Chapter 19: She is a genius, and I have also become a genius.
Li Fen also knew that her “daughter-in-law’s” hands were not good-looking, so she had already planned to argue a few words in her heart, but the scene before her was like dazzling sunlight suddenly piercing through the gloomy sky. The surprise came so unexpectedly that she was completely unprepared.
“This… this is impossible! Her hands were clearly still…”
Li Fen muttered to herself, but could not control the foolish smile on her face.
“How is this possible! Your hands were so rough a few days ago, I saw it with my own eyes. Why have they become so fair and tender overnight?”
…
A woman raised the first doubt, after all, she was not a man and reacted faster.
“My fingers look thick because I got frostbite when I went out in the cold the other day, so it’s not that my joints are large. They have naturally recovered after applying medicine these past two days.”
Huang Qi once again made a watertight excuse.
“Did everyone hear that? My daughter-in-law’s hands were frostbitten, and frostbite will cause swelling. Everyone must have experienced it personally.”
Li Fen came to her senses and immediately chimed in, smiling so widely that she couldn’t close her mouth, because what her daughter-in-law said was indeed reasonable.
“So that’s how it is!”
The villagers suddenly realized and all nodded.
Huang Qi also put on his gloves. It was too shameful for a grown man to have such delicate hands, and he was not used to being stared at.
“What’s going on?”
Zhang Lao Er felt something was wrong, so he quickly turned back and asked.
“Zhang Lao Er, her hands are indeed what a woman should have… No… they are even more feminine than a woman’s. What else do you want to say?”
“Yes, hurry up and apologize! Otherwise, offending such a young lady will definitely not end well for you.”
“I warned you long ago not to look for trouble. Now look at you? You deserve it.”
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The villagers spoke one after another, with various attitudes, but most of them were gloating. This showed that Zhang Lao Er was not popular usually.
“Impossible, I don’t believe it.”
Zhang Lao Er was stubborn and looked at Huang Qi again, saying, “Show me, otherwise I won’t believe it.”
“It’s fine if you don’t believe me, but don’t you believe all these elders and fellow villagers?”
Huang Qi looked around and said.
“They must have taken some benefits from the Huang family, so they are colluding with you. No wonder you asked me to turn around earlier.”
Zhang Lao Er said angrily and incoherently.
“Fellow villagers, you all saw it. It’s one thing for Zhang Lao Er to slander me, but now he’s even slandering you. Isn’t this ruining everyone’s reputation?”
Huang Qi smiled, thinking to himself that he wasn’t the only one who could exaggerate.
“Zhang Lao Er, clarify yourself. What do you mean by colluding?”
“You keep saying we took benefits from the Huang family. Where are the benefits? If you can’t find them, we won’t be polite to you!”
“Yes, do you think we are all as greedy as you? If you don’t make things clear today, you won’t be going anywhere.”
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The villagers were furious and immediately surrounded Zhang Lao Er to castigate him.
Li Fen was stunned again. She hadn’t expected her daughter-in-law to be so clever, turning that scoundrel into a public enemy in just a few words.
“Heh, you know in your hearts whether you took benefits or not!”
Zhang Lao Er still said defiantly, because he really couldn’t believe that such rough hands would turn into delicate hands in just a few days. The only explanation was that the Huang family had bribed these villagers.
“How dare you repeatedly slander my integrity? It seems you’re itching for a beating.”
A hot-tempered villager couldn’t bear it any longer and went up to hit him. The others also joined in the attack, and the women who didn’t hit cheered from the side.
“Let’s go, Mother!”
Huang Qi said contentedly to his mother beside him.
“Alas!”
Li Fen responded sweetly, then enthusiastically took her “daughter-in-law’s” hand and walked home.
“So soft! It must be a girl’s hand, or else there’s a ghost.”
Li Fen secretly felt it and felt even more relieved.
Old Mr. Huang Xinghu, who was not far away, saw this scene and showed a smile of relief.
Not long after, Huang Kairong returned from carrying firewood. Upon hearing about this, he angrily cursed, “Zhang Lao Er, that scoundrel. We have no enmity with him, why is he deliberately looking for trouble?”
“Nonsense. Who in Huatian Village do you think doesn’t want us to find a daughter-in-law?”
Li Fen hinted.
“Who?”
Huang Kairong fell into thought.
“Who else but your brother’s family?”
