Chapter 1079 Dragon Bone Whip

The receptionist in the restaurant brought out the signature dish "Snow Lotus Stewed with Phoenix Marrow" and said, "Please order some food. This is a free snack from our restaurant. You can try it."

Luo Li picked up the silver spoon and stirred the soup. As the refreshing aroma of snow lotus and phoenix marrow spread, a black shadow suddenly passed over the wall outside the window.

Xuan Mu sneered, "They really don't give up."

Luo Li curled her lips slightly, "That's a good thing, it means Di Wuyou still doesn't know what kind of connection Di Chen has with us, and he's still trying to figure it out. Then let him find out as much as he wants."

Di Chen didn't send any more news, probably because he had the same idea.

Lan Xiaoxiao and the others smiled and nodded, "No problem."

Ye Yichen coughed lightly and said to the receptionist, "This, this, this... and this! Give me one of each!"

The receptionist smiled until his eyes narrowed. "Okay, guest! Please wait a moment!"

Luo Li tapped the edge of the soup bowl with her fingertips, and the snow lotus broke into crystal flakes under the stirring of the silver spoon, blending with the milky white of the phoenix marrow into a glass color.

When the shadow outside the window passed over the green tiles for the third time, she suddenly pushed the soup bowl in front of Xuan Mu: "Drink it while it's hot, it will have a strong fishy taste if it's cold."

Xuan Mu raised an eyebrow and took it, but paused when his lips touched the rim of the cup - a very light cinnabar color was faintly permeated in the dark patterns of the glaze.

Lan Xiaoxiao's chopsticks suddenly went towards the hand of Ye Yichen, who was sitting next to her. "Don't worry about the squirrel fish. You can still eat it with peace of mind when there are so many people outside."

Ye Yichen bit his chopsticks and nodded vaguely, "I know, I know."

Luo Li laughed, "Just eat normally, I told you not to worry about them."

But a moment—

"Guest, your dishes have been served. If you need anything, please ring the bell and we will come in immediately."

"good."

Luo Li and the others ate their delicious food leisurely, too lazy to guess what the people outside were thinking.

Luo Li was stirring the half-melted snow lotus in the bowl with a silver spoon when she suddenly heard the copper bells on the eaves ringing softly.

Xuan Mu's fingertips clasped the dark patterns on the soup bowl, and the cinnabar color emitted an eerie golden glow under the candlelight. When he raised his eyes, the black shadow on the green tiles outside the window happened to step on half of the tile and break it.

"This is already the third batch." Lan Xiaoxiao's chopsticks accurately caught Ye Yichen's hand reaching for the sweet and sour pork ribs. "Can't you wait until the surveillance team changes shifts before grabbing the food? Don't let them report us back as if we've never seen the world."

Ye Yichen's cheeks puffed out like drums, and he said incoherently: "Anyway, they... Wow! This dish is delicious!"

Luo Li looked at his excited and flustered appearance and chuckled, then started eating too.

After eating and drinking, they returned to the inn along the busy street.

Over the next few days, they went out for a walk every day, and Di Wuyou's men never gave up and followed them every time.

But Luo Li and the others were having fun and didn't pay any attention to them.

Di Wuyou's men returned empty-handed every time.

Finally, on the tenth day, all the people who were following them were evacuated.

Walking down the street, Lan Xiaoxiao curled her lips and said, "It's boring. I thought they were so capable."

Ye Yichen laughed out loud, "They've been following us for more than ten days and haven't found anything. They'd be fools to continue following us."

Luo Li crossed her arms, "We've come to the Imperial City, but we haven't been to the black market here yet. Do you want to go?"

"Okay," Xie Shiyuan said with a narrowed gaze, "Let's go and take a look together."

Wen Xingyan and Xuan Mu naturally had no objections, "Okay."

The crowd turned into three bluestone alleys, and the bronze animal-head lamp at the entrance of the black market flickered.

