desire

Not far away, Jiang Yan and others lit a bonfire and placed the other person who was rescued from the crocodile's belly by the fire to keep warm.

This person probably stayed in the crocodile's belly for a longer time, as he didn't wake up after several hours.

Ji Ci was roasting some juicy spiritual fruit by the fire as a snack after dinner.

Bai Roushuang couldn't understand what kind of magical way to eat it was, but after taking a bite, she found that the freshness of the fruit mixed with the charred aroma of the skin tasted quite good. She didn't know how much thought these brothers put into eating.

The little fox had probably fallen asleep, so Xu Shulou handed it to another demon cultivator girl, walked to the campfire, sat next to Bai Roushuang and asked, "Were you unhappy just now?"

"No, no." Bai Roushuang was jealous for no reason. She felt that she was being unreasonable, so how could she admit it? She just blushed slightly and lowered her head.

Xu Shulou smiled and snapped his fingers at the campfire. The flames transformed into a fire rabbit, running and swimming in the air. He snapped his fingers again and the campfire transformed into a deer, chasing and playing with the rabbit. Then there were butterflies, monkeys, elephants... running and swimming around the crowd.

This wasteland instantly turned into a paradise for animals transformed by flames. Bai Roushuang stared blankly with her mouth slightly open. The other Wuchen Island disciples also laughed and applauded.

This method is somewhat similar to the shadow play in the mortal world, except that it is more three-dimensional and lifelike.

Bai Roushuang couldn't help but reach out her hand and tried to touch the fire butterfly, but Xu Shulou stopped her with a smile: "Be careful."

Bai Roushuang came back to her senses and realized that she was being coaxed by her senior sister as if she were a child. Her heart warmed slightly and she leaned over to lean on Xu Shulou's shoulder: "Thank you, senior sister."

Xu Shulou stroked the top of her head and said, "Be good."

Bai Roushuang felt an urge to be honest: "Senior Sister, I want to talk to you alone."

"Okay." Xu Shulou took her up into the air and landed on a peak not far away. From this position, they could still see the bonfire and the running animals.

"Senior Sister, actually, I, I and Senior Brother Lu..." Bai Roushuang mustered up her courage and explained everything about herself and Lu Beichen in one breath without any interruptions, without giving Xu Shulou a chance to interrupt. She almost confessed how many times Lu Beichen picked his teeth in front of her, and at what time on what day.

She thought it would be difficult, but once she started talking, it became smoother and smoother, and she felt a sense of relief.

She spoke very quickly, and after she finished speaking, she waited nervously for Xu Shulou's reaction. The latter blinked: "Huh?"

"..." Bai Roushuang thought she had to explain everything again from the beginning, and the courage she had finally mustered almost disappeared.

Xu Shulou laughed out loud and tapped her forehead: "I'm not the judge, how can I be so frank as you?"

Bai Roushuang lowered her head: "Senior Sister, I am sorry for you."

"There's nothing to be sorry about," Xu Shulou shook his head. "If you two are in love with each other, let him remember to come to me to discuss breaking off the engagement."

Bai Roushuang cautiously watched her expression: "Senior Sister, don't you order me to leave him and never see him again?"

"Of course, this matter is up to you to decide," Xu Shulou did not intend to interfere with his sister's freedom of love. "If you want to break up with him, I will help you return a gift that is more valuable than Jiuyao and Linglongyu. If you want to continue, it's up to you, but...if one day you find out that he is not the right person, I hope you have the courage to make a decisive decision."

The answers Xu Shulou gave, both advances and retreats, were very thoughtful for her.

Bai Roushuang found that she seemed to cry a lot whenever she was around her senior sister. Her eyes were red again: "Senior sister..."

Xu Shulou hugged her shoulders and said, "Don't cry. If he does something wrong to you, I will beat him up."

Bai Roushuang immediately burst into laughter: "Fortunately he can't beat you."

———

Early in the morning of the second day, the man who had been in a coma for a long time finally woke up. He thanked Xu Shulou and his group profusely and took out a lot of magic weapons, elixirs and other items from his storage bag to thank them.

Jiang Yan looked at him in surprise: "Why did you bring so many things into the secret realm?"

"You can just sell them at the entrance of the secret realm to earn some spirit stones. If you happen to meet someone in the secret realm who needs medicine for injuries or something like that, you can even raise the price and sell them to them," the man said honestly. "It's not easy to be a freelance cultivator these days."

