George came inside his store while carrying his little ginseng inside and all people and his disciple looked at him strangely.
"Uhh.. master.. who is that child?"
George proudly said "My daughter of course!"
"What? No way.. You literally just left two days ago!" Lin An and Jun Jingyi's face twitched. They were searching for George for a few days, because they thought that he was searching for the ingredients for making the potion of regeneration.
George looked at him with a surprised expression. "Oh, you guys are here?"
"Papa, who are they?" little ginseng asked curiously.
George smiled at her. "It's papa's costumer." He looked at them apologitecally "I'll go upstairs first!"
He left his little ginseng with Sun Zhou who was still watering the plants. But, of course he told him to not doing anything funny to her. "If i saw that you are lusting on my daughter.. i'll throw a potion of harming to your d*ck!!" And he looked at his precious little thing with a warm smile. "Bye.. sweetie.. papa will work right now! I'll go back if there's no costumers!" Sun Zhou only looked at George while shivering.
"Wh.. why am i the only one who got mistreated the most?!" He thought.
Well, at least the little ginseng obediently stayed and she didn't cry like any other kid. If she cried, or was very mischievous like her father.. Sun Zhou didn't know what to do.
...
As he went downstairs, all of them came up to him and asked "Is it really your daughter?"
"Of course it was! Don't you see her exquisite face? It was inherited from this guy!"
All of them twitching in embarrassment and they also narrowed their eyes in shock when they thought that he kidnapped someone's child. "Where do you kidnap her? She was really beautiful! I almost want to steal her from you!!" Jun Yingyi said shamelessly.
George almost slapped his face when hearing Jun Jingyi saying that. "What do you mean by that?!"
"Cough! I mean.. you can't blame me for that! Her looks is really beautiful!! I could even bet a few hundred spirit stones.. I bet that if she grows up, she could ruin a country with just her looks!"
"Aww.. thank you! Of course she is beautiful! She is my daughter after all!!"
With a twitching face, he replied. "Okay.. stop talking about your daughter! It's becoming grosser and grosser if you keep talking about her! Do you have any potion of regeneration? You left Zhenqiu to get the ingredients right?"
George laughed awkwardly when he heard that they wanted more potion of regeneration. "I'm sorry.. I just running some errands at Zhaohao! Oh yeah.. if you wanted to go there, i advise you not to! There's a giant demonic beast invading that city! And for the ingredients... they are very scarce and hard to find! I need to find it tomorrow with my disciples! I'll close the store tomorrow!! Don't come here tomorrow, okay?"
Hearing that, they didn't left the shop empty handed.. they just bought something else. Even though the potion of instant health isn't as good as the potion of regeneration, it's still a good thing to have, especially when fighting someone.
...
In the dinner table, George and his disciples and daughter sit together while eating. They are very curious about the existence of this little cutie.
"Okay! As you might know.. this is my little daughter! Just call her little ginseng! Hey little ginseng, introduce yourself to my disciples!"
"Uhh.. master. Shouldn't we are the one who was going to introduce our self to her? I mean... we already know her name!!"
"Uwahh.. you already knew? As expected of my daughter! She is really popular and beautiful!!! Fine, you three should introduce yourself!"
The three of them didn't know what to say to this passionate father who liked to brag too much. "Uhh.. I'm Sun Zhou. Nice to meet you!"
"I'm Mu Yifei, my role in this shop is the potion maker, same with your father!"
Mu Yifei then thought that something isn't really right... "Wait.. he doesn't even concoct any potions, it was me.. who do that these few days!"
"Uhh.. I'm Su Ling! the shop clerk that you saw in the afternoon. Nice to meet you, little ginseng!" Su Ling looked at little ginseng with a creepy smile.
"Papa.. why is that person looked at me like that? She looked creepy!"
George looked at Su Ling with a menacing gaze, it was really similar to a lioness that saw their cub being attacked by something. It made Su Ling laugh awkwardly. "I'm.. really sorry! I really loved kids.."
"Hmph! I already said it to Sun Zhou! If any of you ever thinking doing something funny to my daughter! I'll throw a potion of harming to your genitalia!"
They find this side of George is really annoying, but they thought that he was also cute at the same time. With this, they know that his master is mischievous, stingy and really caring to his daughter.
"Tomorrow, i'd like to bring you guys to another realm... But it's a dangerous one. Anyone wants to train in there? There's a ton of mystical beast and demonic beast in there."
The three of them looked at each other. "We would like to go!" But, they looked at the little ginseng who were eating a hard candy blissfully. "But.. what about our little ginseng?"
George didn't think about that at all. "Uhh.. is it okay for a plant spirit to go to a really hot place like a nether?" He asked the A.I.
「Ding! I think it should be fine, but maybe you should constantly give her water, so she won't be dehydrated.」
George thought that it was logical, plant's body is basically water, as 90% of their body is water.
"I think it's fine to bring her there! I'll protect her, of course.. No need to worry!! What you need to worry is.. that place is super duper hot. You need some protection on your feet! But of course, if you liked to roast your feet, you could walk in a bare feet!"