Xie Shiyuan's fingertips stroked the faintly visible lines on the stone wall. When the secret compartment opened with a bang, the smell of dampness mixed with the smell of rust hit his face.

Luo Li raised an eyebrow, "Is the black market in Imperial City so hidden?"

Xuan Mu chuckled, "The last time I was here was when Girls' Generation came. It seems like it has indeed changed a lot."

Xie Shiyuan spread his hands and said, "It was exactly the same last time I came here. Okay, let's go in and take a look."

As they stepped into the black market, the corridor suddenly opened up. Neon-like mermaid oil lamps hung from the dome, illuminating the dazzling stalls with a dim glow, completely different from the shabby entrance.

Xie Shiyuan was attracted by the gilded bell on the left stall. Just as her fingertips touched the bell, the stall owner suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Miss, this bell can gather souls—"

"A gimmick." Xuan Mu glanced at the bronze mirror in the corner of the stall. The faint curse patterns on the mirror made his pupils shrink slightly.

This is a good thing.

Luo Li followed his gaze and suddenly heard an argument from the right: "This dragon bone whip is clearly a treasure from the Great Wilderness!"

"It's clearly the tailbone of the God King Monster dyed with phosphorus powder!"

Luo Li raised an eyebrow and looked over, only to see two teenagers arguing fiercely beside a stall. The stall owner couldn't even get a word in. "Hey..."

The two teenagers immediately glared at him, "Shut up!"

The stall owner broke out in a cold sweat. This stall was clearly his! What was wrong with these two people?

Luo Li watched the two quarreling teenagers with great interest. One of them was wearing a green shirt with a jade pendant engraved with thundercloud patterns hanging around his waist, while the other was wearing a black suit with a broken bamboo pattern embroidered on his cuffs.

The young man in green clothes suddenly took out a crystal stone and slammed it on the stall: "I'll exchange it for my black ice marrow!"

The stall owner's eyes lit up, and just as he was about to reach out, the dark-skinned boy grabbed the stone and held it down: "He's using garbage to trick you! Are you crazy enough to exchange it for Black Ice Marrow?!"

Xie Shiyuan leaned over to Wen Xingyan's ear and chuckled softly, "Does it sound like the time when we fought for the secret map in Cangwu Mountain? We were young back then, didn't know how to talk properly, and were very competitive. I don't know how many times we argued."

Wen Xingyan and Xuan Mu smiled and said, "Of course I remember."

Luo Li was very interested and said, "Let's go and take a look."

Because of the dispute between the two teenagers, a lot of people had gathered around the stall, pointing and talking.

Luo Li and the others walked over, pushed through the crowd, and came to the front of the gathered crowd.

As Luo Li approached, she saw the young man in green shirt blushing as he slapped the black boy's hand away: "Although my black ice marrow is not a whole piece, it is condensed with the frost energy of the extreme north cold pond. It is not a loss at all to exchange it for this dragon bone whip, okay—"

Before he finished speaking, the dark-skinned young man suddenly drew the dagger from his waist, picked up the "dragon bone whip" on the stall with the tip of the blade and swung it into the air. When the phosphorus powder fell, the fine scale pattern of the monster was indeed revealed at the coccyx joint.

The stall owner immediately became angry, "Hey, what's wrong with you? How could you maliciously destroy my treasure!"

The dark-skinned youth sneered and flung his knife. "Open your eyes! The scales on the tailbone joint are clearly the shed bones of the Divine King beast, the 'Phosphorescent Fire Viper.' It's not even a thousand years old, and you dare call it a treasure from the Great Wilderness?"

The young man in green shirt's face instantly turned from red to pale. He looked at the stall owner and angrily said, "Oh my god, a tailbone of a divine beast, and you lied to me that it was a spiritual weapon left over from the Great Wilderness?!"

The dark-skinned young man flicked his sleeve to wipe his knife and silently rolled his eyes, "Idiot!"

The stall owner's face turned pale, and he suddenly took out a dark purple talisman from his arms and crushed it. The entire stall was instantly covered by a dark blue barrier.