The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 217 - 214: Impossible to Marry Someone Else, It Has to Be Her

Chapter 217: Chapter 214: Impossible to Marry Someone Else, It Has to Be Her

"So, you were at home? I thought you ran off to catch ghosts. Why didn’t you answer my call?"

Chu Yan lifted her quilt, finding the situation both amusing and exasperating.

Seeing him, Qin Zhao felt a stinging sensation in her eyes.

She couldn’t help but stretch her arms out towards him, "I’m so tired, hold me up."

Chu Yan picked her up and placed her on his lap, only to discover her face bore a sleep-befuddled expression. She was dozy and kept nuzzling against him, giving off a clingy vibe, just like the little kitten he raised.

"Have you been playing the thief these past few days?"

"No."

"Then why didn’t you answer my calls?"

"I didn’t hear the ringtone, I’ll answer from now on."

Chu Yan was struck by how well-behaved she was today. In the end, he figured it must be because she was not fully awake that she was so compliant.

"How long have you slept?"

"One day? Feels like two days, I don’t know."

"Get up and eat something. It’s not good for your health to sleep too much."

"I don’t want to get up." She lay on Chu Yan’s chest, her voice muffled, her eyes misty.

"Then lie down for a bit longer, I’ll go cook. When it’s done, you must get up."

Qin Zhao didn’t say a word.

It was a long time before she rasped, "Why are you so good to me?"

"If I’m not good to you, then who would I be good to?"

Chu Yan pinched her cheek, "You’ve really confused yourself with sleep. Don’t sleep so much in the future."

"What if it was someone else who married you? Would you be this good to her, too?"

Qin Zhao asked persistently, really wanting to know.

"I could never marry someone else; it would only be you."

Initially, it was because of that strange dream, but as they spent more time together, Chu Yan realized he couldn’t be without her.

Chu Yan left her room, and Qin Zhao watched his retreating figure for a long time.

The phone suddenly rang.

Qin Zhao picked it up and saw it was a call from Huo Xun.

"Why couldn’t your phone be reached these past few days?"

Huo Xun was at home now, his tone somewhat teasing.

"That thing with Xu Cheng, that wasn’t your doing, was it?"

The Xu Family had reported Xu Cheng’s disappearance to the police, prompting them to dispatch a large number of officers for the search. But no matter how much they searched, they couldn’t find him until he was mysteriously dumped at the Xu Family’s doorstep.

Why was it mysterious?

Because surveillance footage showed Xu Cheng appearing out of thin air on the doorstep.

No one had passed by, and no one had transported him there.

At first, Huo Xun thought Xu Cheng’s enemies had kidnapped him and felt a schadenfreude.

But after seeing the eerie surveillance footage, he began to suspect it might have something to do with Qin Zhao.

"What happened? I’ve been resting at home these days, what’s wrong with him?"

Qin Zhao lay lazily on the bed, her tone indifferent.

"He was kidnapped, beaten up badly. His body is covered in wounds, and he lost several teeth. The most serious injury is below the waist; he might have to live like a eunuch hereafter."

Huo Xun didn’t press her when she didn’t confess and changed the subject, "Tsk tsk, he’s still in the ICU, and it was quite a struggle to bring him back."

Of course, Qin Zhao knew Xu Cheng could be saved; she had deliberately left him with a glimmer of life because letting him die would be the greatest relief.

She wanted Xu Cheng to become a complete invalid, to live humiliated in this world, and to taste the scornful laughs and disdainful glances of other people.

Qin Zhao let out a cold laugh, "He deserves it."

"Indeed, he got what he deserved," Huo Xun commented, "I’ve got something else to take care of, so I’m hanging up now."

He had to deal with the case of Tao Xi and Nan Sijin’s deaths, so he didn’t chat with Qin Zhao much.

These past few days had been hard, and Qin Zhao had slept restlessly, waking up with a heavy head.

After hanging up the phone, she lay back down in bed.

Time passed without her noticing—enough for Chu Yan to finish preparing lunch and come looking for her.

Finding her still wrapped in her blankets, he pulled her out of bed.

"How come you’re still not up? Do I need to feed you myself?"

Chu Yan pinched her cheek and kissed her.

"I wouldn’t mind that."

Qin Zhao mumbled, rubbing her eyes.

He actually got ready to leave the room and bring her food in bed.

Hastily, Qin Zhao spoke up, "Just leave it there, I’ll come out and eat."

She got up first to wash up in the bathroom and then went to have lunch with him in the living room.

Her half-frozen brain finally started to work properly.

Qin Zhao carefully considered what she needed to do next.

Little Lamb had given her many rare spirit plants, but most of them had been consumed by Tengshe, as he was still nursing injuries that could be healed by these plants.

After consuming the spirit plants, Tengshe had fallen back into a deep sleep.

The most urgent task was to refine the Soul Reviving Pill to help resurrect Little Lamb.

Given Qin Zhao’s current level of cultivation, it would be somewhat difficult to refine the Soul Reviving Pill, but the real challenge was not her cultivation but the medicinal ingredients required for the pill.

Besides the spirit plants Little Lamb had provided, she still lacked the key ingredient: Earth Soul Grass.

The Earth Soul Grass required peculiar growing conditions. It needed to be in Jiyin Land, irrigated by pure and potent spiritual power, for the grass to grow. Qin Zhao didn’t know if such a place existed in this world.

Even in the Canglan Realm, such places were rare.

They were mostly sites used to suppress evil objects and were extremely dangerous.

After lunch, Qin Zhao sent a message to Shangguan Qiu to ask if she knew what Earth Soul Grass was.

Shangguan Qiu said she didn’t know what Earth Soul Grass was, but she did know of a place with Jiyin Land characteristics and accompanied by pure spiritual power.

"Where is this place?"

Qin Zhao called Shangguan Qiu directly.

"It’s a highly revered monk’s tomb, which has only recently been discovered. However, the archaeological team has been too scared to explore it, claiming the monk entered nirvana there to suppress an extremely powerful evil object."

Shangguan Qiu sighed before continuing, "An uncle of mine is a professor in the Archaeology Department at Imperial University. Just yesterday, he told me that a tomb robber had broken into the tomb.

It’s highly likely that they disturbed whatever is down there, because when their archaeological team prepared to enter the tomb, they encountered some very ominous occurrences and had to retreat."

According to Shangguan Qiu’s description, the tomb was indeed very likely to have Earth Soul Grass. The monk was able to suppress powerful evil objects with his divine power, which had to be pure, so Qin Zhao decided to check it out.

"Could you contact your uncle for me?"

"Just a word from me will do."

Shangguan Qiu was happy to help Qin Zhao, especially since Qin Zhao had saved her life back in Wuchang Town.

As Chu Yan was washing dishes, he overheard Qin Zhao on the phone.

"Are you planning to go out again?"

He couldn’t help but ask.

"Yeah, I need the Soul Reviving Pill to resurrect Little Lamb, but I don’t have the key ingredient for it. I asked Shangguan Qiu, and there might be a place that has this ingredient."

By soul-bonding with Little Lamb, Chu Yan didn’t experience any change in his physical body.

However, he could feel his spiritual power seemed stronger, and despite being busy every day, he wasn’t very tired, and he started to see things he couldn’t see before.

Like yin energy, Evil Energy, wandering souls, and the like.