Chapter 0015: The Parents Speculate About Their Little Daughter’s Extraordinary Encounter (All Fellow Cultivators Are Welcome to Help Create a New World)

Liu Guoxiang: "…They’re all my children. What’s wrong with spoiling them a little?"
"I will grow up and honor my mother."
Hearing his mother say this, Yi Rongqi felt an indescribable warmth in his heart, and then he said softly,
"Heh…"
Yi Zhongxiang snorted lightly. "If you don’t work hard, you probably won’t even be able to support yourself, let alone honor your mother."
"Is that how you talk about your son?"
Liu Guoxiang was displeased. "If a child can’t support themselves, it means we as parents haven’t done well enough."
"Just go ahead and spoil him then."
Yi Zhongxiang, not wanting to bother with the mother and son, shot his youngest son a sharp look. "What are you still looking at? Hurry up and do your homework."
"Your second sister and little sister are so focused, but you keep getting distracted."
"Is that my fault?"
Yi Rongqi muttered under his breath, "Isn’t it because you’re disturbing me here?"
Yi Zhongxiang raised his hand high but, under his wife’s gaze, eventually lowered it.
He turned and went out, taking a change of clothes with him.

Inside the livestream room:
"What’s going on in the ancestral home? It feels like they’re arguing, but not really."
"Is this how the ancestors express love to family? So unique."
"I don’t get it. When one ancestor is educating the kids, why is the other one contradicting them?"
"If you don’t understand, that’s normal. Over three thousand years of cultural difference—if it were easy to understand, we wouldn’t call them ancestors."
"The little host is so serious about her writing. Even with two little ancestors standing in front of her, she’s not distracted at all."
"Of course, she’s a child chosen by the system, naturally with her own unique talents."

Yi Rongkun was indeed very diligent in her studies.
The system had told her that if she studied well, she would be rewarded with sweet candy.
The little cutie finished writing the initials and finals of Chinese pinyin twice and completed the arithmetic problems assigned by the teacher.
Seeing her two nephews and niece eagerly waiting by her side, the innate human instinct to teach others stirred within her.
"Chunchun, Tiantian, do you want to learn to recognize characters with your aunt?"
Yi Shichun and Yi Shitian’s eyes lit up, nodding vigorously. "Yes."
"Alright then, Auntie will teach you to recognize characters."
Yi Rongkun immediately became enthusiastic, pointing to the characters she had just written to teach her niece and nephews: "Come, read after me: a (ah), o (oh), e (uh)."

"Right, that’s how you pronounce them."
Listening to her niece and nephews repeat after her, Yi Rongkun nodded in satisfaction and continued teaching.
But soon she noticed that the siblings seemed to have poor memory; what she had just taught them was forgotten shortly after.
Following the system’s advice, she decided to first teach them six simple pinyin sounds to ensure they could remember them solidly.
She guided them to try writing these pinyin sounds as well.
However, Yi Shichun and Yi Shitian couldn’t even hold their pens properly, making writing impossible.
"Little sister, don’t have them write anymore; it’s just wasting notebooks."
Yi Ronghua, seeing how hard his children were struggling, felt awkward and a bit uneasy inside.
But facing his own little sister, he couldn’t show such feelings and thus tried to approach the matter this way.
Yi Rongkun blinked and nodded. "Alright, then Chunchun and Tiantian just learn to read with me first."

"Oh dear, the two little ancestors don’t seem to be learning as fast as the little host."
"Learning speed probably depends on how strong their mental focus is, right?"
"It looks like the two little ancestors don’t have as strong a mental focus as the little host."
"Not entirely, but it’s normal that mental focus greatly helps learning."
"Looks like the little host’s mental focus is at least B level."

In the livestream room, viewers were discussing and guessing Yi Rongkun’s mental focus rating.
Unaware of the outside attention, Yi Rongkun was fully concentrated on teaching her niece and nephews pinyin.
She patiently corrected their pronunciation without a hint of impatience.
Yi Shichun and Yi Shitian also learned very earnestly. Though they occasionally made mistakes, the sparkle in their eyes grew brighter.
Clearly, they had developed a strong interest in learning.
Children’s curiosity for new knowledge is no less than that of adults.

Standing aside, Yi Ronghua watched this scene with mixed feelings.
He was comforted by his children’s attitude toward learning but worried about their progress.
He knew his little sister was a smart child who learned quickly.
But his two children didn’t seem to excel in this area, which made him somewhat anxious.
Still, he soon pushed those feelings aside.
After all, every child grows at their own pace and should not be forced too much.
He believed that with enough patience and time, his children would surely improve.

Time passed gently. Soon, Yi Rongying and Yi Rongqi finished their homework and packed their bags.
Yi Rongkun noticed her niece and nephews beginning to nod off, so she stopped teaching. "Alright, that’s enough for today."
"Chunchun, Tiantian, before you sleep, think about what Auntie taught you in your heads."
"Tomorrow Auntie will test you."
"Okay."
The siblings rubbed their tired eyes and agreed wholeheartedly.

Seeing this, Yi Ronghua and Mu Decai quickly stepped forward, each picking up one child. After greeting them, they went back to their rooms to rest.
"Little sister, come, Mom will wash you up before bed."

When Yi Rongkun returned to her room and put away her homework, Liu Guoxiang brought in some warm water and saw her little daughter nodding off on the bed.
She was clearly very sleepy herself.

While Yi Rongkun fell asleep on her parents’ bed, Yi Rongying couldn’t fall asleep alone on the shared bed with her sister.
There were too many questions swirling in her heart.
If she didn’t ask now, she feared she might never have the chance again. "Dad, Mom, what happened with little sister today?"

Though the beds were separated by a blue mosquito net to block sight, it couldn’t block sound.
Thus, the girl’s voice easily reached her parents’ ears.
She knew very well that besides teaching little sister to count, she hadn’t taught her anything else.
Yet today, little sister was not only doing homework with pen and notebook by herself but was also teaching her niece and nephews quite confidently.
Yi Rongying had seen the pinyin and arithmetic problems little sister wrote and solved—her handwriting was better than when she first started school, and all the arithmetic was correct.

Liu Guoxiang and Yi Zhongxiang were silent for a moment. Eventually, Liu Guoxiang recounted the changes in the household since little sister woke up from her midday nap to her second daughter.
After hearing her mother’s account, Yi Rongying’s heart was a storm of emotions. "This…"
"Rongying, this matter cannot be spoken about outside."
Hearing the surprise in her second daughter’s tone, Yi Zhongxiang still solemnly reminded her, "Little sister herself can’t explain what’s going on yet."
"Your mother and I guess that little sister has probably encountered something sacred and legendary. We don’t know if it’s good or bad for our family."
"But regardless of good or bad, it has happened, and our task is to keep this a secret for little sister."
"Do you understand, Rongying?"