"You're so tiny, I can take you anywhere."
The little one's soft, sweet praise immediately soothed Meimei.
It was very easy to appease.
"Never mind that. Look at what I brought you. Being a Treasure-Seeking Mouse has its advantages. I found lots of things over there and brought them back."
It opened its mouth and began pawing at its bulging cheeks with its tiny pink paws, digging things out of its cheek pouches.
Soon, a small pile of beautiful stones appeared on the bed.
At a rough glance, there seemed to be several hundred, each the size of a baby's fist.
"These are spirit stones, the common currency of the Cultivation Realm. They use them to cultivate, and you can absorb them too, little one."
"Especially this one."
Meimei picked up a deep green stone with a rather unusual color and handed it to her. It was a size smaller than the others, but its color was the prettiest, and the energy inside it was the most concentrated.
"This is spirit marrow. Keep it with you all the time. Ask your uncle to make it into a necklace for you."
Qin Yan held it in her little hands and sniffed it curiously.
"Pretty!"
Meimei raised its head proudly. "Of course it's pretty."
"These are some spirit plant seeds from the cultivation world."
"This is an alchemist's inheritance."
"This is the Sword Dao inheritance of a Mahayana Sword Cultivator."
"This is the Talisman Dao inheritance of a powerful Talisman Cultivator."
"And these are some spirit artifacts."
In just a short while, quite a few things had piled up in the room.
Meimei stood upright like a person, planting its tiny pink paws on its plump waist.
"I found a secret realm and got lots of good things in there. If my combat strength hadn't been so low that the powerful spirit beasts inside chased me around and nearly killed me, I could've picked up even more!"
Although Qin Yan still did not understand what all these things did, she was not the least bit stingy with her praise for Meimei.
The beautiful little girl was softhearted and gentle.
"Meimei, you're super amazing."
"Keep yourself safe. Don't get hurt."
Meimei loved nothing more than hearing Qin Yan praise it in her soft, sweet voice.
The two adorable little ones snuggled together.
"Meimei, I'll give you a bath."
With that, she carried the little Treasure-Seeking Mouse off to bathe it, using the same grape-scented soap she used herself.
She patiently towel-dried Meimei's fur until it was half dry before blow-drying it.
The things piled in the room were too messy, so Qin Yan began tidying them up with Meimei, Jinbao, and the others.
"If you don't need these inheritances, see whether any suit your uncles."
The little one was still too young and weak. Those backing her had to grow stronger so they could better protect her as she grew.
The Life Tree Crystal Core had already become one with her, so she would naturally gain some of the innate abilities the Life Tree could wield.
Among them, influencing the surrounding environment was a passive skill, and there were also healing and Purification.
These were all healer skills.
Moreover, they were abilities that people in this world would absolutely fight over the moment they appeared.
After all, Purification could cleanse Weird Qi contamination.
Yet the world currently had no way to purify Weird Qi without any side effects, so Qin Yan's existence could be called unique.
And being unique also meant danger.
That was why her uncles had to be strong enough.
Meimei pressed against Qin Yan's chubby little cheek and said with heartache,
"You're still just a little sapling. Even that damn Nightmare can bully you!"
The thought of Qin Yan being trapped in the Nightmare World when it arrived made Meimei furious.
My baby was wonderful; the aura on her was very attractive to some Anomalies.
Some, like Jinbao, approached her and were willing to protect her. Naturally, there were also those like Blood Wedding Dress, who wanted her enticing flesh.
Fortunately, the jade token Fu Nanshan had given her had inadvertently concealed some of her aura.
But the more powerful Anomalies could still sense her. However, with Jinbao, an even more powerful Anomaly, by her side, the lower-level ones didn't dare come near.
Only by joining forces with Nightmare had Blood Wedding Dress dared risk being killed by Jinbao and come looking for Qin Yan in broad daylight.
In the end, Jinbao had beaten Blood Wedding Dress half to death and captured her, but the wisp of Nightmare Qi concealed on her had taken the opportunity to hide, then slipped into Qin Yan's dream while she slept, intending to control her body.
Nightmare Qi was very good at concealing itself, which was why Jinbao and the others had not discovered it.
Fortunately, Fu Nanshan's jade pendant had blocked most of the Nightmare Qi, preventing it from possessing her outright, but it had drawn Qin Yan into Blood Wedding Dress's Resentment Illusion.
It had hoped to use this to drain Qin Yan's vitality, then take control of her body when she was weak.
Jinbao said, "That Nightmare definitely isn't dead!"
What it had killed was only a wisp of Nightmare's incarnation.
Qin Yan stroked Jinbao's puffed-up cheeks.
"Don't be angry. Don't be angry."
She had lost her memories of being afflicted by Nightmare, so she was not particularly frightened.
"Bad guy. We'll get Uncle to beat it up."
The little one puffed out her cheeks as she offered comfort.
Meimei huffed twice. "Things like Nightmare have strong mental attacks, but their physical attacks are practically nonexistent. Let me see if there's anything that can protect your sea of consciousness."
It absolutely could not let that fellow exploit another opening.
Suffering once was enough.
Perhaps because she had stayed in her room too long, Fu Yunting came looking for her.
Qin Yan ran to open the door.
"Little one, you..."
Fu Yunting saw the pile of things in her room.
His eyes nearly popped out.
Wait, what was all this?
It looked a little like junk.
After all, Meimei had picked them up in a secret realm. Since they could be picked up, they had no owners, and there was no telling how long they had been left there.
The weapons looked filthy. Some looked dull, and some even had cracks.
But even though they looked like a heap of "garbage," Fu Yunting could clearly sense that these things were extraordinary.
"Where... did all this come from?"
None of these things had been in the little one's room before.
Qin Yan poked her fingers together, feeling a little guilty.
"I brought them. What about it?"
Meimei stood on Qin Yan's head and kicked Tuantuan to the floor, where the little creature bounced twice with springy boings.
Tuantuan: ???
Qin Yan hurriedly picked Tuantuan up and stroked that little head.
Fu Yunting's gaze landed on Meimei.
Its body was tiny, but its eyes were particularly arrogant and defiant.
"Hmph. These are all presents I brought for the little one. None of your business."
"You can talk, too."
Fu Yunting poked it.
Meimei immediately staggered from the poke.
Its fur bristled. "Have you got any manners? How can you just poke someone's body? You pervert!"
Qin Yan tried to break up the quarrel in a daze. "Don't fight. Meimei, no fighting."
"Uncle, no fighting either."
Fu Yunting asked directly, "You're also the reason Yanyan found out about her origins, aren't you?"
He looked calm on the surface, but inwardly, he was far from composed.
After all, even when Jinbao communicated with them, it did not actually open its mouth and speak.
It was more like a manifestation of energy.
But this little hamster could genuinely talk!
He had never seen that before. It was so unusual.
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