Back to the nether!
This time around, George didn't forget to tell them about the danger of nether. Especially about the mobs and how they usually do things.
As two of his disciples is only in the fourth realm, and Mu Yifei is only at the first realm, he didn't want them to go and offending all kind of dangerous mobs like wither skeletons and those zombie pigmens.
"Okay! Does all of you had your equipment ready?" The equipment that George brought for his little ginseng is a full-body cooling suit that he bought from the eldritch shop. It was just in case she can't handle the heat. Not only that, but he also bought the heat resistance boots, as it was really an essential item to have if you want to go to the nether. And the most important thing of them all.. The potion of fire resistance, because it's better to be safe than sorry.
All of them, including little ginseng nodded their heads. Sun Zhou and Su Ling are really excited to go there, this could be seen just by looking at their body movement. In the other hand, Mu Yifei looked kinda nervous, while little ginseng looked indifferent like always.
Seeing all of them already geared up for the nether, George picked up his little ginseng and said "Let's go then!" He invited them to go to his attic.
"Umm.. master? I thought that we are going to go to another realm?"
"Mmn.. yes we are. So what are you asking about?"
Seeing the way to the attic made their minds filled with confusion. "Uhh.. master.. isn't this is.. the attic?" Mu Yifei asked.
George looked at their baffled face and his laughter broke out. "Yes.. of course, it is an attic. I made a portal to another realm in there! We don't need to walk to another city or something like that."
"Portal to another realm? Do you know what is that portal thingy?" Su Ling asked Sun Zhou and Mu Yifei that question.
"Uhh.. all of you don't know about the portal?" George was really baffled when he heard their question.
They nodded instantly. "We don't really know.."
"Well.. basically, I made some kind of teleportation array to another realm. That realm that we are going to is called as the netherworld of blocks. Coo isn't it?"
They looked at each other. "N.. netherworld? Does it really okay to go there? I've heard that the qi that envelopes the netherworld realm is harmful to us, cultivators!!"
"Pfft~ It's fine.. I already went there with a squadron of people. They didn't feel anything wrong with their body, or something like that! Don't be such a pussycat! It'd fine!"
The door that opened to the attic were opened, and they saw an obsidian frame stood in the middle of the room. Meanwhile, there's some weird purplish screen inside of that obsidian frame. "Look at that portal! Beautiful right?"
All of them shook their heads. "No? Ah.. well, nevermind! To go to the realm of netherworld of blocks, you need to jump through the portal.."
"What? Jump through?"
George jumped through the portal while hugging little ginseng in his arms. He was afraid that she will get uncomfortable when they crossed to another realm.
Like before, there's that dizzy feeling when you go inside the portal. But because George was already accustomed by it, he kinda liked it. As it was kinda similar to an extreme ride in an amusement park. But, for the little ginseng.. she surprisingly endured it, like it was nothing. When they arrived, she looked at George while smiling. But when George saw her poker face, he sensed that she is trembling a little.. "Uh Oh! Maybe I shouldn't bring you here.. Are you okay, my little ginseng?"
"Un.. it's okay, papa! It's only a little dizzy." She smiled sweetly to him.
George's heart immediately melted when he saw that smile. "Of course you are okay! You are my child, so you are supposed to be a very strong being! Here, papa will give you more candy!" This time, George gave her a candied hawthorn, that he always has seen in the streets of Zhenqiu. He always wondered what kind of candy is that red ball on the stick.
Little ginseng immediately has forgotten about that and was blissfully eating the candied hawthorn.
Seeing her blissful face, George couldn't help but ask her. "Is it really delicious? Papa never tried that candy before.. How is it taste like?"
"It's delicious and kinda sour! Papa, you try it!" She gave one of the stick to George and the two of them ate them together while waiting for his disciples to come to this dimension.
"Mmn.. this is kinda good! I wonder what is this thing made from? What is hawthorn?" George thought.
「Ding! It made form a haw fruit from a hawthorn tree.」
Wha- That means little ginseng ate a fruit... Does that mean.. she is a cannibal?
「Ding! No.. all thing that becomes spirits and turned into their human form needed food like all creature. While she is different from a normal human, she can just survive with just water and sunlight, as she was a plant-based spiritual being.」
The confusement inside George's mind still hasn't gone away completely. "So.. she is fine with normal food.. Like rice and meats?"
「Ding! Of course, she was..」
"Ah! I see.. Well.. next time I should give her food that's from a five star restaurant! Recommend me a good one, please! But, of course when I want to eat.."
「Ding! Okay, I got it!」
"Hey, little ginseng.. later I'll give you something delicious! You need to eat something other than sugar and candy!"
He thought that she was going to reject his suggestion, but she just agreed to him without any hesitation. "Daddy will definitely give you something that tastes amazing! Just wait for it!"
She nodded in agreement and continued munching on the candied hawthorn.
"Why aren't they coming here?! They are really slow!!" George thought.
But then, when he wanted to go back to his store, he saw a few silhouettes coming from the nether portal. "Why are you coming here so slowly?! Let's go now!"