Li Fen pointed it out helplessly.
“No way? We are brothers after all. Can he be so heartless?”
Huang Kairong was unwilling to believe it.
“Heh, for his son, what wouldn’t Huang Kaiyou do? Think about it, if he can’t get our house, how will his two sons live after marriage? And that Zhang Lao Er is his crony, so from any perspective, he is the most suspicious.”
Li Fen reminded him.
Huang Qi also felt that his mother’s suspicion was reasonable. His second uncle had always coveted their house, which was a well-known fact.
Huang Kairong sighed helplessly. In fact, he had also suspected his brother, but he was unwilling to face the reality.
Huang Qi returned to the house and finally had time to deal with the feminization of his left hand.
“Why is this happening? Sometimes I feminize when I sleep, and sometimes I don’t?”
Huang Qi couldn’t figure it out. He recalled the process of feminization several times, and suddenly had a clue in his mind: “Could it be that it’s not sleeping that causes feminization, but dreaming!”
Huang Qi believed this for a reason. Looking back at the feminization of his body several times, it all happened after dreaming. As for simply sleeping during the day like yesterday, there were no changes.
“It must be so!”
The more Huang Qi thought about it, the more he felt that he had found the crux of the problem.
“But what does that matter? Sleep is a physiological need. How can I avoid it?”
Huang Qi then gave a self-deprecating smile. In his memory, except for cultivators who could minimize sleep, ordinary people couldn’t.
“Right! Cultivation!”
Huang Qi suddenly thought of a way to save himself, which was cultivation. Although he had proven before that he didn’t have the talent, now the feminization mask had already eroded above his chest. If left unchecked, next time he would only be able to go out with a large bust. So, he had to try his best.
As soon as he thought of it, Huang Qi sat on the bed and began to circulate the introductory cultivation technique of the HongHua Sect, the Guihai Technique.
The path of cultivation is divided into six major realms: Juling, Lanting, Guiyi, Huashen, Shentong, and Tianfa. Each realm is divided into nine levels. Therefore, whether one can enter the Juling Realm is a direct proof of whether a person has cultivation talent.
What is the Juling Realm?
Humans are grown on grains, so their bodies naturally possess the five elements of spiritual energy: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. If the spiritual energy of a certain attribute is more abundant, it means you are a spiritual body of that attribute. Generally speaking, men have more golden, fiery, and earthy spiritual bodies, while women have the remaining wood and water.
The Juling Realm is to gather the most abundant five-element spiritual energy in the body in the Qi Sea to form True Qi, and then break through the Guanyuan acupoint in the abdomen, so as to absorb the spiritual energy from outside to improve oneself. This is the first level of the Juling Realm.
To break through the Guanyuan acupoint, at least one-ninth of the Qi Sea must be filled with True Qi, which requires the cultivator to have enough single-attribute spiritual energy.
When Huang Qi first entered the HongHua Sect, he was tested as an Earth spiritual body. After several years of cultivation, just as he was about to gather one-ninth of the Qi Sea’s True Qi, he unexpectedly found that he could no longer absorb any trace of Earth spiritual energy from his body. Therefore, he failed when trying to break through the Guanyuan acupoint. In the end, he could only leave in disgrace. Moreover, he had exhausted the most abundant Earth spiritual energy in his body. Coupled with the age limit, it meant that he would have no possibility of cultivation in the future.
Huang Qi naturally understood this, but he had no choice now and could only try if other attributes of spiritual energy could meet the cultivation requirements.
Huang Qi sat on the bed and began to circulate the Guihai Technique. Generally speaking, the second most abundant spiritual energy in the body would respond at this time.
“I wonder what the second most abundant spiritual energy in my body is besides Earth spiritual energy.”
Huang Qi circulated the cultivation technique with a trace of longing. Gradually, a trace of coolness began to spread from the parts above his chest.
“This should be Water spiritual energy!”
Huang Qi quickly realized this. At the same time, those cool sensations began to emerge densely, gathering into streams, rushing into his Qi Sea in the abdomen.
“How is this possible? Why do I, a grown man, have so much Water spiritual energy in my body?”
Huang Qi’s eyes widened abruptly because the concentration of Water spiritual energy in his body far exceeded his expectations. Its quantity was even incomparable to the Earth spiritual energy before. In his understanding, only women could have so much Water spiritual energy in their bodies, and they must have good talent.
