Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 23: Chapter 21: Spiritual Energy, Heal!

“What, checked out?”

When Su Qingqing returned to the hotel in the afternoon to look for Huo Sining, she was informed by the staff that Huo Sining had already left.

Su Qingqing felt frustrated and, without Huo Sining’s contact information, had no choice but to return home without achieving anything.

Fortunately, she knew that Huo Sining had applied to S University, so as long as school started, she would be able to see that person.

Thinking of this, Su Qingqing’s mood brightened considerably.

Huo Sining’s luggage was so minimal that upon returning to the hotel, she only collected her change of clothes before checking out and heading straight back to her rented house.

Though the rental had everything, there was still quite a bit of cleaning to do to make it livable, and she also had to go to the supermarket to buy bedding and household items.

By the time she finished with all these tasks, it was already past seven in the evening.

Finally settled, Huo Sining felt tired, but she was also brimming with energy.

No matter what, this was a good beginning, and from today on, she would leave the past behind and plan for the future.

After quickly preparing some dinner, Huo Sining finally had time to deal with the angelfish she had brought over from Old Lady Xu.

However, after an afternoon’s time, the fish looked even more listless. Before, it would swim around the tank a bit, but now it was motionless in the water.

If not for its gills moving open and closed, Huo Sining might have thought it was already dead.

With an attitude of giving it a try, Huo Sining silently recited the incantation, then tentatively stretched her hand into the fish tank.

Feeling a cool energy surge from her forehead and spread to her limbs, Huo Sining’s heart stirred. She tried to use her thoughts to guide this spiritual energy.

Soon, something surprising happened.

The spiritual energy actually responded to her commands, slowly gathering towards the index finger of Huo Sining’s hand.

Encouraged, Huo Sining continued to direct the spiritual energy, and before long, she was stunned by the bizarre scene before her eyes.

At her fingertips began to emerge a cluster of spiritual energy, pale green luminescence swirling in the water.

It seemed that the fish sensed the changes in the water, the listless Rainbow Fairy Fish suddenly moved, turning its head to sniff.

Before long, it twisted its body and swam over.

Seeing that the spiritual energy was indeed effective, Huo Sining was overjoyed and enveloped the angelfish with it.

The spiritual energy wrapped around the fish’s tail as if it had a mind of its own.

In just a few minutes, the fish’s tail wound was gradually engulfed by the spiritual energy.

Huo Sining’s heartbeat quickened, watching as the wound on the angelfish slowly healed, she did not blink an eye.

That was until she felt her body go numb, her forehead break out into a cold sweat, and her energy draining away.

Huo Sining was alarmed and quickly withdrew her hand, realizing only then that her body was starting to falter.

Huo Sining’s face was pale, yet her heart was indescribably excited.

She felt as if she had been hit by a huge windfall—the spiritual energy from the Water-Repelling Pearl could indeed heal wounds!

Although the spiritual energy was not abundant and had to be used a little at a time, Huo Sining was already very satisfied.

Once she retracted her hand, the Water-Repelling Pearl settled down from her forehead.

The wound on the angelfish’s tail, although not completely gone, had reduced in swelling and begun to scab over after Huo Sining had just transferred Spiritual Energy for treatment, and the little guy seemed much more spirited.

Probably because it couldn’t sense the presence of Spiritual Energy, the angelfish swam several laps around the aquarium, searching for a while before reluctantly retreating.

Seeing that the fish was no longer in serious trouble, Huo Sining stopped paying attention to it.

She had planned to take a trip to Yellow River that night but didn’t go out as she was somewhat fatigued from using too much Spiritual Energy and went to bed early.

Waking up early the next day, she felt her Spiritual Energy had recovered quite a bit and once again used it on the angelfish.

With the experience from before, her application of Spiritual Energy was more mature.

To avoid unnecessary waste, this time she only extended a forefinger, channeling wisps of Spiritual Energy to wrap around the angelfish.

Before long, the green aura flowed, and when the scab on the fish’s tail disappeared, and the tail looked as good as new, Huo Sining didn’t feel the fatigue she had felt the night before.

The fish, apparently feeling the improvement to its body, darted excitedly around the aquarium, happily blowing bubbles.

Huo Sining wasn’t sure if it was her imagination, but overnight, she felt the angelfish seemed somewhat different from the day before.

Not only had the stripes on its body straightened, but the previously complicated colors had also faded, yet the red-brown base color and blue-green stripes had become deeper, appearing even more enchantingly vibrant, with the intermingling of blue and red more luxuriously dazzling.

It was strange indeed. Puzzled, Huo Sining decided to look up information on ornamental fish.

After learning about the value of ornamental fish from Old Lady Xu, Huo Sining realized she was lacking knowledge about the aquaculture industry.

Wanting to make money wasn’t as simple as just getting information from the seafood market—after all, the likes of koi, as Old Lady Xu had mentioned, definitely weren’t available there.

Moreover, it seemed she had fallen into a trap of focusing her abilities on edible fish and fresh seafood, neglecting that the aquaculture industry included ornamental fish in addition to edible ones.

Take the Rainbow Fairy Fish, for example; one could cost four to five thousand, enough for what she’d earn from a whole night’s hard work fishing for old river clams.

The price of ornamental fish is vastly different from the value of edible fish, and if it were to make money, such a business would naturally be better than selling edible fish.

Furthermore, with the Water-Repelling Pearl in her possession capable of healing diseases, she would undoubtedly have a significant advantage in fish farming.

Seeing such a business opportunity, Huo Sining’s eyes lit up, her interest in ornamental fish growing stronger.

Being a person of action, Huo Sining got ready and immediately left the house to enter an internet cafe, wanting to look up information on ornamental fish.

However, at this time the internet was not very developed, and there wasn’t much information about ornamental fish online, so Huo Sining only got a rough idea.

There are a multitude of ornamental fish species within the country, but choosing them requires a lot of care, as it’s not possible to discern their value during the breedling phase—only when they grow into maturity can one see their worth.

The value of ornamental fish lies in whether their appearance is rare.

Similar to humans where they say girls transform at eighteen, there’s also the adage ‘the older, the uglier’. The same applies to fish: not all that are unimpressive when young turn out to be mediocre when grown.

Therefore, to select good fish, one needs to test their judgment and also rely on luck.

Moreover, the more expensive the fish, the more delicate and hard to keep alive they usually are, whether due to low reproduction rates or scarcity in number.

Some fish species are likely imported from abroad, and others are hype created by businesses, with artificially inflated prices.

No matter how eloquently those people speak, the principle of ornamental fish remains unchanged: rarity dictates price, the rarer they are, the more valuable.

Huo Sining didn’t understand all those rigid guidelines, but she had her own strategy for choosing fish, which was to see which species would be highest in value when they grew up.

Simply put, she would only invest in the expensive ones, as with the Water-Repelling Pearl as her unbeatable cheat, it was impossible for her to harm the fish’s health, and she wasn’t worried about them dying prematurely; so whatever fish was expensive, she would raise that fish, and when it grew up, it would sell for good money.