?"
Jing Yingrong raised her head and looked at the sky, her eyes seemed to have traveled through time and space, reaching the end of the world.
"The sun and the moon will eventually perish, and the heaven and earth will also collapse."
…
Ten years passed by in a blink of an eye.
"Xin Yao, your cultivation can no longer be suppressed. The spiritual power in your body has already burdened your meridians. If you don't form the elixir, don't you know the consequences?"
Qin Hongzhi said angrily and anxiously.
Qin Xinyao lowered her eyes and pursed her lips tightly without answering. The hands on the table were clenched into fists, showing her inner feelings.
Qin Hongzhi sighed and said helplessly: "I'll tell Qin Rong."
"Don't go!" Qin Xinyao hurriedly stopped him.
Just as the two were in a stalemate, Jing Yingrong's figure appeared on the scene.
She looked at Qin Xinyao and asked, "Why don't you form an elixir?"
Qin Xinyao bit her lower lip and stared at the ground.
Jing Yingrong looked at her and said nothing.
Qin Hongzhi looked at this and that, feeling angry and funny.
"She doesn't want to be the head of the family, at least not yet," he said.
Jing Yingrong: "Why?"
Qin Xinyao finally raised her head and looked directly into the mirror: "Are you going to leave when I become the head of the Qin family?"
Jing Yingrong lowered her eyelashes and said, "Well, I want to go somewhere."
Qin Xinyao took a deep breath and said with a choked voice, "I can't bear to let you go."
Jing Yingrong: "Do you want to go with me?"
Qin Xinyao was stunned for a moment, and Qin Hongzhi beside him suddenly became extremely nervous.
"Xin Yao..."
"No, I want to stay in the Qin family."
Qin Xinyao replied decisively, she glanced at Qin Hongzhi quickly, and then looked away, "I already care about the Qin family... In these years, I have learned to deal with family affairs, and I have learned a lot from traveling with you. My thoughts have changed... I want to strengthen the Qin family and lead the Qin family to a brighter future."
"So I can't go with you."
Qin Xinyao's tone was decisive, but also revealed a little sadness.
Jing Yingrong nodded: "Okay."
The corners of Qin Xinyao's mouth drooped and she whispered: "I just... want to keep you for a while longer. There are still five years left in twenty years. I want to delay it until then. I... I can't let you go."
As she spoke, tears fell down.
Qin Hongzhi wiped away her tears silently.
Jing Yingrong raised her hand and gently stroked Qin Xinyao's hair as she had done with Doudou.
She said: "I will stay with you for another five years."
Qin Xinyao opened her eyes wide: "Really?"
Jing Yingrong: "Really."
Qin Xinyao was overjoyed. There were still tears on her face, but she was smiling like a peach blossom.
Following the ups and downs of her mood, was also her spiritual power, which was already pushed to the critical point.
The turbulent spiritual power tide began to rise and fall violently. Qin Xinyao's expression changed and she rushed directly into the nearest quiet room.
Qin Hongzhi stopped outside the quiet room.
He took a deep look at the door, then sat cross-legged in front of it.
Jing Yingrong: "You are worried about her, why don't you go in?"
"I will distract her if I go in," Qin Hongzhi said, "She is so good, and forming pills is not a problem for her. I just need to wait for her here."
He didn't hide the worry in his eyes, nor did he hide the pride and pride.
Mirror Yingrong chins slightly, and sits down with him to wait.
…
Qin Xinyao formed a golden elixir, and the ancestor of the Qin family came out to congratulate her.
She is the youngest golden elixir cultivator in the history of the Qin family. The changes in the heaven and earth when she formed the elixir also revealed the extraordinary nature of the golden elixir she formed.
The Qin family was shocked both inside and outside, and all the high-ranking cultivation families in Helianzhou sent congratulatory gifts to show their friendship.
Then, Qin Xinyao naturally took over the family seal from her ancestor and became the youngest head of the Qin family in history.
On the day Qin Xinyao became the head of the family, Jing Yingrong gave her a small and exquisite purple bell.
Qin Xinyao felt that the purple bell looked familiar. After looking at it carefully, she wondered: "Is it from the purple bell flower you picked?"
"Well, I had someone refine it into a magic weapon."
Qin Xinyao happily hung the purple bell on her waist without checking its grade or asking how to use it.
After becoming the head of the family, Qin Xinyao became very busy.
She has too many things to do, and Qin Hongzhi, her right-hand man, is too busy to do anything.
Therefore, Jing Yingrong was free.
As the head of the family, Qin Xinyao cannot continue to live in that remote little courtyard. She moved to the main house of the Qin family, but still kept the small courtyard, and Jing Yingrong still lived in the house she designed herself.
Qin Xinyao wanted to find something for Jing Yingrong to do, so she gave Jing Yingrong a proposal.
She wanted Jing Yingrong to simulate the auras of different cultivation levels, starting from foundation building, to golden elixir, Yuanying, and even to the above realms such as transformation into gods and returning to the void.
Jing Yingrong's aura is not exposed, and most people either regard her as an ordinary person without any cultivation, or think that she deliberately hides her cultivation. Although there are advantages to this, there are also various disadvantages.
Simulating cultivation is not easy. Jing Yingrong's strength is so strong that even Qin Xinyao, who has been with her for fifteen years, still can't imagine how strong she is. Therefore, it is just like asking the sun to disguise itself as a candlelight and the ocean to disguise itself as a puddle. It is really difficult.
It took Jing Yingrong more than two years to barely complete this "task." The reason why I say reluctant is because it is limited to normal conditions and will not be seen through by low-level monks. If she meets a high-level monk, or if she fights an enemy, there is still a high chance that her secret will be revealed.
At this time, Qin Xinyao's position as the head of the family has been firmly established, and the Qin family's affairs are on the right track. She has free time and can often move around with Jing Yingrong again.
Three more years have passed, and the twenty-year period has expired.
That day, Qin Xinyao was reading a jade slip recording the Qin family's bills when she suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.
When he opened the door, he saw that familiar and stunning face.
Qin Xinyao heard her say: "I'm leaving tomorrow."
Snapped.
The jade slip fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
