I don't know how long I slept but I awoke to a maid I believe cleaning my room.
The maid had a dull lifeless expression on her face completely devoid of emotion.
She did things like picking up my toys and putting them away.
Dusting the curtains and sweeping the floor she did all this while not even giving me a single glance before leaving as suddenly as she arrived.
I was more than just strange it was downright creepy how she just completely ignored my existence like that.
Her movements were also odd she moved in a very methodical way like she carefully planned every movement before entering my room.
As I pondered over the strange event another maid entered my room but instead of cleaning, she placed a tray of exquisite-looking food on a child-sized table in front of me.
Before I could ask her anything she handed me some eating utensils and then left my room again the maid's movements were very methodical like she practiced them many times before.
Ignore what just happened I looked at the tray of food that was given to me the tray itself looked extravagant instead of normal metal or silver it was actually solid gold.
Same with the utensils she gave me instead of silverware it was goldware finely polished gold at that.
They sparkled so brightly like a star in the night sky I couldn't imagine how expensive this tray and goldware were.
As for the food, it looked kind of plain it was a bowl of white rice, a side of fish, and a bowl of meat with veggies covered in some kind of gravy or possibly a sauce.
Compared to the dishes they were served in they were very boring but still, they didn't seem normal.
The white rice was so white it was almost transparent each grain was like a small piece of translucent glass and oddly the rice had no scent at all.
As for the fish, it looked like slices of perhaps tuna that was cut extra thin to the point it was almost as thin as paper.
The meat bowl was also strange I couldn't tell whether or not it was beef or poultry hell it could even be pork for all I know.
The veggies were also unidentifiable to me and as for this sauce it looked like gravy but it was too watery to be gravy and oddly enough it smelled an awful lot like ranch dressing.
This was all so bizarre to me but I hadn't eaten in a while and this did look pretty good so I decided to put my suspicions aside and eat it.
I began with the rice I picked up my spoon and ate a tiny spoonful of it and strangely enough it melted as soon as it hit my tongue and as it melted a warm and comforting feeling ran through my body.
I felt invigorated like I had unlimited energy to burn and before I knew I ate the entire bowl of rice.
All it took was a single spoonful to enchant me this was without a doubt the best rice I'd ever eaten before but what kind of rice was it.
I thought about it and I came to one conclusion it had to be spirit rice a special type of rice grown by nurturing it with Qi the energy of heaven and earth.
It was the staple of a cultivator's diet that almost everyone ate it contains Qi that strengthens and purifies the body and improves a cultivator's overall Qi.
It was actually not too difficult to grow but it was a little pricey at least from what I've heard but it's not just the rice that's special.
The fish, meat, vegetables, and sauce were all full of Qi this wasn't a meal for a mortal but instead, it was for a cultivator.
It didn't make sense though why was I being fed this I know I have no cultivation yet so why did they give me this precious food full of rich Qi.
Wait now I remember some large or wealthy clans give their descendants food with rich Qi in it to get their bodies familiar with Qi.
So when they begin cultivating it becomes easier for them to break through realms it also provides many health benefits and can make your body much stronger than any normal human being.
I get it now so if I eat all this I'll get stronger don't need to tell me twice I'm eating all of this and in the end, I wolfed down the entire tray of food in under a minute.
After I finished a maid walked in suddenly like she had been waiting for the exact moment I finished my food and she took the tray and left very quickly.
Not long after that, a group of maids came in each with a deadpan expression on their cold emotionless faces.
In a very quick and organized manner, they placed a large tub-sized cauldron in the cent of the room.
Then seemingly out of nowhere, they took out jars and bottles of strange liquids and unusual substances and began to pour them into the cauldron.
After it was full one of the maids lit a fire under the cauldron causing the mixture to boil and as it bubbled the other maids mixed the strange bloody concoction until a roar sounded from within the cauldron.
I was very confused but also very impressed by this highly organized display but as I stared at them in amazement one of the maids grabbed me and proceeded to strip me.
It happened too fast for me to react and before I knew it I was thrown into the boiling cauldron full of a thick blood-red ooze.
It was pain like I never felt before it didn't even compare to the poison or the beating I suffered in my last life.
I violently tried to get out of the cauldron but each time a maid would push me back in.
I thrashed around trying to get out but by doing that I ended up swallowing large amounts of the odd elixir and it hurt even worse drinking it than just swimming in it.
I struggled in vain for about an hour before the maids took me back and placed me in a different tub but instead of a painful potion, this one was filled with regular warm water.
I looked at the cauldron and noticed it was almost empty and what was left inside was a putrid-smelling black ooze.
This ooze was all over my body making me smell like a garbage dump full of skunks and I assume the reason why these maids are washing me so roughly.
After all the black gunk was gone they dried me with an extremely fluffy towel and put a new set of clothes on me.
Then another maid tucked me into bed and even gave me a kiss on the forehead before leaving.
Only one maid remained and she took out several pills and made me eat each one before getting up and walking away.
The pills tasted weird but I could tell they were strengthening my body after all that happened I could tell I was stronger than before.
This was incredible but being a four-year-old child I couldn't stay awake any longer after all that hullabaloo so I drifted off to sleep.