Over the next few days, Lin Chen and Sheng Cai'er stayed in the little house by the stream.
Though they called it a stay, it was more like Lin Chen was helping Sheng Cai'er recover.
Every morning, Cai'er followed him through a simple set of guiding exercises in the courtyard to stretch her muscles and loosen her joints. Afterward, Lin Chen taught her a little of the most basic cultivation methods.
First, she learned to sense spiritual energy, then to guide it, progressing step by step as she slowly gained control of her own body.
He was in no hurry to make her stronger. For an eight-year-old child, progress was not what mattered most. What mattered was that she could finally use her own eyes, ears, hands, and feet to truly experience the world.
This feeling was new to Lin Chen, too.
He had so many wives and so many students, and later, tens of thousands of students at the Federation Academy, but this was his first time teaching such a young child from scratch himself.
He felt something subtle, as though he were planting a sapling without knowing what kind of flowers it would bear.
Sheng Cai'er had an excellent aptitude, so excellent that it surprised Lin Chen.
With the Reincarnation Spirit Furnace tamed, the spiritual energy within her was countless times greater than that of ordinary cultivators her age.
More importantly, her perception of spiritual energy was extraordinarily keen, like someone who had lived in darkness for far too long and treasured every ray of light once they could see again.
On the evening of the third day, Lin Chen sat drinking tea in the courtyard while Sheng Cai'er crouched in a corner, looking at flowers.
He watched for a while, then noticed how absorbed she was. He