Chapter 14: Can’t Afford It
The next scene completely overturned Shi Anxin’s understanding of the past eighteen years.
She personally saw her younger sister plant a small seed, then sit cross-legged there with her hands on her knees, and immediately she keenly sensed an energy appearing on her younger sister’s body that made people feel exceptionally comfortable.
Then…
‘The seed actually sprouted…
One leaf… two leaves… three leaves…
It flowered!!!
Ah!!! The flowers fell, and green little strawberries grew out…
My goodness!!! It’s red!!!
……’
The above were all the shouts in Shi Anxin’s heart.
Finally, the strawberry ripened, Shi An’an withdrew her spiritual power, then quickly absorbed the spiritual energy permeating the air, slightly replenishing the spiritual power she had just used.
Opening her eyes, she saw Shi Anxin staring blankly, her eyes wide open looking at the pot of already ripened strawberries.
Shi Anxin looked at Shi An’an, then at the strawberry, then back at Shi An’an, opened her mouth, and closed it again.
“Xin Xin, what happened on your side? Why has it gone quiet?” Lin Jinmo’s voice came from the optical computer.
Only then did Shi An’an and the two realize that Shi Anxin had forgotten to end the call just now.
Shi Anxin immediately snapped back, quickly saying, “Nothing, I’m shopping for clothes with my younger sister right now, I’ll call you back later.” After speaking, she immediately hung up the communication.
Thinking for a moment, Shi Anxin vigilantly turned off the optical computer.
Taking a deep breath, she looked again at what was originally a small seed, now grown into three ripened strawberries, they must be very sweet!
The sweet fragrance of the strawberry lingered at Shi Anxin’s nose, successfully diverting Shi Anxin’s thoughts.
“Is this real? Can it be eaten?” Shi Anxin carefully leaned close to the strawberry.
“Of course it can be eaten, try it.” After Shi An’an spoke, she picked one and handed it to Shi Anxin.
She picked another one and tasted it herself, “Mm, delicious!” After being here for so many days, she finally got to eat fruit.
Shi Anxin cherished looking at the strawberry in her hand, gently sniffing it, “So fragrant!”
“Try it, the taste is pretty good.” Although not quite as good as spiritual fruits, it was much tastier than the meals bought at the restaurant on the first day.
Shi Anxin carefully took a bite, instantly, the sour and sweet strawberry flavor exploded in her mouth, her taste buds captured by the sweet and sour strawberry at this moment.
“So delicious!!” Shi Anxin’s eyes shone as she looked at Shi An’an.
“Real strawberries! And a hundred times better than any strawberries I’ve eaten before! No, a thousand times!!!” Shi Anxin had never eaten strawberries with such rich flavor, no, not just strawberries, even all the food she had eaten before couldn’t compare to this taste.
“An’an, you’re amazing! How did you do it? Why did it ripen so quickly? The strawberries at the Botanical Research Institute seem to take three months to mature, and even then they’re ripened with various nutrient solutions and ripeners…”
Shi Anxin tilted her head to look at Shi An’an, thought for a moment, and asked, “Is it because of that energy on your body?”
Shi An’an raised an eyebrow, she didn’t expect this older sister to be so perceptive, then nodded, “Yes, this is another… um… how to put it, training method of mine, different from your usual training.”
“Can I learn it?” Shi Anxin looked at Shi An’an expectantly.
Shi An’an looked at Shi Anxin, “I’m not sure, I need to check your body to see if you have the qualifications.”
Coming from the Cultivation World, of course she was willing to teach the cultivation method, so she would have a companion, or rather, the same sect!
Haha, thinking of this, Shi An’an felt exceptionally excited.
She, Shi An’an, could also establish a sect in the Interstellar Era ah!!!
However, what happened next successfully dispelled Shi An’an’s excitement.
After Shi An’an checked whether Shi Anxin’s body had a spiritual root, she realized that Interstellar people really had different body structures from people in the Cultivation World.
It wasn’t that the internal organs had mutated or anything, but that Interstellar people, to adapt to the space environment, had evolved their bodies multiple times, with the most important point being the meridians.
The order of the meridians was completely disrupted compared to people in the Cultivation World, so Shi An’an’s cultivation method simply couldn’t be used.
Of course, nowadays, Interstellar people’s bodies contained energy, their skin and muscles held enormous energy, and their mental power was also extremely powerful.
Receiving the negative answer, Shi Anxin was a bit disappointed, but she also knew some things couldn’t be forced.
Shi An’an pondered why her own body structure was the same as before, she guessed it was because when she arrived, this body had indeed collapsed inside and out from a star beast’s mental power attack.
And coincidentally, because of her arrival, it gained vitality, and the body changed due to her soul.
Plus later she absorbed spiritual energy and cultivated according to her previous method.
When she first started cultivating, she did notice this body’s meridians were somewhat different, but at the time she thought it was because the injury hadn’t healed, so she used spiritual power to forcibly correct them…
Thinking about it now, everything was really such a coincidence, fortunately she corrected them back then, otherwise she wouldn’t have been able to cultivate.
“However, I can teach you a method to increase mental power.”
Shi Anxin: “!!!” A turn in the road, Shi Anxin got excited again upon hearing this.
Shi An’an taught Shi Anxin the method to cultivate spiritual sense.
Over the next three days, Shi An’an didn’t see Shi Anxin again, only knowing she was holed up in her own room studying what she had taught her.
“Sigh, I still need a piece of land!”
Shi An’an looked at the yard filled to the brim by her arrangements, with no open space left to plant other plants, and felt a bit melancholic.
The yard was still too small!
“Xiao Xiao, is there open space for sale on Capital Star?”
Shi Xiaoxiao was watering the plants in the yard, “Miss An’an, because Capital Star is the Federation’s most prosperous and bustling planet, residential areas occupy basically forty percent of the area.
Commercial assets occupy twenty percent, various research institutes…
Basically, the planet’s resource occupation is already saturated.”
Shi An’an nodded, “What about other planets?”
“Except for planets above B-level star systems…”
Shi An’an looked at the star system map projected by Shi Xiaoxiao, the Federation centered on Capital Star, spreading out named A to Y star systems.
Which meant the earlier star systems had higher grades, and the later ones lower grades, relatively speaking with poorer planetary wealth and resources…
“Then if buying a low-grade planet…, how many star coins would it take?” Saying this out loud, Shi An’an felt she was getting a bit arrogant.
“According to the latest Federation planet sale prices, a planet in the lowest-grade Y star system would cost about ten billion star coins.” Shi Xiaoxiao informed Shi An’an of what she had queried.
“Ten billion!”
