NOVEL NEXT Chapter 205 - Irritability
Because of Wang Yiyi’s parents, Mai Dongzi stayed at the Wang family longer than expected, so by the time she arrived at the Xi family, it was already afternoon.
After receiving the news of her return, Mira ran out to meet Mai Dongzi, just like last time. This time, however, Mira didn’t hesitate to approach her. Instead, she directly walked over and linked arms with Mai Dongzi.
“Not bad, your cultivation has improved even faster than I expected,” Mai Dongzi said, offering her encouragement.
Talking about cultivation made Mira want to cry; the past half year had been incredibly tough for her.
“You have no idea, my father’s trainer is so strict. If I don’t meet the required training intensity, I can’t even go to school, and I can’t eat any good food. Look, I’ve even lost so much weight,” Mira said, tearfully.
In the past, Mira didn’t dislike school, but she wasn’t enthusiastic about it either. However, ever since her father hired a private coach, she had grown to love school because it was the only way to escape the grueling training set by the coach.
“This is a good thing. Without the coach’s strict requirements, you probably wouldn’t have reached level three by now,” Mai Dongzi said, looking at the girl. Didn’t she know that it was her suggestion?
“So hiring a private coach was really your and my older brother’s idea,” Mira said, giving Mai Dongzi a glare she couldn’t help but throw.
“I told you I wanted to improve with you. I practice so hard every day, and you have to do the same,” Mai Dongzi smiled.
“This is already enough! Don’t make me suffer anymore! Big Brother said you’re a cultivation maniac now, and I don’t want to become a cultivation maniac,” Mira grumbled.
Looking at Mira’s expression, it was clear that she truly felt forced into the painful cultivation process, especially since she had been pampered and spoiled in the past.
From what Mai Dongzi knew, despite Mira constantly complaining and trying to find excuses to slack off over the past six months, she had never once resisted or asked to stop.
Since Mai Dongzi’s rebirth, she had only met Mira once. When she had free time, they occasionally communicated via message, mostly with Mira talking about trivial topics.
Strangely enough, Mai Dongzi felt a sense of inexplicable ease when she was with this girl, both mentally and physically, without even realizing it.
She found it strange that this feeling of relaxation felt so familiar.
Mira’s experience with the cultivation potential enhancement potion had been even more dangerous than Tony’s.
Tony had used a medium-grade potion, and the side effects were so severe because of the potency of the drug, but his willpower was very strong.
Mira had used a high-grade potion, but her cultivation was too low, her endurance insufficient, and her willpower weak. During the intense pain from the potion’s effects, her mental energy quickly depleted due to her fragile will, which put her in a very dangerous state.
When mental energy is exhausted, the body becomes even less able to endure the side effects of the potion, and the pain intensifies, leading to a mental breakdown.
Fortunately, Mai Dongzi was able to multitask. While playing a soothing melody to help Mira relax and prevent the intense pain from overwhelming her, she simultaneously infused her spiritual abilities into the melody, gently transmitting them into Mira’s mind.
This was all thanks to Mira trusting Mai Dongzi.
Amid the intense pain, Mira felt energy invading her mind, bringing a cool sensation that slightly eased the pain.
Instead of being cautious, Mira actively “absorbed” the energy that made her feel cool.
Once Mira successfully passed through the danger period and continued meditating to consolidate her cultivation, Mai Dongzi wiped away the nonexistent sweat.
She really didn’t know how to describe this girl, who had been spoiled by her mother into becoming a silly, naive sweetheart.
Any cultivator knows that allowing someone else’s spiritual energy to invade your sea of consciousness is a major taboo.
But Mira? She not only opened up her sea of consciousness generously, allowing Mai Dongzi’s spiritual energy to enter, but she also actively absorbed the energy of Mai Dongzi’s spiritual power, and was never satisfied.
In the end, she ended up absorbing more energy than her spiritual capacity could handle, which triggered her mental-type abilities…
Now that Mai Dongzi didn’t need to use sound therapy to assist her anymore, based on Mira’s condition, she tried feeding her half a bottle of energy potion to restore her spiritual energy. As expected, Mira drank it without resistance.
Mira’s seclusion lasted twice as long as Ren Guang’s, and not only were the head of the Xi family and his wife uneasy, even Ren Guang, who had a lot of confidence in Mai Dongzi, became anxious.
Under normal circumstances, for someone like Mira to take a cultivation potential enhancement potion was essentially courting death.
If it weren’t for Mai Dongzi successfully assisting someone every day over the past few days, and if Ren Guang didn’t know that his cousin was someone who kept her word, he wouldn’t have had the determination to persuade his parents.
As for the others in the waiting room, Ren Guang felt somewhat frustrated and turned his gaze toward the training room door.
Regarding Mira’s consumption of the cultivation potential enhancement potion, his father had only informed a few of the elders. However, now, there were more than a dozen younger family members in the waiting room.
Almost all the younger family members with notable cultivation potential, aside from Erica, were present.
In the past, most of these people had been on good terms with Ren Guang and had subtly looked to him as their leader.
However, after Erica’s identity was exposed and it was revealed that she was an S-level cultivator, her father, Negri, had become the head of the family. These people suddenly shifted their allegiance to Erica and now followed her as their leader.
Perhaps because, before Erica returned to the family, Ren Guang had been the acknowledged top young member of the family, Zhao Fanni seemed to have wanted Erica to step over Ren Guang to take his place. She had been pulling various strings, which led to an indirect rivalry between Ren Guang and Erica.
It wasn’t until Mai Dongzi, the fake daughter who had originally been used by Zhao Fanni and was about to be cast aside, made a powerful comeback that the two women’s arrogance was extinguished. Otherwise, Ren Guang would have had to continue enduring this situation.
Since then, except for Mai Dongzi, Ren Guang, who understood that only strength guaranteed security, had stopped being close with the young family members and focused entirely on cultivation.
In the past, Mai Dongzi had only held the title of the family head’s daughter without true influence. Under Zhao Fanni’s deliberate guidance, these young, elite family members privately called her a “waste” and looked down on her. It was a rare occasion when they didn’t ridicule her when they met.
After Mai Dongzi made her comeback, she only met with the few people who had always supported her in the family and then went outside to study, completely cutting ties with the young elites of the Xi family.
So, when these people came to visit, not only were they looking for an opportunity to bond with Ren Guang through their concern for Mira, but they also wanted to befriend Mai Dongzi.
Ren Guang, feeling somewhat irritated by these people constantly looking for chances to speak with him and inquire about Mai Dongzi, couldn’t help but glance at his father again.
The truth behind the fake daughter incident had exposed the hypocrisy of the Xi family, tearing down the family’s facade. Ren Guang then realized that the family he had once been proud of had many flaws.
If these flaws were not addressed and corrected, he could predict that, after the impending apocalypse crisis, the Xi family would quickly decline.