Rebirth [Spiritual Qi Revival]

In the 21st century, spiritual qi revival suddenly swept through modern society. After Western countries announced that they would introduce magic education, Xie Jian's country announced that schools would teach cultivation as well. Xie Jian was a top student, and just after the New Year, she received this devastating news! She had only four months left before the college entrance exams! She'd been on track to get into a top university. But if she didn't have a spiritual root, and cultivation became standard in schools, university admissions would surely depend on aptitude. Wouldn't that ruin her chances at the exams? Her family ran an appliance business. Her uncle's family said that once everyone had storage bags and cultivated, they wouldn't fear heat or cold, wouldn't need refrigerators to keep food fresh or air conditioners for heating and cooling. The cultivation world would surely have battles, and the only use for fridges and freezers might be transporting corpses, since storage bags couldn't hold people. Xie Jian's whole family started to panic. When she was tested and found to have a spiritual root, something went wrong during her cultivation. She'd imagined going through a tribulation or something, emerging reborn and transformed from a five-foot-tall girl into a five-foot-nine model with fair skin and long legs. Who could have guessed she'd be cut in half instead, shrinking from five feet to just two and a half feet? She'd become a one-and-a-half-year-old toddler. Being a toddler was bad enough. Then, as she took the elevator down from the hotel where she'd been temporarily cultivating to go home: There was no one else in the elevator, but it announced, “Elevator overloaded.” Xie Jian looked up at the elevator's weight limit: 0.9 tons. She got in and out several times, but the elevator kept announcing that it was overloaded. She muttered, “Stupid elevator,” and had no choice but to take the stairs. On the way home, she even ran into human traffickers. The three traffickers took turns crouching down and struggling for five minutes, but none of them could lift her, so they gave up. She was completely baffled. When she got home, her father was surprised. He tried to pick her up but couldn't, nearly questioning reality itself. He found a weighbridge to weigh her. 1,927 jin! Xie Jian: ??? That very night, her mother searched online: How do you take care of a one-and-a-half-year-old toddler who weighs 1,927 jin… Xie Jian tested her toddler body. She was astonishingly strong, and her soft, pale skin couldn't be cut with a knife. A super-strong baby? Too heavy for human traffickers to carry off? Incredible defense? That didn't sound too bad… Content warnings: 1. The pacing is slow. This is not a pure wish-fulfillment story. 2. The “shrinking” plot doesn't happen early on. Read with caution. 3. This is a very long novel. Don't buy the whole thing or enable auto-renewal. Read as far as you like. Thank you. 4. If you decide to read it, some early parts aren't very well written, so feel free to skip around. Thank you all the same. Theme: Perseverance