Chapter 72: Laundry
When Anji finally woke up from the weird dream, she still felt strangely upset at the old golden dragon. The little girl deemed it irrational, so she soon replaced that feeling with enthusiasm for a new day. Although it was only one out of the twenty meridians, Anji had already established the most difficult first step. All she had to do was repeat this nineteen more times for each meridian with her teacher.
The sky was still dark because the sun was not up yet. However, Anji was too awake to fall back asleep. Her shifu would wake her up soon, so she decided to make her bed and tidy the room up a little before washing up. Maybe she could help to prepare breakfast and forage for ingredients.
As Anji got busy with chores, she noticed how much energy she was brimming with. Was this the miracle created by laying the foundations of a meridian path?
From the other room in the hut, Yan Ping wondered what her student was up to. After expanding so much energy yesterday trying to smoothen out Anji’s chaotic energy while she slept, the blind cultivator was exhausted. However, she was happy to learn how energetic Anji felt. Perhaps it was alright to let Anji try and cultivate today, opening a new meridian path by herself. It would be difficult but not impossible. After all, Anji could now store energy in her Tai Yin Meridian.
Crash!
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Getting up from her meditative position, Yan Ping grabbed her staff. It was too early to relax around her student. The sun was not up yet, but already, Anji had gotten herself into a new sort of trouble. Raising children wasn’t an easy job. It usually took an entire village to raise one child. Unfortunately, there was only one old and blind woman in this hut.
"What are you doing so early in the morning?" Yan Ping finally located the child in the backyard.
Startled by her teacher’s presence, Anji let out a little scream of surprise.