“…”

It was not easy for him, so Jiang Yan and others declined his kindness and prepared to patronize his business: "What rare things do you have?"

"This magic weapon..."

"Not interested." Jiang Yan shook her head.

"This talisman paper..."

"No use." Ji Ci refused.

"You don't want this elixir... again? You have high standards," the man muttered, continuing to rummage in his storage bag, "These are my best stocks."

"This tray of buns, oh, this is the food I prepared for myself." The man said as he was about to put the buns away.

Jiang Yan quickly stopped him: "Wait, what's the filling?"

"This is made of spiritual pork, which is fresher and more tender than pork from the mortal world." The man was indeed very suitable for selling this kind of food. He immediately introduced the basket of buns in a fluent manner. "The spiritual pork is diced and mixed with slightly green onions. When you take a bite, your mouth is full of fragrance. It is fresh and not greasy, and it can also replenish spiritual energy."

Jiang Yan nodded immediately: "We bought it, do you have anything else to eat?"

Seeing their interest, the man straightened his back and said proudly, "And this, Dongpo pork, do you want it?"

"want."

"Beggar's chicken?"

"Yes."

"Roast duck, sweet porridge, scallion pancakes, clam egg soup..."

Everyone's eyes lit up and they surrounded the man, "We want them all!"

Xu Shulou was trying out the comb given by his junior sister by the pool, changing his hairstyle into a beautiful bun, looking in the mirror by the water, admiring it for a moment, and fully affirming the junior sister's taste. He also changed into a Bixia Luoyi that matched his new hairstyle, thought for a while, changed the fan to a sky-blue landscape pattern, and carefully tied a green jade fan pendant, but suddenly he smelled a fragrance at the tip of his nose.

Jiang Yan had just opened the lid of the Dongpo Pork dish when he saw the senior sister coming over following the aroma. He was not surprised at all and handed over the food box consciously.

Xu Shulou took the food box with both hands and asked the man, "Where did you buy all this?"

"Well, from the mortal world to the cultivation world, every time I go to a place, I will look for the best local delicacies. I have no choice but to like this one."

Xu Shulou wanted to pay the bill, but the man shook his head and refused: "You guys were so kind to me, you pulled me out of the crocodile's belly, and kept watch until I woke up, and you didn't even take my storage bag. How can I accept spirit stones for this little food? We can talk about what magic weapon you want later."

Didn't even take your storage bag? Ji Ci's mouth twitched slightly: "What kind of people did you meet before?"

The man smiled innocently.

Xu Shulou took a bite of the pork bun. The man didn't exaggerate. The bun had a thin skin and a large filling. The soup flowed into the mouth as soon as it was bitten. It was delicious and fragrant. She wondered, "How did it keep so well?"

Even the best storage magic weapon can only keep food fresh for three days. There is no other way. The person who created the storage magic weapon never considered the issue of carrying food at all.

The man said proudly: "I made this food box myself. As long as the box is not opened, the color and aroma of the food can be preserved intact for three months."

Xu Shulou looked at the steaming buns in his hand with envy: "Selling them?"

The man showed a distressed expression: "I have a few new ones that I haven't used yet, but the material is hard to come by, and it took me a long time to find them..."

Xu Shulou interrupted him: "Make your offer."

"Nine hundred low-grade spirit stones for one."

The man was actually afraid that they would not want it. After all, in the world of cultivation, these were considered inferior. It was difficult for independent cultivators to cultivate, and most of them used fasting pills to fill their stomachs. Those from the big sects all looked down on their appetites and would not spend spirit stones to buy such things.

Xu Shulou nodded happily: "No matter how many there are, I'll take them all."

The man was overjoyed and quickly took out all the unused food boxes from his storage bag and placed them in front of Xu Shulou one by one.

Some are big, some are small, some are single-layered, and some are multi-layered. There are more than twenty of them in total.

Xu Shulou held the food boxes tightly, his eyebrows were full of joy: "From now on, I can go to the mortal world to pack food as much as I want."

The eldest sister’s happiness is really very simple, Bai Roushuang thought, holding her chin.

She has seen many people who have no desires and don't even know what they want. They can easily make do with their lives.

But Xu Shulou is not such a person, although she does seem to be easily satisfied.